Bridges to Babylon [Extra tracks] [Import]

Track Listings
1. Flip the Switch    
2. Anybody Seen My Baby?    
3. Low Down    
4. Already Over Me    
5. Gunface    
6. You Don't Have to Mean It    
7. Out of Control    
8. Saint of Me    
9. Might as Well Get Juiced    
10. Always Suffering    
11. Too Tight    
12. Thief in the Night    
13. How Can I Stop    
14. Angie [Live]    

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Japanese Release featuring an Exclusive Bonus Track: Angie (Live).

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Bridges to Babylon
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • good stones? please
  • Excellent album
  • Real Good
  • Yet another "Downside of Stardom" record.
  • One Of The Best Rock'N'Roll Albums Of The 90s
 Bridges to Babylon
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Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
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ASIN: B000000WEZ
Release Date: 1997-09-30

Tracks:

  1. Flip The Switch
  2. Anybody Seen My Baby?
  3. Low Down
  4. Already Over Me
  5. Gun Pace
  6. You Don't Have To Mean It
  7. Out Of Control
  8. Saint Of Me
  9. Might As Well Get Juiced
  10. Always Suffering
  11. Too Tight
  12. Thief In The Night
  13. How Can I Stop

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It's no use comparing Stones albums to Exile on Main St. anymore; the world's greatest rock & roll band clearly substitutes finances for passion these days. But compared to, say, Soul Asylum or the Black Crowes, the band still produces worthwhile records--"Flip the Switch," "Out of Control," and the closing Keith Richards suite all give Bridges the edge over the Stones' spotty previous Voodoo Lounge. Despite dross like the plagiarized hit "Anybody Seen My Baby," and the underutilization of the talented Dust Brothers production team, the Stones don't deserve our indifference just yet. --Steve Knopper

Album Description

Limited edition of their 1997 album in a special package: astandard jewel case within an etched clear & silver slipcasethat accentuates the graphic of the lion on the cover art.Contains 13 tracks, including the singles 'Anybody Seen MyBaby?' and 'Saint Of

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars good stones? please.......2006-10-20

I just HAD to wrtie a review of this album if only to counter these crazies who say this album has anything worthy of attention on it. Pretty much everything on this ranges from fairly bad to dismal. And I've got every stones record from '66 forward and am not one of those who feel that their only good music was before '72. I would say their last breathtakingly amazing record was Tattoo You (esp. "side 2"), and even Undercover I would consider a great album. But this is simply boring and dismal. Believe me, you won't listen to it much at all.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent album.......2006-09-23

The Rolling Stones in a way are kind of a victim of their own success. I think it would be fair to say that when you talk about longevity The Stones have few peers in the Rock and Roll world. Just think about how long they have been making albums/cd's (whatever you want to call them).
They have been at it for over 40 years, non stop.I mean think about it these guys have staying power.
All that said everything they do is still compared to their incredible run from the late 60's through the 70's. And everybody expects every album to be another Exile on Main Street.
And because of this, great cd's like Bridges to Babylon do not get the respect they deserve. This is one killer peice of work by the boys, a finely crafted studio album of high quality stuff.
If you do not have this album and like The Stones you are missing out on a gem.

4 out of 5 stars Real Good.......2006-06-29

This is a real good album, characterized by these songs:
"Flip the Switch," "Lowdown," "Already Over Me," "Gunface," "Juiced," "Saint Of Me." If you're familiar with those six, you know what to expect: modern 90's experimentation, solid songwriting and performances, and an advance over their general brand of latter-day blues rock. "Juiced," in particular, is a very strong statement featuring 808 drum loops, distorted vocals, and Mick Jagger's driving harmonica. This is not the first instance of "techno-blues"; Jon Spencer's been doing it for years. However, the fact that the Stones attempted it (and pulled it off) is a feat-especially when it is considered that any blues influence in popular music has been absent since the early 90's.

Regardless of what you think of the single "Anybody Seen My Baby?", "Bridges" is, by far, their best contemporary album.

1 out of 5 stars Yet another "Downside of Stardom" record........2006-06-28

The reviewer who called Mick Jagger a "Cartoonish sex symbol" was right on the money. I agree - the Stones used to be the greatest band around (before I was born, sadly). But now, they're a joke.
When Mick Taylor left, the Boys lost all the credibility they once had and became one big, unfunny joke. This can be blamed almost entirely on Mick Jagger who, like Brian Jones before him, was obsessed with style. Case in point: Some Girls was a decent record, but hurt by the group's attempt to play disco. Emotional Rescue (probably their worst album to date) also saw them taking on the disco and punk trends. And Bridges To Babylon continues this tradition, this time featuring the band trying two popular genres on for size: techno and rap. Yes, that's right: Rolling Stones rap. What happened? They sold out.
Saint of Me, the only song worth hearing, is actually close to good. But the rest (Anybody Seen My Baby, Too Tight, Flip the Switch, Out of Control, Might As Well Get Juiced, etc). is worthless. Check out Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Some Girls, the underrated Voodoo Lounge and A Bigger Bang instead.

5 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Rock'N'Roll Albums Of The 90s.......2006-05-02

"Bridges To Babylon" is a highly under-rated album, as it was probably doomed to be. From at least the late 80s onward, the Rolling Stones have been in a hard position. Anything they do with resemblance to their older albums there's going to be a certain portion of people who say 'aw, they're old dinosaurs, they can't do anything original', while at the same time any deviation from those same earlier releases is going to bring charges that they've either sold out by changing their style or that they've changed their style because they're just not capable of generating classic-style material on the level of the stuff from the 60s and 70s. I don't think either arguement holds any validity.

"Bridges To Babylon" doesn't sound like "Let It Bleed" or "Emotional Rescue", but then I wouldn't it want it to be a copy of either of those albums, any more than I'd want to pick up an earlier album I haven't heard in its entirety and have it sound just like the greats off Bridges or "A Bigger Bang". For a band that's so often been described as just soldiering through the same basic ground again and again, I feel the Stones have actually covered a pretty diverse range over their career, especially when you don't hear just their hit singles but some of their more eclectic songs off albums and B-sides. 'Continental Drift' off "Steel Wheels" is a great example of how far they can go out of their traditional territory and still be great, and that general trend carries on here. At the same time, Bridges, despite all the differences and flourishes, still has that indefinable sound that it doesn't seem like anyone but the Stones can quite capture. So between going traditional or forging new territory, you've really got the best of both worlds here. Album opener 'Flip The Switch' is a first-rate adrenalizer, a top rev up choice for lifting weights or the like. 'Already Over Me' does a smashing job mining that bittersweet melancholy territory the band has previously covered on tracks like 'Angie'. 'Gunface', one of the darkest tracks the Stones have done in decades, flows seamlessly into a song of a diametrically different vibe - the whimsical, horns-driven 'You Don't Have To Mean It', which features one of Keith Richards's greatest vocal performances ever. Every track on here is great; if a 'single' is supposed to be a song good enough to represent the entire album to a wide array of listeners then any of the 13 tracks here could have been a single.

Excellent music that'll still be excellent years after everyone's forgotten all the late-night 'comedians' and their 'over-the-hill rocker' jokes.
Bridges to Babylon
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • good stones? please
  • Excellent album
  • Real Good
  • Yet another "Downside of Stardom" record.
  • One Of The Best Rock'N'Roll Albums Of The 90s
 Bridges to Babylon
The Rolling Stones
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  2. Steel Wheels
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ASIN: B000000WEV
Release Date: 1997-09-30

Tracks:

  1. Flip The Switch
  2. Anybody Seen My Baby?
  3. Low Down
  4. Already Over Me
  5. Gunface
  6. You Don't Have To Mean It
  7. Out Of Control
  8. Saint Of Me
  9. Might As Well Get Juiced
  10. Always Suffering
  11. Too Tight
  12. Thief In The Night
  13. How Can I Stop

Amazon.com

It's no use comparing Stones albums to Exile on Main St. anymore; the world's greatest rock & roll band clearly substitutes finances for passion these days. But compared to, say, Soul Asylum or the Black Crowes, the band still produces worthwhile records--"Flip the Switch," "Out of Control," and the closing Keith Richards suite all give Bridges the edge over the Stones' spotty previous Voodoo Lounge. Despite dross like the plagiarized hit "Anybody Seen My Baby," and the underutilization of the talented Dust Brothers production team, the Stones don't deserve our indifference just yet. --Steve Knopper

Album Description

Limited edition of their 1997 album in a special package: astandard jewel case within an etched clear & silver slipcasethat accentuates the graphic of the lion on the cover art.Contains 13 tracks, including the singles 'Anybody Seen MyBaby?' and 'Saint Of

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars good stones? please.......2006-10-20

I just HAD to wrtie a review of this album if only to counter these crazies who say this album has anything worthy of attention on it. Pretty much everything on this ranges from fairly bad to dismal. And I've got every stones record from '66 forward and am not one of those who feel that their only good music was before '72. I would say their last breathtakingly amazing record was Tattoo You (esp. "side 2"), and even Undercover I would consider a great album. But this is simply boring and dismal. Believe me, you won't listen to it much at all.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent album.......2006-09-23

The Rolling Stones in a way are kind of a victim of their own success. I think it would be fair to say that when you talk about longevity The Stones have few peers in the Rock and Roll world. Just think about how long they have been making albums/cd's (whatever you want to call them).
They have been at it for over 40 years, non stop.I mean think about it these guys have staying power.
All that said everything they do is still compared to their incredible run from the late 60's through the 70's. And everybody expects every album to be another Exile on Main Street.
And because of this, great cd's like Bridges to Babylon do not get the respect they deserve. This is one killer peice of work by the boys, a finely crafted studio album of high quality stuff.
If you do not have this album and like The Stones you are missing out on a gem.

4 out of 5 stars Real Good.......2006-06-29

This is a real good album, characterized by these songs:
"Flip the Switch," "Lowdown," "Already Over Me," "Gunface," "Juiced," "Saint Of Me." If you're familiar with those six, you know what to expect: modern 90's experimentation, solid songwriting and performances, and an advance over their general brand of latter-day blues rock. "Juiced," in particular, is a very strong statement featuring 808 drum loops, distorted vocals, and Mick Jagger's driving harmonica. This is not the first instance of "techno-blues"; Jon Spencer's been doing it for years. However, the fact that the Stones attempted it (and pulled it off) is a feat-especially when it is considered that any blues influence in popular music has been absent since the early 90's.

Regardless of what you think of the single "Anybody Seen My Baby?", "Bridges" is, by far, their best contemporary album.

1 out of 5 stars Yet another "Downside of Stardom" record........2006-06-28

The reviewer who called Mick Jagger a "Cartoonish sex symbol" was right on the money. I agree - the Stones used to be the greatest band around (before I was born, sadly). But now, they're a joke.
When Mick Taylor left, the Boys lost all the credibility they once had and became one big, unfunny joke. This can be blamed almost entirely on Mick Jagger who, like Brian Jones before him, was obsessed with style. Case in point: Some Girls was a decent record, but hurt by the group's attempt to play disco. Emotional Rescue (probably their worst album to date) also saw them taking on the disco and punk trends. And Bridges To Babylon continues this tradition, this time featuring the band trying two popular genres on for size: techno and rap. Yes, that's right: Rolling Stones rap. What happened? They sold out.
Saint of Me, the only song worth hearing, is actually close to good. But the rest (Anybody Seen My Baby, Too Tight, Flip the Switch, Out of Control, Might As Well Get Juiced, etc). is worthless. Check out Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Some Girls, the underrated Voodoo Lounge and A Bigger Bang instead.

5 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Rock'N'Roll Albums Of The 90s.......2006-05-02

"Bridges To Babylon" is a highly under-rated album, as it was probably doomed to be. From at least the late 80s onward, the Rolling Stones have been in a hard position. Anything they do with resemblance to their older albums there's going to be a certain portion of people who say 'aw, they're old dinosaurs, they can't do anything original', while at the same time any deviation from those same earlier releases is going to bring charges that they've either sold out by changing their style or that they've changed their style because they're just not capable of generating classic-style material on the level of the stuff from the 60s and 70s. I don't think either arguement holds any validity.

"Bridges To Babylon" doesn't sound like "Let It Bleed" or "Emotional Rescue", but then I wouldn't it want it to be a copy of either of those albums, any more than I'd want to pick up an earlier album I haven't heard in its entirety and have it sound just like the greats off Bridges or "A Bigger Bang". For a band that's so often been described as just soldiering through the same basic ground again and again, I feel the Stones have actually covered a pretty diverse range over their career, especially when you don't hear just their hit singles but some of their more eclectic songs off albums and B-sides. 'Continental Drift' off "Steel Wheels" is a great example of how far they can go out of their traditional territory and still be great, and that general trend carries on here. At the same time, Bridges, despite all the differences and flourishes, still has that indefinable sound that it doesn't seem like anyone but the Stones can quite capture. So between going traditional or forging new territory, you've really got the best of both worlds here. Album opener 'Flip The Switch' is a first-rate adrenalizer, a top rev up choice for lifting weights or the like. 'Already Over Me' does a smashing job mining that bittersweet melancholy territory the band has previously covered on tracks like 'Angie'. 'Gunface', one of the darkest tracks the Stones have done in decades, flows seamlessly into a song of a diametrically different vibe - the whimsical, horns-driven 'You Don't Have To Mean It', which features one of Keith Richards's greatest vocal performances ever. Every track on here is great; if a 'single' is supposed to be a song good enough to represent the entire album to a wide array of listeners then any of the 13 tracks here could have been a single.

Excellent music that'll still be excellent years after everyone's forgotten all the late-night 'comedians' and their 'over-the-hill rocker' jokes.
Bridges to Babylon
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The Angels Aren't Crying Yet
  • One more step to glory
  • Excellent !!!!! Excelent!!!!! Excellent!!!!!
 Bridges to Babylon
The Rolling Stones
Manufacturer: EMI Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005RQM
Release Date: 1997-10-08

Tracks:

  1. Flip the Switch
  2. Anybody Seen My Baby?
  3. Low Down
  4. Already Over Me
  5. Gunface
  6. You Don't Have to Mean It
  7. Out of Control
  8. Saint of Me
  9. Might as Well Get Juiced
  10. Always Suffering
  11. Too Tight
  12. Thief in the Night
  13. How Can I Stop
  14. Angie [Live]

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring an Exclusive Bonus Track: Angie (Live).

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Angels Aren't Crying Yet.......2002-10-20

This import version from Japan includes one extra track....a live version of Angie. The extra track is not remarkable, but (as usual) if you want 'em all, ya gotta buy this one too. Here is my review of the album as a whole:

Bridges To Babylon was originally released Sep 30, 1997. It was the 25th studio album. It includes the single hits Anybody Seen My Baby, Out Of Control, and Saint Of Me. It also includes Flip The Switch. Most people know the music, so in my reviews I try to give you data on the sessions and interesting facts connected with the songs and the album. Here we go:

Interesting notes include:
.....titles considered included Blessed Poison and Flip The Switch
.....Keith heard his daughter singing different words to Anybody Seen My Baby and panicked when he discovered Mick had unconsciously used the melody to k.d. lang's Constant Craving.....the Stones got off the hook when k.d. was flattered and accepted credit for writing the Stones track....Keith had feared this kind of mistake for decades and when it finally happened he was so relieved it wasn't him that he insisted that Mick pay k.d. from his own share of the royalties
.....the album tour (also called Bridges To Babylon) included 107 shows to 4,375,000 over 2 years and made three hundred million.

The Bridges sessions started in Nov 1996 at Dangerous Music in Greenwich Village, continued in London during December, and again in Jan 1997 in Barbados. The entire band began recording in March at Ocean Way Studios in L.A. Mick had been working on Saint Of Me and Might As Well Get Juiced for another solo album (since the Stones had not been together for over a year). Mick wanted his tracks done with new techno producers while Keith constantly ridiculed them. This lead to a lot of problems when they tried to work together in L.A. and they ended up using separate studios with Keith stealing tapes to get the final mixes done while Mick boycotted the sessions. In Mick's case, he got so angry he finally mixed one track - Already Over Me - himself, then walked out leaving Keith to finish 3 tracks himself (he promptly overdubbed Mick's techno with rockabilly). As usual with the Stones, the conflict produced some of their best music in decades and Bridges ended up acclaimed as one of their best ever. Because of the dramatic split in who did what, this time I am listing the tracks according to who wrote, played, mixed them, not where they were recorded:
.....Low Down (Keith)
.....Might As Well Get Juiced (Mick and Keith together)
.....Always Suffering (Mick)
.....You Don't Have To Mean It (Mick and Keith together)
.....Anybody Seen My Baby (Mick)
.....Saint Of Me (Mick)
.....Out Of Control (Mick)
.....Flip the Switch (Charlie & Jim Keltner)
.....Gunface (Charlie & Jim Keltner)
.....Already Over Me (mixed by Mick)
.....Too Tight (Keith overdubbing)
.....Thief In The Night (Keith overdubbing)
.....How Can I Stop (Keith overdubbing)

This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection, with some of the notes from Davis' "Old Gods Almost Dead." Both books are available from amazon.com.

4 out of 5 stars One more step to glory.......1999-01-21

In their middle fifties they have produced a new album and a grat topur. I have seen them in Buenos Aires and they have covered all my expectations once again. In Bridges to Babylon they showed to the rock and roll world, that they are still alive because they stil make noise! At their age they still make joung fellows cry. CHEARS!!

5 out of 5 stars Excellent !!!!! Excelent!!!!! Excellent!!!!!.......1998-09-19

The best Rolling Stones album in recent years. Although I have every Stones album they have ever made, this is the one that is keeping me company most of the day, when driving, at home, etc. I particularly enjoy "Saint of Me", "Always Suffering", " Gunface" and the great "Out of Control". All other tracks are also inspiring and music travels from fantastic mellow sweet notes to hard beat tunes that you want to get up and danse. The arangement of the songs is fantastic I had the opprtunity to see the Stones concert in Athens, Greece, the other day and it was an experience of a lifetime. As one journalist put it over here, "This band has a great future!!!"
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    ASIN: B0002XNE8A

    Album Description

    Japanese edition of their 1997 album in limited editionspecial packaging featuring the album in its standardjewel case within a clear slipcase etched in silver thataccentuates the graphic of the lion on the cover. It alsocontains a bonus track, a live version of their classicballad 'Angie', recorded at the Tokyo Dome in 1995. 14tracks total, also featuring the single 'Anybody Seen MyBaby?'. A Virgin release.
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      ASIN: B0002XNE80
      Release Date: 2004-01-06

      Album Description

      Limited edition of their 1997 album in a special package: astandard jewel case within an etched clear & silver slipcasethat accentuates the graphic of the lion on the cover art.Contains 13 tracks, including the singles 'Anybody Seen MyBaby?' and 'Saint Of Me'. A Virgin release.
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        		Bridges to Babylon
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        Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000026WZL
        Release Date: 1999-03-23

        Tracks:

        1. Flip the Switch
        2. Anybody Seen My Baby?
        3. Low Down
        4. Already Over Me
        5. Gunface
        6. You Don't Have to Mean It
        7. Out of Control
        8. Saint of Me
        9. Might as Well Get Juiced
        10. Always Suffering
        11. Too Tight
        12. Thief in the Night
        13. How Can I Stop

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