Flowers

Sound DNA

• Rock
• Rock & Roll

• jangly
• playful
• bluesy

About

<i>Between the Buttons</i> is more coherent (in both U.K. and U.S. versions), but this set, cobbled together mostly from various singles, outtakes, and U.K. album tracks for the American market, is just as strong a document of a great band stretching itself. From the piano-flute-bowed bass backing that opens "Ruby Tuesday" and the fuzzed guitar and punchy horns matching Mick's snarl on "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" it's a whole, exciting new world for the Stones. The quality never lets up through rocker "Let's Spend the Night Together," the faux-Elizabethan chivalry of "Lady Jane," the elegant put-down of "Out of Time," and the sitar-laced pop sociology of "Mother's Little Helper." Not a dud in the bunch and a great start-to-finish listen regardless of how it was assembled.

via Apple Music

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