WEST CHESTER, Penna. – The Rolling Stones will release a compilation of “rare” tracks next month in partnership with the Starbucks Corporation and the group’s Virgin Records label. The album, entitled “Tall, Grande, Venti: Reheated Cups 1971-2003,” will debut on November 22 in Starbucks coffee shops, traditional music stores, and a temporary tongue-shaped kiosk in the sixth-floor museum of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas.
Everyone who buys a venti-size cup of any Starbucks caffeinated beverage on November 22 will receive a copy of “Reheated Cups” for free. The album contains sixteen tracks, including live versions of perennial concert warhorses like “Tumbling Dice” and “Beast of Burden,” gussied-up dance remixes of songs like “Miss You” and “Harlem Shuffle,” and B-sides, such as a live 1971 cover of Chuck Berry’s “Let It Rock.” All have been released previously, but some are hard to find.
In the past the Stones have been wary of releasing old songs, as the band prefers to keep the focus on its new material. Unfortunately music buyers haven’t focused much on the Stones latest album, “A Bigger Bang,” which was released eleven weeks ago. Despite rave notices from reviewers of a certain age—and another stadium tour that gives aging baby boomers a chance to act “hip” in front of their kids—”A Bigger Bang” has been more like a whimper. After debuting at number 3 on The Billboard 200, the album headed south faster than a snowbird’s driving skills in Miami in winter. It was last seen at number 63 after six weeks on the charts, with cumulative sales of 295,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Mick Jagger, apparently misinformed about the contents of “Reheated Cups,” said in a prepared statement: “With every studio session, there are always songs that never appear on the final album; and at the time you think, what a shame that song did not make it.”
“Wake up and smell the coffee, Mick,” said former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth, one of a committee of “personalities” chosen to replace Howard Stern when he moves to satellite radio. “These songs have appeared on albums before, in some cases three or four times.”
Meanwhile, Starbucks entertainment president, Len Bombardi, denied that the release date of “Reheated Cups” was chosen to exploit the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
“Starbucks was involved in the manufacturing, distribution, song selection, and marketing of this compilation,” said Bombardi,”but the release date and the kiosk in Dallas were the Stones’ ideas.”
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