Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It "appears" you are getting a lot of music when they market this as a 3 DISC + DVD Collection. The average joe will think 60 bucks for 3 CDs and a DVD is a good price. The average joe doesn't realize right away that one short CD was broken into two even shorter discs in order to raise the box set price. This price for 2 discs and a DVD doesn't sound like a good deal, so they made it 3 discs, which "appears" better. The original 48 minutes of Stones Ya-Ya's tracks are on one disc. Disc two has the five extra unreleased Stones tracks lasting only 19 minutes. These two discs add up to just 67 minutes of music but one CD can hold 80 minutes of music. There is no reason to have two separate discs for the Stones tracks when both fit on one 80 minute disc with plenty of time left over. They only split these 67 minutes of music into a 48 minute disc and a 19 minute disc to charge 20 bucks more per box set. The original Ya-Ya's release was limited to 48 minutes due to the limitations of vinyl forty years ago. There is no reason to carry the time limitations of vinyl over to CD in this box set. There is other Ya-Ya's material that could have been included in this set. For example, the song Sympathy for the Devil is still only in its shortened-for-LP version and not in it's full 4-verse glory (internet bootlegs of this are easy to find). The Rolling Stones do not have any rights to these recordings. ABKCO and Universal has full creative control on how to release this box set. Unlike the recent Beatles remasters, this Ya-Ya box was done with no input by the band or band's estate. The record company doesn't have to be concerned with the overall legacy of the band. For the recent Beatles reissues, they worked years to release high quality music at a great value to their fans because it was their own name and reputation on the line. The band input that makes a great release is missing from this Ya-Ya's box set. Thankfully record companies no longer use force to take control of recordings away from artists like the Stones. But sadly they once were able to, and this low value release is a product of those days. If the Stones had full control over any version of Ya-Ya's it would have been done much differently. And better. 40 years later the Stones versus Beatles competition continues, with the Beatles winning by releasing their superior Mono and Stereo Box Sets with better packaging and fair pricing. That's too bad, cause I always liked the Stones better.