Product Description

'Jump Back' supersedes the previously available compilationof The Rolling Stones' 70's and 80's work, 'Rewind 1971-1984'. It contains material from their 'Sticky Fingers' album, right through to 'Steel Wheels'. Nine of the tracks includedhere reached the top ten of the UK singles chart.

Track Listing

1. Harlem shuffle
2. Start me up
3. Brown sugar
4. It's only rock 'n' roll
5. Mixed emotions
6. Angie
7. Tumbling dice
8. Fool to cry
9. Rock and a hard place
10. Miss you
11. Hot stuff
12. Emotional rescue
13. Respectable
14. Beast of burden
15. Waiting on a friend
16. Wild horses
17. Bitch
18. Undercover of the night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3572 in Music
• Released on: 1993-11-22
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

White Male Re-interpretation of Black Culture
This album starts, aptly enough, with 'Start Me Up', the song which the Rolling Stones sold to Microsoft in order to keep Keith Richards in drug money. It is a mediocre slice of radio-friendly rock, and easily one of the most underwhelming songs the Rolling Stones have ever released.

'Brown Sugar' sounds like what it is: a completely unashamed rip-off of Rhythm and Blues which was pioneered and perfected by far superior black musicians, whilst 'Harlem Shuffle', originally recorded by Bob and Earl is a tragic and cruel massacre to rival anything planned by Pol Pot or Saddam Hussein. Please just skip it, and listen to the original instead, for your own sakes.

This theme of pilfering black culture leads us nicely onto 'It Only Rock n' Roll (And it's stolen)', which illustrates perfectly Mick Jagger's signature 'wigger' singing style and Keith Richard's signature guitar style, which is undoubtedly stolen from a far superior black musician, somewhere. The likes of 'Mixed Emotions' is bland, but then a brief respite is offered in the shape of 'Angie', one of the few decent songs the Rolling Stones ever recorded; a moving and heartfelt ballad.

The rest of the album shows, however, that the Rolling Stones are basically a group of white men who have endlessly plundered black culture for financial gain, following essentially the same Rhythm and Blues, Honky-tonk style throughout much of their career. Which is both shameless and shameful.

Could be better
Somehow I could never see Angie or Fool to cry-a throwback really to when the Stones were writing pop songs to order.Yet even THESE were better!
As for Harlem Shuffle-what a daft choice for a single -or even a song to cover as its rooted in American dance craze things from the 60s.
However one of the Stones covers from the 90s DID work for me and that was their version of Bob Dylan's Like a rolling stone.
In the later 70s and even up to today the Stones should be doing covers same as Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.There's 1000s of blues classics to go at.
And the only band making Stones type music today is Mungo Jerry

The seventies and beyond
Compared to what they did in the sixties, everything the Rolling Stones did subsequently seems (at least to me) modest by comparison - yet, judged on its own merit, this collection of their later music is easily worth five stars. In fact, Brown sugar and Wild horses (the first two tracks here) were actually recorded in 1969 but not released at the time. The extensive liner notes are taken from an interview with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Although less successful than their sixties music, they continued to have plenty of hits. They didn't reach number one in the UK but they had two American number ones - Angie and Miss you. In the UK, Brown sugar, Tumbling dice, Angie, It's only rock'n'roll but I like it, Fool to cry, Miss you, Emotional rescue and Start me up all made the top ten, while Undercover of the night and a cover of Harlem shuffle both came close. All those hits are here although there is one serious omission, Far away eyes - it was released as the B-side of Miss you but the single was later credited as a double-A side.

My favorite tracks from this album are Tumbling dice (later covered by Linda Ronstadt on her classic album, Simple dreams), Miss you, Brown sugar and Wild horses.

This compilation is (as I write this) the only compilation of Rolling Stones music covering the seventies and beyond that does not also cover the sixties. (Note that the double CD, Forty licks, covers their whole career.) As such, this is an ideal companion to a collection of their early work (in my case, the triple CD London years).