Rolling Stones to give 'Goat's Head Soup' deluxe reissue box treatment

On Sept. 4, Rolling Stones unveil a multi-format release of their 1973 album Goats Head Soup via Polydor/Interscope/UME. It is available in various configurations, including four-disc CD and vinyl box set editions, with a treasure trove of unreleased studio and live material.

Pre-order Goats Head Soup here.

The reissue follows the Stones' recent new “Living In A Ghost Town” single and their lockdown performance of “You Can't Always Get What You Want” in Global Citizen's April special One World: Together at Home.

Deluxe CD and vinyl editions of the Goats Head Soup box set will all feature 10 bonus tracks, which include alternate versions, outtakes and three previously unheard tracks. The first of these to be unveiled, “Criss Cross,” is available as an instant grat track today with pre-orders of the album, and on all streaming and download services.

Watch the official “Criss Cross” video is out now, watch here.

On the box set and deluxe editions, the previously unheard “Scarlet,” features guitar by Jimmy Page, and another newly unveiled song is “All The Rage.” Bassist Rick Grech of Blind Faith fame is also on “Scarlet.” The bonus disc of unreleased material has unissued mixes by producer Glyn Johns.

The box set editions of Goats Head Soup will include Brussels Affair, the 15-track live album recorded in Belgium, on the autumn 1973 tour that followed the album's late August release. This much-sought-after disc, mixed by Bob Clearmountain, was previously available only in the Rolling Stones' “official bootleg” series of live recordings in 2012.

In Brussels, the band played “Tumbling Dice,” “Midnight Rambler,” “Jumping Jack Flash” and a sequence of tracks from the then-new album. “Star Star” is followed by “Dancing With Mr. D,” “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)” and “Angie.”

Additionally, the CD and vinyl box sets offer the original 10 track album in 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Atmos and Hi-Res mixes, along with the videos for “Dancing With Mr. D,” “Silver Train” and “Angie.” An exclusive 100-page book will feature an array of photographs, essays by writers Ian McCann, Nick Kent and Daryl Easlea and faithful reproductions of three tour posters from 1973.

Their 11th UK studio album, recorded in Jamaica, Los Angeles and London as their last collaboration with producer Jimmy Miller, Goats Head Soup came in the wake of the Stones' landmark 1972 double album Exile On Main St. The new set was introduced by the single “Angie,” completed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards during a songwriting sojourn in Switzerland.

The love song, showcasing Jagger's lead vocal and Nicky Hopkins' piano motif, topped the charts in the US, where it was certified platinum, and went to No. 1 across Europe, Australia and beyond.

“We decided to do something different, and it worked,” Richards told Rolling Stone of “Angie”. “Maybe a lot of people bought it that would never buy a Stones LP.” Interestingly in a recent interview with The New York Times, Bob Dylan chose “Angie” as one of three Rolling Stones songs he wished he had written.

Goats Head Soup, with its famous David Bailey sleeve, featured the Stones' vintage 1969-1974 line-up of Jagger, Richards, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, with the addition of some essential collaborators. On an album on which their trademark rocking sound was often augmented by more reflective material, there were no fewer than four featured piano players: Hopkins, Billy Preston, Ian 'Stu' Stewart and Jagger himself.

“Angie” was the only single to be released from the LP in the UK, where it spent two weeks at No. 5 in September. In the US, “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker),” featuring Mick Taylor's wah-wah lead guitar, followed it into the top 20 in February 1974.

“Silver Train,” the b-side of “Angie,” would be revived after a gap of some 40 years, during the Stones' 14 On Fire tour of 2014, when Mick Taylor reprised his original guitar part in shows in Tokyo and Brisbane.

Goats Head Soup will be available in the below formats:

1CD STANDARD CD

TRACK LIST
2020 Stereo Mix 

1. Dancing With Mr D 
2. 100 Years Ago
3. Coming Down Again
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Angie
6. Silver Train
7. Hide Your Love
8. Winter
9. Can You Hear The Music
10. Star Star

2CD DELUXE CD

TRACK LIST
2020 Stereo Mix

1. Dancing With Mr D
2. 100 Years Ago
3. Coming Down Again
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Angie
6. Silver Train
7. Hide Your Love
8. Winter
9. Can You Hear The Music
10. Star Star

Rarities & Alternative Mixes

1. Scarlet
2. All The Rage
3. Criss Cross
4. 100 Years Ago (Piano Demo)
5. Dancing With Mr D (Instrumental)
6. Heartbreaker (Instrumental)
7. Hide Your Love (Alternative Mix)
8. Dancing With Mr D (Glyn Johns 1973 Mix)
9. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) – (Glyn Johns 1973 Mix)
10. Silver Train (Glyn Johns 1973 Mix)

1LP STANDARD VINYL

Mastered at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London.

TRACK LIST
2020 Stereo Mix

SIDE A 
1. Dancing With Mr D
2. 100 Years Ago
3. Coming Down Again
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Angie

SIDE B
6. Silver Train
7. Hide Your Love
8. Winter
9. Can You Hear The Music
10. Star Star

2LP DELUXE VINYL

Mastered at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London.

TRACK LIST
2020 Stereo Mix

SIDE A
1. Dancing With Mr D
2. 100 Years Ago
3. Coming Down Again
4. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
5. Angie

SIDE B
6. Silver Train
7. Hide Your Love
8. Winter
9. Can You Hear The Music
10. Star Star

SIDE C
1. Scarlet
2. All The Rage
3. Criss Cross
4. 100 Years Ago (Piano Demo)
5. Dancing With Mr D (Instrumental)

SIDE D
6. Heartbreaker (Instrumental)
7. Hide Your Love (Alternative Mix)
8. Dancing With Mr D (Glyn Johns 1973 Mix)
9. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) – (Glyn Johns 1973 Mix)
10. Silver Train (Glyn Johns 1973 Mix)

2LP DELUXE TRANSPARENT VINYL W/ ALTERNATIVE SLEEVE (ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE STONES STORE)

Mastered at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Store Exclusive Format pressed on crystal clear vinyl with alternative cover.

4CD BOXSET

Goats Head Soup Super Deluxe box sets features 35 tracks on three CDs & one Blu-ray disc (Dolby Atmos, 96kHz/24 bit high resolution stereo, and 96 kHz/24 bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1). Included are the new stereo album mix, sourced from the original session files, Rarities & Alternative mixes featuring three previously unreleased tracks, “Scarlet,” “All The Rage” & “Criss Cross.”

Also included is The Brussels Affair, recorded live at the Forest National Arena in October 1973. The 4 discs are housed in the boxset alongside a 120-page book with an incredible array of photos and 3 essays. 50 Years On – An Appreciation of Goats Head Soup by Ian McCann, Brussels Affair Live 1973 Tour by Nick Kent & The Story Of The Cover Art by Darryl Easlea. The set is completed with 4 x 1973 reproduction tour posters, rolled up within the packaging to avoid creases.