Hot Rocks 1964-1971 [DSD Remastered] | ![Hot Rocks 1964-1971 [DSD Remastered]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WHGN7FCNL._SL500_.jpg)
| Artist: The Rolling Stones
Label: Abkco
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Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 453
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 719667
UPC: 018771966722
EAN: 0018771966722
ASIN: B00006EXDM
Release Date: August 27, 2002
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Time Is On My Side | | • | Heart Of Stone | | • | Play With Fire | | • | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | | • | As Tears Go By | | • | Get Off Of My Cloud | | • | Mother's Little Helper | | • | 19th Nervous Breakdown | | • | Paint It, Black | | • | Under My Thumb | | • | Ruby Tuesday | | • | Let's Spend the Night Together |
Disc 2
| • | Jumpin' Jack Flash | | • | Street Fighting Man | | • | Sympathy For the Devil | | • | Honky Tonk Women | | • | Gimme Shelter | | • | Midnight Rambler (Live) | | • | You Can't Always Get What You Want | | • | Brown Sugar | | • | Wild Horses |
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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 Generally, best-of collections are superceded by updated retrospectives.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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Remastered reissue of 1972 compilation, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Gatefold digipak. Rolling Stones Photos
Album Description
Remastered reissue of 1972 compilation, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Gatefold digipak.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 72 more reviews...
 WARNING!! Great music, but Amazon is not selling the SACD version of this disc March 24, 2006
El Grande (Fort Wayne, IN)
95 out of 100 found this review helpful
I give the CD five stars for content (difficult to argue with that rating, this is a classic that the part-time Stones fan can't do without)... Five stars to Amazon for quick shipping and a pleasant experience with customer service on the phone... But zero stars to Amazon for misrepresenting what they are selling.
Apparently prior reviewers didn't have this problem, but when I received my "Hybrid SACD" of Hot Rocks (March '06), I furrowed my brow in concern when I noticed that the SACD logo appeared nowhere on the packaging (it does say "DSD Remastered" on the spine of the jewel box). After tearing open the package, I found that the SACD logo appeared nowhere on the disc or in the booklet. After being inserted in my SACD compatible player, I was unable to access the SACD layer.
That's because this ISN'T the SACD hybrid version that they're advertising it to be. This is the same standard CD you can buy at your local record store, Best Buy or Wal*Mart. Speaking of BB, I took this CD to my local outlet and popped the disc(s) into one of their Sony SACD players on the shelf, just to make sure it wasn't just MY unit that wouldn't play it correctly... The unit in the store did something that my player didn't, which perfectly illustrates the problem, it actually said on the player's LED display "NOT HYBRID DISC".
Well, I guess THAT clears it up.
Figuring that it was an honest mistake, I called Amazon and pointed out that I'd been shipped the wrong disc. Kudos to the fellow at Amazon's customer service center, he apologized and promptly sent me a replacement by overnight mail (no charge), and sent a label to affix to the package to return the CD I was erroneously sent. Only problem is...
The "replacement" CD is identical to the one I was sent the first time.
Giving up on Amazon after two tries, I have subsequently purchased a lightly-used proper hybrid SACD of Hot Rocks on eBay, and the disc(s) sound great. FWIW, the hybrid SACD issue of Hot Rocks appears to have only been issued in cardboard fold-out packaging (if online pics are to be believed), so if you order this CD and get it in a jewel box without any mention of it being a hybrid SACD, you've got the "regular" version of the CD.
The UPC code of the SACD issue is 0-18771-96672-2. The "regular" CD has the same number save for the last one, which is -1. The first and last numbers are very small in comparison to the middle ten, so at first glance the CD's appear to have the same UPC code... But that little '1' or '2' at the end makes all the difference.
I assume that this is an honest mistake on Amazon's part, but potential buyers who are searching for the SACD version of Hot Rocks have been warned. I believe that the "standard" layer on the SACD disc is identical in content and quality to the non-SACD version, so if you don't have an SACD-compatible player, none of this will be of any consequence to you.
 Essential Collection, great sound but... August 27, 2002
Freddie J. Negron (Davie, FL USA)
39 out of 44 found this review helpful
I owned this excellent package in vinyl the very first day it came out (wow!) 30 years ago. The music is, with no question, an exceptional bunch of songs in one place: no dispute there and therefore recommended as essential. I do disagree with ABCKO about their research for the best masters for this proyect: the lack of stereo Masters in Satisfaction, Mother's Little Helper, Off of my cloud is dissapointing. I do have these in my analog Hot Rocks CD I obtained while stationed in Germany in 1989. With less resolution, but in stereo, they do sound great.
Aside from my misgivings for being a definitive project with full utilization of stereo with the SACD format, I would still recommend it.
Classic Stones February 10, 2004
Lonnie E. Holder (Sullivan, Illinois United States)
26 out of 36 found this review helpful
The Rolling Stones were the original Bad Boys of rock. The Beatles and other groups of the early and mid-60's had a clean-cut image that The Rolling Stones deliberately flaunted with their facial expressions, appearance, and blues-influenced music that lyrically was more challenging than most other popular contemporary groups. The closest contemporary group to The Rolling Stones was Aerosmith, before they too became more commercial. Now so many groups attempt to affect a bad boy image that the image has been watered down and no longer has much meaning. But in the 60's, The Rolling Stones were the definition of rebellion and thinly veiled sexuality.
This collection of hits recalls The Rolling Stones at their most rebellious and cutting edge. In the still relatively proper (read Victorian-like) year of 1965 the song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" bordered on being scandalous. When the boys sang with their shirts open with movements that pushed beyond those of Elvis Presley, you knew that these lads were something different. Later songs such as "Let's Spend the Night Together" pretty much threw the remnant of a veil away.
As The Rolling Stones moved into the late 60s their music changed steadily, frequently anticipating the direction of music. The ubiquitous sitar of psychedelic 60s music makes an incredible appearance in "Paint It, Black." Their music became heavily blues influenced in songs like "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Wild Horse." The vocals on the last song particularly were heavy, plaintive and emotional, very different from The Stones' early music.
There is an on-going debate over the value of this CD versus "40 Licks." I do not have "40 Licks," which is also a fine CD. Many of the songs on this CD are represented on "40 Licks." However, "40 Licks" seems to me to belie the original Stones bad boy image because of the inclusion of so many commercial songs from the later decades of their career. "Hot Rocks" still provides the illusion of the original Bad Boy Stones at their 60s anti-establishment rebellious best. "40 Licks" is too commercial for the bad boy image to be other than a commercial facade. Understanding the flavor you get from each CD, pick the one that fits what you want to hear.
The Rolling Stones were heavily influential in the 60s. The music on this CD represents that influence, and shows The Rolling Stones during their most consistently creative and stylistically unique best. This CD is a valuable recording for any collector of Rolling Stones music or cutting edge music of the 60s.
As good as any Stones compiliation is likely to get. March 26, 2003
Shotgun Method (NY... No, not *that* NY)
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
If I was looking to point a casual fan toward a Rolling Stones retrospective, I'd completely pass on Forty Licks and tell them to go for Hot Rocks, without question. Everybody knows that 1964-1971 were the golden years for the Stones, and this compilation, which deftly selected the hits from that era, is damn good stuff. All the landmark material is accounted for--Get Off Of My Cloud, Paint It Black, Let's Spend The Night Together, Gimme Shelter, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man, Sympathy For The Devil, a live cut of Midnight Rambler, and of course, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Although this will not satisfy diehard fans and I wish a few other songs were included (Stray Cat Blues, the Ya-Ya version of Carol, Sister Morphine, She's A Rainbow, 2000 Man) everything here is grade-A gritty blues rock. The second disc could very well stand alone, it's that good. As far as the SACD remasters are concerned, they are a massive improvement over the original remasters in every conceivable way. And don't believe the naysayers who claim the new versions are not compatible with PCs--they are. If you have this and Exile On Main Street, you're set as a casual fan. Completists will want the individual albums, but Hot Rocks does a damn good job of capturing the Stones at their finest before old age and drug abuse set in. Recommended.
A Huge Compilation Set September 23, 2002
Richard R. Carlton (Ada, MI United States)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is the version of Hot Rocks 1964-1971 that was originally released in the U.S. on Jan 11, 1972 but was withheld from the UK until 1990 due to a lawsuit. The album includes different versions of Brown Sugar and Wild Horses that had not been previously released. By mistake, the UK release contained the only true stereo versions of Satisfaction, Heart Of Stone, Paint It, Black, and Get Off Of My Cloud until the 40 Licks CD was released in 2002.This US version covered their American hits from 1964-1971. The song are on the album in the order they were released in the U.S. Those that were only released as album cuts are noted.
9-25-64 Time Is On My Side (version 2) (also on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
12-18-64 Heart Of Stone (also on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
3-12-65 Play With Fire (B side of The Last Time) (also on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
6-4-65 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (also on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
12-17-65 As Tears Go By (also on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
9-24-65 Get Off Of My Cloud (also on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
5-6-66 Paint It, Black (also on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
7-1-66 Mother's Little Helper (also on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
2-11-66 19th Nervous Breakdown (also on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
7-1-66 Under My Thumb (not a single, from album Aftermath)
1-13-67 Ruby Tuesday (also on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
1-13-67 Let's Spend The Night Together (B side of Ruby Tuesday) (also on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
5-31-68 Jumpin' Jack Flash (also on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
8-30-68 Street Fighting Man (also on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
12-6-68 Sympathy For The Devil (not a single, from album Beggar's Banquet)
7-3-69 Honky Tonk Woman (also on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
12-5-69 Gimme Shelter (not a single, from album Let It Bleed)
12-5-69 Midnight Rambler (not a single, from album Let It Bleed)
12-5-69 You Can't Always Get What You Want (not a single, from album Let It Bleed)
5-7-71 Brown Sugar (1st release of version 2)(song not on a previous compilation album)
6-11-71 Wild Horses (1st release of version 2)(song not on a previous compilation album) Here is a list of the songs that were previously issued on the first 2 compilation albums, but were not included on Hot Rocks 64-71:
3-6-64 Not Fade Away (on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
6-12-64 Tell Me (version 2) (on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
7-24-64 It's All Over Now (on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
7-24-64 Good Times, Bad Times (B side of It's All Over Now) (on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
3-12-65 The Last Time (on Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass))
9-23-66 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? (on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
8-18-67 Dandelion (on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
12-22-67 She's A Rainbow (on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2))
12-22-67 2000 Light Years From Home (B side of She's A Rainbow) (on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)) This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection.
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