- Audio CD (31 Dec 1993)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Import
- Label: London
- ASIN: B000024IHR
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,724 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Time Is On My Side | |||
| 2. Heart Of Stone | |||
| 3. Play With Fire | |||
| 4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | |||
| 5. As Tears Go By | |||
| 6. Get Off Of My Cloud | |||
| 7. Mother's Little Helper | |||
| 8. 19th Nervous Breakdown | |||
| 9. Paint It Black | |||
| 10. Under My Thumb | |||
See all 12 tracks on this disc
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Jumpin' Jack Flash | |||
| 2. Street Fighting Man | |||
| 3. Sympathy For The Devil | |||
| 4. Honky Tonky Women | |||
| 5. Gimme Shelter | |||
| 6. Midnight Rambler (Live) | |||
| 7. You Can't Always Get What You Want | |||
| 8. Brown Sugar | |||
| 9. Wild Horses | |||
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's the rare greatest-hits album that takes on a life of its own. Generally, best-of collections are superseded by updated retrospectives. Hot Rocks is one of the rare exceptions to the rule. Originally released in 1972, it instantly became the Stones intro of choice, elbowing aside Big Hits, High Tide and Green Grass and Through the Past Darkly. Why? It happened to hit the racks when Mick and company were at their creative peak. The 21 tracks found here represent seven years of dizzying growth. From "Time is on My Side" through "Satisfaction" and "Let's Spend the Night Together", on to Sticky Fingers's "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses", Hot Rocks never lets up. The likes of Sucking in the '70s and Jump Back come and go, but this Stones overview will not be moved. --Steven Stolder
From Amazon.com
It's the rare greatest-hits album that takes on a life of its own. Generally, best-of collections are superceded by updated retrospectives. Hot Rocks is one of the rare exceptions to the rule. Originally released in 1972, it instantly became the Stones intro of choice, elbowing aside Big Hits, High Tide and Green Grass and Through the Past Darkly. Why? It happened to hit the racks when Mick and company were at their creative peak. The 21 tracks found here represent seven years of dizzying growth. From "Time is on My Side" through "Satisfaction" and "Let's Spend the Night Together," on to Sticky Fingers's "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses," Hot Rocks never lets up. The likes of Sucking in the '70s and Jump Back come and go, but this Stones overview will not be moved. --Steven Stolder
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Rolling Stones spent much of the sixties in the shadow of the Beatles and, with regards to their respective albums, perhaps deservedly so. However, as this 2-disc retrospective proves, they were every bit as important as their clean-cut contemporaries.
To its credit, Hot Rocks is weighted very much in favour of their late sixties output, which was undoubtedly their best work. Of the early sixties singles, the inclusion of the likes of Time Is On My Side and Heart Of Stone seems a little strange, at the expense of more historically important cuts such as Not Fade Away or It's All Over Now. However, these tracks do lend to the overall mood of the album, so it's a small gripe.
From the opening riff of Satisfaction, we are taken on a breathtaking ride through the sixties according to the World's Greatest Rock N Roll Band. Paint It Black, Honky Tonk Women, Brown Sugar. Every track is pure gold. Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, the huge, orchestral You Can't Always Get What You Want, and finally, the lovely country ballad, Wild Horses.
Quite simply put, this CD is brilliant, and I cannot praise it highly enough. It is easily the finest collection of popular rock songs ever gathered together onto one volume, and that includes the Beatles equivalent Red and Blue albums. The real question you are now facing, is whether you should buy it now or five minutes ago. So go on, what are you waiting for?
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This review is purely for anybody interested in buying this as an SACD. Amazon's description of this product is misleading. It is a DSD remastered CD only. My SACD player does not recognise it as an SCAD nor I imagine would anybody else's. If you are buying it purely as a CD it seems a perfectly decent remaster. I wish Amazon would take more care in its descriptions. I believe there has been a genuine SACD version of Hot Rocks but this is not it!
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
First released Stateside in January 1972, this has to be the best Stones compliation album ever and if you only choose to have one Stones cd in your collection than this would have to be it.Nearly all of the classics of their Decca years are included here encompassing their poignant and soulful ballads ("Time Is On My Side", "As Tears Go By", "Heart Of Stone", "Ruby Tuesday"), through ascerbic laddish rockers ("Satisfaction", "Get Off Of My Cloud"), through adroit misogyny ("Play With Fire", "19th Nervous Breakdown", "Under My Thumb"), to purveyors of something altogether darker ("Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Sympathy for the Devil", "Midnight Rambler"), which reached it's apotheosis in the bloody mayhem of the infamous free concert at the Altamont Speedway in December 1969.Which is really where this collection leaves off, the two gems from 1971; "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" were recorded a couple of years earlier but were delayed from release for contractual reasons.
If I have a beef over this particular cd it is very specifically centred on the sound quality, or rather lack of it. In the old days when cd's were a new phenomenon, U.K. purchasers of "Hot Rocks" were treated to stunning stereo tracks of these golden goodies, including a previously unreleased stereo take of "Satisfaction"and other gems such as "Heart of Stone" and "Play With Fire" which were crystalline in their depth and clarity.In fact this release of "Hot Rocks", which came as two separate cd's boasted all the tracks bar two - "As Tears Go By" and "19th Nervous Breakdown" in glorious stereo. Further releases on the U.K. London label held further pleasant suprises for Stones devotees and generally speaking, these releases, easily identifiable by the Red and Blue London logo were superior to their U.S. counterparts.
Sadly as part of the increasing move towards "globalisation" these releases are no longer available and what we get here is the U.S. product, with the majority (11 out of 18) tracks in at times muzzy, mono. Why, when every other rock icon of the the sixties has their back catalogue available with optimum sound quality, the long suffering Stones fan should have to make do with second best is beyond me.
In the final anaysis for first time listeners, this is a great cd, great because the music transcends the second rate sound quality, for serious devotees you might well want to search further afield for the optimum listening experience which these rock classics merit.
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Rock on
If you like the Rolling Stones this is a must have. It has all their early numbers, the ones that gave them their fame,sounds great and the price is a pittance. Love it.
Published 2 months ago by welshmanLeo
10/10
Although you can now prob get all these tracks and more via 'Rolled Gold' and 'The London Years' sets this is still a very good selection of songs. Read more
Published 3 months ago by D Jones
I had forgotten how good the Stones were!! Excellent!!
In my humble opinion these are probably the best Rolling Stones tracks of all time. For me the only song missing is Little Red Rooster. Other than that, perfect! Read more
Published 5 months ago by ChrisB
Hot Rocks 1964-1971
I wanted Hot Rocks in MP3 format to complement my vinyl copy,This is not the original version of Hot Rocks which was a double album with 21 Tracks.
Published 6 months ago by Stephen L. Collins
Great Album
This is a great album, but rather expensive. They were also second to the Beatles for me! Still brilliant though.
Published 9 months ago by Mr. K. Ginger
Shows everyone else how it should be done.
This is a masterclass in what rock music should sound like all over 40 years old and not one of them has aged. Read more
Published 11 months ago by DARREN "Big Nose" WALKER
its a must have
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Published 15 months ago by T-HILL75
Very poor
Cd arrived promptly, but is of very low quality. The cd inserts and cd itself appear to have been run off a cheap inkjet printer and the sound quality is very thin and unpleasant. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Harry Grout
Incredible......9 Out Of 5
Hot Rocks 1964-1971........Ok, So It Overlooks The Early Classics Such As " Oh Carol", " Little Red Rooster", " Not Fade Away" & " I Just Wanna Make Love To You"... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by Tommo 18/7 ©
Oh those memories
I own this album on vinyl and I loved it back then I love it even more now .This just grows better with age love it love it love it *****
Published on 7 Jun 2008 by Mr. G. King
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