Anybody Seen My Baby

The new Stones single Anybody Seen My Baby got it's premiere playing at the Rolling Stones press conference under the Brooklyn Bridge on August 18. Even if they just played a small bit of it, it was enouth to know this was another great Stones track. may be not as fast, as hard, or as rocky as some of the toughest Stones songs, but still, a great ballad with a potential of being a radio hit.

The radio stations across the world started to play the new Rolling Stones single Anybody Seen My Baby on Friday night Aug. 29. It was available for download on the internet the day after, a complete RealAudio version from the KMTT Live radio station. It's great, great, great - slow, but just listen to those guitars, and to the beat - it's a hit! The official release of the new single is set to September 22 in Europe and Sept. 23 in America, i.e. one week before the release of ther new album Bridges To Babylon, and right on the start of the new world tour in Chicago.

The new single Anybody Seen My Baby was written by Jagger/Richards, but due to chorus similarities with the k.d. lang hit Constant Crawing, they decided to give credit to her and her co-writer B. Mink as well, to avoid copyright discussions. Mick claimed he didn't know the k.d. lang song, being a Grammy Award hit. On the other hand, k.d. lang said she was honored, so no harm done!

The European promo single VSCDJ1653 - LC3998 is containing the two tracks: Anybody Seen My Baby? (LP Edit) 4:08 - Anybody Seen My Baby? (Don Was Radio Remix) 3:44. The cover is a new golden/yellow tongue design, and the CD itself has got a large golden tongue.

The American promo CD for Anybody Seen My Baby has got 4 tracks. The last track is just the chorus and is meant to be used by radio stations:

1.Single Edit

2.Don Was Radio Edit

3.No Biz Remix

4.Radio Call Out Hook

The real single has not yet been released officially in Norh America, but in Europe it is out. It includes two plaing versions of the single, plus two "techno" mixes, probably popular among the younger fans who fancy loops and overdubs. One of the tracks are done by famous mixer Armand Van Helden:

1. LP Edit

2. Armand mix

3. Soul Solution remix

4. Album verison

This is just one of the comments I have got from Stones fans about ASMB:

I love it! It has great guitar work, Charlie did a great job on the drums, and the lyrics are killer! It reminds me a little of "Love is Strong." My favorite Stones song is Angie, and I think "Anybody Seen My Baby" may actually compete for number 1 in my heart! .. Michael