Vinyl Record
The Rolling Stones - Metamorphosis
The Rolling Stones - Metamorphosis on LP vinyl. A 1975 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1975
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1975 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Metamorphosis is the strange 1975 Stones album that behaves less like a polished release than a dossier from the Decca/London years. Issued after the band had left that business world behind, it gathers outtakes, alternate versions and songs connected to the 1964-1970 period, when the Stones were moving from R&B interpreters into writers, pop provocateurs and eventually the darker force behind Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. That background explains the unevenness. Some tracks feel like demos or publishing-era exercises, while others are fascinating because they show familiar material from a side door. Out Of Time appears in a very different form, Heart Of Stone is heard away from its best-known setting, and songs associated with outside artists reveal how the Jagger-Richards writing operation was taking shape. In 1975, the Stones themselves were in the Mick Taylor-to-Ron Wood transition and releasing Black And Blue-era material elsewhere; Metamorphosis looked backward from outside the main album narrative. Its appeal is archival, imperfect and revealing: not the canon speaking cleanly, but the workshop floor made public.
Metamorphosis matters because it is the official oddments album from the Stones' 1960s archive, exposing drafts, alternate paths and publishing-era leftovers. It complicates the neat album story by showing how much material surrounded the accepted classics.
For collectors, Metamorphosis is a context record. It should not be bought as a substitute for Aftermath, Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed; it belongs beside them as the 1975 archive piece that reveals the less tidy edges of the Decca/London period.
Archival 1960s Stones material with demos, alternate versions, orchestral pop touches, R&B residue, early songwriting experiments, uneven polish and the feel of a workshop opened after the fact.
Recommended for: Collectors interested in Stones outtakes and alternate 1960s material; Listeners who like archive releases that show process as well as product; Fans comparing familiar Jagger-Richards songs with less familiar versions.
When was Metamorphosis released? Metamorphosis was released in 1975 as an official collection of Stones outtakes and alternate material. What period does Metamorphosis cover? The material comes from the band's Decca/London years, broadly connected to recordings and songs from 1964 to 1970. Is Metamorphosis a regular studio album? No. It is best understood as an archival compilation rather than a newly conceived Stones studio album.