THE ROLLING STONES/BIG HITS(HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS) TXS 101 (-66) UK STEREO

(For more on the issue itself please check post on the corresponding mono...and sorry for the bad label pic...can't get my scanner to work with that green label surface.) Though first almost always is best from a collector's point of view, it may not be if you also consider audiophile quality. It is lovely to embrace a copy on the ridged green label combined with 1st matrixes and mother/stampers as it didn't sell a lot in mono loving Britain at first and therefore has become rare. But there the delight ends I'm afraid. Here only two of the tracks - "Paint It Black" and "Lady Jane" - comes in true stereo, the rest more or less rechanneled and some of them not in a very good way. But as the years went by re-releases got more actual stereo cuts, e.g. the seventies issue adding two-channel mixes of "It's All Over Now", "Heart Of Stone" and "Time Is On My Side" to the former two and thus providing much better listening. So a collectible original it is, but for better stereo play I'd choose a later issue. However if you wanna enjoy this great compilation to the fullest go for the original mono - all true with great audio and the exact right feeling. No stereo version can compete with that. (RÅ*)