Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons (UK)
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Music CD Cover Artist: Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2002-08-27 Music Label: Abkco Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Between The Buttons (UK) Album
Free Music Review: A mixed effort
Hit: 3 Stars
Disclaimer: This review is *not* primarily a review of musical quality. Between the Buttons UK is one of my favorite albums, and if sound quality/etc. don't bother you, it should hopefully rank amoung your favorite Stones discs. That said, this is a reissue and--frankly--a long awaited one, so it must be judged in part as such.As with many 60s groups, the Stones had their albums configured differently in the US and UK. Between the Buttons was no exception, with the US version losing "Please Go Home" and "Back-Street Girl" and gaining their current hit, "Let's Spend the Night Together/Ruby Tuesday," and suffering a slight reconfiguration in track order. ABKCO initially issued only the US version on CD, but for this reissue campaign--for reasons known only to them, although said reasons probably include a heck of a lot of green--they declined to "combine" the two albums, instead issuing both. Curious.
That said, to me, Buttons is the strongest of their pre-Beggars efforts, combining a pop sensibility with some excellent arrangements, and--unlike on Majesties and Aftermath--there don't seem to be any obvious "throwaways" here.
ABKCO's first CD version of Buttons was, in a word, horrific. What had once been a nice, wide stereo album was now a bizarre mixture of stereo, folded stereo, and near-mono tracks, with sub-par quality to boot. This new version is a definite upgrade, but is almost as frankensteinian as its predecessor; in short, it sounds like every track was worked on separately, without any consideration to the whole. Some tracks sound massively altered ("My Obsession" and "Miss Amanda Jones") while others sound comparitively untouched ("Connection" "Complicated"). If you're sensitive to these things, expect to be thrown off a bit. Also, while the stereo spectrum is much wider than on the old ABKCO disc, there is some folding in present, not to mention odd uses of noise reduction (the aforementioned "Miss Amanda Jones.")
The verdict? Great album, and this version will be just fine for the uninitiated. It's also a wonderful upgrade from the ABKCO disc. But if you're one of the lucky owners of the London Records disc that was in-print in Europe before 1995 (and Japan before 1997), think twice about upgrading, even with the correct UK tracklisting at stake; the London disc remains the best reference version of this album on CD.