The Rolling Stones: 20 Nil (1997, bootleg)

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The Rolling Stones: 20 Nil (1997, bootleg)

This was one of the songs the Stones recorded in Ocean Way Studio in Los Angeles for what became their Bridges to Babylon album.

It was an interesting, late career album -- and not just because they worked with the Dust Brothers, Don Was and others as a production tag-team.

The single Anybody Seen My Baby? actually got serious radio play, the excellent video featured Angelina Jolie as a stripper (yeah, that'll work) with wrinkly Stones as creepy voyeurs, and Keith Richards got in a very familiar, archetypal chord sequence. (The fact it bore some resemblance to kd lang's Constant Craving meant they had to give her a co-credit but that also garnered some publicity)

This song however remained an off-cut, yet it has some pretty good Stones' rock tropes which reward on repeat-play.

This is lifted from the five-LP box set Trawlin' the Vaults; Studio Gems 1967/2002 which I bought from this excellent record shop in Stockholm.

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For more oddities, one-offs or songs with an interesting backstory check the massive back-catalogue at From the Vaults.

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