Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
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Music CD Cover Artist: Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Brand: ROLLING STONES Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2002-08-27 Music Label: Abkco Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) Album
Free Music Review: Not exactly a quantum leap in sound quality
Hit: 3 Stars
Most of these classic songs will remain 5-star, life-enhancing nuggets of blues-rock genius long after we've all passed on. But considering the near "Second Coming" hype the new Stones CD remasters have been getting, I'd say, "Buy one or two titles and listen for yourself." This was my first and so far only purchase of the Stones' vintage albums on remastered CD. Frankly, after A-B'ing this version with the older ABKCO version from the mid-1980s, my speakers and headphones went, "That's it?"
Hence, the 3-star rating here. But that so-so rating applies only to the sound quality. Maybe listening to these remasters on an SACD system would knock my socks off. (I'd be interested in reading reviews by you folks who have the SACD capability in your stereo system. If you say these remastered Stones CDs sound unbelievably great in the "surround sound" format, then maybe I need to reconfigure my stereo to include SACD.)
On my top-notch stereo system I'd say some of the songs here (most notably "Satisfaction") sound better than my old vinyl records and over ABKCO's mid-1980s Stones releases on CD. But "Last Time" still sounds muddy and the crack and thump of Charlie's drums on "Get Off Of My Cloud" may be cleaner but not especially sonically improved over the first ABKCO version of this CD. Unfortunately for me, those are two of my favorites from the Stones' early catalogue.
I agree with fellow reviewer Scott Miller of Colorado that it's great to see the company has restored the original artwork of the old London vinyl record. Obviously a lot of care and attention to detail have gone into these remasters.
I'm still going to buy the newly remastered "Through The Past Darkly" because ANY change in how "Honky Tonk Women" sounds will be a HUGE improvement over the older ABKCO release of that CD. And I might buy "Let It Bleed." But if "Big Hits" is any indication of what's in store soundwise regarding this series of Stones remasterings, I'll put my money toward some Junior Wells CDs I've had my eye on.