The Rolling Stones – Between the Buttons – UK Edition (2023 Reissue) – LP – Vinyl

Released in the UK in January 1967 byDecca Recordsand February byLondon Recordsin the US Between The Buttonswasthe Rolling Stones fifth British and seventh US studio album. Released as the follow-up to Aftermath, this album marked a high point in the bands career, continuing their ventures into psychedelia and baroque pop balladry, it is among the bands most musically eclectic works. Brian Jones sidelined his guitar on much of the album, instead playing a wide variety of other instruments including organ, marimba, vibraphone, and kazoo. Piano contributions came from two session players: former Rolling Stones memberIan Stewartand frequent contributor and studio legendJack Nitzsche. It was the last album produced byAndrew Loog Oldham, the bands manager and producer of all of their albums to this point.

The album has one of the most striking sleeves of the period, featuring a classicGered Mankowitzimage on the cover. The photo shoot took place at 5:30 in the morning following an all-night recording session atOlympic Studios. Using a home-made camera filter constructed of black card, glass and Vaseline, Mankowitz created the effect of the Stones dissolving into their surroundings according to Mankowitz “to capture the ethereal, druggy feel of the time; that feeling at the end of the night when dawn was breaking and theyd been up all night making music, stoned.

The songs continuedAftermaths lyrics of acute social observation and savage insight, their earlier raw, rootsy power enhanced by other influences of the period notably The Beatles, The Kinks, and again Dylan. It is one of their strongest, most varied LPs, with many great songs that remain unknown to all but Stones devotees.

The inventive arrangements and innovative instrumentation on brooding near-classics likeAll Sold Out,My ObsessionandYesterdays Papersbrought a new dimension to the music. She Smiled Sweetly shows their hidden romantic side at its best,Connectionis one of the records few pieces of more conventional driving rock and album closerSomething Happened To Me Yesterdayincludes Keiths first solo vocal.

The US version includes contemporaneous hits the two songs that gave the group a double-sided number one in early 1967: the shameless and controversialLets Spend The Night Togetherand the beautiful, melancholyRuby Tuesday.

UK Edition Tracklist:

Side One
1. Yesterday’s Papers
2. My Obsession
3. Back Street Girl
4. Connection
5. She Smiled Sweetly
6. Cool Calm And Collected

Side Two
1. All Sold Out
2. Please Go Home
3. Who’s Been Sleeping Here
4. Complicated
5. Miss Amanda Jones
6. Something Happened To Me Yesterday

• Information

  • Format: Vinyl / 12″ Album
  • Label: UMR
  • Release Date: 07/04/2023
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • EAN: 0018771212713