Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
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Free Music Review: connections
Hit: 5 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: Between The Buttons
Hit: 4 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: Rockin' Early Stones
Hit: 4 Stars
Hardly a masterpiece, but a lotta fun nonetheless -- "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Ruby Tuesday", "Connection", and my favorite misogynist guilty pleasure "Yesterday's Papers". The remastering also hardly replicates the warm sound of the original London/Decca LP, but I suppose one can't have everything.Free Music Review: Charming, goofy, utterly unique, and a lot of fun
Hit: 4 Stars
This is an all-around good album with a lot of variety - the only thing it's missing is a good blues number. Still has one of my favorite Stones ballads in "Ruby Tuesday", a wonderful song thanks to Brian Jones' recorder; and the energetic, piano-driven (not to mention controversial, thanks to the Ed Sullivan incident - of course, by today's standards, the song is tame) "Let's Spend the Night Together", which is even better. Mostly this is on the mellow side of things, as songs like "She Smiled Sweetly" and "Miss Amanda Jones" show, and show nicely, but the more energetic songs ("Connection", "Cool, Calm and Collected", "All Sold Out") also stand out. There are a few missteps, though. In the Stones' effort to cover as much new ground as possible, they went took some weird roads all right - some that would've best been left unexplored. Like the goofy vaudeville music hall send-up "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" and "Who's Been Sleeping Here?", which tries (and fails) for Dylanesque humor. Those aside, this is fun, varied, loopy and distinct, this stands out as one of their better early albums. If you (like me) buy into the romanticized image of the Brits as charming, eccentric, polite, intelligent, wealthy tea-drinking chaps (rather than the Anglophobic image, which portrays them as loud, crude, profane, stupid, dirt-poor beer-drinking gits who call that wussy sport "soccer" - and hey, soccer is a wussy sport- "football"), you may enjoy this album, because it's the most British they ever got. Between the Buttons ties with Aftermath as the furthest the Stones ever got away from their roots (blues-rock with tinges of soul and country) and still managed to make very entertaining music. Highly recommended!Free Music Review: Great Early Work, Surprising Sounds
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD captures a very early sound.
Cool, Calm and Collected has a rich sweet but powerful melody to it
Something Happened to Me Yesterday is a unique piece too.
On the whole it's a unique sounding CD of The Rolling Stones that I recommend.