Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (compilation album)
by The Rolling Stones
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Hot Rocks 1964–1971 is ranked 13th best out of 102 albums by The Rolling Stones on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Rolling Stones is Exile On Main St. which is ranked number 45 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 19,840.
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Hot Rocks 1964–1971 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 20 hours ago | Exist-en-ciel | 1,938 | 69/100 |
| ! | 10/24/2025 10:30 | robertoveltri | 757 | 79/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2025 19:02 | ShenBapiro | 358 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/07/2025 02:11 | JacobMullis | 723 | 88/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2025 04:47 |  BroknsocialShawn | 261 | 85/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.0/100, a mean average of 83.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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This was my first true experience of The Rolling Stones. I had a couple other song of theirs on playlists before, but my parents got me this on vinyl as a graduation gift. It introduced me to some many great songs like “Get Off My Cloud” “19th Nervous Breakdown” “Ruby Tuesday” “Let’s Spend The Night Together” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Wild Horses”. Always a soft spot for me. Best compilation album ever.
pedro1976 04/27/2022 12:48 | #284720
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This compilation paired with the 'Rewind 1971-1984' compilation covers a large selection of the 'Stones' best work
ChrisPBacon 04/03/2020 18:35 | #249482
The only problem with this album is the Rolling Stones are too good to have a best of compilation. I used to have it on vinyl and side 3 had: "Jumpin' Jack Flash, Honky Tonk Women, Sympathy For the Devil, and Gimme Shelter." Those are some of the my favorite songs of all time.
I have this original album on vinyl, and it hits all the right spots when it comes to the Stones repertoire. A great compilation.
Brandon8 08/03/2018 20:04 | #219153
In my opinion the greatest compilation album of all time. The Stones are obviously great and it’s better expressed through this save for a few albums (Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers) during this time period. Since they released 30 studio albums in total save yourself a lot of time and money and buy this. For the years after I recommend Jump Back - The Best of The Rolling Stones....
Fischman 01/11/2017 23:08 | #182299
This is an outstanding compilation. It perfectly captures both the Stones best songs and their early evolution.
A great compilation! This album contains many songs that shaped rock for years to come. I prefer the individual records but if your only gonna have one Stones album this is the one.
Listmeister 11/06/2014 19:48 | #126349
Not a fan of their albums, but they had a few really good songs. This is all the Stones I've ever needed.
RoundTheBend 12/16/2011 03:12 | #33063
In all honesty, I can't find a single Rolling Stones album that I love, cover to cover better than any other. I don't think they really got the holistic album idea. So I had to settle with this. Their period after Brian Jones slowly deteriorated. I think their last decent song was in the 80s.
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