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Song of the Day #5,548: ‘Heart of Stone’ – The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones’ third UK studio album, Out of Our Heads, was released in the U.S. two months earlier — July vs. September of 1965. It was a major hit on both sides of the pond, reaching #1 in the U.S. and #2 in the UK. Once again, the lineups were significantly different.

Because the tradition was not to include single releases on UK albums, that version of Out of Our Heads didn’t feature the band’s biggest hit to date (and one of their biggest overall), ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.’ That smash did appear on the U.S. edition, as did hit ‘The Last Time’ and its haunting B-side, ‘Play with Fire.’

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Song of the Day #5,547: ‘Time is On My Side’ – The Rolling Stones

In the early days of The Rolling Stones, there was no organized effort to record songs for albums. Instead, the band was furiously tearing out songs during day-long studio sessions and releasing them in whatever format seemed right at the time.

From late 1964 through early 1965, the band put out a UK EP titled 5 X 5, an expanded U.S. version titled 12 X 5, a UK album titled The Rolling Stones No. 2, and a U.S. album titled The Rolling Stones, Now! They also released ten singles.

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Song of the Day #5,546: ‘Route 66’ – The Rolling Stones

My friends, the time has come for another deep dive, wherein I work chronologically through an artist’s career by featuring songs from each of their studio albums. To date, I have covered the work of Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Madonna and Bob Marley.

That list got me thinking it was time I covered a band, and the band I’ve chosen to explore is The Rolling Stones. In terms of success, influence, longevity, and iconic output, I can’t think of an act more deserving of the honor.

And my timing couldn’t be better, as The Stones just last week announced the upcoming release of their first album of original material in 18 years, Hackney Diamonds.

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Song of the Day #4,957: ‘Casino Boogie’ – The Rolling Stones

A deep cut on The Rolling Stones’ classic 1972 album Exile on Main Street, ‘Casino Boogie’ is little more than a throat clearer before the excellent ‘Tumbling Dice.’

If the song seems to make no sense lyrically, that’s by design. Mick Jagger says the band utilized the “cut-up” technique popularized by William S. Burroughs to assemble the verses.

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Song of the Day #4,830: ‘Play With Fire’ – The Rolling Stones

In 2007, Wes Anderson released the most divisive film in his catalog, The Darjeeling Limited. You’ll find this movie at the bottom of most fans’ rankings, yet it won a prize at the Venice Film Festival and earned twice its budget at the box office. It has the second lowest Rotten Tomatoes score among Anderson’s films but it hasn’t enjoyed the reassessment of The Life Aquatic, the only one below it.

As I wrote yesterday, almost all of Anderson’s movies deal with grief to some extent, but The Darjeeling Limited puts that theme front and center. The film follows a trio of brothers traveling on a train through India after a yearlong estrangement following the death of their father. They are weighed down with emotional (and physical) baggage and seeking a spiritual awakening.

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