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The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) Audio CD

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Title: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
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Release Date: 2002-08-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 2: The Last Time 3: As Tears Go By 4: Time Is on My Side 5: It's All over Now 6: Tell Me 7: 19th Nervous Breakdown 8: Heart of Stone 9: Get off of My Cloud 10: Not Fade Away 11: Good Times Bad Times 12: Play With Fire

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I recieved it fast and in great shape. A great early collection of what they call themselves, and I can't argue, "the greatest rock band on earth". .


Back In The Days
I will repeat here what I have mentioned in other reviews of the early work of The Rolling Stones. . . "Hey, in 2009 no one, including this reviewer, NEEDS to comment on the fact that The Rolling Stones, pound for pound, have over forty plus years earned their place as the number one band in the rock `n' roll pantheon. Still, it is interesting to listen once again to the guys when they were at the height of their musical powers (and as high, most of the time, as Georgia pines)". This "greatest hits" compilation takes us back to the days, before the heavier rock sound but right up their in competition with the Beatles for the `soul' of the youthful rock fans of the 1960's. Some of these songs are classic of the rock `n' roll song book others are just faded memories. The cover of "Not Fade Away", their own "Satisfaction", "The Last Time" and "19th Nervous Breakdown" will endure as long as people need rock `n' roll to get through the day. "Tell Me" and "Play With Fire" are more for youthful memories.

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Warning --- NOT a SACD disc - it is a DSD remaster
Warning --- NOT a SACD disc - it is a DSD remaster - sounds really good - but NOT SACD good.


PERFECT GARDEN VARIETY IN 1960'S POP AND ROCK
The sound quality is clearer without quite so much tape hiss, a common problem with transferring early analog recordings onto digital formats. The 2002 remaster of Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is a vast sonic improvement over the 1986 issuance.

So far as the content goes, things start off with the Stones' trademark U. S. number-one hit (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, which ranks right up there with Stairway to Heaven and Like a Rolling Stone as among the greatest rock-and-roll songs of all time. In between are the wistful As Tears Go By, the resolute It's All Over Now, the defiant Heart of Stone, and the bluesy Good Times Bad Times. Also contained are the favorites 19th Nervous Breakdown and what many consider to be the Stones' proclamation of supreme status as the greatest rock-n-roll band in Get Off of My Cloud, the only other U. S. number-one hit in the set.

At the very end is the musically soft but lyrically harsh Play with Fire, which perfectly amalgamates the hard and soft sides of the 1960's Rolling Stones and, perhaps, the decade itself.

Overall, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is a very strong compilation with a perfect arrangement that should not be tampered with. While one might receive more songs for the buck with Hot Rocks or Forty Licks, the sequencing is, IMHO, not quite so strong in terms of where the individual songs, collectively, manage to embody a perfect whole. In other words, more, even if the added contents are perfect (and might actually be in another setting), can ironically amount to less (The only other release I can think of right now with this very same conundrum is Elvis Presley's Back in Memphis).

And speaking of contents, there is one noteworthy change that has been made for this updated recording, other than the improved sound. When released on CD in 1986 Big Hits contained Time Is On My Side with an organ introduction. Since then, it now contains that song with the guitar at the start, and that is the version that was and still is played on American radio stations.

After receiving a most refined, technological advancement with the sound of the classic Stones figuratively face-lifted yet more well-preserved, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) receives a more secure than ever Five stars.
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An awesome collection for 1963 to 1966
The difference in songs? In a nutshell: It's All Over Now, Tell Me, Not Fade Away, and Good Times, Bad Times are not on Hot Rocks 1964-1971. If you are considering a purchase of Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), from March 1966, the main thing that you need to do is to make a careful comparison of the song list against the 2-disk album, Hot Rocks 1964-1971, the first disk of which covers a similar Stones period. Perhaps more importantly, though, the awesome Paint It, Black is on Hot Rocks 1964-1971 but not on Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass). By buying Hot Rocks you get more bang for your buck, because the 2nd disk of Hot Rocks has a lot more great stuff from 1966 to 1969. Also, Hot Rocks (2 disks) is only a dollar or two more than Big Hits (with only 1 disk). In short, get Big Hits only if you do not have all of the early albums and you really want the above-mentioned songs. Does the music stand up to the test of time? Like gangbusters. The first 10 Stones LPs are a must-have for any serious CD collection.


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