A must for any SACD collection!

Everyone has a different opinion regarding these remixes and frankly, i just can't see myself listening to this whole album in one sitting as there is too much redundancy. These are essentially three remixes of the same song, with a long and short version of each for a total of six track ranging from under four minutes to over 8 minutes in lenght.

But never mind all that!

This album is A MUST for anyone because of it's last track: The original Sympathy for the Devil, beautifully remixed in 5.1 Multichanel Audio. Here, the lead guitar and vocals use the center chanel and the congas and maracas have been sent to the surrounds to provide a nice envelopping sound without getting cheezy...

If only all the Stones' Abkco rereleases were like this!

not bad, but could be better

The remix of Sympathy for the Devil was a brilliant idea but it could have been much better.
The remix released in 2003 features a long and full length remix by respectively the Neptunes, Fatboy Slim and Full Phatt. The seventh, and last piece in the record, is the Rolling Stones' original recording.
Leaving aside that the original recording seems (to me at least)to be mych better than the more recent remixes, there's another reason to think that this projecty could have been realized in a much better way.
In addition to the original recording and the most recent remixes -three would have been enough, six is way too much- the Stones should have included some historical live performances of their classic song (the version performed in Hyde Park for Brian Jones'funeral, the version recorded in Love you Live and so on). This would have shown that no matter how it is performed or when it is performed, 'Sympathy' is always a phenomenally fresh and intriguing song. This, and nothing less than this, would have done justice to the greatness of the Stones.

Worth adding to your Stones collection.

You get exactly what you are promised in this one. Given we probably all bought it due to the curosity factor, of course, no one who bought this really should be bitching too much.

The last track is the original March-June 1968 mix that became the classic with Jagger, Richards, Wyman, & Watts plus Rocky Dijon's congas, Nicky Hopkins' piano and Marianne Faithful and Anita Pallenberg adding vocals. Then you get 6 remixes, 2 each by the Neptunes, Fatboy Slim, and Full Phatt.

The Neptunes pair is by far the best....leaving Mick to do some acapella work works great plus they had enough sense not to try to outdo the original length (something Fatboy Slim should have considered as his full length remix exceeds the original by more than 2 minutes.....without adding significantly to any acoustic experiences of the Stones original mix)....so what is the point of a remix again?

Full Phatt does a decent job on both.....the first is better in my opinion but both are good enough they should have run in second place, not third.

Finally, this would be much better if there were more of the classic recordings of the song that have already been done with perhaps the version from Maxx or one of the other DVDs.