Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)

UK Version:

This collection was originally conceived to acknowledge the death of band co-founder Brian Jones (whose epitaph graces the inside cover “When this you see, remember me and bear me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may, speak of me as you find”.) in July of 1969. It also served the need to get ‘Honky Tonk Women’, then a huge hit single, onto an LP and to fill the ten-month gap since the release of Beggars Banquet.

The UK version of this release includes “You Better Move On“, from The Rolling Stones’ self-titled 1964 debut EP and “Sittin’ On A Fence“, an Aftermath outtake originally released in 1967 on the US-compiled Flowers album.

Standard black vinyl edition in an eight-sided die-cut sleeve.

US Version:

The US 11-track version of this collection was originally conceived to acknowledge the death of band co-founder Brian Jones.

Because the Stones’ first Big Hits compilation had been released in separate formats, with the Aftermath-era material appearing only on its UK edition, the American edition of Big Hits Vol. 2 included hit singles from the Aftermath period including ‘Paint It Black.’

Standard black vinyl edition in an eight-sided die-cut sleeve.