ROLLING STONES – THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY (BIG HITS VOL.2) (LP VINYL)

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Exclusive limited edition package for Record Store Day, celebrating the 50th anniversary of this landmark double album release. This iconic collection is a must-have release by the ‘world’s greatest rock and roll band’…!! More Hot Rocks…offers hits, some of the best deeper cuts, and a whole LP side’s worth of rarities that hadn’t yet been available in the United States when this compilation was released.

Originally released in 1972, this indispensable 25-track, collection features Not Fade Away, It’s All Over Now, The Last Time, Lady Jane, Dandelion, She’s a Rainbow, Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?, Out of Time, Tell Me, and We Love You.

The rarities include their 1963 debut single Come On, early R&B covers of Fortune Teller and Bye Bye Johnnie, great slide guitar on Muddy Waters’ I Can’t Be Satisfied, (recorded at Chess Studios and in stereo here) and the soulful 1966 U.K. B-side Long Long While.

Also included is the stereo version of the psychedelic non-LP B-side Child Of The Moon, previous to the 1972 release, was only heard in mono.

This iconic collection is a must-have release by the ‘world’s greatest rock and roll band’…!!

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Released in April 1966 by Decca Records, Aftermath was the Rolling Stones’ fourth British studio album. It was issued by London Records in the US in June 1966. Recorded at the RCA Studios in California, it was their first album released in true stereo.

It is also one of the first ‘popular’ albums to eclipse the 50-minute mark, and contains one of the earliest rock songs to exceed 10 minutes (the blues jam Goin’ Home). The album’s release was briefly delayed by controversy over the original packaging idea and title – Could You Walk on the Water? – due to London Record’s fear of offending Christians in the US.

The album was considered an artistic breakthrough for the band, being the first to consist entirely of Jagger–Richards compositions, (after their maverick young manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, had shut them in the kitchen of their flat until they had written some more original songs!).

It also featured strongly the immaculate guitar work of Brian Jones and the remarkably wry, observant song-writing of Jagger–Richards.

The American edition was issued with a shorter track listing, substituting the single Paint It Black in place of four of the British version’s songs, in keeping with the industry preference for shorter LPs in the US market at the time.