Hot Rocks 1964-1971 [DSD Remastered] Reviews



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The Stone's Best - Review written on July 13, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
This album has been around since vinyl and could be called the Stone's Greatest Hits. The only one left out is Far Away Eyes. If you have no other Stone's album, this is the one. Roy
awesome set from The Stones - Review written on May 30, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5
16 customers found this review helpful, 2 did not.

Hot Rocks 1964-1971 is an awesome two CD Stones compilation set that has so many of their best hits. This also makes a great introduction to the band, too, just as other people have said. The sound quality is excellent and the artwork is really nicely done.

The first CD starts with "Time Is On My Side;" this classic Stones tune really rocks well and they deliver this with lots of positive energy! The percussion is great; and The Stones sing and play this to perfection! "Heart Of Stone" has a great beat; and Mick Jagger sings this passionately--with all his heart and soul. He sings of a woman he knows and it all works very well. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is easily one of their best hits ever--and one of the best rock songs ever written, too. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" explores the frustration a man can feel when he doesn't have a girlfriend; and that's something many guys can relate to. The song rocks well anyway; and I could never tire of hearing The Rolling Stones doing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Excellent!

"Get Off Of My Cloud" is another classic by the Stones; this song has a great beat and they handle complicated tempo and key changes like the pros they were and still remain! Mick sings great and "Get Off Of My Cloud" is a major highlight of this two CD set; the lyrics are very creative, too. "Mother's Little Helper" uses some pretty awesome electric guitar; and listen for The Rolling Stones to do their very best on "Paint It Black." "Paint It Black" has one of the best arrangements The Stones ever wrote and sang; and the music is also very well done. "Under My Thumb" is yet another classic tune by this incredible band; they ace this easily and I always like to hear this song.

The first CD ends strong with The Rolling Stones doing "Let's Spend the Night Together." "Let's Spend the Night Together" celebrates the happiness of attraction between a man and a woman and that's terrific.

The second CD continues the hits. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" has a pretty cool flavor to it; those electric guitars work well and Mick Jagger sings this very well. "Sympathy For The Devil" was always one of my very favorite Stones tunes; "Sympathy For The Devil" keeps the new listener guessing at who the song is about until the song is well along and that draws in the listener really well. There's also the poignant "You Can't Always Get What You Want" with its sublime female chorus; this song about life makes its point well and that's the strength of this song in addition to the music. "Brown Sugar" rocks so hard that I love hearing this--even if it's over and over again! "Brown Sugar" is easily one of their best songs ever and the topic is interesting, to say the least...

The second CD ends with "Wild Horses;" "Wild Horses" is a passionate love song that always tugs at my heartstrings when I hear it. It moves me a lot and it's a total masterpiece. Good for them!

Overall, The Rolling Stones turned out a "greatest hits" set so strong it DID take on a life of its own. Even all these years later, this album sells quite well and newcomers are always buying it. This two CD set proves that The Rolling Stones were-and are--one of the best rock and roll bands of all time. It will be a long, long time before we see another band this good again.
The Rolling Stones, Great Band and Great CD - Review written on May 29, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5

This CD focuses on the Rolling Stones in there highlight time from the 60s to the early 70s were there best period they came out with all there best songs, satisfaction, gimmie shelter, street fighting man, under my thumb etc. This CD is perfect for any Rolling Stones fan of any age
Great timeless music right here the best song is Gimmie Shelter by far though
great album
5/5 stars
One of the first ( and best ) albums I ever bought... - Review written on May 21, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5

I got this one as a 13 year old back when it was first released and played it for years until I finally wore out the grooves. When it became available on cd I snapped it up quick.I still think that these early songs are the best stuff they ever did. "Under My Thumb", "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Mother's Little Helper", "19th Nervous Breakdown", "Paint It Black", "Gimme Shelter", "Street Fightin Man"........ I'll still be listening to this stuff when I'm old (well...older) and gray.
Great CD - Review written on May 09, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5

I had the LP of this album and needed the CD to be able to add it to my collection. I love The Rolling Stones. Great album/CD.
hot rocks 1964 to 1971 rolling stones - Review written on April 18, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
I am a baby boomer and grew up with the 60's music the rolling stones to me were only 2nd to the Beatles.I've always been a music lover since I was a kid..
i.e. The Very Best Of.... - Review written on March 02, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5

This is some of the best rock and roll music ever made and it is all you need if you want to hear The Rolling Stones' greatest music.

This is music made when they were a great band and not obscenely rich corporate shills that rock out for aging, middle class and yuppie baby boomers --while sticking it to the people with absurdly high ticket prices, all for the glory of their lost youth and Budweiser or whoever the corporate god is to whom they pay tribute on that particular tour.
Brilliant music better heard elsewhere - Review written on February 19, 2008
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Rating: 3 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful.

Between 1964 and 1971, the Rolling Stones made some of the most un-friggin'-believable rock `n' roll music of all time. Their raw, sweaty fusion of blues, country, soul, and rock, all of it united under Mick Jagger's sullen grimace and Keith Richards' (not to mention Brian Jones'!) barnburning guitar work gave the world of popular music that raucous kick in the drawers that it had been craving since Elvis was drafted and Chuck Berry went to prison (hey, four years is a long time in rockworld!). Their music was full of anger and sex, full of joy and singalong catharsis and booze-soaked attitude, and it positively ruled.

And this collection aims to sum that sound up. If you're just getting introduced to the `Stones, it presents itself as a pretty darn good introduction: It's got a lot of the big hits ("Satisfaction," "Time Is On My Side," "Under My Thumb," etc.) in one place, with cool cover art to boot. If you're a beginner, it allows you to temporarily sidestep their first few albums, which a lot of people think are spotty and inconsistent. Plus, it has a few songs that were only released as singles, never appearing on a proper album, such as "Honky Tonk Woman." Good deal, right?

Well, sure, it's a very good deal. If you're a beginner, you should pick this up. I mean, there's no such thing as a bad album that has "Get Off Of My Cloud" or "Heart Of Stone" on it. But here's the thing: This album doesn't have "The Last Time." Or "Not Fade Away." Or "Tell Me." Or "It's All Over Now." Those are all fantastic songs, and no aspiring `Stones fan should be without them (especially "The Last Time." Excluding that song was a stunningly weird idea). You know what collection does have those songs on them, though? Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass). It's a single disc collection that brings together a bunch of the stuff from their first few albums. It doesn't cover as wide a period as this collection, but a lot of the songs on Hot Rocks come from albums like Beggar's Banquet and Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers, and nobody thinks that those records are spotty. Nobody who counts, anyway. You're gonna wanna get those albums early on, so getting a collection with songs from those albums is a bit redundant. Just a thought.

So, this album is full of great music, and if you're getting introduced to the Rolling Stones, you'll probably like it a lot. I recommend getting the Big Hits record, though. After that, pick up Aftermath, Beggar's Banquet, et al. Have fun! (If you like good music, you certainly will)
1964-71: The Golden Age of The Rolling Stones. - Review written on January 18, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

Who says you can't squeeze money out of a Stone? While Goats Head Soup is one of my five favorite Stones' albums, many fans (including me) argue that with its funkier sound the 1972 album marked the end of The Golden Age of the Rolling Stones. Hot Rocks 1964-1971 is the first compilation album of Rolling Stones, and provides a retrospective of the Stones when they were at their best (in my opinion). Released in late 1971 while they were recording Sticky Fingers on their own label, Hot Rocks remains The Rolling Stones' biggest-selling release of their entire career. I have two small complaints about Hot Rocks. First, due to the limitations of how much music you could put on a piece on vinyl, Decca/ABKCO Records was forced to omit several of the Stones' best songs from the double album. Second, Hot Rocks was never authorized by The Rolling Stones and represents their former manager, Allen Klein's success at squeezing more money out of the Stones. Classic tracks include:

1. Time Is On My Side
2. Heart Of Stone
3. Play With Fire
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. As Tears Go By
6. Get Off Of My Cloud
7. Mother's Little Helper
8. 19th Nervous Breakdown
9. Paint It, Black
10. Under My Thumb
11. Ruby Tuesday
12. Let's Spend the Night Together

Disc: 2
1. Jumpin' Jack Flash
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Sympathy For the Devil
4. Honky Tonk Women
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Midnight Rambler (Live)
7. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Brown Sugar
9. Wild Horses

G. Merritt

Hours of greatness - Review written on January 03, 2008
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Rating: 5 out of 5

One of my all time favorite albums that I never get sick of listening to.
This is why the Stones are still with us - Review written on December 07, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5

Ever wonder why these old guys are still kickin'? Well listen up and wonder no more. Here's the essential soul of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. The DSD remaster really enhances some of their complexities that you couldn't appreciate on the original LP/CD (I have both).
STILL THE BEST "BEST OF" COLLECTION - Review written on October 27, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful.

It doesn't get any better than this, folks. Probably the best" Greatest Hits" package in Rock & Roll history. Call me retro, stuck in the past, whatever you want to label me, I consider myself fortunate to have been around during the years this music first came out. Rock was seldom this good
again.
Great collection, horrible quality - Review written on October 05, 2007
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Rating: 2 out of 5
2 customers found this review not to be helpful.
I have had the cassette version of this album for over 15 years and thought the cd version would sound better on my stereos. The cassette version's audio quality is better equalized and balanced than this remastered cd. I just recieved the cd version of this "remastered" album and after listening to it on my BOSE stereo system and my car stereo system, I can honestly say that this is the worst quality cd I have ever listened to. It was worse than listen to an AM station in a tunnel. Do yourself a favor and buy and older version, maybe before they "remastered" it.
the musics good the price is bad - Review written on September 23, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
let me be clear all this music is first rate. however the price of 35$ even for a double disc is extreme especially when its in its original format meaning that when this was released in 1971 it was released on two lp because they could only hold 50 min of music and each lp had about 45 min on their. cd's can hold 80 mon of music meaning that all they had to do was cut the 10 min version of midnight rambler and maybe one more track and they could fit this one disc and cut the price in half. or if they were going to keep it in 2 disc fromat they could have updated it with bonus tracks from more hot rocks adding songs im free , not fade away, little red rooster and filled out the two disc or made it into a three disc. but no they just try to screw you. but all that aside the music is great and if price doesn't bother pick it up. if it does check out 40 licks compilation
This is non-SACD version - Review written on August 09, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

Amazon enters buyers in error by its "Product Description", in which writes "This Super Audio Compact Disc".
This is lie! This is usual CD!
Sounds better than ever - Review written on July 29, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

This sonically enhanced two-CD set provides seven years worth of vintage Stones from their peak period. Compare these delectable tracks to the rock music of today and one wonders where things went wrong in the mainstream. Melodic, meaningful, powerful and innovative, these Stones songs represent everything that is special about rock music.

Although there's not one mediocre track here, my favorites include the bluesy Time Is On My Side, Heart Of Stone, Wild Horses and Ruby Tuesday (covered by Melanie Safka among others), the raucous rock of Satisfaction, Get Off My Cloud, Street Fighting Man and Brown Sugar, with songs of social comment (Mother's Little Helper, 19th Nervous Breakdown), and beautiful ballads: As Tears Go By (covered by inter alia Marianne Faithfull), Play With Fire and Paint It Black.

The Stones must be the ultimate rock band, more influential than the Beatles in their 4 decades plus consistency and their exploration of the wilder side of life. This is an absolute masterpiece. If an alien came down and asked me to recommend some quality rock music, this album will top my list. It deserves 7 stars!
great oldies - Review written on July 20, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful.

excellent cd from the stones.had it before and wore it out on cassette it may be their best compilation ever.
Rolling Stones Hot Rocks SACD - Review written on June 13, 2007
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Rating: 4 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful.

For any Stones fan, I think this was the culmination or consensus of the greatest hits album for any band. I have owned this title on vinyl, cd and now SACD. First of all, any compilation album is subject to the producer's vision, and I understand that. That is each song may have been produced differently.
On the first disc, it is obvious that the early days of stereo engineering meant separating everything into left and right, but the clarity of SACD really shines through.***Note** Just because it's SACD doesn't mean it's 5.1 surround. I was especially impressed with Ruby Tuesday. I finally can hear that the distortion in the left speaker is actually an over-mike'd cello and not (as I thought for years) some funky bass line.
The second CD really stood out with some great tunes, especially Honky Tonk Women and Midnight Rambler. I tend to prefer when songs are mixed as if I where listening to the band live. That is, I like the lead singer in the middle and drums behind the lead singer. Guitars, bass and backing vocals should be on either side. I was really disappointed with Gimme Shelter because this mix seemed to cram everything towards the center. I don't know if this was the original production or just this cd. The rest of the cd is great. Now if they can just re-engineer the Who's Who's Better, Who's Best on SACD, I'll be in Heaven. ***Another note*** This review may be nullified by the fact that, as my children have pointed out, I'm old, and as such, I can afford a lot better speakers than I could when I was young.
DSD Revives The Classics! - Review written on May 03, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
14 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

There's not much to add about the immense quality of the basic stereo versions of these songs. They are all immortal. However, this DSD (similar to SACD) brings out the subtle (and not so subtle) highs and lows of all tracks by accenting their high quality. Be aware that this is DSD and NOT SACD. It has to have the SACD logo to be SACD. That being said, you've never heard so clear a version of, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" or "Wild Horses". The most fantastic version is of, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" which not only sounds like the first time you heard it - it sounds like they are in your living room! I jest not!
An Early And GREATEST Stage Of A Continuing Phenomenon - Review written on April 02, 2007
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Rating: 5 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful.

As a child of the 1960's (born in 1946), The Rolling Stones have made music that I have listened to at each stage of my adolescent and presumably post-adolescent life. At each juncture, their music has been through changes as has one or two of the band members, as have I! Asked when he planned to retire some years ago, Mick Jagger - in classic Mick Jagger style - responded something like, "... no one asks Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker that question. Why are you asking me? I sing my version of the blues and plan to do so until I can't. That might include being wheeled out on stage in a wheelchair some years from now, still doing what I do as best as I can." That is not intended to be a direct quote, but is rather the way I recall hearing the story told and retold over the years. I recall it this way because it makes sense to me ... a LOT of sense. Often characterized as the quintessenal rock and toll band, The Rolling Stones were, are and I expect will continue to be and become a continuing phenomenon of musical expression. That being said, even bands that seem to go on forever have their stronger and weaker periods; their peaks of high creativity and valleys of times when they simply have to fulfill a contractual obligation by releasing an album and/or touring.

For most Stones fans, the period the collection at hand provides an unarguably thrilling sampling of is that in the years from 1964 to 1971 during which the Stones wrote, performed and recorded some of the greatest music in the continually developing story of the genre we call Rock and Roll.

This is a two CD set is produced on two layers. One is a `normal' CD, the second is a Super Audio CD (SACD). Both layers have been produced from the original takes using DSD (Direct Stream Digital) encoding which does a simply tremendous job of capturing each and every subtle moment, tone and innuendo on each track - be it from voice or instrument. It actually sounds a lot better than the original recordings and is far superior to standard `remasterings' of older studio and/or live recordings. So, even though there are no real surprises on these CDs, there is much delight to be had by the Stones audiophile in hearing just how good they really sound(ed) during this period.

The specific tracks are all known, verbatim, to many of my generation and include, on the first CD:
1. Time Is On My Side
2. Heart Of Stone
3. Play With Fire
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. As Tears Go By
6. Get Off Of My Cloud
7. Mother's Little Helper
8. 19th Nervous Breakdown
9. Paint It, Black
10. Under My Thumb
11. Ruby Tuesday, and
12. Let's Spend The Night Together

The second CD picks up where the first one leaves off with:
1. Jumpin' Jack Flash
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Sympathy For The Devil
4. Honky Tonk Women
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Midnight Rambler (Live)
7. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Brown Sugar, and
9. Wild Horses

Clearly, the Rolling Stones have produced dozens of albums and hundreds upon hundreds of songs: most are at least better than average and many (some would argue, most) are far superior to most of everything else that has ever (or may ever be) written for, performed or recorded in this particular musical genre.

Whether you believe that the Stones are simply one of the greatest Rock and Roll bands to ever perform or that they are THE greatest, you will have no regrets about investing in this remarkably hypnotic, engaging and enthusiastic pair of CDs. La crème de la crème. The best of the best. Vocally, musically, ensemble-wide: in all measurable respects. Close your eyes and sing along - with your voice or in your mind. Either way, you won't be disappointed.
Rolling Stones are awful...dont buy this!! - Review written on December 24, 2006
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Rating: 1 out of 5
4 customers found this review helpful, 78 did not.

What a disaster!!! How could anyone like this lousy rock band? They have sold more than 20 lame albums and they most surely could not make good music at all. Mick Thornten,the lead singer just screams,can't sing,sounds more like baby just like Robert Plant. Keith Richmond is what I call the worst guitar player in the world,never took lessons,always out of tune,and only two string power chords. Willie Whatts is the worst drummer ever, he never could drum as good as Lars Ulrich(Metallica drummer). They even have put up some of the even more lousiest and worst songs ever made like Brown Sugar, Satisfaction, Get Off My Cloud, and Sympathy For The Devil. Even a Green Day CD has better music than this!
Ignore the previous 5 star reviewers below and avoid this lousy compilation. Get SULTANS OF SWING:THE VERY BEST OF DIRE STRAITS insted.


-Waiting For A Girl Like You
THE BEST BAND EVER AFTER PINK FLOYD - Review written on December 08, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful, 9 did not.

I JUST LOVE THE ROLLING STONES WHOM I RATE AS THE BEST ALONG WITH PINK FLOYD,LED ZEPPELIN,BLACK SABBATH,AC/DC.ALL THE SONGS ON THIS COMPILATION IS TOP NOTCH STUFF.REMEMBER THE 1970'S WERE THE BEST YEARS OF MUSIC.IGNORE THE PREVIOUS REVIWER AND AVOID FOREIGNER AND GREEN DAY WHO SUCK.
Great Collection - Review written on November 04, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful, 3 did not.

of early hits ... A Memory Lane of my youth ... Love It ...
simply amazing - Review written on September 27, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
4 customers found this review helpful.

i remember getting my first cd player for christmas when i was 14 with it i got a cd carrying various classic cd's, this cd was one of them. to tell the truth i have been listing to the stones since i was 5, and i knew then i like the way they sounded. being a kid i hadn't a clue about the various styles they played, but as i grew older and started appreciating music as a whole i relized that these guys will always be remebered as the bes of the best. Ever since i got this cd, i have listened to it over and over, i am 24 now and for the first time i am going to see them live. this set cements the fact that what ever these guys touch, turns to gold. stripped is a shining example of what a comp cd should be, most comp cd's just touch on a bands greatnes, only having one or two hits and the rest the dregs of thier worst cd's. don't get me wrong it's good to hear the less played songs, some the stones best stuff is hardly ever played o nthe radio, over all this is a must have in any cd collection
Oh please - Review written on September 03, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful.

Anybody who gives this 1 star, has no idea what classics are, or what real music is. I'm a diehard hip hop fan and I know what the rolling stones mean to music. I listened to my fathers collection and all there albums are classics to me. I say get the albums before this. Either way you cant go wrong.
Worth the price! - Review written on August 26, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful.

Taking into account all other reviews this cd is worth at least the lowest price if not simply for "Midnight Rambler" live.
GREAT COMPILATION - Review written on June 26, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review helpful, 4 did not.

I LOVE THE ROLLING STONES.EACH AND EVER ALBUM MADE BY THEM IS A CLASSIC.SATISFACTION AND BROWN SUGAR ARE TWO OF THE FINEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN.VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Overrated???? - Review written on May 27, 2006
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Rating: 1 out of 5
2 customers found this review helpful, 53 did not.

Who could like a band like The Rolling Stones? They are not the world's greatest rock band and they never made anything good but Start Me Up and Shattered. Their new album is the most horrible CD I have ever heard. Stay far away from that CD. Get anything from the Stones that contains Start Me Up or Shattered insted.
WARNING!! Great music, but Amazon is not selling the SACD version of this disc - Review written on March 24, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
102 customers found this review helpful, 6 did not.

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.
perfect for the casual stones fan - Review written on January 29, 2006
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Rating: 5 out of 5
4 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

If you're like me, then your one of those people who understand why the Rolling Stones are so great, but you won't go out and buy every one of their albums. This album is perfect for you if you're like that. It is essentially a greatest hits album. It contains all their greatest hits from 1964-71, which is basically a greatest hits of all time from them. A hardcore stones fan would argue that, but for someone like me, its perfect. This album contains all the songs that you would hear on the radio, even some that you may not hear. Be sure to get this one, it's a must have for any fan of rock.
For the Casual Stones Fan it's Great. - Review written on May 22, 2005
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Rating: 4 out of 5
8 customers found this review helpful, 2 did not.

I am not a die-hard Stones fan, but I believe that their place in rock history is valid and they represent one of many facets of a very diversified musical genre. There are so many styles out there: art rock, goth rock, acid rock, etc., but the Stones represent an aspect that everyone needs to acknowledge now and then, and that would be good time, down-to-earth raunchy blues rock. That's not to say they didn't do some great ballads, but what would you rather play at a party; "As Tears Go By" or "Honky Tonk Women?"

The band had so many great hits, especially during the 64-71 era, and this represents all the best of them. Beside that, I maintain an eternal weakness for the great classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want." You can play that anywhere and blow any young kid who thinks they're cool out of the water because it's that full of attitude after all these years. The best thing about it is that it's not even aggressive compared to songs like "Brown Sugar." Now that's coolness defined. Get Hot Rocks for all the great songs you know and the album rock stations some of us were lucky enough to grow up with. Also, you may want to get Forty Licks or Some Girls for great later classics like "Beast of Burden" and "Waiting on a Friend." A little Stones go a long way for some of us, but they're still around, and they're still cool, so have fun!
if you want one collection of the Stones, get this one - Review written on April 20, 2005
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Rating: 5 out of 5
4 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

this covers all their greatest stuff, and is really all you need if you aren't a hardcore fan. I wouldn't call myself a real Rolling Stones fan, but I do enjoy the classic songs on here like "paint it black" and "satisfaction," among others. ideal if you are new to the band, though you have likely heard of them before (they must be the most famous band in the history of rock, no?) yes, definetily get it. I know that the Stones always have released mediocre live material, but the live tracks on here are extremely good, all 2 of them. There's not that much I can say about the Stones; I like most of the music, but in general I don't dig the band that much. If you are like me, this one is for you.
Still the best early Stones compilation - Review written on December 29, 2004
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Rating: 5 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful.

Spanning the first seven years of the Stones' recording career, "Hot Rocks" includes almost every song the casual fan could want from that period.
It doesn't include their earliest blues and R&B covers, which is a shame, but once you're hooked I'm sure you can find the money to go out and get the Stones' first four LPs anyway ;-)

But look at what is here: "Satisfaction", "Heart Of Stone", "Honky Tonk Women", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Brown Sugar", "Sympathy For The Devil" and many, many more. This is truly the cream of the crop.
This excellent, well annotated and expertly sequenced compilation presents the Rolling Stones' early singles in warm, three-dimensional and tremendously realistic 21st century fidelity. Get "Hot Rocks" and "Jump Back: The Best Of The Rolling Stones 1971-1993" and you'll have a much better career overview than with the good-but-not-great 2002 box set "Forty Licks".
The Best its gonna get. - Review written on December 07, 2004
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Rating: 5 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful.

The Stones have produced so many great songs over the years (although not much in the past 20) and as we all know have had many different greatest hits collections. However, this one stands out in my mind as the greatest.

The greatest thing about this CD is that every song is listenable. With some of the other greatest hits cd's there are songs that some people are glad were put on but others not. With this, anyone can enjoy any song without saying "why'd they put this on here". My only real criticism of this album is why no "Last Time". This was probably one of their top five biggest songs at this time, yet its not on here. I've wondered this since I got it and, although I'm not even a big fan of this song, it has never made much sense to me.

Anyway, for the casual fan who's never really listened to or heard much of the Stones music, the standout tracks for me (or for the best introduction)would be Sympathy For The Devil,(I Cant Get No)Satisfaction,Street Fighting Man,Gimme Shelter,and Midnight Rambler. After these the best ones are (in my opinion)Jumpin Jack Flash,Brown Sugar,Paint It Black,Under My Thumb,and Honky Tonk Woman. So if you asked me, I'd say this is essential to any music collection. A great way to get the most of the biggest hits.
I just ordered this, can someone give me some info please? - Review written on November 27, 2004
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Rating: 5 out of 5
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
I love the rolling stones, one of the best bands ever..I bought this and it should be arriving soon. I have heard complaints though about it not playing on computers, which doesn't bother me too much..But can anyone please tell me if it plays in a car CD player? And also what SACD compatable players are anyway? Thanks to whoever answers my questions!

GO STONES!