Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) UK Edition



Greatest Hits 1963-66

Label: Decca Records
Release date: November 4, 1966

Track List:

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
Paint It Black
It's All Over Now
The Last Time
Heart of Stone
Not Fade Away
Come On
Satisfaction
Get Off of My Cloud
As Tears Go By
19th Nervous Breakdown
Lady Jane
Time Is on My Side (version 2)
Little Red Rooster

What are your thoughts on this compilation?



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GREAT comp ...
Released some months after the US version but UK is the one have...Killer track selection



ROCKMAN

It was the second album I got after I discovered the band in the early 80s. I thought
a compilation album would be a good way to get to know the band and its music. I really
had no idea at the time of the history of the band, nor what music they created between
1966 and 1980. So it was kind of an adventure to listen to this album and Emotional
Rescue and figure out it was the same band (well with one different guitar player of course).

But what a great compilation of songs it is!
Everybody who claims the "golden era" of the band started with Jumpin' Jack Flash,
is proven wrong with this compilation. It reflects an era that is not just gold.
It's brilliant!

Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

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marcovandereijk
It was the second album I got after I discovered the band in the early 80s. I thought
a compilation album would be a good way to get to know the band and its music. I really
had no idea at the time of the history of the band, nor what music they created between
1966 and 1980. So it was kind of an adventure to listen to this album and Emotional
Rescue and figure out it was the same band (well with one different guitar player of course).

But what a great compilation of songs it is!
Everybody who claims the "golden era" of the band started with Jumpin' Jack Flash,
is proven wrong with this compilation. It reflects an era that is not just gold.
It's brilliant!

So true!

This was one of the last Stones albums I bought – to be honest, merely to complete my collection. What a track selection! When listening to these songs, in the selected order, I get proud being a Stones fan

Suf**ckingperb!

The first LP I ever bought, at the age of eleven, just before Christmas 1966 - couldn´t wait and risk not getting it as a Christmas present...

The only track I probably did'nt got at the time for it's release is 'Time is on my side version 2' so I didn't bought it then...I found it a couple of years ago with green Decca-label...very nice track-listing as said..

2 1 2 0

Possibly the most generous album release ever up to that point - with its fabulous 8 page insert of band photos and outstanding gatefold sleeve.

The US edition doesn't even come into the reckoning - it's the UK one you need.

First class in every way - 10/10.

Fantastic compilation. Played this one to death in my teens. Also had the poster up on my wall. Still my favourite Stones compilation.

BTW, The version I bought in 1980 in The Netherlands had the same album cover as the US version,
but the track list was the same as the UK version. Is that a continental European version?

Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

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marcovandereijk
BTW, The version I bought in 1980 in The Netherlands had the same album cover as the US version,
but the track list was the same as the UK version. Is that a continental European version?

What's the colour on the flipside?

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DandelionPowderman

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marcovandereijk
BTW, The version I bought in 1980 in The Netherlands had the same album cover as the US version,
but the track list was the same as the UK version. Is that a continental European version?

What's the colour on the flipside?

Ahhh, shame shame shame on my. I hadn't checked it for a long time, though I had the album
in my hands during all these early years of my puberty (until I discovered the album
sleeves of Sheena Easton... oops)
and apparently I got things mixed up a bit. The picture of the US version was on the
back side and the fish eye lense picture with Bill and his moustache were on the front
side. It was a folded album cover, with the LP in one side and the book with pictures
in the other side.
Label was Decca TXS 101

Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

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marcovandereijk

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DandelionPowderman

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marcovandereijk
BTW, The version I bought in 1980 in The Netherlands had the same album cover as the US version,
but the track list was the same as the UK version. Is that a continental European version?

What's the colour on the flipside?

Ahhh, shame shame shame on my. I hadn't checked it for a long time, though I had the album
in my hands during all these early years of my puberty (until I discovered the album
sleeves of Sheena Easton... oops)
and apparently I got things mixed up a bit. The picture of the US version was on the
back side and the fish eye lense picture with Bill and his moustache were on the front
side. It was a folded album cover, with the LP in one side and the book with pictures
in the other side.
Label was Decca TXS 101

I suspected that, as I have mixed up those covers a few times myself

Yep,

The sleeve is stunning.

I remember buying an original pressing from a junk shop around 1972.

Being a silly young lad at the time, I pulled out the book in the middle and stuck most of it to my bedroom wall.

Fortunately, having later learnt a little sense, I was able to find another similar copy with both record & sleeve in mint condition....which still gets played on a regular basis.

An interresting fact:
At Exhibitionism, the original proposed UK tracklist was exposed.
"I Wanna Be Your Man", the only missing british A side on the album, was originally included as the next to last track. The title was crossed over with a pen on the paper from Imidate, and replaced with Time Is On My Side.
Something tells me, they didn't want to pay those royalities...



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Blueranger
An interresting fact:
At Exhibitionism, the original proposed UK tracklist was exposed.
"I Wanna Be Your Man", the only missing british A side on the album, was originally included as the next to last track. The title was crossed over with a pen on the paper from Imidate, and replaced with Time Is On My Side.
Something tells me, they didn't want to pay those royalities...

Instead they chose to pay other royalties

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DandelionPowderman

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marcovandereijk
Everybody who claims the "golden era" of the band started with Jumpin' Jack Flash,
is proven wrong with this compilation. It reflects an era that is not just gold.
It's brilliant!

So true! ...

Well might be true, if anyone ever claimed that. I don't recall reading such a claim...

It was one of my very first favourite albums and still is: great songs, beautiful album cover and booklet.

one of the best compilations,still love it,i wanna be your man was put on ROLLED GOLD LATER,great track selection would love to have one with all the rock and blues covered tracks album.

Incredible list of songs from just two or three years of recording. So prolific and they were growing as artists every week.
Like the man said, this shows the 'golden era' of the band began way before Beggar's Banquet.

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DandelionPowderman

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marcovandereijk
Everybody who claims the "golden era" of the band started with Jumpin' Jack Flash,
is proven wrong with this compilation. It reflects an era that is not just gold.
It's brilliant!

So true! ...

Well might be true, if anyone ever claimed that. I don't recall reading such a claim...

Just wade your way through all the 68-72-posts, where some take it for granted that this was the band's golden era

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DandelionPowderman

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LeonidP

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DandelionPowderman

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marcovandereijk
Everybody who claims the "golden era" of the band started with Jumpin' Jack Flash,
is proven wrong with this compilation. It reflects an era that is not just gold.
It's brilliant!

So true! ...

Well might be true, if anyone ever claimed that. I don't recall reading such a claim...

Just wade your way through all the 68-72-posts, where some take it for granted that this was the band's golden era

People say that for the albums which i agree, but i am pretty sure the 'golden era' would start at Satisfaction. Not saying for me, just that is when they seemed to have really hit it big.

Or The Last Time?

I like the track listing better than the U.S. version. Maybe I'll burn a cdr with extra non-U.K version tracks from the U.S version as bonus tracks.

Brilliant album !

An excellent compilation ! ! ! - and a part of my DNA !
- and easy to understand why it was repressed and repressed ! ! !

Unfortunately the CD-era has been pretty rough on this album, - as the only
CD-release of the UK-version, - with it´s 9 ERPS-tracks, - was released in
Japan in 1987 - (P25L 25039) - and is now quite hard to find !

All other CD-releases holds the US-version, - in MONO !

- This 1987 CD-release is now the Main-Source for CD-released
ERPS-material !



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Rubbish. Only kidding. It's a greatest hits album. Some great songs there. Always wanted to see them play Have You Seen Your Mother.

All killer, no filler.

One of the best compilation album made.....what a joy I had when I bought this one the sleeve the booklet....... it even had a name "High Tide And Green Grass" and the great black picture of Brian Jones.

One plus for the US version is "Play with Fire"

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Yes the UK original is THE one!

Broke my heart to finally give it to someone who needed to be cheered up...

Isn't it interesting how we know precisely where each LP is on the shelves...even though we may not have played them in eons.

For some odd reason I got this one late, late in the game. After I was well into boot territory etc. I owned the UK cover but w/o the disc LOL. The UK versions from old days are always better.