Grrr!

Grrr!
Compilation album by The Rolling Stones
Publication (s)	November 9, 2012 (Europe) November 12, 2012 (worldwide)
admission	1963-2012
Label (s)	ABKCO , Polydor
Format (s)	CD , vinyl LP , download
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	40 (basic edition) 50 (deluxe edition) 80 (super deluxe edition)
running time	147 min 41 s (Basic Edition) 191 min 10 s (deluxe edition) 297 min 13 s (Super Deluxe Edition)
occupation	Mick Jagger Keith Richards Charlie Watts Bill Wyman Brian Jones Mick Taylor Ron Wood among others

Grrr! (own spelling GRRR! ) is the 29th  compilation album by the British rock band The Rolling Stones . It was available in Europe on November 9, 2012 before being released worldwide on November 12, 2012.

Creation and publication

The compilation was put together on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the band. The bonus tracks on Grrr! the songs Doom and Gloom and One More Shot, recorded in August 2012 . The compilation was released in three CD versions of different sizes: as a double CD, a triple CD and a five-CD. It was also released on LP and as a download.

The cover , which shows a gorilla with red lips and a sticking out tongue, the tongue-and-lips logo of the Rolling Stones, was designed by Walton Ford . Ford had been commissioned by Mick Jagger to design a logo to celebrate the band's anniversary, using his King Kong paintings from 2011. His concept was to use the combination of the Tongue-and-Lips logo and a King Kong image to represent the extent of the band's achievements in the past 50 years, which seemed to him monstrous: "I saw the Rolling Stones as a kind of silverback [ .] [...] All of the King Kong metaphors and all of that are apt ”.

The album was announced in September 2012 as part of a large-scale advertising campaign that used augmented reality . Using the free uView app , fans with smartphones or other compatible devices should scan the image of a pair of eyes on one of the Rolling Stones websites to gradually receive information about news. Among other things, Rolling Stones music and the growling of an animal could be heard when using the app. Eyes and growl revealed themselves ultimately as the gorilla from the album art associated with the per uview as 3D - animation could 'be brought to life. For the campaign, the tongue logo and locations in 50 cities around the world such as the Elizabeth Tower and the Brandenburg Gate were linked to gorilla animated films in the context of a competition . These were activated by scanning a location / building or logo using uView . The band's website commented on the use of the app: "The use of one of the most modern forms of mobile technology currently available consolidates the Rolling Stones' status as one of the most innovative bands in the world, which is as relevant as ever." Under the name "GRRRegory" The gorilla received its own Twitter account, which was used to distribute news about the band from October.

Track list

All songs, except those noted, were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Basic edition

CD 1

1. Come On ( Chuck Berry )
2. Not Fade Away ( Charles Hardin / Norman Petty )
3. It's All Over Now ( Bobby Womack / Shirley Jean Womack )
4. Little Red Rooster ( Willie Dixon )
5. The Last Time
6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
7. Get Off of My Cloud
8. As Tears Go By ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / Andrew Loog Oldham )
9. 19th Nervous Breakdown
10. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
11. Paint It Black
12. Let's spend the night together
13. Ruby Tuesday
14. Jumpin 'Jack Flash
15. Street Fighting Man
16. Sympathy for the Devil
17. Honky Tonk Women
18. You Can't Always Get What You Want
19. Gimme Shelter
20. Wild horses

CD 2

1. Brown sugar
2. Tumbling Dice
3. It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)
4. Angie
5. Fool to Cry
6. Beast of Burden
7. Miss you
8. Respectable
9. Emotional Rescue
10. Start Me Up
11. Waiting on a friend
12. Happy
13. Undercover of the Night
14. Harlem Shuffle (Earnest Nelson / Robert Relf)
15. Mixed emotions
16. Love is strong
17. Anybody Seen My Baby? ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / kd lang / Ben Mink )
18. Don't stop
19. Doom and Gloom
20. One more shot

Deluxe edition

The deluxe edition was also released as a vinyl LP .

CD 1

1. Come On ( Chuck Berry )
2. Not Fade Away ( Charles Hardin / Norman Petty )
3. It's All Over Now ( Bobby Womack / Shirley Jean Womack )
4. Little Red Rooster ( Willie Dixon )
5. The Last Time
6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
7. Time Is on My Side ( Jerry Ragovoy )
8. Get Off of My Cloud
9. Heart of Stone
10. 19th Nervous Breakdown
11. As Tears Go By ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / Andrew Loog Oldham )
12. Paint It Black
13. Under my thumb
14. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
15. Ruby Tuesday
16. Let's spend the night together
17. We love you

CD 2

1. Jumpin 'Jack Flash
2. Honky Tonk Women
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. You Can't Always Get What You Want
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Wild horses
8. She's a rainbow
9. Brown sugar
10. Happy
11. Tumbling Dice
12. Angie
13. Rocks Off
14. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
15. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)
16. Fool to Cry

CD 3

1. Miss you
2. Respectable
3. Beast of Burden
4. Emotional Rescue
5. Start Me Up
6. Waiting on a friend
7. Undercover of the Night
8. She was hot
9. Streets of Love
10. Harlem Shuffle ( Earnest Nelson / Robert Relf )
11. Mixed emotions
12. Highwire
13. Love is strong
14. Anybody Seen My Baby? ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / kd lang / Ben Mink )
15. Don't stop
16. Doom and Gloom
17. One more shot

Super deluxe edition

CD 1

1. Come On ( Chuck Berry )
2. I Wanna Be Your Man ( John Lennon / Paul McCartney )
3. Not Fade Away ( Charles Hardin / Norman Petty )
4. That's How Strong My Love Is ( Roosevelt Jamison )
5. It's All Over Now ( Bobby Womack / Shirley Jean Womack )
6. Little Red Rooster ( Willie Dixon )
7. The Last Time
8. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
9. Heart of Stone
10. Get Off of My Cloud
11. She Said Yeah ( Sonny Christy / Roddy Jackson )
12. I'm free
13. Play with Fire ( Nanker Phelge )
14. Time Is on My Side ( Jerry Ragovoy )
15. 19th Nervous Breakdown
16. Paint It Black
17. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
18. She's a rainbow
19. Under my thumb
20. Out of time
21. As Tears Go By ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / Andrew Loog Oldham )

CD 2

1. Let's spend the night together
2. Mother's Little Helper
3. We love you
4. Dandelion
5. Lady Jane
6. Flight 505
7. 2000 Light Years from Home
8. Ruby Tuesday
9. Jumpin 'Jack Flash
10. Sympathy for the Devil
11. Child of the Moon
12. Salt of the Earth
13. Honky Tonk Women
14. Midnight Rambler
15. Gimme Shelter
16. You got the silver
17. You Can't Always Get What You Want
18. Street Fighting Man
19. Wild horses

CD 3

1. Brown sugar
2. Bitch
3. Tumbling Dice
4. Rocks Off
5. Happy
6. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
7. Angie
8. It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)
9. Dance Little Sister
10. Fool to Cry
11. Respectable
12. Miss you
13. Shattered
14. Far Away Eyes
15. Beast of Burden
16. Emotional Rescue
17. Dance (Pt. 1) ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / Ronnie Wood )
18. She's so cold
19. Waiting on a friend
20. Neighbors

CD 4

1. Start Me Up
2. Undercover of the Night
3. She was hot
4. Harlem Shuffle ( Earnest Nelson / Robert Relf )
5. Mixed emotions
6. Highwire
7. Almost Hear You Sigh ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / Steve Jordan )
8. You got me rocking
9. Love is strong
10. I go wild
11. Like A Rolling Stone ( Bob Dylan )
12. Anybody Seen My Baby? ( Mick Jagger / Keith Richards / kd lang / Ben Mink )
13. Saint of Me
14. Don't stop
15. Rough Justice
16. Rain Fall Down
17. Streets of Love
18. Plundered My Soul
19. Doom and Gloom
20. One more shot

CD 5

The fifth CD of the Super Deluxe Edition contains five demo recordings that were recorded in 1963 at IBC Studios in London .

1. Diddley daddy
2. Road runner
3. Bright Lights, Big City
4. Honey What's Wrong
5. I want to be loved

Vinyl EP

The vinyl EP includes four recordings from 1964, which were recorded in the London BBC studios .

A side

1. Route 66
2. Cops and Robbers

B side

1. You Better Move On
2. Mona (I Need You Baby)

reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic thinks that the compilation offers a good overview of the Rolling Stones' long career, although not all important pieces are included even on the Super Deluxe Edition. Ulf Kubanke from laut.de criticizes the selection of some inferior pieces, but praises the stylistic range of the compilation. Helen Brown of the Daily Telegraph pulls Grrr! the compilation Forty Licks , published ten years earlier .

Walton Ford was exposed to the negative voices of some Rolling Stones fans who did not like the album cover and defended himself against them with the words: “A lot of people didn't like it at all. […] I was glad they didn't like it. I mean, the last people I wanted to please were Rolling Stones fans. [...] You are really vicious. It is a general rule that they have a fan base who just always seems to be upset with the Rolling Stones for many reasons. […] [A] hen the Rolling Stones did their best job, they were one step ahead of the people they loved so much. I thought, 'How cool that I'm getting the chance to piss off your fans?' "

Web links

• Grrr! at Allmusic (English)
• Criticism on laut.de
• Grrr! on rollingstones.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolling Stones. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on May 17, 2013 . 
2. ↑ The Rolling Stones announce Greatest Hits album. (No longer available online.) The Rolling Stones, archived from the original on March 29, 2013 ; Retrieved May 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ "GRRR!": New Best-Of of the Rolling Stones for the 50th band anniversary. Universal Music, accessed May 17, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Jason Lipshutz: "! GRRR" will include new tracks "Gloom and Doom" and "One Last Shot" upon release its November. Billboard, September 4, 2012, accessed May 17, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Rolling Stone: Two new songs from the Greatest Hits Collection "GRRR!" Rollingstone.de, September 5, 2012, accessed on May 17, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Stones to release 50th anniversary hits album. Thomson Reuters, accessed May 17, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Patrick Doyle: Rolling Stones Gorilla Logo Artist Slams Critics. In: rollingstone.com. August 5, 2013, accessed October 11, 2013 .  - Walton Ford. I don't like to look at him, Jack. It makes me think of that awful day on the island. (No longer available online.) In: paulkasmingallery.com. 2011, archived from the original on October 12, 2013 ; accessed on October 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Walton Ford. MCMLXII-MMXII. (No longer available online.) In: paulkasmingallery.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013 ; accessed on October 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.     
8. ^ "I saw the Rolling Stones as a sort of silverback [.] [...] All the metaphors of King Kong and all of that are applicable". See: Patrick Doyle: Rolling Stones Gorilla Logo Artist Slams Critics. In: rollingstone.com. August 5, 2013, accessed October 11, 2013 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} GRRR! The Rolling Stones announce greatest hits album. (No longer available online.) In: rollingstones.com. September 4, 2012, archived from the original on March 29, 2013 ; Retrieved October 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. See also: Verena Diersch: "GRRR!": The Rolling Stones announce new greatest hits album. (No longer available online.) In: musikmarkt.de. Musikmarkt GmbH & Co. KG, September 5, 2012, archived from the original on November 28, 2012 ; accessed on September 7, 2012 (website of Musikmarkt magazine ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.     
10. ^ Tony Quested: Rolling Stones rock to Cambridge technology. In: businessweekly.co.uk. October 2, 2012, accessed October 3, 2012 . 
11. ^ Be part of our forthcoming announcement. (No longer available online.) In: rollingstones.com. August 24, 2012, archived from the original on September 5, 2012 ; accessed on September 5, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ^ Stones Album and Concert: The Hints Just Keep on Coming. (No longer available online.) In: British Invasion Bands. Celebrating the music of a generation. August 28, 2012, archived from the original on October 5, 2012 ; Retrieved September 5, 2012 (website dedicated to British 1960s music). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Grrr! Augmented reality app launches with competition. (No longer available online.) In: rollingstones.com. September 20, 2012, archived from the original on November 8, 2012 ; Retrieved September 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Grrr! (No longer available online.) In: rollingstones.com. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012 ; Retrieved September 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.     
14. ^ Original English quote: "The use of one of the most advanced forms of mobile technology currently around solidifies The Rolling Stones as one of the most innovative bands in the world and as relevant as they have always been." ( GRRR! The Rolling Stones announce . greatest hits album (. no longer available online) In: . rollingstones.com September 4, 2012, archived from the original on March 29, 2013 , accessed on September 5, 2012 . Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )  
15. ↑ GRRRegory. In: Twitter. Retrieved January 6, 2015 (the account was opened in September; Grrregory's first tweet is from October 4, 2012). 
16. ↑ GRRR! (Greatest Hits) vinyl LP. Universal Music, accessed May 17, 2013 . 
17. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Grrr! at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 13, 2013.
18. ↑ Ulf Kubanke: “Grrr!” from The Rolling Stones , laut.de , accessed on August 13, 2013.
19. ↑ Helen Brown: Rolling Stones, Grrr! , The Daily Telegraph , accessed August 13, 2013.
20. ↑ “A lot of people didn't like it at all […]. I was glad that they didn't like it. I mean, the last people who I wanted to please were Rolling Stones fans. [...] They are really nasty. It's a general rule they have a fan base that just seem to be always angry at the Rolling Stones for a lot of reasons. […] [W] hen the Rolling Stones were doing their best work, they were a step ahead of the people that loved them so much. I thought, 'How cool that I get an opportunity to piss their fans off?' ”See: Patrick Doyle: Rolling Stones Gorilla Logo Artist Slams Critics. In: rollingstone.com. August 5, 2013, accessed October 11, 2013 .