As of October 22nd, The Rolling Stones have released a brand-new deluxe re-issue of Tattoo You, an album originally released in 1981, and marked the band’s 16th British and 18th American studio album.
The 40th anniversary re-issue of the album features nine additional tracks on top of the eleven original songs, including an alternate version of “Start Me Up” and a cover of R&B group Chi-Lites’ “Trouble’s a’ Comin”. Another bonus disc on the album includes a 26-song live album entitled Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982, which is a recording of a show from the Tattoo You tour. The album is available on all streaming services, and physical media can be found here.
Most excitingly, the album features a previously unheard track entitled “Come To The Ball”; a swaggering, danceable tune packed with attitude, introduced by a razor-sharp earworm riff by Keith Richards. The song was produced by Jimmy Miller, who had previously worked with The Rolling Stones on albums such as Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St. You can listen to the song at the YouTube link below.
The original Tattoo You is made up almost entirely of outtakes from previous studio albums from the ‘70s. The album also features one of the group’s biggest songs, “Start Me Up”. The album was considered a critical and commercial success for The Rolling Stones, however it was the result of numerous difficulties, namely the band facing touring obligations and personal feuds (particularly between Jagger and Richards) that prevented them from arranging recording sessions for a follow up to their 1980 album Emotional Rescue. A few songs were released as they were, but the majority of the album consisted of half-finished songs that the members would come in to work on when they were available to do so.
In other recent news concerning The Rolling Stones, the band are presently on tour in the United States on the No Filter tour, A North American/European tour which has been ongoing since its commencement in Hamburg on the 9th of September 2017. As with many tours at this current time, it was originally supposed to reach its end in 2020, however this was complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. No Filter officially resumed on the 20th of September 2021, a date which not only marked the band’s first time on tour since August 2019, but their first time out on the road without their late drummer Charlie Watts. More information on the tour can be found here.
The tracklist for the second CD on the re-issue Lost & Found: Rarities is listed below.
1). ‘Living In The Heart Of Love’
2). ‘Fiji Jim’
3). ‘Troubles A’ Comin’ (Chi-Lites)
4). ‘Shame Shame Shame’ (Jimmy Reed)
5). ‘Drift Away’ (Dobie Gray)
6). ‘It’s A Lie’
7). ‘Come To The Ball’
8). ‘Fast Talking Slow Walking’
9). ‘Start Me Up’ (Early Version)
