Jump Back : The Best of the Rolling Stones '71-'93

ローリング・ストーンズ・レーベルがヴァージン・レコーズと配給契約を結び、93年に発表されたベスト・アルバムの最新リマスター盤の登場!『スティッキー・フィンガーズ』(71年)から『スティール・ホイールズ』(89年)までの11枚のアルバムから選曲した18曲を収録!70年代、そして80年代のThe Rolling Stonesを知るのに最適な1枚です。1993年にリリースされたオリジナルと同じパッケージを使用。12ページのブックレットにはMickとKeithによる楽曲解説を掲載!

Released in 1994 to coincide with the Stones' catalog moving to Virgin Records, as well as the accompanying remastering of their Rolling Stone Records catalog (1971's Sticky Fingers through 1989's Steel Wheels -- actually 1991's Flashpoint, which is the last Rolling Stones Records release, but isn't featured here), Jump Back supplants Rewind as the best single-disc overview of the Stones' '70s and '80s recordings. The nonchronological order at times is a little irritating -- bouncing between "Brown Sugar," "Harlem Shuffle," "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)," "Mixed Emotions," and "Angie" nearly causes whiplash -- but nearly all the big songs from this period are included. Yes, "She Was Hot" isn't here, along with a couple other singles that didn't catch hold, but this has everything that the casual follower could want, which makes up for the fact that it could have been sequenced better (that's what home programming and burners are for anyway). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine