The Rolling Stones - Come On! (1963)

 The Rolling Stones are a pretty okay group, I'd reckon. They recorded a lot of songs between 1963 and 1969, but only most of them ended up on albums. Some of them didn't, and those can be good songs (As vile as it is, Andrew's Blues is a pretty catchy tune). But I'm getting ahead of myself. They recorded a bunch of songs in 1963, but it wasn't until 1964 that their debut album came out, and they really started to get the ball rolling (pun not intended.)

The Blog Albums that Should Exist does a pretty comprehensive cover of the Stones' outtakes output from this time, but where the two of us differ is that they based their compilations off of the Stones' UK discography, they used radio sessions, and they used live tracks. I reckon that I'll use the band's US output as a foundation, since they were still overseen by the band themselves, unlike The Beatles' American output. Additionally, The Rolling Stones have two more albums in the US than in the UK, so there's less work in picking up the slack.

That then brings us to this album, a debut album made out of the 1963 sessions. The band recorded 16 unique tracks available from that year, but there were only ever really about 12 tracks per US album, which what I've got here. How I decided to separate them is considering one track an outtake (Money) that I'd use later, and the others as outtakes from their first album, since that entire album was recorded at Regent studios, and the final three tracks were as well.

The Rest of the '63 songs will be on the next stray tracks album, minus Money, which I have other plans for.

 (For the song files, check out the link I sent above)

 

Side A

1. Road Runner
2. Diddley Daddy
3. Baby, What's Wrong?
4. Bright Lights, Big City
   
5. I Want To Be Loved
   
6. Come On!

Side B

1. Fortune Teller
   
2. Bye Bye Johnny
   
3. I Wanna Be Your Man
4. Stoned
5. Poison Ivy
   
6. Go Home, Girl