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Category: Andy’s Stones

  • It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll

    Release Date: October 18, 1974 Label: Rolling Stones Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Written By: Andy Trcka February 12, 2025 Bursting with opulence and hubris via songs like “Luxury,” “Dance Little Sister,” “Short and Curlies,” It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll is where the Rolling Stones firmly embraced the role of “World’s Greatest…

  • Hackney Diamonds

    Release Date: October 20, 2023 Label: Polydor Records and Geffen Records Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Written By: Andy Trcka May 31, 2024 Fall 2023 saw the release of Hackney Diamonds, the Rolling Stones’ first album of original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. A span of eighteen years separated the two…

  • Exile on Main St.

    Rolling Stones Album: Exile on Main St. Release Date: May 12, 1972 Label: Rolling Stones Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Review Written By: Andy Trcka August 19, 2023 In May 1972 the Rolling Stones released Exile on Main St., a double LP widely regarded as a classic and revered by many as…

  • A Bigger Bang

    Rolling Stones Album: A Bigger Bang Release Date: September 5, 2005 Label: Virgin, Rolling Stones Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Review Written By: Andy Trcka October 17, 2019 A beautifully solemn hymn synonymous with Good Friday that I’ve always cherished is “Were You there.” One year, at services with my parents, theirs…

  • Beggars Banquet

    Rolling Stones Album: Beggars Banquet Release Date: December 6, 1968 Label: Decca (UK), London (US) Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Written By: Andy Trcka August 25, 2022 The Stones could have opened Beggars Banquet with “No Expectations” because the tunes summarized the times perfectly; everyone was agitated, wrapped up in their own emotions, but…

  • 12 X 5

    Release Date: October 17, 1964 Label: London, Decca Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Written By: Andy Trcka October 29, 2019 Part of me wants to open this review by demanding this album be referred to by its proper title – 12 x 6. Instead I am following Stu’s example… “Around and Around”…

  • Out of Our Heads

    Release Date: July 30, 1965 (United States), September 24, 1965 (United Kindgdom) Label: Decca Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Written By: Andy Trcka July 30, 2019 A few years back I ran into an old mentor/teacher and excitedly told him I just finished graduate school. He responded, not with congratulations, kudos, accolades…

  • The Rolling Stones (England’s Newest Hitmakers)

    Release Date: April 16, 1964 Label: Decca Popular Songs:       Not Fade Away (YouTube)       Route 66 (YouTube) Carol (YouTube) Songs You Need to Listen To: Tell Me (YouTube)       I’m a King Bee (YouTube)       Mona (YouTube) Written By: Andy Trcka April 17, 2020 Right out the gates the Rolling Stones were good. From day one they were…

  • Voodoo Lounge

    Rolling Stones Album: Voodoo Lounge Release Date: July 11, 1994 Label: Rolling Stones Popular Songs: Songs You Need to Listen To: Written By: Andy Trcka July 18, 2019 A friend of mine traveled to New York in 1981 to see the Stones Tattoo You tour because “it might be their last.” I mention this because with Voodoo Lounge the…

  • Black and Blue

    Release Date: April 23, 1976 Label: Rolling Stones Popular Songs: Fool to Cry (YouTube) Hot Stuff (YouTube) Songs You Need to Listen To: Hand of Fate (YouTube) Memory Motel (YouTube) Written By: Andy Trcka March 31, 2022 The biggest decision of 1976 was when to release Black and Blue. A summer release would have eclipsed…