So, why release ANOTHER greatest hits collection right after 40 Licks? Well, it's one disc and focuses on the post-60s (re:post-London) Stones.

Twelve of the eighteen songs on this CD appear on 40 Licks; all but one are on the second disc of 40 Licks.

So here's whatcha do. If you've already bought 40 Licks, buy this CD, throw away the second disc of 40 Licks, throw away the packaging for Jump Back, insert the Jump Back disc into the 40 Licks case. Now you don't have to suffer throught the 4 "new" songs on the 40 Licks second disc or those lame 90s singles - Love Is Strong and Anybody Seen My Baby.

Because this is a much, much better representation of this period in the Stones catalog. Even better would be to start with the 17 songs from Jump Back (minus Wild Horses which is on disc 1 of 40 Licks). Add You Got Me Rocking, Shattered, and Out Of Control (the live version from No Security). Now you have 20 tracks to make your 40 Licks Disc 2.

Jump Back: The Best Of The Rolling Stones: `71-`93 was released only in the UK on November 22, 1993. It was the *18th* compilation album released in the UK. It was also the first release of the Stones new contract with Virgin Records. None of the songs appear on either Hot Rocks or More Hot Rocks. The album seems mis-titled because it does not include any of the single releases from 1989-1993 and in fact does not include *16* UK single releases from this time period. It was an attempt to release the most the most popular of the Stones hits since they left Decca (London in the US) in 1971. A better title would have been "Some Stones Hits '71-`89", but then who would have bought an album with an ambiguous title and the last hit 4 years earlier....other than those rabid Stones fans, anyway? Well, this is what happens when you have such a huge catalog of hits and you try to do a greatest hits album. Look at all the stuff that had to be left off of the 2002 release 40 Licks. If they ever release the entire Stones catalog as a box set it will have to come in a trunk that comes with a dolly to get it out of the store.

These songs are the most popular from the Rolling Stones Records releases. Here are the original UK release dates of each song (US release and re-release dates were often different during this period):
4-16-71 & 6-29-84 Brown Sugar
4-16-71 Bitch
4-23-71 Wild Horses (on Sticky Fingers - not released as a single)
4-14-72 Tumbling Dice
8-21-73 Angie
7-26-74 It's Only Rock `n' Roll
4-16-78 Hot Stuff
4-16-78 Fool To Cry
5-19-78 Miss You
8-29-78 & 6-1-82 Beast Of Burden
9-14-78 Respectable
6-20-80 Emotional Rescue
8-14-81 & 2-11-83 Start Me Up
12-1-81 Waiting On A Friend
11-1-83 Undercover Of The Night
3-4-86 Harlem Shuffle
8-17-89 Mixed Emotions
10-24-89 Rock And A Hard Place

Here are the *16* UK single releases that were NOT on the album. Ruby Tuesday, Highwire, Terrifying, Almost Hear You Sigh, Jumpin' Jack Flash, One Hit (To The Body), She Was Hot, Let's Spend The Night Together, Time Is On My Side, Going To A Go Go, If I Was A Dancer, Honky Tonk Women, Out Of Time, I Don't Know Why, Sad Day, Street Fighting Man

This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection.

"Jump Back" is a well assembled and reasonably well annotated overview of the Stones' 70s and 80s output. The sound is excellent, and almost everything that the casual fan could want is here. 74 minutes of tough, raunchy rock n' roll, from the gritty "Bitch" and the swaggering "Brown Sugar" to the soulful "Waiting On A Friend" and the ballad "Angie".

This is a quite reasonably priced compilation which really shows the depth of the Stones' collective talents and the variety of their music, blending rock n' roll, blues, R&B, and a little bit of country into a distinctive "Stones" sound, anchored by the greatest rhythm guitarist in the business, Keith Richards.
And this is a CD, right? So you can just program out the hideous disco-experimentalism of "Emotional Rescue" and the forgettable "Undercover Of The Night".

Compare this compilation with disc two of "Forty Licks" and you'll find that "Jump Back" blows "Licks" out of the water.
Coupled with "Hot Rocks: 1964-1971" (or the magnificent box set "The London Years"), this album provides the best career overview currently available.
If you don't want to spring for the Stones' original albums, this is the way to go.

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. Although other hits from the seventies and eighties are missing, some were re-issues of sixties recordings while the rest are not essential except to dedicated Stones fans, who will buy the original albums anyway.

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). --This text refers to the Audio CD edition

Can you say Cash In? The Stones are over. They have been for a long time. Actually they were done when they made that travesty, slap in the face to all Stones fans, Bridges To Babylon. Jagger makes me sick, Ronnie was always mediocre at best and the once unbelievable Kieth is a mockery of himself. He can't even write an entertainig song anymore and his playing is atrocious. Thank God for Charlie Watts, but he's been costing for the last 25 years. He wants out in the worst way. If it wasn't for Kieth pressuring him, he would have escaped long ago like Wyman did. Bill saw the writing on the wall. Believe me, I've tried to remain a fan, but having to sit through the BTB album and then the lackluster rehash that was the BTB tour, then the 'Stripped' album and tour and, the winner in the 'cash in' department (chuh-ching), the 'Forty Licks' album (with it's edited versions of songs) and tour. A tour backing up a greatest hits album. Disgusting! I just can't do it anymore. Now the Stones are on tour again, and they've become thier own scalpers. $100 a seat and $1500.00 for 'fan packages' to different cities sold through the Stones own website. I guess Jagger saw the scalpers making boat loads of cash and said to himself, "Why let them rob our fans when we can do it." Not me, kids. Retirement is the answer. It's too painful to watch Sympathy for the Devil done badly again and again and again. The new album won't be out until after the tour starts. So what's that tell you? You know what that tells me? Bridges to Babylon 2. Another piece of garbage for you, the fan. It's too bad that the Stones have become victims of thier own hype. Remember when you went to a Stones concert and it was just the Stones playing? Now there are more non-Stones on the stage than Stones, and they're horrible. Bernard Fowler? This guy must have pictures of Jagger in compromising positions because he is just awful. I'd like to pour concrete in his mouth while he's singing. The worst. And he's the best out of all of them. It's sad. But I digress. How many times can you sell the same song? At the very least they could have put the last song not on any official Stones cd, 'Through the Lonely Nights', on this........ thing. At least that would have made it worth buying. Save your money. The Stones were great, but it's over. it has been for a long time.