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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fertile Middle Period, 6 Dec 2002
Although they made a mediocre album or two in this period 1971 - 1993, it's probably my favourite era in their career. I mean, who can dispute that Start Me Up was one of the best classic rock songs of the 80s? This hits collection is not arranged chronologically but it contains the raucous and controversial Brown Sugar and the bluesy Wild Horses from 1971, the Las Vegas-inpired Tumbling Dice of the next year, the aching ballad Angie from 1973 and the anti-journalistic dig It's Only Rock 'n Roll, recorded in 1974 after they got some bad press. Later the band moved to a more groovy sound with Hot Stuff, ladled out emotion on Fool To Cry and made a nod in the direction of disco with the entrancing Miss You. What I miss here, is the weird country song Far Away Eyes from the same album. There's also Emotional Rescue, sung in Jagger's famous falsetto. Everybody knows the gripping ballads Waiting On A Friend from 1971 and Undercover Of The Night from '83. Another sad omission, this time from the Steel Wheels album is the wonderful Blinded By Love, although Rock And A Hard Place was also a good choice. In the 60s they reinterpreted the blues and created incredible psychedelic rock. The above period saw them taking different directions again, everyone a winner. Jump Back is a brilliant showcase of the greatest band in the world's fertile middle period.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent summary, 9 Aug 2003
Every compilation album misses a few good album tracks, and this one does, too, but "Jump Back" is still a very good and thorough overview of the Rolling Stones 70s and 80s output.This has virtually everything that the casual fan could want, including the classic "Start Me Up", the ballads "Wild Horses", "Angie" and "Fool To Cry", the tough, bluesy rockers "Brown Sugar", "Rock And A Hard Place", "Tumbling Dice" and "Mixed Emotions", and the groovy, mid-tempo singles "Beast Of Burden" and "Waiting On A Friend". "Jump Back" coupled with the 60s overview "Hot Rocks 1964-1971" (or the magnificent box set "The London Years") is the best overview of the Rolling Stones' career you can find, and certainly a better purchase than "40 Licks".
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32 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The seventies and beyond, 20 May 2004
Compared to what they did in the sixties, everything the Rolling Stones did subsequently seems (at least to me) modest by comparison - yet, judged on its own merit, this collection of their later music is easily worth five stars. In fact, Brown sugar and Wild horses (the first two tracks here) were actually recorded in 1969 but not released at the time. The extensive liner notes are taken from an interview with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.Although less successful than their sixties music, they continued to have plenty of hits. They didn't reach number one in the UK but they had two American number ones - Angie and Miss you. In the UK, Brown sugar, Tumbling dice, Angie, It's only rock'n'roll but I like it, Fool to cry, Miss you, Emotional rescue and Start me up all made the top ten, while Undercover of the night and a cover of Harlem shuffle both came close. All those hits are here although there is one serious omission, Far away eyes - it was released as the B-side of Miss you but the single was later credited as a double-A side. My favorite tracks from this album are Tumbling dice (later covered by Linda Ronstadt on her classic album, Simple dreams), Miss you, Brown sugar and Wild horses. This compilation is (as I write this) the only compilation of Rolling Stones music covering the seventies and beyond that does not also cover the sixties. (Note that the double CD, Forty licks, covers their whole career.) As such, this is an ideal companion to a collection of their early work (in my case, the triple CD London years).
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