Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)

The Rolling Stones "Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)" - London Records Stereo Lp NPS-1, with booklet.

The first hits compilation of the Rolling Stones is still one of the most potent collections of singles that one can find. Listening to it in 1966 or today, one can understand how, almost prematurely for the 1960s — as most of the material here dates from 1964 or 1965 — the Stones set themselves up as the decade's most visible rock & roll rebels. The defiant, in-your-face fuzztone riff and sexually frustrated lyrics of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and the frenetic pounding punk anthem "Get Off of My Cloud" are highlights of a 12-song set that has no weak points, only peaks — The album makes for a body of work that's still amazing to hear decades after the fact. Appearing as it did in the late winter of 1966, this collection completely missed the group's drift into psychedelia, and it has since been supplanted by Hot Rocks and More Hot Rocks, but Big Hits is still the most concentrated dose of the early Stones at their most accessible that is to be had, short of simply playing their first five U.S. albums. The artwork and photography were pretty cool too, and the original LP had one of rock's early classic gatefold album designs.

Songs are; 
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Last Time
As Tears Go By
Time is On My Side
It's All Over Now
Tell Me
19th Nervous Breakdown
Heart of Stone
Get Off My Cloud
Not Fade Away
Good Times, Bad Times
Play With Fire