More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies) (1972)
Disc One
1.Tell Me
2.Not Fade Away
3.The Last Time
4.It's All Over Now
5.Good Times, Bad Times
6.I'm Free
7.Out of Time
8.Lady Jane
9.Sittin' on a Fence
10.Have You Seen Your Mother Baby,
Standing in the Shadow?
11.Dandelion
12.We Love You
Disc Two
1.She's a Rainbow
2.2000 Light Years From Home
3.Child of the Moon
4.No Expectations
5.Let it Bleed
6.What to Do
7.Fortune Teller
8.Poison Ivy (Version 1)
9.Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
10.Come On
11.Money
12.Bye Bye Johnny
13.Poison Ivy (Version 2)
14.I've Been Loving You Too Long
15.I Can't Be Satisfied
16.Long Long While
Arriving only about six months after the justifiably lauded Hot Rocks, this second compilation always felt like a bit of a head-scratcher. It was longer, sure—a full double album—and there are certainly hits on here, but nothing that genuinely demanded its own collection.
The front half is respectable enough. The band had plenty of other notable tracks to offer from the same period as Hot Rocks, so it doesn’t feel like a total rehash. Still, it's hard to shake the sense that this was a cash-in.
Where things take an odd turn is on side four—the so-called “Fazed Cookies” selection—a curious grab bag of (mostly) unreleased early numbers, including two different stabs at the doo-wop standard Poison Ivy. It’s not that any of it is unlistenable, just that it adds to the slightly disjointed character of the whole thing. One moment we’re hearing late-‘60s psych-era oddities like Child of the Moon, and the next we’re bouncing back to the fledgling years of blues and R&B covers.
More Hot Rocks still has its moments. The inclusion of a few psychedelic tracks (which the first compilation wisely avoided altogether) makes it an uneven experience, but there's fun to be had for the completist. As a full-price double LP, it's not essential. But if you're the kind who needs to own it all, well... you already have it.
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