Live Licks

Live Licks
Live album by
the Rolling Stones
Released1 November 2004
Recorded4 November 2002
18 January 2003
11 July 2003
24 August 2003
GenreRock
Length109:19
LabelVirgin
ProducerDon Was, the Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones chronology
Singles 1965–1967
(2004) 		Live Licks
(2004) 		Singles 1968–1971
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]
Tom HullB+[3]

Live Licks is a 2004 double CD by the Rolling Stones, their ninth official live album.[1] Coming six years after No Security, it features performances from the 2002–2003 Licks Tour in support of the career-spanning, fortieth anniversary retrospective Forty Licks. The album includes "an entire side of songs never before recorded live",[4] and features only one song recorded after 1981's Tattoo You ("You Don't Have to Mean It" from Bridges to Babylon).

History

The first CD contains "the familiar classics" while the second features "some covers, b-sides and album tracks from the more obscure end of their back catalogue".[5]

Sheryl Crow appears on "Honky Tonk Women", while Solomon Burke sings on his own "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", which the Rolling Stones originally covered on The Rolling Stones No. 2 in 1965.

The Rolling Stones released two subtly different versions of cover art for Live Licks. While both feature a woman astride the Rolling Stones logo's tongue, in the British version she has no bikini top.[6]

Unlike all their previous live albums, Live Licks features virtually none of the band's recent compositions, and includes only one track which was released in the preceding two decades. In all there are nine songs from the 1960s, eight from the 1970s, three from the 1980s (all from Tattoo You), one from the 1997 release Bridges to Babylon, and two previously unreleased covers.

Reception

Live Licks peaked at No. 38 in the UK Albums Chart,[7] and No. 50 in the US,[8] becoming a gold record on 9 December 2004, according to the RIAA.[ʌ3]

The BBC suggested that "even for cynics it demonstrates how potent they remain as a live act, despite not frightening the horses as much these days".[9] It concluded that, "[like] Bowie, the Stones may no longer be churning out hits but they still know how to mount a spectacle, as this release amply proves."

David Fricke wrote that "Live Licks is the Stones' first live album since Ya-Ya’s to earn a spot next to my best soundboard and broadcast boots. One good reason: a bright, hard mix that nails the Stones' matured vigor onstage".[10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted

Live Licks track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Brown Sugar" 3:50
2."Street Fighting Man" 3:43
3."Paint It Black" 3:45
4."You Can't Always Get What You Want" 6:46
5."Start Me Up" 4:02
6."It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" 4:54
7."Angie" 3:29
8."Honky Tonk Women" (with Sheryl Crow) 3:24
9."Happy" 3:38
10."Gimme Shelter" 6:50
11."(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" 4:55
12."Neighbours" 3:41
13."Monkey Man" 3:41
14."Rocks Off" 3:42
15."Can't You Hear Me Knocking" 10:02
16."That's How Strong My Love Is"Roosevelt Jamison4:45
17."The Nearness of You"
4:34
18."Beast of Burden" 4:09
19."When the Whip Comes Down" 4:28
20."Rock Me Baby"
3:50
21."You Don't Have to Mean It" 4:35
22."Worried About You" 6:01
23."Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (with Solomon Burke)
6:35
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
24."If You Can't Rock Me"2:48

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

  • Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, guitar on "When the Whip Comes Down", percussion on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking", keyboards on "Worried About You"
  • Keith Richards – guitars, backing vocals on "Honky Tonk Women", lead vocals on "Happy", "The Nearness of You" and "You Don't Have to Mean It"
  • Ron Wood – guitars, piano on "You Don't Have To Mean It"[11]
  • Charlie Watts – drums

Additional musicians

  • Darryl Jones – bass guitar
  • Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals[12]
  • Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion, keyboards on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
  • Lisa Fischer – backing vocals, percussion on "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," and Gimme Shelter
  • Blondie Chaplin – backing vocals, percussion, acoustic guitar on "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", electric guitar on "You Don't Have To Mean It"
  • Bobby Keys – saxophone
  • Andy Snitzer – saxophone, keyboards
  • Michael Davis – trombone
  • Kent Smith – trumpet[11]

Special guest musicians

Charts

Chart performance for Live Licks
Chart (2004) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[13] 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 47
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[15] 49
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[16] 19
French Albums (SNEP)[17] 38
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[18] 9
Italian Albums (FIMI)[19] 34
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[20] 19
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[21] 38
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[22] 27
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[23] 43
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[24] 16
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] 21
UK Albums (OCC)[26] 38
US Billboard 200[27] 50

Certifications

Certifications for Live Licks
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[28] Gold 20,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[29] Gold 15,000*
Netherlands (NVPI)[30] Gold 40,000^
Portugal (AFP)[31] Gold 20,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[32] Gold 100,000*
United States (RIAA)[33] Gold 500,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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