Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
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Free Music Notes for 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.
Free Music Review: Refreshing Pop From An Often Harder Group
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a scrappy, on-the-go album from Jan '67 that feels like some other band's, the Kinks, say, and fits writer Philip Norman's description of it as "a vaudeville show echoing in a nearly empty hall." But just because that vaudeville was to play to a greater acclaim six months later on Sgt. Pepper's doesn't make parts of it any less valid.
You get the two-sided timelessness of "Let's Spend The Night"/"Ruby Tuesday," plus "She Smiled Sweetly" (rediscovered in the movie "The Royal Tennenbaums") that gently glides along Keith's organ work, and "Cool, Calm, Collected," (Brian sitar work should be voted most original ever!) the music hall ambience of which, along with the similar closer "Something Happened To Me Yesterday," probably percolated in the Beatles' heads as they worked that winter in Abbey Road. There's also "Who's Been Sleeping Here" with its Dylanish beauty, and the infectious "Connection" (Stones outBeatle the Beatles!), which predicts the drug inspections that would harass them unceasingly.
"My Obsession" sucks, "Yesterday's Papers" just okay, and "Amanda Jones" is a Chuck Berry vamp taking a nauseating turn, but the rest is well worth owning. They would never sound so convincingly pop again...
Free Music Review: Get the UK version
Hit: 3 Stars
Please, do yourself a favor and get the U.K. release of _Between the Buttons_ rather than the U.S. release. The U.K. album is well-balanced and has two tracks that you must hear -- especially "Backstreet Girl," which is now one of my favorite Stones songs. Sure, "Ruby Tuesday" and "Let's Spend the Night Together" are great songs; they just don't fit on the album very well. My advice: buy the U.K. version from Amazon and download the two hits from iTu^es.