Edit 5 for headphones. Lovely, atmospheric song. Sounds best on vinyl! Too bad Charlie's only on the left, together with Bill. I changed that: Bill more centered, Charlie on both channels. Also gave Keith's VERY pleasant guitar more body. …
Edit 5 for headphones. Lovely, atmospheric song. Sounds best on vinyl! Too bad Charlie's only on the left, together with Bill. I changed that: Bill more centered, Charlie on both channels. Also gave Keith's VERY pleasant guitar more body. As usual, for a great deal Brian is making the song stand out with his high harmonica sound...
Recorded August 3 - 11, 1966, released on the album "Between the Buttons" in January and February of 1967 by Decca records and by London records. Those were the days...
Source cd of the edit: "Between The Buttons" (US version)(1986 remastered German manufacture.)(London 820 138-2).
Harmonica & autoharp: Brian Jones. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Acoustic & electric guitars: Keith Richards. Drums: Charlie Watts. Bass: Bill Wyman. Piano: Jack Nitzsche.
The back cover of "Between The Buttons" is dominated by a six-panel cartoon accompanied by a rhythmic poem drawn by drummer Charlie Watts. When Watts asked Oldham what the title of the album would be, he told him it was "between the buttons", a term meaning "undecided". Watts gave the phrase to the title of his cartoon which in turn became the title of the album.
"Between The Buttons" was called "among the greatest rock albums" by Robert Christgau, who later included it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). He also wrote of the album for Rolling Stone magazine's "40 Essential Albums of 1967": "(T)his underrated keeper is distinguished by complex rhymes, complex sexual stereotyping and the non-blues, oh-so-rock-and-roll pianos of Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche, Nicky Hopkins, and Brian Jones." AllMusic's Richie Unterberger hailed it as one of the Rolling Stones' "strongest, most eclectic LPs". In a retrospective review for Entertainment Weekly David Browne called the album "a cheeky set of sardonic Swinging London vaudeville rock", while Billboard magazine's Christopher Walsh wrote that "it's brimming with overlooked gems, the band delivering a captivating blend of folky, Beatles-esque pop and tough bluesy rockers." Tom Moon wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that the album was "lighter and thinner" than Aftermath and, "having belatedly discovered pop melody Jagger and Richards were suddenly overdosing on the stuff." Music scholars Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon observed baroque pop and music hall on the album. Jim DeRogatis included "Between The Buttons" in his 2003 list of the essential psychedelic rock albums.
In 2003 the album was ranked number 357 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest albums of all time list. Based on such rankings the aggregate website Acclaimed Music lists it as the 715th most acclaimed album in history.
WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING HERE
(Jagger/Richards)
what you say girl, you see what is wrong
you, must be joking, you was led alone
but the butler the baker, the laughing cavalie
