The Rolling Stones release a brand-new Best Of compilation album, Honk. Featuring the biggest hits and classic cuts from every Rolling Stones studio album from 1971 to 2016's Blue & Lonesome, This 3xLP vinyl set collects 36 essential Stones' tracks -including eight Top 10 singles,"Brown Sugar", "Tumbling Dice", "Angie", "It's Only Rock'n'Roll (But I Like It)", "Fool To Cry", "Miss You", "Emotional Rescue"and "Start Me Up". Bringing the band's story up to date, Honk also contains hit single "Doom & Gloom"-recorded in 2012-as well as "Just Your Fool", "Ride 'Em On Down"and "Hate To See You Go" from the band's 2016's Grammy Award-winning, No 1 album, Blue & Lonesome. Universal. 2019.
If it feels as if Honk treads familiar ground, it's because it does. Arriving seven years after the career-spanning Grrr! -- a compilation available in a variety of iterations, all spanning from the earliest years to the 2010s -- Honk focuses squarely on the music the Rolling Stones made after leaving London/Decca, a catalog that now resides with Abkco. In other words, its ground zero is "Brown Sugar," a staple that arrives just after "Start Me Up" kicks off the double-disc set. Such sequencing indicates how Honk bounces through the years, letting the '70s sit next to the '80s, finding space for latter-day songs that only showed up on previous greatest-hits albums (there have been five since 1984), and shining the spotlight on such excellent latter-day cuts as "Rough Justice." The enticement for fans is the live disc that concludes the triple-disc edition, a collection of ten concert cuts from the 2010s, some featuring such stars as Dave Grohl, Ed Sheeran, Florence Welch, and Brad Paisley. Throughout it all, the Stones sound both sinewy and nimble -- it's fun to hear them spend time with the psych-pop of "She's a Rainbow" and get into the murk with "Dancing with Mr. D" -- but it's not quite enough to justify a purchase for fans who already have these hits elsewhere. But for those who somehow don't have this music or are looking for a basic overview of the Stones' reign on album rock, MTV and beyond, this does the job. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock
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Tracklist
| A1 | Start Me Up |
| A2 | Brown Sugar |
| A3 | Rocks Off |
| A4 | Miss You |
| A5 | Tumbling Dice |
| A6 | Just Your Fool |
| B1 | Wild Horses |
| B2 | Fool To Cry |
| B3 | Angie |
| B4 | Beast Of Burden |
| B5 | Hot Stuff |
| B6 | It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It) |
| C1 | Rock And A Hard Place |
| C2 | Doom And Gloom |
| C3 | Love Is Strong |
| C4 | Mixed Emotions |
| C5 | Don’t Stop |
| C6 | Ride ‘Em On Down |
| D1 | Bitch |
| D2 | Harlem Shuffle |
| D3 | Hate To See You Go |
| D4 | Rough Justice |
| D5 | Happy |
| D6 | Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) |
| D7 | One More Shot |
| E1 | Respectable |
| E2 | You Got Me Rocking |
| E3 | Rain Fall Down |
| E4 | Dancing With Mr D |
| E5 | Undercover Of The Night |
| E6 | Emotional Rescue |
| F1 | Waiting On A Friend |
| F2 | Saint Of Me |
| F3 | Out Of Control |
| F4 | Streets Of Love |
| F5 | Out Of Tears |
