Flowers

The Rolling Stones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Abkco
• ASIN: B000003BEJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,053 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ruby Tuesday

2. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

3. Let's Spend the Night Together

4. Lady Jane

5. Out of Time

6. My Girl

7. Backstreet Girl

8. Please Go Home

9. Mother's Little Helper

10. Take It or Leave It

11. Ride on Baby

12. Sittin' on a Fence

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

So the Stones take off a few months to write, get arrested, the usual, and their U.S. label tosses together the 1967 version of December's Children, complete with tackily precious "psychedelic" artwork. And it's great, however clumsily sequenced and cursed with a lousy version of "My Girl" it may be. Non-single tracks withheld from the American editions of Aftermath and Between the Buttons stand as highlights even alongside "Let's Spend the Night Together," and the offhand nastiness of "Back Street Girl" and "Sittin' on a Fence" short-circuit the sleeve's floral motif. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A stew of miscellaneous Stones chestnuts, January 4, 2000

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James McDonnell (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flowers (Audio CD)

It is well known that London records needed some "product" for the shelves in 1967 while the Stones were busy sorting out their relationship with the police. This is somewhat of a "pot luck" album, containing miscellaneous singles and unreleased chestnuts (at least in the US). Skipping over the obvious hits (Ruby Tuesday, Let's spend the night.., etc.), there are some great tunes in this collection; Sitting on a fence, which features dual acoustic guitars (way before "unplugged" was conceived by MTV)and Mick crooning about every single male's dilemma (this song must still be relevant to him), Backstreet Girl; beautiful waltz/melody wrapped in acoustic guitar and accordion (way before John Mellencamp made it hip). Its subject matter is a little over the top. Even the strange but interesting, Please go home, which sounds as if the Stones (in a Bo Diddely mood that day) were making it up as they went along, sort of experimenting in the studio. I think Bill Wyman stayed home that day. Take it or leave it, a hit for the Searchers in the UK, Ride on baby, Out of time and My Girl are also nice honest pop oddities. I find myself listening to this CD more than I'm willing to admit. Maybe not a desert island disc, but a "good buy". How about the CD cover - understated psychedelic.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Stones 'Yellow Submarine', July 26, 2002

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Randall "src0987" (Long Beach, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flowers (Audio CD)

Wow.........some of the more negative reviews are harsh. 'WEEDS' is what one reviewer called 'Flowers'. First, I got to say that I'm a huge Stones fan. 'Exile' and 'Sticky Fingers' are my favorites, but it was 'Flowers', 'Between The Buttons' and 'Through The Past Darkly' that turned me on to the Stones when I was about 13 years old. I didn't know much about them before these records. What I do remember though, is how these records affected me. I would listen to 'Flowers' every morning before going to school and hum every song until I got home and then I'd put it back on the turntable again. 'Have You Seen Your Mother Baby....' is a GREAT single (although legend has it that a much better mix of the tune exists somewhere). 'Ride On Baby' is my favorite. 'Out of Time' is classic 1966 pop. 'Backstreet Girl' is very English. These songs are filled with Brian Jones colors.

This record led me to Stones. Like 'Yellow Submarine' led me to The Beatles. Buy it for your kids who are to young for 'Sister Morphine'.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Last 2 songs are classics, September 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Flowers (Audio CD)

Excellent overall, and the last two songs, "Ride On Baby" and "Sitting on a Fence", are two of the best songs the Stones ever recorded. They are much overlooked gems.