'Back Street Girl' is on the UK version of Between the Buttons and is indeed one of those '60s Stones songs which should have found a much wider audience by now.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Man, even the way this album starts is so classic... "what a draaaag it iiiiis getting ooooold" followed by that guitar swell and that 12 string-made-to-sound-like-a-sitar riff.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
I always thought that was "What a drag it is getting up."
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 November 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
It's Not Easy, for the wonderfully lewd way Mick repeatedly sez the word "hard". Makes me grin like an idjit every time.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 23 November 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
i love the hooks in "Stupid Girl," so that. thou the real answer is "Under My Thumb."
― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 November 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
I'm still unsure at what to choose, but 'Lady Jane' is definitely a contender... just a really beautiful song, and love the dulcimer and hapsichord.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 06:51 (six years ago) link
tell me who's fault was that babe
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 23 November 2017 09:08 (six years ago) link
this thread makes me happy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 November 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, 'Think' is so underrated.
Before Keith Richards discovered his trademark tuning and the Stones eventually found their defining sound, they were arguably a more interesting group, and in 1966 and 1967 they released a shitload of classic stuff. There's always been this theory that the Stones psychedelic period was a mis-step, but I disagree.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
voted "Lady Jane" for the harpsichord and Elizabethan lyrics
this is my favorite era of Stones. i bought a copy of this album after seeing Rushmore for the first time. it's nice but i always preferred Flowers.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
Flowers isn't really a proper album, though.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
Mick found his poncey persona at about this time which is a side of him I always enjoy
― Josefa, Thursday, 23 November 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
this, between the buttons and flowers is peak stones to me
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 23 November 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
^^ think i’d add satanic majesties to the mix but same
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 November 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
it's two different bands for me almost, this run and then the 70s stuff
― who says no to mentals? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 November 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
It's too bad that "Goin' Home" is pretty much a waste of space, considering how mindblowing it must've seemed for a high-profile rock act to record and release a way-extended track in early 1966.
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
Yeah, 'Goin' Home' is one of the tracks I know won't be getting my vote - I like the idea of the track, just not the execution. It was one of those "let's keep the tape rolling, guys" moments, but save some great vocals from Jagger it doesn't do an awful lot.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
i only ever had the U.S. version of this.. never heard "what to do" or "take it or leave it".. nothing else here besides "under my thumb" really does it for me. i guess "out of time" is ok.
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
(sorry)
actually i do really love the arrangement of stupid girl, particularly the marimbas (?) and backing vocals during the middle 8
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
ha whoops i was thinking of "yesterdays papers"
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
Heh, 'What to Do' and 'Take It or Leave It' are both great... don't get why they were left of the US configurations, but then - like The Beatles' - the US configs always look bizarre to me.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
I used to play in a Brit Invasion cover band and did a bunch of these songs, and Mother's Little Helper was really fun to do, so that.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
"Out of Time" is cool and i also really like Chris Farlowe's version, maybe even more. it's more Spector-y.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDjbul0WyE
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 23 November 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
There were two versions of 'Out of Time' - there's the one that appears on Aftermath (where the riff is played on vibes) and the other one is more like the Farlowe version but with Mick singing.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
The earliest LP pf theirs I care about is Beggars. Not sure why but it’s hard for me to go backwards in their catalogue from that point. The production is just so lousy and thin and a lot of the melodies and tropes are undistinguished.
― calstars, Friday, 24 November 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
Pretty sure the first time I ever heard "Out of Time" (not a radio hit) was the opening credits of Coming Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GzIdqTlVQ
― clemenza, Friday, 24 November 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
The undistinguished melodies of '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction', 'Ruby Tuesday', 'Let's Spend the Night Together' and 'Paint It Black' ...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 24 November 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link
A lot of not all ffs.
― The buttermilk of Beelzebub (Tom D.), Friday, 24 November 2017 10:20 (six years ago) link
I was thinking of the non-singles, but even when you consider Satisfaction and Spend the Night, these are really just three-chord white boy blues songs with Fischer-Price level production. Compare them to Sympathy and there's a world of difference. Mr. Jimmy really did well by them.
Ruby Tuesday, Lady Jane, I am Waiting - not sure exactly what's off about the ballads, but they seem kind of...forced? Disingenous? Like Mick is playing the child when in reality he's the dude getting his back scratched in the hotel after the show.
― calstars, Friday, 24 November 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
you need some backstreet girl in your life
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 24 November 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
A lot of not all ffs.― The buttermilk of Beelzebub (Tom D.), Friday, November 24, 2017 10:20 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The buttermilk of Beelzebub (Tom D.), Friday, November 24, 2017 10:20 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I could have went on for far longer, tbh.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 24 November 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
I was thinking of the non-singles, but even when you consider Satisfaction and Spend the Night, these are really just three-chord white boy blues songs with Fischer-Price level production.
Even the non-singles - hell, take your pick from any track on this album! Also, pretty sure that 'Let's Spend the Night Together' has more than three chords in it and isn't a blues.
The Jimmy Miller era records are good, of course, but that doesn't mean the 1965-1967 stuff isn't. If you're gonna tell me with a straight face that '2,000 Light Years From Home' is badly production then I'll show you a good bullshitter.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 24 November 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
*badly produced/a bad production - whatever.
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Under My Thumb by a considerable distance
― Οὖτις, Sunday, November 19, 2017 4:13 PM (one month ago)
same
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
I like both "High and Dry" and "I Am Waiting" better than "Thumb." this album is ridiculously good
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
i went with “out of time” but it was out of total indecision. prob should’ve gone for “high and dry”
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
one more for Out of Time
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
Voted for this, love BJ on the dulcimer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95t86ER1YIk
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 07:07 (six years ago) link
Out of Time but hon mentions for UMT & Waiting
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
actually i think the version of Out of Time i prefer is on that the Singles collection.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
As with the early Beatles albums, the U.S. versions of the Stones albums are the ones I grew up with (courtesy of my dad's record collection), so this track list is all wrong to me. Aftermath is supposed to start with "Paint It Black"! Out of this bunch, I'll throw a vote to proto-punky "Stupid Girl," even though it is also awfully mean.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
'Think' is a fave deep cut as well.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
hard to choose but I had to go with 'Mothers Little Helper'. 'Lady Jane' would've been my second choice though. 'Under My Thumb' is great but for me it's tempered by hearing them continue to do it over the years, whereas 'Helper' is still sort of pure 60s psych-era in my mind, if that makes sense. I think Buttons (US tracklisting) is nearly as classic as 'Aftermath', though the production is a little underwhelming at times, and they left off this track which would've been a great closer after 'Amanda Jones':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juekkLWxEWI
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
I almost voted for "Lady Jane" (love that wonky E7 chord when it gets to "just heed this plea") and then "Out of Time." Finally pulled the trigger for MLH.
― Buttery males (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I Am Waiting 10
Delighted to see this!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Friday, 12 January 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
Such a great album.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link