Voodoo Stew

The Rolling Stones

Number

Year

Format

VIGO 152-155

1996

CD

   Special Features

Comes with a 36 page booklet and a big 11" x 11" slipcase-style box.
  
Packaging:

Box front  

Box back  

Disc:

CD

The CDs have different images of vintage dirty pictures...  The colors are:
Disc 1 - Orange & Red;  Disc 2 - Orange & Blue;  Disk 3 - Orange & Black;  Disc 4 - Orange & Green
 

The Booklet:

The booklet included with this title features the following information:

Front Cover

Back Cover

VIGO 152 - 13 Tracks - Total Time: 74:04

Keith Richard's Voodoo Lounge

Front Cover

Back Cover

VIGO 153 - 15 Tracks - Total Time: 73:38

Stack O' Tracks

Front Cover

Back Cover

VIGO 154 - 16 Tracks - Total Time: 73:31

Zulu Fun Mixes

Front Cover

Back Cover

VIGO 155 - 10 Tracks - Total Time: 73:20

Honest Ron Wood & Keith Richard

"It's A Tall Order For Two Queers"

Liner Notes:

Voodoo Stew

It was during the Main Offender interviews that Keith laid down the gauntlet by boldly predicting an impending "golden age" for the Rolling Stones' next few albums.  Giving him the benefit of every doubt, it's still safe to say that few people truly expected any more quintessential Stones albums.  There will always be people who insist the band will never be what it was in 1963...or '66...or '69...or '72...or '78...or...well you get the point.  But for the Voodoo Lounge sessions, the magic was back.

From the beaches of Barbados, to Woody's basement studio in Ireland, and finally to the shaky ground of Hollywood (with a stop at the Clearmountains of New York), Voodoo Lounge quickly shaped up as the kind of album that Stones fans always want.   The band finally acquiesced to re-visiting the sounds and feels of the sublime 1968-1972 period (their first "great comeback").

The nod to the past (maracas...harpsichords...great songs) gave easy ammunition to the critics and Some in the band have already promised a "new direction" next time, so we may never again hear such sticky, exiled, beggars in a studio setting.

Featured herein is the creative process as the faucet is running...studio warm-ups complete with clanking wine glasses...overdubbing harmonies which would later bow to Bernard and Ivan...a virtual Keith solo Voodoo Lounge...karaoke heaven - Voodoo Lounge instrumental... and for the first time, a chance to hear the standard practice of Mick and Keith playing new songs at each other in Barbados pre-production sessions.  So Voodoo You...Boogie With Stew...And try to remember that before the term "rock band" even existed, a wise man wrote: "The Rolling Stones are more than just a group..THEY ARE A WAY OF LIFE."

Stone Glimmerman

Track Notes:

VIGO 152: Keith Richard's Voodoo Lounge

VIGO 153: Stack O' Tracks

VIGO 154: Zulu Fun Mixes

Pre-production Barbados song presentations.

(No individual track notes.)

VIGO 154: Honest Ron Wood & Keith Richard

"It's A Tall Order For Two Queers"

Real Vigotone

Fake Vigotone

The original Voodoo Stew also came in a large slipcase style box with a large booklet.  As with Voodoo Brew, the fake comes in a slightly larger box, where the top lifts off.  The fake's CDs are in a plastic tray, which fits into the bottom box.  The original release was on CD, as is the copy.  (Note how the CDs are arranged in the boxes.  Two of the original's CDs are sideways in order to fit all of the CDs into the box.  None of the fake's CDs are sideways.)