The Rolling Stones on CD part III

We last visited the topic of the Rolling Stones on cd on August 20th, 2018 with the first post in this series being from November 21st 2016 which followed getting the Rolling Stones in Mono box set in October of that year.
It is then kind of apt to be revisiting the topic some four years on with a couple of recent addiitions to the collection.

 Apart from the differences between the UK and US original albums for much of the 1960's  it is also the case the compilations issued during and that era too are also different  which was very annoying when having been brought up with those in the cd era they are all replaced by US editions.
On October 30 Universal Japan decided to reissue Big Hits better know to some of us by the bracketed title  "High Tide and Green Grass"  which was originally issued in late 1966 in the UK with 14 tracks which included a high proportion of single only tracks.

 They also issued Thru The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol:2) which came out originally in 1969 just three months before the essential Let It Bleed album of that year.
There was less difference between this album in its UK form compared to the US with the UK version gaining You Better Move On, a EP only song and the US version gaining Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? which because the US version of High Tide and Green Grass had been issued in April, it had missed off unlike the UK version.
Both were issued in mono and stereo forms at the time with the mono version going out of print by 1970 thus by the time I bought these on record they were stereo only (and some fake stereo too!).
Earlier in the year for Record Store Day both titles had been reissued on vinyl after 30 odd years and it's the version for that which used for these cd  issues on Shm plastic which is said  to be more reflective and less likely to have errors than conventional polycarbonate cds.
Although on High Tide and Green Grass they have reprinted the original "OBI" sash the Japanese lp had, it is not strictly accurate as this cd like the reissued record is all mono not stereo but does contain the gatefold sleeve being a mini lp and the much loved insert with prime mid sixties pictures of various members of the band and notes.
Thru The Past Darkly reproduces the original octangular lp jacket which later made square shape and both cds have the DECCA record company logo.
The last time they were out in Japan on cd was the early 1990's from so-so sources and never issued in Europe or North America so I was delighted that they've emerged in good sounding versions.
They can join the collection for practical reasons such as the length and the whole revisiting the past side.