Track Listing

1. Out of Time
2. Don't Lie to Me
3. Somethings Just Stick in Your Mind
4. Each and Every Day of the Year
5. Heart of Stone
6. I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys
7. (Walkin' Thru The) Sleepy City
8. We're Wastin' Time
9. Try a Little Harder
10. I Don't Know Why
11. If You Let Me
12. Jiving Sister Fanny
13. Downtown Suzie
14. Family
15. Memo from Turner
16. I'm Going Down

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5539 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Hybrid SACD
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Album Description
Remastered reissue of 1975 compilation, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Digipak.

Customer Reviews

Some Stones Fanz(?) R Out of Time with this!
Stunning, for those who like the '67 retreaded album "Flowers" this is similar; Some like a neat and tight album? Then they must not like the RS to begin with.

Some real gems here from various early Stones eras; the 2nd song, "Don't lie to me" sounds directly like it was cooked up from the pre-big-hit R & B, R'N'R Rolling Stones, something like "Round and Round" or their version of "Route 66."

Some songs, reflect the coming creativity of the "Beggars Banquet" through "Exile" period and though, none is quite "Exile" like, "Downtown Suzie" "Jiving Sister Fannie" kind of sounds like it could come off a mix of an album of "Jamming with Edward" and "Sticky Fingers."

One funny thing, listen to "Were wasting time", it has struck me this way for some time, the opening sounds like you can expect Alvin and the Chipmunks to start singing that Christmas song you always hear from around the holidays.

All of it seems listenable; some seems like experimental work, that did not work at the time but from a historic view, you can see a relation to "Beggars Bangquet" or "Let it bleed" (doesn't "Family" sound a bit like "Jigsaw Puzzle" and the opening notes seem very similar to "Salt of the Earth"; toss in the keyboards etc. you may hear on BB).

"Out of time" is a revisit to the often dissed "Flowers" album, but I find it rather productive and before delving into alot of other stuff; still basically a "Top of the Pops" band. "Heart of Stone" likewise has similar merits, although this version lacks the same dynamic guitar solos and overall vitality of the original.

"WAlkin through the Sleep City" just shows the boys had a number of tricks up there sleeves that did not see the light of day. A nice piece of the time along with "Each and Every day of the year." I need any well-read Stones Scholar not alive at the time, to tell me, this is a vintage 1966 (-'67) types of music. All that needs to be added on to that, is "Each and Every day of the year" is a ballad, that might make you think, of the later "Angie" but before the glam and all that.

Underlining all of this, we can't hear enough of the RS with Brian Jones; who is highly present on this release.

Although it's old, its new, it wasn't released at the time. In some ways disjointed, but hey, if I want a tight neat release, I must not be ....

A mixed bag of Gems and Oddities
The famous out-take album / cd gets remastered. The "Out of Time" version with then manager Andrew Loog Oldham's "Orchestra" as background is good, "Some things Just Stick in your Mind" is a great fun track as is "Walking through the Sleepy City", Also an alternative version of "Heart of Stone" and "Try a Little Harder" are great early pieces. Then we flip to the jaded early Mick Taylor years, these tracks are slower, "heavier" and except for the excellent track "Memo from Turner" one feels they were just taking themselves a bit too seriously at this transitional time in 1970. Overall a great mix, the album of lost tracks from the bands inventive past.

Long overdue for CD release
"Metamorphosis", the great lost outtake collection, finally gets its first official CD release. It had already been long out of print by the time I became a Stones fan as a teen, and the general critical and fan buzz for all the years that it was unavailible was usually a curt "Don't bother." How wrong those reports have been!
"Metamorphosis" offers up several treasures for the Stones afficianado, the bulk of which consists of several fine examples of the earliest fruits of the songwriting combo of Jagger/Richards. Some of these early efforts are very good indeed, and I can't imagine how they got left off of some of those early Stones albums in favor of less interesting cover versions of blues and rockabilly standards.
In addition to the earliest material, the album opens with a terrific orchestrated version of "Out of Time" which blows the "Aftermath" version right out of the water (actually, it is pretty much identical in arrangement to the Chris Farlowe version of the song which came out about that time). There is also a much rawer version of "Heart of Stone" than the one most are familiar with. One of the best outtakes on the disc, "Family" comes from the "Beggars Banquet" period, an effective work highly reminiscent of and on par with "Sister Morphine".
Stones completists can now rejoice! Now, if they'd only re-issue "Sucking In The Seventies" for those rare single sides . . .