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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 49209
Released: August 27, 2002 |
| Our Price: $8.42 |
| Used Price: $7.75 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Between the Buttons (UK) Track Listing:
1. Yesterday's Papers
2. My Obsession
3. Back Street Girl
4. Connection
5. She Smiled Sweetly
6. Cool, Calm, Collected
7. All Sold Out
8. Please Go Home
9. Who's Been Sleeping Here?
10. Complicated
11. Miss Amanda Jones
12. Something Happened To Me Yesterday
Editorial Review:
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. 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 melodic balladry of "Back Street Girl" 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, i.e. Ian Stewart's barrelhouse piano and Brian Jones' kazoo playing on "Cool, Calm & Collected" or the Dixieland-flavored "Something Happened To Me Yesterday."
Between the Buttons (UK) Reviews:
What To Do? I Really Don't Know, I Really Don't Know... 
2008-07-10 - "Between The Buttons" makes for an exasperating listening experience. The Stones are obviously going through a transitional period in which they don't seem sure what their next step should be. It is the beginning of 1967 after all; their major competition, The Beatles, had released "Revolver" just a few months before and what an incredible ambitious record that was in terms of production, composition, performance, and arrangements. The Stones would like to equal it and in some ways they do succeed, but the major obstacle for them here is that they still insist on conveying adolescent misogynistic sentiments; practically the whole record is devoted to putting down or castigating a woman in one way or another. It winds up sounding so hackneyed. In fact, this would be the last album The Stones would dedicate so much effort to this kind of tripe. Songs with a more or less sexist viewpoint will still pop up now and then in the coming decades but not to the tiring extent displayed here.
Not SACD version 
2007-12-21 - This album is not the hybrid SACD version as listed on the website. Just the DSD remastered CD. Customer Service could not ensure the product was correct before it was shipped. The Customer Service centers are not in the same location as the fulfillment centers.
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Better after time
2007-05-23 - This is an album that I have come to appreciate as time has gone by, but many of the things that I originally had problems with still remain. Mostly they are the surprisingly inane songs like "Cool, Calm, Collected" and "Something Happened to me Yesterday." There is also the misstep of "She Smiled Sweetly" which goes so far away from the Stones strengths that I can see it being covered by Paul Anka. The first two sound like ridiculous attempts to copy the Beatles equally moronic kindergarten sing-a-longs like "Yellow Submarine." These things are avoidable to be sure, but they also reduce the rating, if for no other reason than because they are so incredibly insipid.
On the positive side, I've come to really appreciate the rest of the tunes, especially on the U.K. version which I like much more than the U.S. version. While I miss "Ruby Tuesday," it's worth the trade-off to get the others, especially one of the most simultaneously cruel and yet endearing songs about being a groupie in the scathing "Backstreet Girl." Jagger is the greatest lyricist when it comes to being anti-romantic. The other numbers which are found on both U.S. and U.K. versions are good to great. The first four songs are very good from the excellent "Yesterday's Papers" (with Brian's vibes adding a gorgeous touch) to the rocking Keith riff rocking number "Connection."
This is as much a product of the times as Some Girls was in the late seventies or Undercover was in the eighties. There is a heavy sixties feel complete with the unfortunate psychedelic influences they'd mine deeper on the follow up to this one. That aside, there are still some well written songs and you can sense the pending brilliance of the oft-celebrated quartet of albums that were to commence a year from this curious part of the Stone's career.
U.K. Between the Buttons is the way to go...for freshness
2007-03-06 - Thank goodness for this U.K. version of Between The Buttons. There's no "Ruby Tuesday" and no "Let's Spend the Night Together." Both of these songs I'm just so tired of...thank you very MUCH classic rock radio. Besides, those two hit songs are available on countless greatest hits collections. In my case, I've got "The Singles" 3 disc collection. Anyway, this album is an underrated Rolling Stones classic in my opinion. Regardless of what Mick Jagger says. You'll get a lot of great songs, such as "Yesterday's Papers," "Connection," "Back Street Girl," "All Sold Out," "Miss Amanda Jones" and "She Smiled Sweetly."
Sure, it would have been nice to include some bonus tracks, but that's show "biz."
Well, thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go.
2007-01-25 - This album by the Rolling Stones was released in early 1967. The Rolling Stones were at a period where they were moving more into arty territory and away from their R&B roots. The music is more experimental than their previous releases, but not TOO experimental. The album gets a mixed reaction from Rolling Stones fans, but I think it's great.
