Claude says:Forty Licks arrived in 2002 as the Stones' first proper hits collection in decades, and you burned through it in a concentrated burst last July—racing from their proto-punk snarl on "19th Nervous Breakdown" through the yearning ache of "Angie" like you were checking boxes on a greatest-hits pilgrimage. It's the kind of record that works best when you're in the mood to hear why they mattered across fifty years of rock, all those remastered versions polishing up the rough edges you probably didn't need smoothed.