Hot Rocks 1964-1971

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It's very unfortunate that it has taken up till now (Well, 2014) to get a get a good issue of this classic compilation of the Stones. All tracks on sides three and four were produced by Jimmy Miller, except "Midnight Rambler", which was produced by the Rolling Stones and Glyn Johns. Almost all of the previous songs had been in a more or less tangible sense autobiographical, but now the ongoing persona ballooned into something at once stranger, more surrealistic and yet perhaps more universal.

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The album was not released in the UK until 21 May 1990, to coincide with the Urban Jungle Tour, reaching No. I've played them back to back several times and the mono first release always sounds so much better to me. But somehow this album merely falls into that venerable Stones tradition of supra-throwaway albums, collections like December’s Children and Flowers that by their very slapdash cynicism validate themselves and charm us into feeling that they’re as sure a representation of the Stones ethos as brand-new and more unified efforts like Let It Bleed.

And, in “Let’s Spend the Night Together” they brought the stud role to a double-entendre — whether the song is actually about sex or about being too wired to make it and knowing that nothing needs to be proved anyway — as brilliant as the utter sexist dominance of “Under My Thumb” is devastating. So when we look past the magnificent cover depicting the Stones in their numerous roles as ragtag rougues of Merrie Olde, Tangierian travellers, fashion plates, etc. In August 2002, Hot Rocks 1964–1971 was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records. It’s on the second record of Hot Rocks, however, that the big thematic shift in the Stones’ music becomes unmistakable. The Stones have maintained, of course, radiating a semblance of constant change while mainly just reworking the most tried-and-true elements in their arsenal.

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The other, and even more important, recent phase is the Stones’ interest in songs, the kind of triumphs hinted at in “Satisfaction” and “Mother’s Little Helper,” that deal in searingly explicit terms not just with sexual conceits and power fantasies, but with the conditions under which all of us are living today. A photograph of the band at Swarkestone Hall Pavilion, taken by Michael Joseph in 1968, was printed on the back cover of the vinyl release. As Tears Go By” derives from those traditions too, but in much more cornball fashion, and one imagines the Stones could have only recorded it to prove they could carry it off, Delsey tissue strings and all. The album is the best selling of the numerous Decca/ ABKCO releases after the Rolling Stones lost control of their pre-1971 catalogue to their former manager Allen Klein.

Let’s Spend the Night Together” also represented the apotheosis of noise evolved into an arrangement of perfect clarity and unorthodox form, and effortlessly pushing, pulsating, almost mechanical sound that could go on forever. Gimme Shelter” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” may be the two most crucial and enduring things ever laid on wax by this band; certainly they demonstrated an unprecedented maturity, a view of the world as it is and a promise that the Stones’ most vital work may well lie ahead of them.

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A. degrees from Stony Brook University along with New York State Public School Education Certifications in Music and Social Studies. When I went away to college I didn’t take the records with me and my mom thought I no longer wanted them and gave them away. He has spent thirty years in the music business often working with many of the people who have appeared on this site.The crucial thread running through almost all of the Stones’ early work, and much of what has followed, is the tension in the alternation of themes of utter arrogance and disdain, and of the sense of ennui and frustration deriving from living, however highly, in these desperate times. it looked promising with the Bob Ludwig Mastering but it sounds flat, compressed and the vinyl itself is noisy. Hot Rocks (London 2PS 606-7) is even crasser than Flowers and Children, because it’s the first Stones album on which every track has been represented on albums previously released in this country. Hot Rocks 1964–1971 is a compilation album by the Rolling Stones released by London Records in December 1971.

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Because right off the inners, the discs are really filled with surface noise, and after a heavy wet cleaning, the surface noise reduced, but the sound on this 2 lp set is really awful to my ears, sounds really compressed, really had to crank up the volume to get a real punch out of the songs, and at high volumes, the sound distorted and got really muddy. As historical document of Greatest Hits culling, Hot Rocks takes almost no chances, and if the Stones or London sometimes display an unexpected sense of what may be the band’s most important statements (as in the inclusion of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”), there is also much left out. Nevertheless, “Time is on My Side” and “Heart of Stone” are vintage Stones, with the arrogant persona that is largely the subject of the first half of their career and the first half of this album already emerging unmistakably, and cemented in “Play With Fire,” first entry in the Stones’ continuing sometime dalliance with the folk traditions of their native land. It has company inner sleeves promoting releases contemporary to the time of the original release of this album.The album artwork depicts five nested silhouettes of the band members' profiles taken by rock photographer Ron Raffaelli in 1969. Listening to “Midnight Rambler” still gives me chills today, but I hardly think Mick Jagger thinks of himself as “a proud Black Panther. It became the Rolling Stones' best-selling release of their career and an enduring and popular retrospective. Sympathy For the Devil” cemented this process, of course, and helped give the Stones the “bad-vibes” patina which led so many to lay the blame for Altamont solely at their feet.