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Most enjoyable. Good sound quality. Some songs not 'Hot', but the Rolling Stones just the same.
I work in a company that has several vast warehouses, and there is no such thing in our book as being too busy to make sure the customer is getting what they are ordering. But if you're looking for the gnarly hi-fi premium huckleberry, then abandon all hope ye who enter here. I ordered one used, and the correct hybrid item showed up, but unfortunately, three tracks from the first disc wouldn't play. Remember, the low rating is for the lousy product identification - if you don't have a sacd player and just want to hear a great Stones collection of the hits, then mama mia. Five stars for the content, cuz it's the Stones, and I don't wish to anger whatever gods are backing them up.
Look no further, weary traveller. I mean.how are you supposed to impress the chicks with a Stones disc that won't play 'Satisfaction'. This one will most definitely fix yer jones. Good luck to us all. These vendors are just too lazy, and you simply can't tell me otherwise without expecting laughter in your face. To sum up, Amazon doesn't know to discriminate between one version and the other, so if you're some crazy sacd player-owning fool like me, you're risking grief and heartbreak and sadness if you seek to order from them.
But be careful, because I typed in "hot rocks sacd" in searching for this item, and this dsd remaster is what comes up. You clearly can see my dilemna, so I had to return it, and I figured I would re-order it new this time, but then this dsd-only version shows up, which I didn't know even existed, and which I ordered from the same item description that previously delivered to me the faulty sacd hybrid that I had to return. I've looked at Amazon UK, and they seem to have it together with seperate descriptions that specify the sacd version, but I'm naturally hesitant to purchase from them, because they're still hot over us splitting off from the Empire and starting our own gig over here a few hundred years back. Here's the thing: the sacd hybrid IS a dsd remaster, and hybrid means it has two layers, one the sacd dsd remaster, the other a regular cd dsd remaster that can play on any ol' cd playing device, but not with as much definition and clarity as the sacd layer, of course. By me. This, of course, is a lie.
One of these tracks was 'Satisfaction'. I then tried contacting several of the vendors selling the set to determine which version they were peddling so I could re-order once more, but the only responses I got back were that they were all WAY too busy to go get a look at the disc and report back.
I wrote the company by e-mail a week age and never got a reponce as of 12/ 26/09 never received my CD, it's been a month.
This is an OK collection for the more casual fan who wants most of the major hits, but the followup set "More Hot Rocks" is far more interesting overall, scooping up the hits that this set missed plus giving the more involved Stones fan a good number of rarities. "Hot Rocks" was certainly a popular album in its day, but on reflection, it is woefully incomplete. There just doesn't seem enough of them. "Hot Rocks" seemed to have been put together hastily, but great tracks are in abundance, no question about that. There are only 3 songs here that pre-date "Satisfaction", creating a poor overview of their early period. The set then rushes through the rest of the band's catalog up to and ending with the "Sticky Fingers" album and the two hits from it.
Anyone that wants to learn about the Rolling Stones, THIS is the album. A classic. Not much else needs to be said.
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