[ Eagle Vision Blu-Ray / 5 CD/Blu-ray Disc ]
Release Date: Friday 17 June 2016
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One of the most anticipated releases in recent years, this collection features The Rolling Stones going back to the source of many of their favourite tracks, creating new stripped back versions. Selected material from studio sessions and shows presented here formed the Stripped album of 1995.
These reimagined versions lose none of their impact and emotional heft, and in fact connect with listeners in a different way. Totally Stripped itself is a brand new version of the documentary of the same name, which tells the stories of the two studio sessions and three live shows (The Paradiso in Amsterdam in May 1995, L'Olympia in Paris and Brixton Academy in London in July 1995) that make up this project. The Deluxe Edition contains a CD of favourites drawn from across the live shows and three DVDs featuring, for the first time, ever each of those shows in full.
Following the 'Voodoo Lounge' tour, The Stones released Stripped, an album of reconsidered, pared back renderings of some classic Stones tracks, and also a couple of carefully chosen covers. The album mixed new studio versions of tracks with some live songs. The tracks that made up Stripped were taken from two studio sessions that took place in Tokyo (March 3-5, 1995) and in Lisbon (July 23-26), and a trio of live shows in July 1995 at small concert venues in London, Paris and Amsterdam. Keith Richards commented, "There's something about playing these small venues, the immediacy of it. Also we can keep God out the band, because on big gigs he sometimes turns up as rain or wind".
As Mick Jagger said at the time, the aim was to "Take the best element from (MTV) 'Unplugged', the intimate thing of it, without actually doing it completely unplugged". This collection is built on the power of lyric and melody, and the material here feels somehow simpler yet potent, as the songs stand on their individual timeless quality rather than on the production techniques and technical expertise that generally come as part and parcel of being the biggest band in the world.
Totally Stripped is the release that the fans have been waiting years for, a document that reveals the inner workings not only of The Rolling Stones themselves but also indeed some of their most loved tracks. Revealing, intimate and moving, Totally Stripped is unmissable.
TRACKLISTINGS
CD
1) Not Fade Away Amsterdam 26/5/95 2) Honky Tonk Women Paris 3/7/95 3) Dead Flowers Amsterdam 4) Faraway Eyes London 19/7/95 5) Shine A Light Amsterdam 6) I Go Wild Paris 7) Miss You London 8) Like A Rolling Stone Amsterdam 9) Brown Sugar Paris 10) Midnight Rambler London 11) Jumpin Jack Flash Paris 12) Gimme Shelter Amsterdam 13) Rip This Joint Amsterdam 14) Street Fighting Man - Amsterdam
SD Blu-ray 1
Totally Stripped Documentary
SD Blu-ray 2 Paradiso, Amsterdam, 26th May 1995
1) Not Fade Away 2) It s All Over Now 3) Live With Me 4) Let It Bleed 5) The Spider And The Fly 6) Beast Of Burden 7) Angie 8) Wild Horses 9) Sweet Virginia 10) Dead Flowers 11) Shine A Light 12) Like A Rolling Stone 13) Connection 14) Slipping Away 15) The Worst 16) Gimme Shelter 17) All Down The Line 18) Respectable 19) Rip This Joint 20) Street Fighting Man
SD Blu-ray 3 L Olympia, Paris, 3rd July 1995
1) Honky Tonk Women 2) Tumbling Dice 3) You Got Me Rockin 4) All Down The Line 5) Shattered 6) Beast Of Burden 7) Let It Bleed 8) Angie 9) Wild Horses 10) Down In The Bottom 11) Shine A Light 12) Like A Rolling Stone 13) I Go Wild 14) Miss you 15) Connection 16) Slipping Away 17) Midnight Rambler 18) Rip This Joint 19) Start Me Up 20) It s Only Rock n Roll 21) Brown Sugar 22) Jumpin Jack Flash
SD Blu-ray 4 Brixton Academy, London, 19th July 1995
1) Honky Tonk Women 2) Tumbling Dice 3) You Got Me Rockin 4) Live With Me 5) Black Limousine 6) Dead Flowers 7) Sweet Virginia 8) Faraway Eyes 9) Love In Vain 10) Down In The Bottom 11) Shine A Light 12) Like A Rolling Stone 13) Monkey Man 14) I Go Wild 15) Miss You 16) Connection 17) Slipping Away 18) Midnight Rambler 19) Rip This Joint 20) Start Me Up 21) Brown Sugar 22) Jumpin Jack Flash