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Between the Buttons
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Manufacturer: Abkco
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: ROLLING STONES
EAN: 0018771949923
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Abkco
Manufacturer: Abkco
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Abkco
Release Date: 2002-09-03
Studio: Abkco
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Remastered reissue of 1967 album, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Digipak.
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Summary: Between Two Eras
Comment: I am the Stones Authority. Great album. I review these albums the way they were released on vinyl in the US. I'll let others fill you in on the various permutations and offerings as these crazy things are remastered and reissued. I am not getting bogged down in those discussions and debates. "Connection" - very cool song. "All Sold Out" - damn good. "Complicated" and "Miss Amanda Jones". A good straight ahead rock and roll album that Some Girls would often be compared to. Whatever. But those four songs make me wish that I could have seen and heard them performed live or that there was at least a good live recording of them somewhere. And I don't mean Keith's recent version for Scorsese. Oh well.
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Summary: The Rolling Stones at their absolute best!
Comment: As a teenager in the 1960s I became absorbed with the many great groups from England and beyond. I had to have records by every artist, and I had albums by most from that period. The Rolling Stones were in my opinion never better than what they were when Bryan Jones was with them. I'm not sure that he was a major influence in their sound because Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were their song writers, but whether it was "Between The Buttons" or "Out of Our Heads", "12 by 5", "December's Children" or the great "Live If You Want It" they were on top of their game. And back during that era any group had to produce a new album about every four months, unlike today where artists come out with a new album (sometimes) every four years. I liked (still do) all those Rolling Stones albums, including "England's Newest Hitmakers", "The Rolling Stones Now", "Their Satanic Majesties Request" and "Flowers". However, I believe that "Between The Buttons" from beginning to end was The Rolling Stones masterpiece amongst masterpieces! I did not care much for "Beggar's Banquet" and some of the latter efforts.
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Summary: I knew Ruby Tuesday
Comment: I was her lover between 1990-93. She showed me the simple rebellious pleasure of swimming nude in Paradise Pond, which we did hundreds of times. Of course, she was breath-takingly cute, and she gave more than she ever took. Too bad chronic schizophrenia claimed her, so irrevocably. A class act, she simply told me it was time for her to move on. I got her best years. Probably mine, too. Years passed, the last time I ever saw her was panhandling on Main Street. I took her out to dinner and we realized some intangible closure. "Let's Spend The Night Together," I remember all that. Sugar woman, I adored every minute.
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Summary: connections
Comment: fine the us versionis different from the uk version. let's spend the night together and ruby tuesday shouldn't be in this record. fine. but these are isignificant details: the bottom line is that this is a hell of a record. each is song is a little masterpiece, 'cool calm collected' shows that the stones (keef??mick??brian??) were actually much more sophisticated songwriter than they have generally been credited for. and then there is 'connections'--which is the first rolling stones song which is not sang by jagger. in fact, three years before keith was the lead vocalist on 'you got the silver' (let it bleed, 1969), he is the lead singer on connections as much as jagger is. connections is intriguing and all its various parts exactly the way they should be: the lyrics are a testament to what the stones (and keef) were and were about to become evn more during the sessions for exile on main street; the piano is hammering chords implcably, jagger's voice is more acerbic than ever, and (i belive) brian is smoking a nasty riff at the end of each refrain.
this is a great stones album and shows all the potential of band that was about to crank out beggars banquet in 1968, let it bleed in 1969, sticky fingers in 1971 and exile on main street in 1972--records that represent the alpha and the omega of the rock age.
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Summary: Between The Buttons
Comment: The Rolling Stones-Between The Buttons ****
Between The Buttons is far from the classic Rolling Stones album it is hyped up to be. If Mick Jagger's voice wasnt so recognizable in the rock n' roll world then you would never know that this was in fact the same Rolling Stones who brought the world such classics as 'Street Fghting Man' and 'Love Is Strong.' The sound is nothing like any other Stones album. The production is not bad by any means but stands out once again because it is nothing like the bands other albums.
The only noticable thing about this album to give a clue as to the Rolling Stones being the culprets is Charlie Watts' drumming, and thats just because that is his signature the way he plays. The guitar here is minimal compared to other Stones albums and when it is audible it hardly sounds like Keith Richards and Brian Jones is hardly audible through out the entire album. That not to say that when you hear them it isnt good because it is fantastic, after all it is Brian Jones and Keith Richards. Bill Wymans bass is very prominant and he plays some of his best lines ever on Between The Buttons.
Songs like the killer opener and forever classic 'Lets Spend The Night Together' so hints of a band the world knows. The undeniable ballad 'Ruby Tuesday' is melt in your mouth good. 'My Obbsession' is maybe the best song on the album. The musicianship is phenonmonal by the entire band, the lyrics are shines of brilliance and Micks vocal delivery is classic. 'All Sold Out' is a great hard rocker with nice 'doo-doo-doos' in the back ground and some impressive slide guitar work from Jones. 'Connection' is reminicent to 'Satisfaction' while 'Yesterdays Papers' is touching as anything the band ever wrote. The only throw away track on the album is the closer. 'Something Happand To Me Yesterday' is fun but most of the time annoying. It has tuba as a main instrument which brings to mind memories of the Lou Reed album Transformer, or maybe more so Berlin... The point is this song is not worthy of The Rolling Stones.
So when it comes down to it, Between The Buttons is a four star album. Not because it is perticularly ground breaking or amazing or anything like that because it is nither, but because Keith, Mick, Bill, Charlie, and Brian all mangaged to make an album sounding nothing like themselves and totally reinvent their sound for this one album and pull it off perfectly. This is something they tried again on Emotional Rescue, Black And Blue, and most horrendously on Their Satanic Majistys Request and each other time failed in compassion to Between The Buttons.
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