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: 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.

If you want to listen to the best Mick Jagger & company had to offer from the early 70s to the early 90s then this is the CD for you.

Not all the big numbers are here but there are enough to make this a "must have" Stones album, especially for those who don't want to buy all the individual albums these tunes came from.

The digital remastering sounds great and there is a good liner notes booklet too.

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

I never thought I'd like the Stones' music well enough to invest in a full-price CD, but you really can't go wrong with this collection when you consider that you're paying about a quarter for over a dozen instantly-recognizable, top-drawer songs. As I listened to the CD, I realized how much I had under-rated this group and how stellar some of their songs are. The sound quality is excellent.