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The Rolling Stones - Itchy Fingers (1978)

Track listing:
  1. Gimme Shelter 4:20
  2. Honky Tonk Women 3:05
  3. Country Honk 3:03
  4. I'm Going Down 2:59
  5. I Don't Know Why 2:06
  6. Jiving Sister Fanny 3:23
  7. I Don't Know The Reason Why 5:32
  8. You Gotta Move 2:33
  9. I Got The Blues 3:48
  10. Wild Horses #1 1:42
  11. Wild Horses #2 5:33
  12. Wild Horses #3 5:25
  13. Brown Sugar #1 4:13
  14. Brown Sugar #2 3:48
  15. Brown Sugar #3 3:48
  16. All Down The Line #1 4:21
  17. All Down The Line #2 3:50
  18. Cocksucker Blues #1 5:08
  19. Cocksucker Blues #2 3:27

Notes

Collected together on this CD are studio-outtakes from "Let It Bleed"/"Sticky Fingers"-LP-sessions 1969/1970. Also included here are different versions of the same song. The CD-cover is taken from the Spanish edition of the "Sticky Fingers"-LP in 1971. The Spaniards thought the Andy Warhol-designed original-cover too obscene. For more detailed information on each track see the booklet. All compositions are by Jagger/Richards except where noted. All tracks bar 8-10 & 14 are stereo.

1. Gimme Shelter
Rehearsal
Studio
1969

2. Honky Tonk Women
Alternate Version
Studio
1969

3. Country Honk
1969

4. I'm Going Down
1969
Studio-outtake from the "Let It Bleed"-LP sessions, recored at Elektra Studios,Los Angeles,October 1969
5. I Don't Know Why
1969
Studio-outtake from the "Let It Bleed"-LP sessions, recored at Elektra Studios,Los Angeles,October 1969

6. Jiving Sister Fanny
Oct 1969
Studio-outtake from the "Let It Bleed"-LP sessions, recored at Elektra Studios,Los Angeles,October 1969
7. I Don't Know (The Reason) Why
Demo
1969
Studio-outtake from the "Let It Bleed"-LP sessions, recored at Elektra Studios,Los Angeles,October 1969

"I Don't Know The Reason Why" is also known as "Hillside Blues"

8. You Gotta Move
Studio
1969
Alternate version, recorded for "Sticky Fingers", Muscle Studios, Alabama, December 1969

9. I Got The Blues
Studio
1969
Alternate version, recorded for "Sticky Fingers", Muscle Studios, Alabama, December 1969

10. Wild Horses
Take 1
Instrumental
1970

700217A 17th February: London, Olympic Sound Studios. Producer: Jimmy Miller.
Sound engineers: Glyn + Andy Johns . Final sessions for Wild Horses.
- Wild Horses V (MJ/KR) -Billy Preston on organ; overdub on version V
- Wild Horses VI (MJ/KR) -Sticky Fingers-version
- Wild Horses VII (MJ/KR) -7" promo-edit

11. Wild Horses
Take 2
1970

700217A 17th February: London, Olympic Sound Studios. Producer: Jimmy Miller.
Sound engineers: Glyn + Andy Johns . Final sessions for Wild Horses.
- Wild Horses V (MJ/KR) -Billy Preston on organ; overdub on version V
- Wild Horses VI (MJ/KR) -Sticky Fingers-version
- Wild Horses VII (MJ/KR) -7" promo-edit

12. Wild Horses
Take 3
1970

13. Brown Sugar
Take 1
18 Dec 1969

14. Brown Sugar
Alternate Version
1969

15. Brown Sugar
Alternate Take
Vocals
1969

16. All Down The Line
Acoustic Demo
1969
acoustic-version

17. All Down The Line
Alternate Mix
1970

18. Cocksucker Blues
Ad-Lib
1978
Full electric take W/ the 1978 Band line-up
Woodstock, Bearsville Studios. Rehearsals sessions for the upcoming US tour

19. Cocksucker Blues
Demo
1970
Newbury, UK 5-8/70, Rolling Stones Mobile Unit

Sung as a howling, lonesome blues with just Mick (on vocals) and Keith (on guitar).
A.k.a. Schoolboy Blues. The Stones gave this to Decca Records for their final single that they owed the label. Decca Records refused to release it, because of its "ambiguous lyrics" and the "simplicity" of this song. Was officially released in 1983 in West Germany on the album "The Rest of the Best" but dropped from the album the next year.