NME's Take on the Rolling Stones' 'GRRR!': Legacy Celebration or Cash-In?

NME’s review of the Rolling Stones’ 2012 compilation GRRR! landed somewhere between respect and skepticism. The magazine acknowledged the set as a thorough 50-year career summary, with 50 tracks that actually make sense as a single-disc overview (plus two new songs, “Doom and Gloom” and “One More Shot”). But the tone carried a shrug: yet another Stones best-of, and not the first or last.

The reviewer pointed out that the band had already flooded the market with compilations — Hot Rocks,