The Rolling Stones - Big Hits [High Tide and Green Grass] - (2003 ABKCO Records DSD Stereo) LP rip in 24 Bit/ 96 Khz

Appearing as it did in the fall of 1966, six months after its American namesake, the British version of Big Hits: High Tide and Green Grass is a very different album from its U.S. equivalent. Issued to coincide with their first British tour in more than a year, the album reflected the fact that the Stones had moved into psychedelic music that year, albeit with a hard punk edge. Part of the change is captured by the cover photo, the American shot of the quintet of a rock-strewn embankment replaced by a fish-eyed view of the band in the latest Carnaby Street fashions, including Brian Jones' vertical striped suit and Keith Richards' military-style jacket. The disc also encompasses their U.K. singles (though not all of them, for "I Wanna Be Your Man," among others, is absent), which differed somewhat from their U.S. releases. The account of the group's development and evolution is startling, from the Chuck Berry cover "Come On" through the frenetic punk blowout "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" This version of Big Hits also has a bit less R&B and slightly more blues than its U.S. equivalent, principally in the form of "Little Red Rooster" (which was a hit in England) and also encompasses the group's excursion into folk-rock on "Lady Jane," scattered around the obvious classics like "The Last Time," "Satisfaction," "Get Off of My Cloud," and "19th Nervous Breakdown," which were hits on both sides of the Atlantic. The main virtue to the album, apart from some very good music, however, is the portrait it gives of Mick Jagger's voice and the ever-tightening cohesiveness of the band. By the time of "Paint It Black," he's an almost larger-than-life presence, while the group is generating enough wattage in concentrated enough fashion to punch a signal through a wash of overload on "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?". Allmusic.

US track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Side one

1. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 3:43
2. "The Last Time" – 3:40
3. "As Tears Go By" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/Andrew Loog Oldham) – 2:45
4. "Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) – 2:58
5. "It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack/Shirley Jean Womack) – 3:26
6. "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" – 3:46

Side two

1. "19th Nervous Breakdown" – 3:56
2. "Heart of Stone" – 2:50
3. "Get Off of My Cloud" – 2:55
4. "Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty/Charles Hardin) – 1:48
5. "Good Times, Bad Times" – 2:31
6. "Play with Fire" (Nanker Phelge) – 2:13


UK track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" – 2:34
2. "Paint It, Black" – 3:45
3. "It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack/Shirley Jean Womack) – 3:27
4. "The Last Time" – 3:40
5. "Heart of Stone" – 2:46
6. "Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty/Charles Hardin) – 1:48
7. "Come On" (Chuck Berry) – 1:49

Side two

1. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 3:43
2. "Get off of My Cloud" – 2:55
3. "As Tears Go By" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richard/Andrew Loog Oldham) – 2:45
4. "19th Nervous Breakdown" – 3:57
5. "Lady Jane" – 3:08
6. "Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) – 2:53
7. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 3:05

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

* Mick Jagger – guitar, harmonica, keyboards, and vocals
* Brian Jones – guitar, slide guitar and acoustic guitar, harmonica, appalachian dulcimer, sitar and organ
* Keith Richards – guitar, keyboards, and vocals
* Charlie Watts – drums
* Bill Wyman – synthesizer, bass guitar, keyboards, and vocals

Additional personnel

* Jack Nitzsche – percussion and keyboards
* Phil Spector – percussion
* Ian Stewart – keyboards

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