Between the Buttons [Original recording remastered]

The Rolling Stones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Abkco
• ASIN: B000003BEG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,934 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let's Spend the Night Together

2. Yesterday's Papers

3. Ruby Tuesday

4. Connection

5. She Smiled Sweetly

6. Cool, Calm & 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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked Gem, June 3, 2000

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Michael Topper (Pacific Palisades, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between the Buttons (Audio CD)

It's hard to call any Stones album "overlooked", but "Between The Buttons" comes closest to that tag. The US version available on CD includes both sides of the #1 single "Ruby Tuesday" (one of their all-time finest ballads, with a chorus which never grows tired even after hundreds of listenings) b/w "Let's Spend The Night Together", but there are many more delights to be found on the record: tentative attempts at psychedelia ("Yesterday's Papers", "All Sold Out"), Kinks-inspired music-hall kitsch ("Cool Calm Collected", "Something Happened To Me Yesterday") and some of their hardest rockers to date ("My Obsession", "Miss Amanda Jones") make this a unique and fascinating record in the group's career. The original UK album also featured the seductive French waltz "Back Street Girl" and Bo-Diddley-on-acid "Please Go Home". Those looking for the classic Stones sound found on "Beggar's Banquet"or "Exile" won't really find it here, but it's also refreshing to hear a great Stones album which doesn't adhere to their later formula. Overall, "Between The Buttons" reflects its era--post-"Revolver", pre-"Pepper" Swinging London at its glittery best--with a clutch of catchy tunes and varying moods. Jagger later professed to disappointment in the results, but since when was he ever right about anything!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is a lot of fun, July 24, 1999

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Leon Reino ([e-mail]) (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between the Buttons (Audio CD)

This album was panned by the critics but is loved by those of us who have taken the time to check it out. My only complaint is the inclusion of Let's Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday which do not belong on this album. They were only put on to cash in on their hit status. On the original UK version they are left off and the songs Back Street Girl and Please Go Home appear. Also if you have the original on vinyl there is a cartoon on the back drawn by Charlie Watts. Whether you have the US or UK version this album is a lot of fun to listen to. One of the many highlights of this album is Keith's vocals on Something Happened to Me Yesterday. Keith sings lead for the first time. This tune is supposedly about Mick's first experience with acid. This album is unique for the Rolling Stones. Noone has recorded anything like it before or since. The only thing that comes close (about a million miles away) is Paul McCartney's Wings Wild Life which was a radical departure from the rest of his work. When I first bought this album (US version) over 20 years ago I played it once or twice and forgot about it. Years later I bought it on cassette (UK version). I started playing it in my car and I was hooked. Don't overlook this album like I did. It is an underated, often forgotten Stones' classic.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Early Stones Album, December 7, 1999

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"nobodyanybody" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between the Buttons (Audio CD)

I'm really more of a fan of stuff like Beggers banquet and Exile on Main Street but still, this is a pretty good album. I love how Mick Jagger was always so cynical about love in these early songs, hes always getting dumped or leaving some poor girl, always getting hurt or hurting his girlfriend. The only song not like that on this album is She Smiled Sweetly and he just doesn't sound like himself. Something Happened to Me Yesterday is a great song about taking LSD for the first time, Ruby Tuesday is one of their best songs,I think I read somewhere that its about a groupie. Cool, Calm , Collected is a neat, though rather different song. This album is one of the best albums of the mid sixties but its really not at all like their later albums, its more poppy, but still its a pretty good album and has a nice carnaby street sixties feel to it.