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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 3855
Released: August 27, 2002 |
| Our Price: $8.39 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) Track Listing:
1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
2. The Last Time
3. As Tears Go By
4. Time Is on My Side
5. It's All over Now
6. Tell Me
7. 19th Nervous Breakdown
8. Heart of Stone
9. Get off of My Cloud
10. Not Fade Away
11. Good Times Bad Times
12. Play With Fire
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: ROLLING STONES
Title: BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE & GREEN GRASS)
Street Release Date: 08/27/2002
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) Reviews:
A Filthy Commercial Success... 
2009-12-06 - You Chumps that complain about what is or isn't on a compilation are pathetic. If you really like the Stones then you already have everything good. If you rely on someone else to tell you what's worth having or important, then you're just a sucker that's ripe for the taking. Buy, borrow or steal the original whole albums(remastered) 'cause there's ALWAYS great stuff on 'em that doesn't make the "greatest" hits or box sets. I give this 4 stars for the songs but leave one off for thinking we fans even need this contrived concoction. Seriously, it's like talking to children...
rolling stones 
2009-10-15 - A great early collection of what they call themselves, and I can't argue, "the greatest rock band on earth". I recieved it fast and in great shape.
Back In The Days
2009-08-03 - I will repeat here what I have mentioned in other reviews of the early work of The Rolling Stones.... "Hey, in 2009 no one, including this reviewer, NEEDS to comment on the fact that The Rolling Stones, pound for pound, have over forty plus years earned their place as the number one band in the rock `n' roll pantheon. Still, it is interesting to listen once again to the guys when they were at the height of their musical powers (and as high, most of the time, as Georgia pines)". This "greatest hits" compilation takes us back to the days, before the heavier rock sound but right up their in competition with the Beatles for the `soul' of the youthful rock fans of the 1960's. Some of these songs are classic of the rock `n' roll song book others are just faded memories. The cover of "Not Fade Away", their own "Satisfaction", "The Last Time" and "19th Nervous Breakdown" will endure as long as people need rock `n' roll to get through the day. "Tell Me" and "Play With Fire" are more for youthful memories.
Warning --- NOT a SACD disc - it is a DSD remaster 
2009-07-23 - Warning --- NOT a SACD disc - it is a DSD remaster - sounds really good - but NOT SACD good.
PERFECT GARDEN VARIETY IN 1960'S POP AND ROCK
2009-05-30 - The 2002 remaster of Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is a vast sonic improvement over the 1986 issuance. The sound quality is clearer without quite so much tape hiss, a common problem with transferring early analog recordings onto digital formats.
So far as the content goes, things start off with the Stones' trademark U.S. number-one hit (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, which ranks right up there with Stairway to Heaven and Like a Rolling Stone as among the greatest rock-and-roll songs of all time. In between are the wistful As Tears Go By, the resolute It's All Over Now, the defiant Heart of Stone, and the bluesy Good Times Bad Times. Also contained are the favorites 19th Nervous Breakdown and what many consider to be the Stones' proclamation of supreme status as the greatest rock-n-roll band in Get Off of My Cloud, the only other U.S. number-one hit in the set.
At the very end is the musically soft but lyrically harsh Play with Fire, which perfectly amalgamates the hard and soft sides of the 1960's Rolling Stones and, perhaps, the decade itself.
Overall, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is a very strong compilation with a perfect arrangement that should not be tampered with. While one might receive more songs for the buck with Hot Rocks or Forty Licks, the sequencing is, IMHO, not quite so strong in terms of where the individual songs, collectively, manage to embody a perfect whole. In other words, more, even if the added contents are perfect (and might actually be in another setting), can ironically amount to less (The only other release I can think of right now with this very same conundrum is Elvis Presley's Back in Memphis).
And speaking of contents, there is one noteworthy change that has been made for this updated recording, other than the improved sound. When released on CD in 1986 Big Hits contained Time Is On My Side with an organ introduction. Since then, it now contains that song with the guitar at the start, and that is the version that was and still is played on American radio stations.
After receiving a most refined, technological advancement with the sound of the classic Stones figuratively face-lifted yet more well-preserved, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) receives a more secure than ever Five stars.
