The Rolling Stones‘ 1973 album Goats Head Soup will get a remastered re-release on multiple formats from September 4th.
Remembered much less fondly than the run of four classic records which had come before it – Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main St. – the band’s eleventh studio effort nevertheless features a single which would go on to become a staple, Angie, and shares the tax exile narrative of the LP which immediately preceded it.
The reissue is to contain three previously unheard tracks (one of which, Criss Cross, is streaming below), an exclusive 120-page book featuring photographs, reproductions of four tour posters from 1973 and essays by writers Nick Kent, Daryl Easlea and Ian McCann, the latter of whom recalls:
“Goats Head Soup was released with plenty of fanfare. Despite what you may read today, the kids weren’t entirely absorbed by glam rock, metal, prog and Philly soul back in 1973, and they bought the album in their thousands, sending it to No. 1 in the USA and in the UK, their fifth consecutive British chart-topper.”