The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) (1966/2014) [Hi-Res]

Like its 1969 second volume Through The Past Darkly, Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass) is a fine collection of sixties Stones classics, but with a lean toward their blues background. This is exemplified by such rootsy tracks as the redefined Buddy Holly tune 'Not Fade Away' and the R&B bounce of Bobby Womack's 'It's All Over Now'.

The bitterness of 'Get Off My Cloud', delivered in Mick Jagger's best Sidcup dialect still sounds magnificent, as does Brian Jones's booming Vox pearl guitar on 'The Last Time' and Keith Richards's opening chords to the aforementioned 'Not Fade Away'. This is one to hand down to the children.

„With High Tide and Green Grass', the band produced the best greatest-hits record of the mid '60s. 'High Tide's' 12 cuts remain the triumph of a perfect rhythm section: Charlie Watts' backbeat - casual, unerring and swinging - by then was unrivaled; Bill Wyman's bass lines fused exactly with Watt's drumming; and Richard's guitar was unabashed body music.' (Rolling Stone)

'A concise collection of the group's early hits, with no surprises.' (All Music Guide)

Mick Jagger, vocals, percussion, harmonica
Brian Jones, guitars, harmonica, dulcimer, sitar, organ, keyboards, backing vocals
Keith Richards, guitar, backing vocals
Bill Wyman, bass, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
Charlie Watts, drums and percussion
Additional musicians:
Jack Nitzsche, percussion, keyboards
Phil Spector, percussion
Ian Stewart, keyboards

Recorded 10 May 1963 – 2 September 1966 at Olympic Sound Studios, Decca Studios, Regent Sound Studios, RCA Studios, De Lane Lea Studios, and IBC Studios, London, UK, and Chess, Chicago, Illinois

Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham

Digitally remastered