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Jah Paul
first Stones purchase was the "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo" single on February 9, 1974 (wrote the date on the sleeve!)
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Deltics
Number 1 with a bit of number 2.
"What DO they think they look like? "
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stonehearted
A U.S. television commercial advertising Hot Rocks would play in the after-school hours of late afternoons in 1978 and 1979 when I was 12. Only the choruses of certain songs would be in the commercial, but I was quite taken with those main melodies for songs such as Ruby Tuesday, Jumping Jack Flash, Honky Tonk Women, and You Can't Always Get What You Want.
It would be a couple of years before I would begin purchasing their back catalog to hear the rest of the parts of songs around those melodies that initially captivated me in the Hot Rocks commercial.
For a first-generation fan, maybe it was a single on the radio or a TV appearance that did it, but for second-generation fans like me and beyond, I would say that Hot Rocks is the most important Stones album ever released, as it makes for an essential starter. ABKCO did the Stones an enormous and lasting favor with that release, and I doubt even Mick Jagger himself realizes it.
EDIT: I've been trying to track down this commercial online and have found some info. Many other fans seem to recall this very commercial, which is from 1978. There was even a thread on the Steve Hoffman forums about it. It appears that it was actually one of those "Sessions" packages called "Greatest Hits".
DVL2-0268 - The Rolling Stones' Greatest Hits - Rolling Stones [1977] (2-LP set) Blue Abkco label. Disc 1: Not Fade Away/Tell Me/It's All Over Now/Good Times Bad Times/Time Is On My Side/Heart Of Stone/The Last Time/Play With Fire/Satisfaction//Get Off My Cloud/I'm Free/As Tears Go By/19th Nervous Breakdown/Mother's Little Helper/Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?/Paint It Black; Disc 2: Lady Jane/Let's Spend The Night Together/Ruby Tuesday/Dandelion/We Love You/She's A Rainbow/2000 Light Years From Home//Jumpin' Jack Flash/Child Of The Moon/Street Fighting Man/Honky Tonk Women/You Can't Always Get What You Want/Wild Horses/Brown Sugar
Listed at: [www.bsnpubs.com]
Found a clip of Detroit TV station WXYZ's final 15 minutes of their sign-off from Easter 1980, including TV commercials. The Rolling Stones mail-order Greatest Hits package from Sessions begins at 2:33 and runs to 4:34.
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Claire_M
My earliest memory of the Stones is hearing "Brown Sugar" on the radio while traveling in the car with my family. It sounded so alive and exciting that I couldn't understand why everyone else was so calm and indifferent to the music
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Claire_M
My earliest memory of the Stones is hearing "Brown Sugar" on the radio while traveling in the car with my family. It sounded so alive and exciting that I couldn't understand why everyone else was so calm and indifferent to the music
Oh yea, almost all Stones singles first heard on car radios were like epiphanies. Those early mono mixes just jumped out of those little speakers.
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DoomandGloom
Found a beat up copy of Ya's Ya's in the trash when I was about 12. The pacing of this record is terrific as we know and I was drawn into it immediately. These versions for me are the definitive performances of these songs. NOBODY plays SFM like Mick Taylor.... From then on The Stones were in my musical life but I saw them as this hard edged band, when Hot Rocks was released I was bewildered by the earlier pop stuff since I grew aware during the Taylor blues era. This is not to say I have not enjoyed Wood's tenure, oddly today he is the key member on stage.
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angee
(Aquamarine, are you British-born, transplanted to US