Genuine Black Box on Scorpio is the latest and perhaps best attempt at this much lost compilation. It is six discs dating from the earliest Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys session to Mick Taylor’s final studio recordings with the band encompassing 144 performances collected together in a comprehensive anthology. “Presenting the best available quality, studio outtake, demo, rehearsal, alternative, rare, withdrawn or otherwise unavailable recordings from the band’s golden era, this collection provides the most authoritative overview to date of The Rolling Stones’ recording career.”
It goes without saying that there are no new tracks in this collection. Scorpio, who have unearthed countless Rolling Stones outtake material such as Time Trip, rather want to anthologize the best of the rarities that have come to light over the past forty years (thanks in large part to Scorpio). The sound quality of each track is as good as it will ever sound short of professional mastering and mixing done by the band themselves.
The three 2CD titles are packaged in a double slimline jewel case, each with thick booklets with copious amounts of liner notes and annotations for each track and printed on glossy high quality paper. The three are housed in a thick slip case and several post cards are also included in the packaging. This has to be one of the nicest looking and sounding Rolling Stones titles produced. This review won’t cover every track, but will discuss the highlights of each volume.
The Rebels Arrive
1-1 On Your Way To School
1-2 Johnny B. Goode
1-3 Little Queenie
1-4 Beautiful Delilah
1-5 You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover
1-6 Bright Lights, Big City
1-7 Diddley Daddy
1-8 Baby What's Wrong
1-9 Road Runner
1-10 I Want To Be Loved
1-11 Fortune Teller I
1-12 Poison Ivy I
1-13 Fortune Teller II
1-14 Go Home, Girl
1-15 Come On
1-16 Memphis, Tennessee
1-17 Roll Over Beethoven
1-18 It Should Be You
1-19 Leave Me Alone
1-20 My Only Girl
1-21 Not Fade Away
1-22 Andrew's Blues
1-23 Mr. Spector & Mr. Pitney Came Too
1-24 Wake Up In The Morning
1-25 Tell Me
1-26 As Time Goes By
1-27 Ain't That Loving You Baby
1-28 Cops & Robbers
1-29 I'm Moving On
1-30 Beautiful Delilah
1-31 Don't Lie To Me
1-32 Reelin' & Rockin'
1-33 2120 South Michigan Avenue
Shake, Holler & Run
2-1 Hi-Heel Sneakers
2-2 Stewed And Keefed
2-3 Look What You've Done
2-4 Tell Me Baby, How Many Times?
2-5 Meet Me In The Bottom
2-6 Crackin' Up
2-7 Congratulations
2-8 Time Is On My Side
2-9 Try A Little Harder
2-10 Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind I
2-11 Heart Of Stone
2-12 Blue Turns To Grey
2-13 We're Wasting Time
2-14 (Walikn Thru The) Sleepy City
2-15 Each And Every Day Of The Year
2-16 I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys
2-17 We Were Falling In Love
2-18 Surprise, Surprise
2-19 Susie Q
2-20 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love I
2-21 Goodbye Girl
2-22 Mercy Mercy
2-23 Key To The Highway
2-24 I've Been Loving You Too Long
2-25 Oh Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin')
2-26 The Spider And The Fly
2-27 Fannie Mae
2-28 Looking Tired
2-29 Con Le Mie Lacrime
2-30 Out Of Time
Living In The Stone Age
3-1 19th Nervous Breakdown
3-2 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing In The Shadow?
3-3 Get Yourself Together I
3-4 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby II
3-5 If You Let Me
3-6 Yesterday's Papers
3-7 Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Blue
3-8 Get Yourself Together II
3-9 We Love You
3-10 Cosmic Christmas
3-11 2000 Light Years From Home
3-12 Gold Painted Nails
3-13 Did Everybody Pay Their Dues?
3-14 Child Of The Moon I
3-15 Jigsaw Puzzle
3-16 Parachute Woman
3-17 Jumpin' Jack Flash
3-18 Highway Child
3-19 Stray Cat Blues
3-20 Family I
3-21 Blood Red Wine
3-22 No Expectations
3-23 Dear Doctor I
3-24 Memo From Turner I
It Must Have Been The Devil
4-1 Child Of The Moon II
4-2 Prodigal Son
4-3 Family II
4-4 Still A Fool
4-5 Give Me A Hamburger To Go (Stuck Out All Alone)
4-6 Memo From Turner II
4-7 And I Was A Country Boy
4-8 Sister Morphine I
4-9 You Got The Silver
4-10 Gimme Shelter
4-11 Honky Tonk Woman
4-12 Sister Morphine II
4-13 Loving Cup I
4-14 Jiving Sister Fanny
4-15 Downtown Suzie
4-16 I'm Going Down
4-17 I Don't Know Why
4-18 Country Honk
4-19 All Down The Line I
Life On The Run
5-1 Got A Line On You
5-2 Hillside Blues
5-3 Wild Horses
5-4 Cocksucker Blues
5-5 Dead Flowers
5-6 Dancing In The Light
5-7 Shake Your Hips
5-8 Leather Jacket
5-9 Stop Breaking Down
5-10 Shine A Light
5-11 Sweet Virginia
5-12 Who Am I?
5-13 Good Time Woman
5-14 Sway
5-15 Bitch
5-16 Traveling Man
5-17 Brown Sugar
5-18 Silver Train
For Now, So Long
6-1 Let It Rock
6-2 I Ain't Living
6-3 Potted Shrimps
6-4 Aladdin Story
6-5 Loving Cup II
6-6 All Down The Line II
6-7 I Don't Care
6-8 Exile On Main Street Blues
6-9 Winter
6-10 Criss-Cross Man
6-11 Separately
6-12 Through The Lonely Nights
6-13 Dancing With Mr. Dee
6-14 100 Years Ago
6-15 Hide Your Love
6-16 Too Many Cooks
6-17 Drift Away
6-18 Living In The Heart Of Love
6-19 If You Can't Rock Me
6-20 'Till The Next Goodbye
