Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 30th October. What aural delights are in store this week, I hear you cry.........without further ado, it's over to..........

Tony -

"Lastminute.com but just in time! Here's my 3 for the week...........Continuing best wishes to all at RPM - week 9 of our post-lockdown fun and still no sign of any chance to meet up in person..........."

Alan -

"Last week's Rice Krispies advert by the Stones saw me scurrying back to their early stuff.... and what a great group they were! Jagger's vocals were, initially, almost a pastiche of the 'real thing' but, by 1965 he had developed a fine individual vocal style based on the blues, not merely parodying them. Like many of the sixties bands (Moody Blues excepted) I think the Stones best work was from that decade. My collection shudders to a halt with 1972's 'Exile on Main Street', an album whose reputation has soared in the years since it's release. However, it should be remembered that the recording took place at the very time that Keef was deeply involved with heroin and the album's recording was severely affected, in part by the involvement of Gram Parsons who, allegedly, had access to almost pure 'medication'. Such was the state of the band at the time that many tracks were recorded separately by individuals or pairings as and when they were able to attend sessions. Despite this, respected author Bill Janovitz rated the album "the greatest, most soulful, rock & roll record ever made" which "distills perhaps all the essential elements of rock & roll up to 1971, if not beyond" making it "the single greatest rock & roll record of all time"! Praise indeed..... However, back to the earlier recording and here's three of my favourites...........

Loved all the selections again recently, what a catholic bunch we are!!

Stay safe everyone............. we'll continue to avoid entering supermarkets and shops wherever possible, especially now there's a large outbreak in Watton around half a mile away!!!"

It's All Over Now - Live at the London Palladium January 22nd 1967. 45RPM label released June 2019 ('unofficial' release).

"Live?.......Or is it? In fact, the band recorded the backing track a few days earlier at Olympic Studios with Jagger singing live on the night. Despite that, this is a totally successful reworking of one of my favourite Stones singles without, unfortunately, the crunching chords heard on the singles finale. Great stuff from the very week the band released 'Between the buttons', perhaps their final album in the original Stones 'style', which hit number 3 in the UK and number 2 in the US. Pity they didn't put this reworking on there too!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbsycYxuEm0

Time Is On My Side - Original, 'mono single' mix, US release, September 1964.

"First recorded by Danish American jazz trombonist Kai Winding, it was closely followed in June 1964 by Irma Thomas' classic soul reading. Most RPM'ers are probably familiar with the Stones version on their January 1965 '...No 2' album but, the band had gone into Decca's London studio in late August '64 to lay down this sparser version, with an excellent organ intro This version was a US single, released 25th September 1964, and the Stones were rewarded with their biggest US chart hit (No 6) to date. The original recording remained unreleased in the UK until 2016's mammoth (and expensive) eight album box set which included the '12x5' US second Stones album. I had first heard this at a friends house back in '64/65 (on an EP I seem to remember) and I did manage to pick it up a few years ago on an obscure Spanish compilation. I do love the UK version, but I do keep returning to this one....... "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YtBK7V8ck

John -

"Hi Everyone, hope you're keeping safe and well. Here are my selections from the music I've been listening to this week........."

Jean -

"This is another week when I want uplifting music and performances played loudly. Here they are......."

Jayne -

"As we’re in for the long haul, please continue to keep safe everyone and keep sharing that magic music."

Dave -

"Hi RPMers.........hope you are all keeping well . Here’s my 3 off the week.........".

Morra -

Piers -

"Hi Folks................All a bit bluesy this week, I hope you enjoy them........"

Philip -

"This week it's an Election Special. I see that our own Pound-Shop Trump, the appalling Mr. Farage, has been enthusiastically supporting Agent Orange at one of his rallies. (On TV they always put me in mind of Nuremburg... can't think why). Incidentally, I see that it has been suggested that Kent's magnificent new lorry park should be named "Farage's Garage." Sounds like a plan. Let's start with........."

Tim -

"Well, I was pretty excited last Saturday when the nice Postie delivered the brand new Bruce Springsteen LP to my door..........it's the first proper recording with the full E Street Band for about 6 years, a recording by a band still full of enthusiasm for playing together and making Bruce's songs into full blown reality. In other words, this is a great record from a great band! Recorded over a 4 day period, live, with minimal overdubs, Letter To You just sounds so vibrant; the musicians are totally having a ball. Apparently, some of the material here Springsteen wrote in his 20s and is taken from old note books he had been looking through.........I think you can tell which songs are these as the lyrics are more convoluted and playfully wordy than his current writing style and use the type of alliteration found on Greetings From Asbury Park. The more recent material reflects on mortality and memory and although nostalgic, feels hopeful and uplifting rather than melancholic. It's 3 of these thematically orientated songs I'm selecting this week as I haven't played any other albums!"