Tell Me/Not Fade Away/The Last Time/It's All Over Now/Good Times Bad Times/I'm Free/Out Of Time/Lady Jane/Sittin' On A Fence/Have You Seen Your Mother Baby/Dandelion/We Love You/She's A Rainbow/2000 Light Years From Home/Child Of The Moon/No Expectations/Let It Bleed/What To Do/Money/Come On/Fortune Teller/Poison Ivy/Bye Bye Johnnie/I Can't Be Satisfied/Long Long While
More Hot Rocks is a sequel to the Hot Rocks album released a year previously. As both are double albums, taken together they provide most fans with a broad collection of songs from The Rolling Stone’s most creative period. (US:9)
“When you're anthologizing the Rolling Stones, one of the first things you must accept is that you're doomed to failure. No one album can possibly tell the story of the band that's explored so many different musical avenues and recorded so many memorable songs. Still, the double-disc best of Hot Rocks, together with this sequel, come very close. This set wisely doesn't attempt to be comprehensive. Instead, it just picks out various gems from different points in the band's development.”
“More Hot Rocks had a few of the more popular songs. However the majority were older R & B covers before they became popular and wrote their own songs. If you want to complete your Rolling Stones library, you might enjoy this collection. I would have given it a pass if I had realized how few hit songs were on it.”
“This sequel to Hot Rocks is necessarily short of greatest hits, as these had been liberally spattered all over the earlier double album. Nonetheless it does sport half a dozen A-sides. Surprisingly, these include The Last Time and It's All Over Now which were both number one hits in the UK. However the collection was put together by the former US label, London, as it includes several selections that were singles in America but that were album tracks in the UK, such as I'm Free and Lady Jane.”
“More Hot Rocks is billed as more of the band's greatest hits, but it does not really live up to this as most of it is made up of minor hits, b-sides and album tracks. But it is still worth a listen.”
“It is very rare to find a greatest hits #2 compilation that works, but this one really does. The sequence is pure genius, including pop, blues, rock, psychedelic rock, soul, and the whole thing makes sense and its pure Rolling Stones music.”
“The Rolling Stones had so many classic tunes from the early 60s that another Hot Rocks addition was necessary. There are also numerous lesser known gems.”
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