Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
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Free Music Review: Richard Carlton's "Borrowed" Reviews
Hit: 4 Stars
Carlton, why don't YOU review the CD instead of always quoting someone else's thoughts from another book?Free Music Review: What A Bunch Of Photos..The Music Is A great playlist From The Early Oldham Days
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is all roots and a a killer..The r&b,soul,blues are all here in pristine sound quality making this one great playlist..Any Stones fan will appreciate and have this CD not only for the great Mankowitz photos but for the feel of the times these great sides were and still are...Weird, how all this predates the Jimmy Miller period, ushering the Stones into the Jumpin'Jack Flash zenith of near metamorphosis into the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time. Free Music Review: Satisfaction Guaranteed
Hit: 4 Stars
I was 11 or 12 when I first heard the Rolling Stones, and, well, I just didn't get them. In fact, I thought they were downright awful. Of course, at the time the Beatles were my be-all and end-all and the measure of all things musical. The rougher, bluesier sound of the early Stones was pretty foreign to my tender young ears. The songs seemed sprawling and undeveloped. Nothing like the bright pop-rock of the Fab Four.
But then the Beatles themselves lent their imprimatur to their ruffian cousins by giving them "I Wanna Be Your Man." And the older I got the more appealing the Stones unadulterated bad boy image became. And was it just me or did the songs get tighter and rockier? By '65, I had to admit that "The Last Time" was a damn good song. And by the time "Satisfaction" came out and dominated the charts all summer long, well, it was pretty clear that they were on to something.
So, yeah, I was changing, but so were the Stones. They got better and better, especially after they started writing more and more of their own material. You could barely make out the lyrics, but what you could hear was sharp, sardonic and often laugh out loud funny. I suspect the Stones snuck up on a lot of young American listeners that way. They began as somewhat earnest imitators of Black American music. But they found their own voices fairly early on--and won many more fans over in the process.
By "Satisfaction" they had pretty much carved--or rather "blasted"--out their own unmistakeable sound. So it's appropriate that BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS), their first of many "greatest hits" packages abandoned chronology and commenced with the song that instantly established them as the World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band. In the era of random select, it may not matter to most listeners that HIGH TIDE is brilliantly sequenced, starting off with two of their stronger rockers of the era ("Satisfaction" is followed by "Last Time" here) and then demonstrating that yes, they could do a perfectly lovely ballad if they so chose by letting the "Tears..." flow. It's not until the fourth track, "Time Is On My Side," that you are reminded that the Stones pretty much started out as a covers band.
And placing in the rougher edged early stuff like "Tell Me" and "Heart of Stone" in the middle (and even then sandwiching them between the much later and considerably punchier "19th Nervous Breakdown") is masterful sequencing. Later collections like 1972's HOT ROCKS would follow a more chronological order, and there's certainly justification for that approach. But HIGH TIDE worked as an album--and that made all the difference.
Of course, with so many different and more extensive "best of" collections to choose from, it's hard to make a case for this one over, say, HOT ROCKS--or FORTY LICKS, for that matter. But HIGH TIDE has a certain nostalgic appeal for those of us who came of age in the 60s and as a relatively concise overview of the early Stones' work, it serves a genuine purpose.
One little PS: even though the Stones skirmishes with the authorities over drugs were common knowledge at the time, I never got the thinly veiled marijuana reference in the title "HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS." I remember thinking it a bit odd that the Stones would give their first greatest hits album that title. They never seemed like a band particularly given to nature imagery. I guess I was the "green" one back then.
Free Music Review: Sentimental journey
Hit: 5 Stars
When I was young I had this title on LP in my collection, but I did sell all my vinyl records some time ago. Now I got the opportunity to buy same on CD and again can listen to the music of the Rolling Stones in their first period.Free Music Review: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
Hit: 5 Stars
I have the vinyl album with these songs and am glad to add it to my CD collection. For those not familiar with the Rollin' Stones early music, like many, I feel this album and the "Thru the Past Darkly" are the definitive Stones music collection.