Sucking in the Seventies

Infobox Album | Name = Sucking in the Seventies
Type = Compilation album
Artist = The Rolling Stones


Released = 14 April 1981
Recorded = January 1974 -
December 1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 42:22
Label = Rolling Stones/Virgin
Producer = The Glimmer Twins
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lo0e4j270wal link]
*Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=rolling+stone link]
Last album = "Emotional Rescue"
(1980)
This album = "Sucking in the Seventies"
(1981)
Next album = "Tattoo You"
(1981)|

"Sucking in the Seventies" is the fourth official compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1981. As the successor to 1975's "Made in the Shade", it covers material from 1974's "It's Only Rock'n Roll" to 1980's "Emotional Rescue".

Many of the album tracks were remixed or re-edited for this release, and some rarer material was also included. "Everything Is Turning To Gold" was previously released as "Shattered"'s B-Side in late 1978 in the U.S. only; "If I Was A Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" is a longer and different mix and containing different lyrics than "Dance (Pt. 1)", the opening track on "Emotional Rescue", which, despite this compilation's title, was relased in 1980; and "When The Whip Comes Down" is presented in an otherwise unreleased live version, recorded in Detroit on the 1978 tour.

Interestingly, it doesn't include "Miss You", the major hit from the period it covers.

Released in the spring of 1981, as "Tattoo You" was nearing its completion, "Sucking in the Seventies" reached #15 in the U.S., going gold, but failed to chart in the UK.

In 2005, "Sucking in the Seventies" was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

#"Shattered" – 3:46
#* from "Some Girls"
#"Everything Is Turning To Gold" (Jagger, Richards, Ronnie Wood) – 4:06
#* B-side to "Shattered"
#"Hot Stuff" – 3:30
#* from "Black and Blue"
#"Time Waits for No One" – 4:25
#* from "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
#"Fool to Cry" – 4:07
#* from "Black and Blue"
#"Mannish Boy" (Ellas McDaniel, Mel London, McKinley Morganfield) – 4:38
#* from "Love You Live"
#"When the Whip Comes Down (Live Version)" – 4:35
#* "Recorded live in Detroit on 6 July 1978"
#"If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" (Jagger, Richards, Wood) – 5:50
#* previously unreleased, from the "Emotional Rescue" sessions
#"Crazy Mama" – 4:06
#* from "Black and Blue"
#"Beast of Burden " – 3:27
#* from "Some Girls"

Charts

Album

Singles