Description She would never say where she came from, Yesterday don't matter if it's gone. While the sun is bright, Or in the darkest night, No one knows, She comes and goes. Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, Who could hang a name on you?   When you change with every new day, Still I'm gonna miss you..... Don't question why she needs to be so free, She'll tell you its the only way to be, She just can't be chained, To a life where nothing's gained, And nothings lost, At such a cost. There's no time to lose, I heard her say, Catch your dreams before they slip away, Dying all the time, Lose your dreams, And you will lose your mind. Ain't life unkind?   Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, Who could hang a name on you?   When you change with every new day, Still I'm gonna miss you..... ROLLING STONES: "Slow Rollers". LP THE FIRST AND ONLY UK PRESSING, ISSUED MARCH, 1981. Strangely completely ignored when released, this stunning 14 Track Rolling Stones album sold so few copies, it never made a UK   chart entry. Decca's Promotional department failed, not the album, at least five tracks were exclusive and previously unreleased   in the formats I will detail shortly, had the unreleased tracks been printed on the cover or perhaps a sticker highlighting them,   "Slow Rollers" would have been a huge selling album.  So only the one UK pressing of the records was made and a proportionally   small amount of covers were printed in England, with cheaper imports in the 1980's were starting to fill British record shops, most   copies around today were made in Germany & Holland.   Where this original inner March, 1981 sleeve was part of cheaper imports   with "Made In Germany" printed on the bottom left corner, the record's labels and the cover have "Made In England."  I have taken   a picture of the section of the back cover stating that, with the inner sleeve's encoded date on top of that.   Decca always ignored very   important track details and usually only gave basic's on the labels to fulfill publishing credits, this time "Slow Rollers" did have   1980's GREY, RED & BLUE DECCA LABEL, ISSUED UNDER THE "Rock Echoes" SERIES: TAB 30 MAITRIX: XZAL // ARL 17148  1 X ∆ E  D  / XZAL // ARL 17149   1 X ∆ E  D   A very interesting mixture of Decca's 60's & 70's maitrixes, the pressing was made by Polydor and a few years ago I sold a rare   UK Polydor Test Pressing.  Interestingly, this had to be pressed directly after the Test Pressing because only part of the above   was retained for the vast majority of records.  The sound engineer in charge of the standard vinyl mastering next remove the     unnecessary 'ARL' and the end sections of '1 X ∆ E D' to end up looking like this; 'XZAL 17148 /XZAL 17149.'  Decca no longer had   a pressing plant,  Polydor's machine stamped maitrix in the run-out grooves, have easily recognisable letters, digits & dividing   symbols remained unchanged since the 1960's and throughout the 1970's.  Economics by the 1980's was drastically affecting running record pressing and either contracting pressing or imports were becoming a reality, no different to British manufacturing for cars etc.  So a kind of, 'Polydor meets Decca in the run-out grooves' was taking place, but Master Tapes were strictly used   without any alterations, remixing or editing involved.   As I will demonstrate soon, shame such fantastic music has to wait until   the mechanics of record production has been fully detailed.   The benefit of owning and handling to sell, so many Test Pressing   records over decades of selling vinyl from every decade after the 60's, I have had priceless experience and a full understanding   of the indexing in the run-out grooves, which I introduced to ebay thirteen years ago.     THE ORIGINAL DECCA/ POLYDOR INNER SLEEVE HAS A CODED DATE ON THE FRONT THAT CORRESPONDS EXACTLY   TO THE CORRECT MONTH AND YEAR"Slow Rollers" WAS RELEASED HERE:     "N 43/81"   I NEVER CLAIM EXPERTISE FOR NON UK ITEMS, BUT TAKING '3/81' FROM THAT DOES GIVE 'MARCH ,1981.'   AN UNPLAYED MINT RECORD WILL ALWAYS HAVE ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE AND THAT BECOMES DEFINITIVE FOR   THE POLYDOR INNER SLEEVE.  UNUSED, UNAGED AND AND UNSPLIT, IN MINT-CONDITION.   THE UK 'Gothic Printers Finishers Ltd. COVER HAS A MATT FINISH ON THE FRONT AND BACK, BOTH SIDES     ARE  IMMACULATE WITH NO MORE THAN THE EXPECTED RECORD IMPRESSION AFTER 33 YEARS STANDING   IN STORAGE.  SUPERB EDGES, OPENING SIDES AND CORNERS, WITH SOME LIGHT RUBBING ON THE SPINE   WHICH HAS A FEW RIPPLES AS WELL.   A THIN MATT COVER WAS TYPICAL OF THE EARLY 1980's, ONCE THE   THIN SHINY TOP SURFACE WAS APPLIED, THE THIN CARDBOARD WAS AT LEAST PROTECTED, BUT THIS WAS   TOO EARLY FOR THAT AND LIGHT RUBBING TO THE SPINE WAS INEVITABLE.   YOU CAN SEE THE ALBUM   TITLES IN A PICTURE SHOWING THE PARTIAL RUBBING, SO A HARD COVER TO GRADE!  MY PICTURES OF   THE FRONT AND BACK SAY IT ALL REALLY ABOUT THE STUNNING CONDITION, BUT I MUST TAKE THE SPINE   INTO CONSIDERATION.   THE COVER IS IN EXCELLENT++/NEAR MINT CONDITION.   THE LABELS AND RECORD ARE LITERALLY LIKE BRAND NEW, IN UNPLAYED MINT CONDITION. SIDE 1 "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Mono version) "Take It Or Leave It" ( Stereo Version) "You Better Move On" (Mono version} "Time Is On My Side" (Rare True Stereo Version) "Pain In My Heart" (Mono version "Dear Doctor" (Stereo Version) "As Tears Go By" ("Con Le Lagrime Cosi")  ( Rare Mono Italian language version) SIDE 2 "Ruby Tuesday" (Stereo Version) "Play With Fire" (Mono version ) "Lady Jane" (Stereo Version) "Sittin' On The Fence" (Stereo Version) "Back Street Girl" (Stereo Version) "Under The Boardwalk" (Mono version ) "Heart Of Stone" (Rare True Stereo version ) As the album title cleverly suggested by combining the band's name with the fourteen track's contents, this is an album with the more laid back, slower tempo 1960's Rolling Stones music.  All were recorded while on the Decca label during the inspired 1960's, it was only surprising it took until the 80's to think of such a great idea, there are times you need more soothing music as well   as a 'shot of rhythm & blues' or some high energy loud rock.  The Beatles "Love Songs"double had been the inspiration to compile   as similar concept, that was issued in 1977 but there were multiple re-issues in the early 1980's and no doubt Decca were keen to   create a Rolling Stones equivilant that would also become as commercially successful. That never happened first time round though   and only one small pressing was made in 1981. As I said earlier,"Slow Rollers" totally failed to sell, not even making a UK chart position, which severely limits availability today and the reason this has become such a rare Rolling Stones album. I often discuss   how compilations of 60's music in the early 1970's, when stereo became the only format for latest recordings, archive material in   mono was viewed by record companies as limiting or even prohibiting an album from healthy sales.  That took a good few years for   EMI and  Decca to accept there was no need to write disclaimers on covers and labels about electronically reprocessing original   mono only material, to imply they now had a 'stereo' effect.  In fairness that was also happening at Decca in 1965, because the so called 'stereo' "Out Of Our Heads" for the standard UK LP and the expensive export version, had only been recorded in mono and there never was a stereo Master Tape available. The same 'jiggling' of mono only recordings to create a false sound, in turn also affected every boxed Decca logo label pressing of "Out Of Our Heads". Pre-digitalised  Rolling Stones Decca compilations  up to the mid- 80's like this "Slow Rollers", really have to be re-appraised because they became the final inheritor's of analogue mono and stereo sound, as recorded in the 1960's.  Decca did at least print 'Digitally Re-mastered" on the top corners of the covers in the initial stages but not for long.  By this album in the 1980's, Decca were free to master mono faithfully and to dig around in   their vaults where the Master Tapes were stored for these 14 tracks, which included major Master Tape rarities, I will shortly detail all the tracks and the formats they were mastered in. One thing for sure, Polydor's pressings were immaculate in the early   1980's and for an acoustic/slow tracks album, ultra clean sound becomes imperative, which this record positively has. "Slow Rollers"spans the years 1964 -1969 and the fourteen tracks have their original formats, so either true Mono or true Stereo. Decca took a long time to accept analogue mono was a great way to hear music from the 60's, but just around the corner, waiting to descend on these magnificent recordings were the horrors of digital re-mastering!  You can relax with this album knowing what you are hearing is the sound of the original UK mono and stereo recordings, sourced directly from Decca's masters.  The 14 tracks   include some rare versions, for example "As Tears Go By (Con Le Lagrime Cosi)" has Mick Jagger singing the entire song in Italian and in original mono.  There really is some superb material here and because of the quiet nature of the album, I decided I needed to check the sound quality was as perfect as the few other copies I have sold over the years.   For the formats and rarities I would be normally writing an in depth description, but that would be very involved and unfair for a rare album with unplayed virgin vinyl. The simple solution was to settle down and take one ultra careful play through, give a sound report and then give the track info, in fact, unless this was a perfect pressing you would not be reading this!  The sound on every second, including the most delicate   tracks, was indeed sheer perfection and this record is as immaculate as I have found in the past, if you re-read the track listing, that is a tall order, but Mint vinyl does NOT have the wear and damage inflicted on such beautiful slow tempo melodies.  Even the early smouldering r&b classic Stones performances like the sublime "You Better Move On," have fantastic audio clarity, no clicks or crackles, near silent/silent gaps, superbly clean intro's and outro's, even natural static was not an issue.  Of course this is still a record but any faint reminders were on no consequence at all and this is a thoroughly recommended record.  The labels and the vinyl are immaculate, as new condition.   Over a long term decades of selling records, I can modestly say I have sold more than   my quota of Mint records, way, way before ebay or the internet existed and my 'record' on ebay was just a continuation, I must   admit I never thought I would still be selling records on the internet in 2014!     The cover features a superb, previously unused 1966 era Stones photo, an out-take from the UK "Aftermath" cover, in typical 60's moody, shadowed black and white. The title's lettering has gold print, a superb looking cover that could easily have been used in the same period the music inside was recorded in.  The front and back are not laminated as found on the 60's & mostly early 70's   covers,  the top surface is normally severely worn but not on this remarkable cover, only light spine rubbing.  It was never used due to the unplayed record meaning the white border is still the original off-white, the only other thing to mention in terms of storage, is the inevitable record impression and related edge lines. The back has a smaller scale picture from the front with a   very clearly readable track listing printed in white, perhaps lacking a more detailed track listing. I will detail the tracks now,   with the mono/stereo formats and where appropriate, a few of the details I would have filled in while describing the tracks,   cover liner notes are usually impersonal anyway, just a few of my own personal reflections.  Incidentally, the second side is   more towards psychedelia, if still slow, delicate tracks like "Lady Jane"and "Ruby Tuesday," which are in pristine sound,  I   always love the appearance on Side 1 of the glorious,"Dear Doctor" from "Beggar's Banquet," placed directly after Otis Redding's   sublime"Pain in My Heart".  Was it inspired by the 'Doctor' connection to heart problems?  I would prefer to think the inclusion   was for how perfectly it followed and complimented "Pain in My Heart," once again, there is no surface sound at all and nothing to break the magical spell, 14 stunning Rolling Stones tracks in...... stunning sound quality! SIDE 1 "You Can't Always Get What You Want" The wonderful mono version from the 1969, UK "Let It Bleed" LP, amazing impact right from the lone acoustic guitar intro, after  totally silent run-in grooves,enough said! "Take It Or Leave It" This appeared on the UK's export only, 1967 "Flowers" LP, an acoustic guitar based, really  gentle song in the original 1960's sensory true stereo mix, a fantastic inclusion.   "You Better Move On" The original 1964 mono mix for "You Better Move On", a slow blues song with a great soulful Mick Jagger vocal.  I have to comment   about the sound engineer's expertise, the balance of the volume for the mono and stereo tracks was sheer perfection, the flow of   the tracks works superbly because of that.   He was unphased by the loud bass on the mono and stereo Master Tapes and just left   well alone,as a result, "You Better Move On" sounds amazing.  That comment also concerns the whole album and why I am prepared   to be so restricted to describe such loved tracks. "Time Is On My Side" An extremely rare, true stereo version of yet another early 1964 track, worth hearing this album for alone!   "Pain In My Heart" Perfect true mono for Otis Redding's magnificent "Pain In My Heart", it doesn't get any better this this!   "Dear Doctor" The 1968 stereo version of the "Beggars Banquet" LP's finest acoustic blues songs, sounding mighty fine in this context and what incredible audio perfection here! "As Tears Go By" ("Con Le Lagrime Cosi") The album's rarest track by far, a 1966 mono version of "As Tears Go By" sung remarkably well in ltalian by Mick, really fascinating to hear him inject such genuine emotional expression into the lyrics.   SIDE 2 "Ruby Tuesday" In the original 1967 stereo mix, and here for the sheer beauty of the song and the exquisite performance, the ultra clear, clean sound quality made it a joy to hear.   "Play With Fire" The 1965 mono "Play With Fire", as featured on the B-Side of "The Last Time" single, usually drowned out by the worst nise vinyl can potentionally produce after excessive plays.  Not here, crystal clear but very powerful clean sound, analogue mastering never needed improving, just unworn records of this astonishing audio standard.   "Lady Jane" The original 1966 UK "Aftermath" stereo mix and what absolutely stunning sound quality, plays like a dream.   "Sittin' On The Fence" The UK original 1967 "Betweeen The Buttons" album stereo mix, also found on the "Through The Past, Darkly" 1969 album.   "Back Street Girl"   Another original 1967 true 60's stereo version, from the "Between the Buttons" LP, a vastly underrated track that stands out on this feast of Rolling Stones tracks to savour.  The acoustic guitar intro and the light percussion intro is pure psychedelia and to hear this without any surface sound at all is essential.    "Under The Boardwalk"   From the 1964 to 1965 recordings for the second Rolling Stones LP, in the original true mono mix and what great sound!     "Heart Of Stone"   One of the rarest original tracks, an alternate true stereo version and sounding superb!  Definitely a completely different Take and Mick's lead vocals are sensational in such clean sound.   Well, I kept it brief, I sincerely hope not too brief or rushed, I personally love "Slow Rollers" for the tracks selected and how they instantly created a Rolling Stones album of true greatness. {Roy}   R & M RECORDS. 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