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The Rolling Stones - Through The Past, Darkly (US version) (2002 Japan remaster) (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Paint It Black 3:23
  2. Ruby Tuesday 3:18
  3. She's A Rainbow 4:13
  4. Jumpin' Jack Flash 3:42
  5. Mother's Little Helper 2:47
  6. Let's Spend The Night Together 3:36
  7. Honky Tonk Woman 3:02
  8. Dandelion 3:33
  9. 2000 Light Years From Home 4:46
  10. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? 2:35
  11. Street Fighting Man 3:15

Notes

EAC rip from original Japan papersleeve issue.

info from wikipedia:

Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) is The Rolling Stones' second official compilation album, released in 1969 shortly following Brian Jones's departure from the group and subsequent death.

In September, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) - dedicated to Jones - appeared with a limited edition octagonal-shaped album cover. Because their first compilation had been released in separate UK and US formats (with the Aftermath-era material appearing only on the UK edition), the American edition included hit singles from that period.

The UK tracklist included the more obscure "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. In addition to those songs, many tracks, notably single-only releases, were collected for the first time on a UK Rolling Stones album: "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Ruby Tuesday", "We Love You", "Dandelion" and "Honky Tonk Women".

Both versions of Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) proved to be popular releases, reaching #2 in
the UK and US with enduring sales.

The name of the album is a play on a line from the KJV translation of I Corinthians 13: "For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: . . .", but it is more likely the Stones intended an homage to Ingmar Bergman and his 1961 film Through a Glass Darkly.

In August 2002 the US edition of Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records. The UK counterpart is currently out of print.