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Stone Alone: Mick Jagger On Some Favorite Cuts From His New Solo Hits Album

9/20/07, 4:25 pm EST

For most of his forty-five-year career, Mick Jagger has had one songwriting partner: Keith Richards. But outside of the Rolling Stones, he has teamed up with Jeff Beck, David Bowie, Peter Tosh and Bono; gotten production help from Rick Rubin and John Lennon; and scored a movie, Alfie, with Dave Stewart. A new collection, The Very Best of Mick Jagger, gathers Jagger’s favorites, including killer solo cuts (”Don’t Tear Me Up”), unreleased gems (”Too Many Cooks”) and even a track from a shelved 1992 blues album he cut with an L.A. club band. Click through our gallery to read what Jagger had to say about some key tracks and listen to them, too.


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Rev Al Bum | 9/20/2007, 5:31 pm EST

Mick’s darkest hours were his solo albums. Best of….is it an EP…talk about scrapping the bottom of a broken barrell.

djbryanflash | 9/20/2007, 8:11 pm EST

If u put all of mick jaggers greatest hits together he wouldn’t have one.Rock is a very strange thing.Buddy Holly was a band memeber, but most people thought of him as solo.Mick is thought of as a leadmen, but the Stones is Keith’s band.

Turtle | 9/21/2007, 10:57 am EST

Hey! Micks solo albums arent that bad, There not great either. Wandering Spirit was a good album! I do believe Keith’s solo albums are better. I would have to disagree with the statement about it being keiths band though, It’s Charlie Watt’s band! He’s the heart that pumps the whole thing! Cut Mick some slack! So he wanted to do a few solo albums over the years, did it hurt anyone in the process? The stones are still together and better than ever! Everything happens for a reason ya know! Quit pickin on the guy! It’s only Rock & Roll you know! He kept the band together when Keith was all strung out on Heroin too ya know!

kissmyarse | 9/21/2007, 12:03 pm EST

Mick has forgotten more about rock n roll than most playing it today. His worst solo cuts are better than anything shoe gazing wannabes pound out. His solo work may not be as good as the stones, but the those bad boys of rock are the best, note for note, of any rock band ever.

Formont | 9/21/2007, 1:47 pm EST

Mick’s solo may not compare to anything he’s done with the Stones but I will definately be picking up this album. The songs are decent and finally we’ll be able to have them all together. But Mick will always be known as the greatest frontman of all time, not a solo artist.

jungleland | 9/21/2007, 2:29 pm EST

Wandering Spirit is a FANTASTIC album, but the rest are pretty weak. The best songs from Primitive Cool are NOT on this (Shoot Off Your Mouth and Kow Tow – both big fuck-offs to Keith + throwaway..also about Keith?) and Memo From Turner is barely a solo tune. Why would he remind us that Let’s Work was part of his career? I would have left that one at home

Here’s my version:

Wild All Night
God Gave Me Everything
Just Another Night
Don’t Tear Me Up
Charmed Life
Sweet Thing
Kow Tow
Old Habits Die Hard
Too Many Cooks
Throwaway
Lucky In Love
Evening Gown
Don’t Call Me Up
(You Gotta Walk And) Don’t Look Back
Checkin’ Up On My Baby
Dancing In The Street

Bonus Track ( I guess)
Memo From Turner

jungleland | 9/21/2007, 2:37 pm EST

Of course KEITH’s solo albums are as better than anything The Stones have done since 1980.

Talk Is Cheap is better than any Stones album since Sticky Fingers

Andrew | 9/21/2007, 5:08 pm EST

Mick’s solo work is not bad … some of it is excellent. Wandering Spirit, Don’t Tear Me Up and Evening Gown are three in particular that he should be well proud of. I’d love to hear Keith doing the vocal on one not mentioned: Long Black Veil!

Maria Isabel | 9/21/2007, 5:32 pm EST

Mick you are the best alone or with company , Tu eres el mejor solo o acompaƱado.
I love u

fetus | 9/21/2007, 9:21 pm EST

Well some of you know music and some of you are complete morons.
Mick—- Keith, it doesn’t matter they are both the best but better with Charlie and Ron!

trish | 9/21/2007, 9:22 pm EST

LOVE THE OLE DUDE AND HE KEEPS ON KEEPING ON

ROCK ON MICK

mickey123 | 9/21/2007, 9:39 pm EST

It’s the singer, not the song. Remember that kids ( : And yes, you can quote me.

Rich N. | 9/21/2007, 9:41 pm EST

I agree that Wandering Spirit was a really good album, and the rest, especially Goddess in the Doorway, were awful. I sold my copy of Goddess on Ebay for $2.00 and felt lucky to be rid of it. Is there enough of his material for a ‘greatest hits’ collection? No. It’s fall, and the record labels are pumping out product to stock the shelves for the holiday season. What I’d really like to see is the stuff the Stones recorded in ‘02 in France, the 4 songs that made it onto Forty Licks was not enough. And I’d love to see some of the stuff in the archives from the later 70’s and early 80’s come to light. Maybe I’ll invest the $2.00 I got from ‘Goddess’ and find a used copy of Jagger’s Greatest Hits on Ebay.

Chuck | 9/21/2007, 10:00 pm EST

I had no idea “Sir Mick” had so many solo albums to warrant a best-of-collection,… but, since I know now, I think I’d like to check it out! I certaintly love his work with The Stones, so, “why not?”

concord | 9/21/2007, 10:19 pm EST

great stuff

Trond | 9/21/2007, 10:36 pm EST

A great collection, keep on rocking Mick. :)

MemphisGuy | 9/22/2007, 12:35 am EST

Mick’s band or Keith’s band?? Hmmm..One without the other? I shudder to even ponder such a thing! The Stones are both of em’s band and it’s been that way since Brian Jones was ushered out, God rest his soul. I’m 45. They formed the year I was born and I’ve loved them since I heard Bitch on a jukebox when I was 10. I hate to think that the 3 shows I saw(Memphis, Little Rock and Vegas) on this tour may be “The Last Time”! The Glimmer Twins go together! One is not whole without the other, PERIOD!

Deano | 9/22/2007, 3:18 am EST

You have to sit back in awe & admire & appreciate their longevity-4 of the classics of rock-”Beggars,Let It Bleed,Sticky Fingers & Exile (add Aftermath)-they just keep rollin’.

canuck | 9/22/2007, 6:04 am EST

for years now, Bill Wyman has been releasing better albums than the Rolling Stones — really

mickey123 | 9/22/2007, 9:07 pm EST

canuck- we’re talking music here, not flowers.

fetus | 9/22/2007, 9:33 pm EST

The Stones have nothing on Britney Spears and the greatest of them all Micheal Jackson

fetus | 9/22/2007, 9:33 pm EST

The Stones have nothing on Britney Spears and the greatest of them all Micheal Jackson

stonesfan | 9/23/2007, 2:54 am EST

Mick is great. You guys cannot just ignore his contribution to the Stones. You think saying picky statements are cool. NO!! Keith is great too. So, both of them made a great Rock band. Mick’s solo career is not that great. Is it a sin ??!! For a entertainer who created so much good music for the world, just give him a break. Give him some room for making some pieces of his solo project. Mick’s talent is acknowleged by fans worldwide. And his solo work is not that bad. I will buy.

MM | 9/23/2007, 6:03 pm EST

ROLLING STONES RULE! PERIOD.

gewe | 10/1/2007, 5:19 am EST

It*s a good sampler

DaveVIBC | 10/2/2007, 6:07 pm EST

Micj Jaggers’ best solo track is not on this compilation. If you can find it, check out the ‘B’ side to the 1987 single “Let’s Work”. There is a song called “Catch as Catch Can”. It is one of the best songs I have heard him do in or out of the Stones – could have easily been well-placed on Sticky Fingers.

DaveVIBC | 10/2/2007, 6:10 pm EST

I have just been told that “Catch as Catch Can” has Jeff Beck playing on it. Best MJ has done since Mick Taylor left the band.

DaveVIBC | 10/2/2007, 6:10 pm EST

I have just been told that “Catch as Catch Can” has Jeff Beck playing on it. Best MJ has done since Mick Taylor left the band.

DaveVIBC | 10/2/2007, 6:10 pm EST

I have just been told that “Catch as Catch Can” has Jeff Beck playing on it. Best MJ has done since Mick Taylor left the band.

Angie | 6/8/2008, 7:34 pm EST

We love u mick! Keep rocking!

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