Vinyl Record

The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)

The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) on LP vinyl. A 1966 rock hits collection, available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 1966

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1966 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) is The Rolling Stones in 1966, already needing a hits collection because the early singles had changed the group's scale so quickly. This UK-programme configuration stretches from the first single Come On through Little Red Rooster, The Last Time, Satisfaction, Get Off Of My Cloud, As Tears Go By, Paint It, Black, Lady Jane and Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? That span is the point. In three years the band moved from R&B interpreters and blues evangelists into sharp Jagger-Richards writers with a dangerous public image and a growing appetite for studio colour. The 1966 setting matters because the Stones were no longer merely Britain's rougher answer to beat-pop brightness; Aftermath had expanded their writing, Brian Jones was pushing textures outward, and pop albums were beginning to be treated as more than single containers. As a first retrospective, Big Hits catches the Brian Jones-era Stones at the moment their early rebellion became a catalogue.

Big Hits matters because it was the Stones' first official gathering of early singles, preserving the speed of their 1963-1966 evolution in one place. The UK sequence especially shows the jump from borrowed R&B energy to original hits, pop sophistication and darker mid-1960s attitude.

For collectors, this version is useful as the UK-programme Big Hits experience, with Come On, Little Red Rooster, Paint It, Black and Lady Jane giving it a wider early-career arc than the US sequence. It belongs beside Aftermath as a map of the first Stones explosion.

Early Rolling Stones singles energy with blues-R&B roots, snarling beat-group rhythm, Brian Jones colour, Jagger vocal bite, acoustic ballad shading and increasingly confident Jagger-Richards hooks.

Recommended for: Collectors focused on the Brian Jones-era Rolling Stones; Listeners who want the early singles in a compact 1960s sequence; Fans comparing the UK and US forms of the Stones' first hits collection.

When did Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) first appear? The compilation first appeared in 1966, with different US and UK configurations released that year. What makes this UK-programme version different? It covers a broader early span, including Come On, Little Red Rooster, Paint It, Black and Lady Jane alongside major mid-1960s hits. Why is Big Hits important for Stones collectors? It gathers the band's first major singles era and shows how quickly they moved from R&B covers into original rock and pop authority.