1. Just Because 1, 2. Dreams, 3. Cried Out, 4. Just Because 2, 5. Love Is A Test, 6. When I Call Your Name, 7. U Don t Wanna, 8. Don t Stop, 9. Keys To Your Love.

This is the first time an outtakes compilation is reviewed much before any label has produced a physical release to sell on the underground market. It all happened few days ago when, out of the blue on a famous Stones message board popped up this 9 tracks release that features outtakes coming from the 2002 Studio Sessions in Paris that produced those 4 songs included in the Forty Licks compilation. One remarkable thing about these tracks is that they are finished songs, not jam sessions excerpts. Some of these songs are also never heard of, while Just Because is an embryonic version of Trouble that will come out on Keith Richards solo album Crosseyed Heart, however here the sound is much more open than on the official release, both guitars driving and Jagger s vocals fit better; the second version that lasts 6.44 minutes features a lot of talking and tuning at the beginning, actually this should be the 1^st one. Dreams is a strange track, that starts with acoustic guitars and is much more like a Jagger solo venture with an unusual background texture of guitars and piano, although the melody is not that distinctive.

Cried Out is the very first incarnation of what will become Laugh, I Nearly Died on A Bigger Bang, yet a more relaxed version. Love Is A Test (this is the tile given, but Jagger sings Love Is A Long Word) is another ballad with some interesting guitar fills. When I Call Your Name (actually here Jagger sings When You Call Out My name) is a mid tempo tune with stops and restarts that makes it interesting. U Don t Wanna is a rocker that would have fit greatly in A Bigger Bang, though still lacking lyrics in the middle part of the song. The final two tracks are early mixes of Don t Stop and Keys To Your Love that presents these songs in a smoother version, not so much embellished as they have been on Forty Licks. All these tracks are extremely well recorded and played and have a wonderful sound, nothing less than the songs that came out on Forty Licks, probably assembled together they could make up that studio album that never was in 2002, a great discovery which will undoubtedly soon be copied by many labels.