The Rolling Stones’ ‘Voodoo Lounge’ Set For thirtieth Anniversary Reissue

To rejoice the thirtieth anniversary of its preliminary launch, The Rolling Stones’ much-acclaimed 1994 launch, Voodoo Lounge, is to be reissued in quite a lot of vinyl and digital codecs on July 12 through Polydor/UMR.

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The thirtieth anniversary reissue sees the album pressed on a 2LP set with one file pressed on purple vinyl and the opposite in yellow vinyl. A restricted version (D2C-only) provides a white vinyl 10-inch which incorporates 4 bonus tracks beforehand unissued on vinyl. These had been on the assorted CD singles again within the day and they’re “I’m Gonna Drive,” “So Young,” “Jump On Top Of Me,” and “The Storm.” Like the album, these had been all Jagger-Richards compositions, all however one written at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin on the finish of recording classes for Voodoo Lounge.

The band’s first album with out authentic bass participant Bill Wyman, Voodoo Lounge offered nicely, reaching both gold or platinum standing in a number of nations, however failed to supply a US high 40 hit. The album’s trailer single “Love Is Strong” did peak at No. ⁠14 within the UK, and the anthemic “You Got Me Rocking” (which reached No. ⁠23 in the identical nation) turned a staple on most subsequent Stones excursions.

Voodoo Lounge additionally acquired a raft of optimistic opinions, with the U.Okay.’s Vox journal declaring that the album’s strongest tracks had been crammed with “echoes of the band’s halcyon days”, most notably 1972’s Exile on Main Street and 1978’s Some Girls and concluded by saying Voodoo Lounge “reminds us why we appreciated the Stones within the first place.” The album additionally went on to win the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 1995.

Current Blue Note Records label boss Don Was co-produced the album. Although not becoming a member of the band formally, Darryl Jones took Bill Wyman’s place because the group’s common bassist, on the suggestion of drummer Charlie Watts.

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