Vinyl Record

The Rolling Stones - Through The Past, Darkly

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The Rolling Stones - Through The Past, Darkly on LP vinyl. A 1969 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP ยท 1969

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1969 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Through The Past, Darkly is The Rolling Stones in 1969, looking back over the previous few years while the ground under the band was changing violently. Released as Big Hits Vol. 2, it gathers the period after the first hits collection: Paint It, Black, Ruby Tuesday, Let's Spend The Night Together, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man, She's A Rainbow, 2000 Light Years From Home, Dandelion, Mother's Little Helper and Honky Tonk Women, depending on configuration. The album is not just a convenient singles package. It arrived after Brian Jones had left the band and died, with his epitaph forming part of the sleeve's emotional frame, and before the Stones' return to the American stage later that year. That timing gives the compilation a shadow other greatest-hits records do not have. It contains the psychedelic side trips, the social bite, the return to hard rock and the enormous non-album single power of Honky Tonk Women. Heard as a sequence, it shows the Stones escaping the early R&B template and passing through pop colour, decadence, politics and grief into the darker authority of the late 1960s.

Through The Past, Darkly matters because it freezes the Stones' 1966-1969 transformation at the moment Brian Jones' era was closing. It is both a hits collection and a historical hinge, joining psychedelic singles, social tension and hard-rock renewal.

For collectors, this is a core second-wave hits LP, especially important beside Big Hits and Beggars Banquet. The album's value is the 1969 context: Brian Jones' memorial shadow, Honky Tonk Women on LP, and the band's shift toward the next classic period.

Late-1960s Stones with psychedelic colour, acoustic-pop detail, hard riff authority, social bite, ornate Brian Jones-era textures and the swaggering arrival of Honky Tonk Women.

Recommended for: Collectors building the essential 1960s Rolling Stones compilation run; Listeners who want the bridge from Aftermath-era pop to Beggars-era bite; Fans of Paint It, Black, Ruby Tuesday, Jumpin' Jack Flash and Honky Tonk Women.

When was Through The Past, Darkly released? Through The Past, Darkly was released in 1969 as the Stones' Big Hits Vol. 2 compilation. Why is Brian Jones connected to the album? The album appeared after Brian Jones had left the band and died, and its sleeve context includes a memorial dimension. Is Through The Past, Darkly just a greatest-hits album? It is a hits compilation, but its 1969 timing makes it a key document of the band's transition out of the Brian Jones era.