Product Description
Rare High Quality Actual 1974 Japanese First Pressing! Very Cool Guy Peelaert Cover Includes Inner Sleeve & Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese. The End Of An Era For The Rolling Stones, Being The Last Album To Feature Mick Taylor On Guitar. Some Of The Classic Cuts Include “Time Waits For No One”, “If You Can’t Rock Me”, “Luxury” & “It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll (But I Like It)”.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Sounds SO GOOD!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Split in spine neatly repaired.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
If You Can’t Rock Me
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll (But I Like It)
Till The Next Goodbye
Time Waits For No One
Side 2:
Luxury
Dance Little Sister
If You Really Want To Be My Friend
Short And Curlies
Fingerprint File
AMG –
Throughout, The Stones wear their title as the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" with a defiant smirk Throughout, The Stones wear their title as the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" with a defiant smirk, which makes the bitter cynicism of "If You Can't Rock Me" and the title track all the more striking, and the reggae experimentation of "Luxury," the aching beauty of "Time Waits for No One" all the more enjoyable.
Geoff –
Another number one album in the US for The Stones in 1974, with two hit singles -- the title track and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg". Produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards under their Glimmer Twins guise, 'It's Only Rock'n'Roll' was another number one album in the US in 1974, and contains two hit singles -- the title track and a great reworking of an old Motown favourite, The Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud To Beg". Guy Peellaert's fin de siècle sleeve beautifully captures the mood of the times. Mick Taylor ended his tenure with some wonderful guitar work on "Time Waits For No One" while his eventual replacement Ronnie Wood hosted the sessions for "It's Only Rock'n'Roll (But I Like It)", a concert favourite to this day.