Forty Licks | ||||
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Released | 30 September 2002 | |||
Recorded | 10 January 1964 – 7 June 2002 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 155:52 | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [2] |
Rolling Stone | [3] |
Stylus | A+ [4] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
Forty Licks is a double compilation album by the Rolling Stones. A 40-year career-spanning retrospective, Forty Licks is notable for being the first retrospective to combine their formative Decca/London era of the 1960s, now licensed by ABKCO Records (on disc one), with their self-owned post-1970 material, distributed at the time by Virgin/EMI but now distributed by ABKCO's own distributor Universal Music Group (on mostly disc two). Four new songs are included on the second disc. The album was a commercial success, as it reached No. 2 on both UK and US charts. Concurrently with the album's release, the Stones embarked on the successful, year-long international Licks Tour, which would result in the subsequent Live Licks album being released in 2004.
In 1970, the Rolling Stones had an acrimonious break-up with their former manager, Allen Klein, and their former record label, Decca Records (who licensed their recordings to London Records for release in the US). Because of the terms of their former contract, all of their pre-1970 recordings were under Klein's control, up to and including Let It Bleed , some tracks that made it on Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street , as well as outtakes, unreleased recordings, and live recordings. The Stones would immediately form Rolling Stones Records as a result, that gave them control over all of their subsequent recordings. As a result, any career retrospectives tended to be divided into two eras: prior to the split, and after the split. Klein's ABKCO Records and Decca Records would continue to release unauthorized greatest-hits records, outtakes and rarities records, and other compilations throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Any compilations or retrospectives released by the Rolling Stones after 1970, by any of their distributors or partners (such as Atlantic Records or Virgin Records) were always restricted to material recorded and released from 1971 onward. Because of various business deals and mergers of various record companies over time, the barriers to creating a unified retrospective compilation album had been resolved by the early 2000s.
Forty Licks has received mostly positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that Forty Licks was similar to ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits because both were influenced by The Beatles' 1 , but that Forty Licks had a better concept than ELV1S. [1] Although Rob Brunner's review of the album for Entertainment Weekly was favorable, he felt that the album was not needed because most of the band's fans already own all of the notable songs on the album. [2] Darryl Sterdan of Jam! CANOE also felt that most fans already owned most of the songs on the album and that "Losing My Touch" was the only good previously unreleased song on the collection. [6] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone felt that there were several songs missing from the album, but that the compilation was exciting and the four new songs were much better than their other recent work. [3] Stylus magazine's Colin McElligatt felt that the band needed an "all-inclusive" collection, but the collection will not please everyone. [4]
All tracks are written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
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1. | "Start Me Up" | Tattoo You (1981) | 3:33 | |
2. | "Brown Sugar" | Sticky Fingers (1971) | 3:50 | |
3. | "Miss You" (7" remix edit) | Some Girls (1978) | 3:35 | |
4. | "Beast of Burden" (single edit) | Some Girls (1978) | 3:28 | |
5. | "Don't Stop" | new track (2002) | 3:59 | |
6. | "Happy" | Exile on Main St. (1972) | 3:05 | |
7. | "Angie" | Goats Head Soup (1973) | 4:32 | |
8. | "You Got Me Rocking" | Voodoo Lounge (1994) | 3:34 | |
9. | "Shattered" | Some Girls (1978) | 3:46 | |
10. | "Fool to Cry" (radio edit) | Black and Blue (1976) | 4:07 | |
11. | "Love Is Strong" | Voodoo Lounge (1994) | 3:48 | |
12. | "Mixed Emotions" (radio edit) | Steel Wheels (1989) | 4:01 | |
13. | "Keys to Your Love" | new track (2002) | 4:11 | |
14. | "Anybody Seen My Baby?" | Bridges to Babylon (1997) | 4:08 | |
15. | "Stealing My Heart" | new track (2002) | 3:42 | |
16. | "Tumbling Dice" | Exile on Main St. (1972) | 3:47 | |
17. | "Undercover of the Night" | Undercover (1983) | 4:13 | |
18. | "Emotional Rescue" (radio edit) | Emotional Rescue (1980) | 3:41 | |
19. | "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" (radio edit) | It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974) | 4:09 | |
20. | "Losing My Touch" | new track (2002) | 5:06 |
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Weekly charts
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Single | Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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"Don't Stop" | Mainstream Rock Tracks [49] | 21 |
UK Top 75 Singles [50] | 36 | |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Argentina (CAPIF) [51] | Platinum | 40,000^ |
Australia (ARIA) [52] | 2× Platinum | 140,000‡ |
Austria (IFPI Austria) [53] | Platinum | 30,000* |
Belgium (BEA) [54] | Platinum | 50,000* |
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [55] | Gold | 50,000* |
Canada (Music Canada) [56] | 5× Platinum | 500,000^ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [57] | Platinum | 50,000^ |
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [58] | Gold | 17,382 [58] |
France (SNEP) [59] | Platinum | 300,000* |
Germany (BVMI) [60] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
Greece (IFPI Greece) [17] | Gold | 15,000^ |
Japan (RIAJ) [61] | Platinum | 200,000^ |
Netherlands (NVPI) [62] | Platinum | 80,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [63] | 2× Platinum | 30,000^ |
Norway | — | 50,000 [64] |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [65] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
Sweden (GLF) [66] | Gold | 30,000^ |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [67] | Platinum | 40,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [68] | 4× Platinum | 1,200,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [69] | 4× Platinum | 4,000,000^ |
Summaries | ||
Europe (IFPI) [70] | Platinum | 1,000,000* |
Worldwide | — | 7,000,000 [71] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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