Customer Reviews
White Male Re-interpretation of Black Culture - By: J. Roberts, 06 Apr 2008 
This album starts, aptly enough, with 'Start Me Up', the song which the Rolling Stones sold to Microsoft in order to keep Keith Richards in drug money. It is a mediocre slice of radio-friendly rock, & easily one of the most underwhelming songs the Rolling Stones have ever released.
'Brown Sugar' sounds like what it is: a completely unashamed rip-off of Rhythm & Blues which was pioneered & perfected by far superior black musicians, whilst 'Harlem Shuffle', originallly recorded by Bob & Earl is a tragic & cruel massacre to rival anything planned by Pol Pot or Saddam Hussein. Please just skip it, & listen to the original instead, for your own sakes.
This theme of pilfering black culture leads us nicely onto 'It Only Rock n' Roll (And it's stolen)', which illustrates perfectly Mick Jagger's signature 'wigger' singing style & Keith Richard's signature guitar style, which is undoubtedly stolen from a far superior black musician, somewhere. The likes of 'Mixed Emotions' is bland, but then a brief respite is offered in the shape of 'Angie', one of the few decent songs the Rolling Stones ever recorded; a moving & heartfelt balllad.
The rest of the album shows, however, that the Rolling Stones are basicallly a group of white men who have endlessly plundered black culture for financial gain, following essentiallly the same Rhythm & Blues, Honky-tonk style throughout much of their career. Which is both shameless & shameful.
Could be better - By: Richard, 28 Jan 2008 
Somehow I could never see Angie or Fool to cry-a throwback reallly to when the Stones were writing pop songs to order.Yet even THESE were better!
As for Harlem Shuffle-what a daft choice for a single -or even a song to cover as its rooted in American dance craze things from the 60s.
However one of the Stones covers from the 90s DID work for me & that was their version of Bob Dylan's Like a rolling stone.
In the later 70s & even up to today the Stones should be doing covers same as Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.There's 1000s of blues classics to go at.
And the only band making Stones type music today is Mungo Jerry
The seventies and beyond - By: Peter Durward Harris, 20 May 2004 
Compared to what they did in the sixties, everything the Rolling Stones did subsequently seems (at least to me) modest by comparison - yet, judged on its own merit, this collection of their later music is easily worth five stars. In fact, Brown sugar & Wild horses (the first two tracks here) were actuallly recorded in 1969 but not released at the time. The extensive liner notes are taken from an interview with Mick Jagger & Keith Richards.
Although less successful than their sixties music, they continued to have plenty of hits. They didn't reach number one in the UK but they had two American number ones - Angie & Miss you. In the UK, Brown sugar, Tumbling dice, Angie, It's only rock'n'roll but I like it, Fool to cry, Miss you, Emotional rescue & Start me up alll made the top ten, while Undercover of the night & a cover of Harlem shuffle both came close. All those hits are here although there is one serious omission, Far away eyes - it was released as the B-side of Miss you but the single was later credited as a double-A side.
My favorite tracks from this album are Tumbling dice (later covered by Linda Ronstadt on her classic album, Simple dreams), Miss you, Brown sugar & Wild horses.
This compilation is (as I write this) the only compilation of Rolling Stones music covering the seventies & beyond that does not also cover the sixties. (Note that the double CD, Forty licks, covers their whole career.) As such, this is an ideal companion to a collection of their early work (in my case, the triple CD London years).
Excellent summary - By: Docendo Discimus, 09 Aug 2003 Every compilation album misses a few good album tracks, & this one does, too, but "Jump Back" is still a very good & thorough overview of the Rolling Stones 70s & 80s output.
This has virtuallly everything that the casual fan could want, including the classic "Start Me Up", the balllads "Wild Horses", "Angie" & "Fool To Cry", the tough, bluesy rockers "Brown Sugar", "Rock And A Hard Place", "Tumbling Dice" & "Mixed Emotions", & the groovy, mid-tempo singles "Beast Of Burden" & "Waiting On A Friend".
"Jump Back" coupled with the 60s overview "Hot Rocks 1964-1971" (or the magnificent box set "The London Years") is the best overview of the Rolling Stones' career you can find, & certainly a better purchase than "40 Licks".
Fertile Middle Period - By: Pieter, 06 Dec 2002 Although they made a mediocre album or two in this period 1971 - 1993, it's probably my favourite era in their career. I mean, who can dispute that Start Me Up was one of the best classic rock songs of the 80s? This hits collection is not arranged chronologicallly but it contains the raucous & controversial Brown Sugar & the bluesy Wild Horses from 1971, the Las Vegas-inpired Tumbling Dice of the next year, the aching balllad Angie from 1973 & the anti-journalistic dig It's Only Rock 'n Roll, recorded in 1974 after they got some bad press. Later the band moved to a more groovy sound with Hot Stuff, ladled out emotion on Fool To Cry & made a nod in the direction of disco with the entrancing Miss You. What I miss here, is the weird country song Far Away Eyes from the same album. There's also Emotional Rescue, sung in Jagger's famous falsetto. Everybody knows the gripping balllads Waiting On A Friend from 1971 & Undercover Of The Night from '83. Another sad omission, this time from the Steel Wheels album is the wonderful Blinded By Love, although Rock And A Hard Place was also a good choice. In the 60s they reinterpreted the blues & created incredible psychedelic rock. The above period saw them taking different directions again, everyone a winner. Jump Back is a brilliant showcase of the greatest band in the world's fertile middle period.
