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Jump Back: The Best Of The Rolling Stones Reissued

• 15th Jul 2009

Universal Music Group are pleased to announce the reissue of Jump Back: The Best Of The Rolling Stones 1971-1993 on 17 August 2009. Originally released in November 1993, this definitive collection gathers eighteen of the group’s classics from the seventies and eighties, such as the Transatlantic Top Ten hits Tumbling Dice, Fool To Cry, Emotional Rescue and the much-loved Start Me Up. It also includes the ultimate rock anthem Brown Sugar, the ballad Angie and the dance-flavoured Miss You, three US number one singles in wildly different styles, a testament to the band’s versatility, creativity and lasting appeal.

In the compact disc era, Jump Back became the point of entry for fans of the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world and was a mainstay of the UK album charts throughout the mid-nineties. Indeed, it paved the way for the arrival of the number one studio album Voodoo Lounge in July 1994, and has now been re-mastered in line with the rest of the group’s post-1971 studio recordings.

Jump Back kicks off in style with the trademark guitar riffs of Start Me Up and Brown Sugar, continues with the band’s infectious cover of Bob and Earl’s mod favourite Harlem Shuffle, the rallying cry of It’s Only Rock’n’Roll (But I Like It), and cherry-picks its way through eleven Top 5 studio albums, including the country-tinged Wild Horses and the intoxicating Bitch from 1971’s acknowledged masterpiece Sticky Fingers, and the rockers Mixed Emotions and Rock And A Hard Place from 1989’s Steel Wheels.

During the seventies and the eighties, the Rolling Stones played sold-out concerts to ever-bigger audiences in stadiums around the world. They made music and headlines wherever they went, from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to the French Riviera via Kingston, Jamaica and Nassau in the Bahamas. They remained the bad boys of rock, influencing everyone from Aerosmith and The Clash to Guns’N’Roses.

Jump Back eschews the temptation to play it safe and simply run through the group’s catalogue chronologically, and is intelligently sequenced for maximum enjoyment at a party or as in-car entertainment. The groove-oriented Hot Stuff, from 1976’s Black And Blue, makes a fine segue between the floor fillers Miss You and Emotional Rescue, and the sweet jazz-soul of Waiting On A Friend, from 1981’s Tattoo You, fits snugly alongside Beast Of Burden – a US Top Ten entry never released as a single in the UK – and Wild Horses. The snarling Respectable, from 1978’s Some Girls, proves the Stones could match the punks they had influenced so much, while the collision of reggae, dub, dance and politically-charged lyrics that is Undercover Of The Night from 1983 stills jumps out of the speakers 25 years on.

Jump Back retains the original packaging of the 1993 edition and comes complete with a 12-page illustrated booklet featuring comments and observations by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards about the eighteen tracks included, offering fans a rare insight into the workings of the band. Jump Back will also be available digitally.

Jump Back – tracklisting
1. Start Me Up
2. Brown Sugar
3. Harlem Shuffle
4. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll
5. Mixed Emotions
6. Angie
7. Tumbling Dice
8. Fool To Cry
9. Rock And A Hard Place
10. Miss You
11. Hot Stuff
12. Emotional Rescue
13. Respectable
14. Beast Of Burden
15. Waiting On A Friend
16. Wild Horses
17. Bitch
18. Undercover Of The Night