Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
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Free Music Notes for Between the Buttons
Free Music Review: Awesome Pop Touches
Hit: 5 Stars
Between The Buttons is an early Rolling Stones recording with a more mature pop style. Yes there are some rocking guitar moments. However this one of the few Stones recordings which emphasizes the vocal harmonies and piano embellishments more.Each of the band members make some noteworthy contributions. Charlie Watts' drumming is extremely steady and quite creative particularly on songs like All Sold Out and My Obsession. Love Bill Wyman's fuzz bass on that tune and in other spots. Brian Jones flute tones to Ruby Tuesday as well as the guitar tones on Who's Been Sleeping Here stand strong. Keith Richards' voice is definitely more evident in the mix on harmony vocals. He even gets his first solo lead vocal cameo on the rollicking Something Happened To Me Yesterday. His organ contributions to She Smiled Sweetly are very distingusihable. As for Mick Jagger, his voice is in fine form throughout. Sometimes loud, other times soft, but certainly captivating.
Besides the band members, the songs are extremely well written. Its not just rhythm and blues. Its carefully crafted tunes with catchy hooks galore. A strong Beatles influence exists here plus some cabaret stylings on a couple of tunes.
Truthfully this is not as hyped as Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers, or Let It Bleed. However, quality-wise, Between The Buttons is on the level of these great discs with some special touches that make this recording unique.
Free Music Review: The Better of the Buttons
Hit: 5 Stars
This album may not contain the song line-up that the Stones originally intended (see the UK version of this disc), but it is more worthwhile listening, if only for the inclusion of the "Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend the Night Together" single. What we have here is a band moving away from their blues-rock influences and more fully embracing psychedelia and cabaret-style tunes. There are instruments here that had never found their way onto a Stones album before and in some instances the effect is somewhat startling. The best moments are "My Obsession" with it's driving fuzz-bass rhythm, the poppy drug-raid paranoia of "Connection" and the tender "She Smiled Sweetly". A very much overlooked masterpiece that ranks among their 60's best.Free Music Review: NOT WHAT THE ROLLING STONES INTENDED - BUY THE UK VERSION
Hit: 5 Stars
Don't get me wrong, the music on this CD is superb (hence the 5 star rating) but when The Rolling Stones and Andrew Loog Oldham (producer) made these recordings in the latter half of 1966 and sequenced it for release, THIS is not how the envisioned it. Their authorized version was issued in England on January 20, 1967 with "Let's Spend The Night Together" & "Ruby Tuesday" as their current single SEPERATE from the album (common UK practice at the time). In North America, they were shoehorned onto BETWEEN THE BUTTONS and in their place, "Backstreet Girl" & "Please Go Home" (both, especially the former, fine songs) were knocked off and put onto the loose ends US-compiled FLOWERS album in mid-1967. Buy the UK version. It's what the band intended, and besides, you can hear "LSTNT" & "RT" on FORTY LICKS, HOT ROCKS, THROUGH THE PAST, DARKLY & THE SINGLES COLLECTION. And chances are that you'd already have one of those above mentioned hits collections if you're shopping for their proper studio albums. Hope this helps. :-)Free Music Review: Button Down
Hit: 5 Stars
Between The Buttons is the superb follow up to Aftermath. It contains the band's fourth number one single, the lilting and reflective "Ruby Tuesday" which is rare ballad for the band. It's B-side is the much more Stone-like "Let's Spend The Night Together" which was very risqué for the times. "Yesterday's Papers" has a jazzy sound to it and "Connection" contains an early Keith Richards lead vocal effort. "My Obsession" and "Miss Amanda Jones" are hard, edgy rockers and "Cool, Calm & Collected" moves along as the title suggests. "Something Happened To Me Yesterday" is a goofy, whimsical track that closes out the album. Charlie Watts contributes some of his best drum playing as well as the cartoon that graced the album's back cover.Free Music Review: Caveat Emptor
Hit: 5 Stars
Potential buyers should be aware of a few things:1. First, the high resolution ("DSD") part of this disc is only available if played on an SACD player.
2. The CD layer on this disc may not be playable on all CD players.
3. For the packaging differences between the new SACD versions and other, older, CD versions, see: ***