Fingerprint File

(Warning: some language is NSFW.)

A few years ago I compiled a CD of some of my favourite Rolling Stones songs. A couple of months ago I thought I would like to compile another Stones CD so I could put their R&B, funk and disco songs together on one disc. I did this, but it bothered me that I now had two Rolling Stones CDs with different genres sprinkled throughout, and there were songs on each disc which I thought would better compliment songs on the other. I usually compile single-artist discs chronologically, but this time I wanted discs which flowed nicely. Now that this had turned into a double disc set I was unhappy with the overall flow. (Yes, I am a geek.)

So... I threw all of the songs from both discs into one folder, rearranged the contents and separated them into two 80-minute chunks. By gently editing some extraneous seconds of silence from a few tracks and using a single edit of one song I was able to add a couple of extra songs with this new arrangement. Win/win.

I thought I would share the tracklisting, although I have no intention of sharing the actual music files herein. I'm sure one can find them in whatever legal or illegal fashion one prefers, cos, like, it's the fuckin' Stones, mang. The band is slightly popular.

The Rolling Stones
Fingerprint File
1966-1983

Disc One:

01. 19th Nervous Breakdown
02. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
03. Jumpin' Jack Flash
04. Street Fighting Man
05. Under My Thumb
06. We Love You
07. 2000 Light Years From Home
08. Sympathy For The Devil
09. Gimme Shelter
10. Midnight Rambler
11. Sister Morphine
12. Cocksucker Blues
13. Let It Bleed
14. Let It Loose
15. Wild Horses
16. Moonlight Mile
17. Waiting On A Friend

Disc Two:

01. You Can't Always Get What You Want (single edit)
02. No Expectations
03. Sway
04. Live With Me
05. Bitch
06. Happy
07. Star Star
08. Shattered
09. She's So Cold
10. Start Me Up
11. Undercover Of The Night
12. Hot Stuff
13. Dance
14. Too Much Blood
15. Emotional Rescue
16. Miss You
17. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
18. Fingerprint File

While there are a few big singles included, this is not exactly a greatest hits. I think "Cocksucker Blues" is a great song - one of my favourite Stones blues dirges. It would have fit on Sticky Fingers nicely. From Snopes:

When the Stones decided to leave Decca Records and start their own label (Rolling Stones Records) in 1970, Decca informed them that their contract obligated them to deliver one more single. The Stones dutifully complied by handing over the unreleasable "Schoolboy Blues," also known as "Cocksucker Blues." (Strangely enough, the song was eventually released by Decca in Germany, as a bonus single included with the 1983 four-LP boxed set The Rest of the Best. The set was quickly pulled and rereleased without the single.)



"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?" is one of the weirdest singles they ever released - such an awesome rave-up.



I am not thinking eloquently enough to comment on some of the more transcendent songs included ("Sway," "No Expectations," "Let It Loose," "Moonlight Mile)." Let me just say that sometimes Stones songs can be unexpectedly moving.

I am not thinking eloquently enough to really comment on some of the more rocking songs included, but let me say that "Bitch" makes me want to get up and dance every single time I hear it. However, I mostly just dance in my heart. I am the Jimmy Carter of dancing.

Sometimes the Stones can be endearingly goofy:



I was going to include the video for "Waiting On A Friend" because (a) they're hanging out on St. Mark's Place, and (b) Mick and Keith really make me giggle, but I can't embed it. You can see it here.

However, I can include the video for "Too Much Blood" - the song which was the impetus for compiling the second disc. I think that the Undercover LP is hugely underrated, and this song is especially fun. Mick is really amusing and Keith and Ronnie wield chainsaws in this video - what's not to love?



"Oh no, don't saw off me leg, don't saw off me arm." Classic!

I think that's more than enough embedded videos to cause my browser to freeze... I think this is a nifty double disc set. Hopefully someone else will agree.