A very effective overview of the Stones' 70s and 80s output

"Jump Back" is a very 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 well assembled retrospective really shows the depth of the Stones' collective talents, 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.

Mixed Emotions

I buy a lot of compilations from bands that I really like, but don't necessarily want their entire catalogue. I really like the Rolling Stones. My parents listened to them, and they were always around while I was growing up. I had hoped that "Jump Back" would be the compliment to my collection that would give me a representative Stones' catalog.



Not so. I would say that my Stones' collection is still pretty incomplete after "Jump Back".



Granted, "Angie", "Wild Horses", "Brown Sugar", and "Start Me Up" were exactly the kind of tracks I was looking for. But "Jump Back" doesn't have enough of them. For example, I don't need "Harlem Shuffle" or "Beast of Burden". There are tracks out there that should have been on a Stones complilation and disappointingly are not.



I don't know. Maybe I'm just not the Stones fan I thought I was. Or maybe I'd be better off investing in their individual CDs after all. But after spending time with a Rolling Stones retrospecitve, I'd have hoped to have known one way or the other.

save your money

A long-time, diehard Stoner, I bought this because (probably like a lot of others) I never fully replaced all my great old Stones albums with their CD successors, and missed a few of the old songs, especially cornball novelties like "Fool to Cry" and "Hot Stuff," from the great "Black and Blue" album. Needless to say, I was greatly disappointed to find many of the songs edited and cut down. Why? I could understand in the vinyl days when you had x-amount of capacity on one side of a disc, but in the digital age there's no excuse for hacking off parts of these great songs. A less monumental annoyance: I can't explain why but the thing won't play in the iMac I have at work. I've played hundreds of discs on it with no problem but it keeps spitting out "Jump Back" and refusing to play. (Maybe the iMac doesn't like edited versions either.) I haven't had this problem with "Jump Back" on my PC at home, the car CD player, or my regular stereo, just on the iMac.