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Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)

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High Tide and Green grass was originally issued as separate US and UK albums with slightly different track listings. This CD reissue has superb sound quality and contains most of their early classics. The omission of Lady Jane and Little Red Rooster is unfortunate but there are more than enough of their brilliant classics in various styles here, for example soulful ballads like The Last Time, Time Is On My Side and Play With Fire.

The famous As Tears Go By was of course a massive hit for Marianne Faithfull. Classic, raucous 1960s rock `n roll surfaces on Get Off My Cloud, Tell Me and I Can Get No (Satisfaction) - amongst its many cover versions was a 1974 hit by the flash-in-the-pan Bubblerock! Other great songs include the visceral Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown and the evocative Not Fade Away.

I'm giving it only four stars, though, since the album Through The Past, Darkly has a better selection of their early work, while the two Hot Rocks compilations contain a wider selection of their classic 1960's singles. Other great Stones compilations include Forty Licks and Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones 1971-1993.

BIG HITS (High Tide And Green Grass) is a solid distillation of the Rolling Stones' first few years. The album is heavy with hits, and stands the test of time-- a real tribute to one of the greatest bands ever.

Highly recommended!