Vinyl Record
The Rolling Stones - Honk
The Rolling Stones - Honk on LP vinyl. A 2019 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2019
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2019 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Honk is The Rolling Stones in 2019, looking back from the vantage point of a band whose post-1971 catalogue had become too large for a simple greatest-hits shorthand. The date range is the key: it effectively begins with the Sticky Fingers era and moves through Exile On Main St., Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock 'n Roll, Black And Blue, Some Girls, Tattoo You, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges To Babylon, A Bigger Bang and Blue & Lonesome. That makes Honk a different kind of Stones compilation from the early ABKCO-era summaries. Brown Sugar, Tumbling Dice, Angie, Miss You, Beast Of Burden, Start Me Up, Waiting On A Friend, Harlem Shuffle, Love Is Strong and later blues material sit together as evidence of the band's second life after the 1960s. The record is not trying to explain the whole origin myth; it starts after the myth has already been made and asks how the Stones kept adapting through arena rock, disco pressure, punk-era New York, 1980s gloss, 1990s comeback cycles and late-career roots work.
Honk matters because it organizes the Stones' post-1971 story, the period that can be overshadowed by the 1960s singles and the classic late-1960s albums. As a 2019 compilation, it argues for the durability of the later catalogue rather than treating it as an afterword.
For collectors, Honk is the practical post-Sticky Fingers overview. The important context is not an unverified pressing detail but the programme: a 2019 collection built around 1971 onward, useful when the shelf needs the later hits and album tracks in one modern sequence.
Post-1971 Stones across blues-rock, country soul, disco groove, arena hooks, 1980s sheen, 1990s polish and late-career blues revival, with the guitar weave as the through-line.
Recommended for: Collectors who want the Stones' later catalogue summarized after the 1960s era; Listeners moving from Sticky Fingers and Some Girls into the broader run; Fans of Brown Sugar, Tumbling Dice, Miss You, Start Me Up and Love Is Strong.
When was Honk released? Honk was released in 2019 as a compilation focused on Rolling Stones material from 1971 onward. Why does 1971 matter for Honk? The collection begins with the Sticky Fingers period, making it a later-catalogue counterpart to compilations centred on the 1960s material. Is Honk a studio album? No. Honk is a compilation that gathers hits and major album tracks from the band's post-1971 catalogue.