| Hot Rocks 1964–1971 | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by | ||||
| Released | 20 December 1971 | |||
| Recorded | October 1964 – January 1971 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 84:56 | |||
| Label | London | |||
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham, Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones, and Glyn Johns | |||
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Hot Rocks 1964–1971 is a compilation albumbythe Rolling Stones released by London Records in December 1971. It became the Rolling Stones' best-selling release of their career and an enduring and popular retrospective. The album includes a mixture of hit singles, such as "Jumping Jack Flash", B-sides such as "Play with Fire", and album tracks such as "Under My Thumb" and "Gimme Shelter", the last of which has become one of the Rolling Stones' most popular and highly regarded songs.[1] The album artwork depicts five nested silhouettes of the band members' profiles taken by rock photographer Ron Raffaelli in 1969. A photograph of the band at Swarkestone Hall Pavilion, taken by Michael Joseph in 1968, was printed on the back cover of the vinyl release.
The album is the best selling of the numerous Decca/ABKCO releases after the Rolling Stones lost control of their pre-1971 catalogue to their former manager Allen Klein. As with all of such releases, the Stones had no control over the collection or its release.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B−[3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
| Select |   [5] |
| Tom Hull | A[6] |
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 album chart and, as of July 2024, the album has spent 438 weeks on the chart.[7] The album was certified 12× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album was not released in the UK until 21 May 1990, to coincide with the Urban Jungle Tour, reaching No. 3 and, as of August 2023, it has spent 361 weeks on the UK Top 200.
Robert Christgau rated the album a B−, writing "If you don't like the Stones, this might serve as a sampler... Look, here's how it works. Except for Satanic Majesties, which isn't represented here, all of their '60s studio albums are musts."
In August 2002, Hot Rocks 1964–1971 was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipakbyABKCO Records.[8]
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Original release(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Time Is on My Side" (guitar intro version) (Norman Meade) | UK – The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965) US – Original organ intro version on 12 X 5 (1964) | 3:00 |
| 2. | "Heart of Stone" | UK – Out of Our Heads (1965) US – A-side (1964) / The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965) | 2:49 |
| 3. | "Play with Fire" (Nanker Phelge) | UK – B-side of "The Last Time" (1965) US – B-side of "The Last Time" (1965) / Out of Our Heads (1965) | 2:13 |
| 4. | "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (stereo version) | UK – A-side (1965) US – A-side (1965) / Out of Our Heads (1965) | 3:43 |
| 5. | "As Tears Go By" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/Andrew Loog Oldham) | UK – B-side of "19th Nervous Breakdown" (1966) US – A-side (1965) / December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) | 2:44 |
| 6. | "Get Off of My Cloud" | UK – A-side (1965) US – A-side (1965) / December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) | 2:55 |
| No. | Title | Original release(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Mother's Little Helper" | UK – Aftermath (1966) US – A-side (1966) | 2:44 |
| 2. | "19th Nervous Breakdown" | UK & US – A-side (1966) | 3:56 |
| 3. | "Paint It Black" | UK – A-side (1966) US – A-side (1966) / Aftermath (1966) | 3:22 |
| 4. | "Under My Thumb" | UK & US – Aftermath (1966) | 3:42 |
| 5. | "Ruby Tuesday" | UK – A-side (1967) US – A-side (1967) / Between the Buttons (1967) | 3:16 |
| 6. | "Let's Spend the Night Together" | UK – A-side (1967) US – A-side (1967) / Between the Buttons (1967) | 3:37 |
| No. | Title | Original release(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Jumpin' Jack Flash" | UK & US – A-side (1968) | 3:41 |
| 2. | "Street Fighting Man" | UK – Beggars Banquet (1968) US – A-side (1968) / Beggars Banquet (1968) | 3:14 |
| 3. | "Sympathy for the Devil" | UK & US – Beggars Banquet (1968) | 6:18 |
| 4. | "Honky Tonk Women" | UK & US – A-side (1969) | 3:00 |
| 5. | "Gimme Shelter" | UK & US – Let It Bleed (1969) | 4:31 |
| No. | Title | Original release(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Midnight Rambler" (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, US, 28 November 1969) | UK & US – Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970); original studio version on Let It Bleed (1969) | 9:05 |
| 2. | "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | UK & US – B-side of "Honky Tonk Women" (1969) [edit version] / Let It Bleed (1969) | 7:30 |
| 3. | "Brown Sugar" | UK & US – A-side (1971) / Sticky Fingers (1971) | 3:48 |
| 4. | "Wild Horses" | UK – Sticky Fingers (1971) US – A-side (1971) / Sticky Fingers (1971) | 5:42 |
Notes
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Australia (ARIA)[24] | 3× Platinum | 210,000‡ |
| France (SNEP)[25] Release titled Les Années Stones 1 |
Gold | 100,000* |
| New Zealand (RMNZ)[26] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
| United Kingdom (BPI)[27] | 2× Platinum | 600,000^ |
| United States (RIAA)[28] | 12× Platinum | 6,000,000^ |
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* Sales figures based on certification alone. | ||
