All rights reserved.| Track Listing 1. Let's Spend The Night Together 2. Yesterday's Papers 3. Ruby Tuesday 4. Connection 5. She Smiled Sweetly 6. Cool Calm And Collected 7. All Sold Out 8. My Obsession 9. Who's Been Sleeping Here 10. Complicated 11. Miss Amanda Jones 12. Something Happened To Me Yesterday
Album Notes The CD includes original drawings by Charlie Watts from the LP release.The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Mick Jagger (vocals); Brian Jones (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums).Recorded in 1966.Once known as hard-core blues/R&B traditionalists, the Stones plunged deeper into the waters of original songwriting on BETWEEN THE BUTTONS, leading to a golden age of classic albums including LET IT BLEED, BEGGAR'S BANQUET, and EXILE ON MAIN STREET. In addition to scoring a double-sided smash-hit single in "Let's Spend The Night Together" backed with the baroque-pop "Ruby Tuesday," BUTTONS was also the last album produced by then-manager/svengali Andrew Loog Oldham. More importantly, the obscure songs on this tight package show the Stones coming into their own as composers.Between the ornate orchestrations of the aforementioned "Ruby Tuesday" and Mick Jagger's Dylanesque inflections on "She Smiled Sweetly," BUTTONS found the Stones in a strata far beyond covering Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly. Although none of these developments ranks with the Beatles' contemporaneous sonic experiments, the fabs' bad-boy counterparts showed differing degrees of whimsy and sass. Examples are Ian Stewart's barrelhouse piano and Brian Jones' kazoo playing on "Cool, Calm & Collected," or the Dixieland-flavored "Something Happened To Me Yesterday." Editorial Reviews NME (07/08/1995) Entertainment Weekly (09/20/2002) Entertainment Weekly (09/20/2002) | |||||||||||||