Love Is A Test (this is the tile given, but Jagger sings Love Is A Long Word) is another ballad with some interesting guitar fills. Dreams is a strange track, that starts with acoustic guitars and is much more like a Jagger solo venture with an unusual background texture of guitars and piano, although the melody is not that distinctive.Ĭried Out is the very first incarnation of what will become Laugh, I Nearly Died on A Bigger Bang, yet a more relaxed version. Some of these songs are also never heard of, while Just Because is an embryonic version of Trouble that will come out on Keith Richards solo album Crosseyed Heart, however here the sound is much more open than on the official release, both guitars driving and Jagger s vocals fit better the second version that lasts 6.44 minutes features a lot of talking and tuning at the beginning, actually this should be the 1 st one.
One remarkable thing about these tracks is that they are finished songs, not jam sessions excerpts. It all happened few days ago when, out of the blue on a famous Stones message board popped up this 9 tracks release that features outtakes coming from the 2002 Studio Sessions in Paris that produced those 4 songs included in the Forty Licks compilation. This is the first time an outtakes compilation is reviewed much before any label has produced a physical release to sell on the underground market.
