What do you Stonesians prefer - UK Out Of Our Heads, Aftermath and Between the Buttons or US versions with Decembers Children? I appreciate the live Route 66 on Decembers Children as I don't have the UK Got Live promo.

It depends on what you're used to. If you grew up with the American versions, then that's the route i'd go. But personally I prefer the British releases as it's believed that these records are more what the band (or Oldham at least!) intended them to be.

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...it's believed that these records are more what the band (or Oldham at least!) intended them to be.

I bought the UK versions precisely for that reason (and I'm in the US).

Wonder if they'll eventually go the route of the Beatles and only offer those versions (except for the limited Capital US box which didn't garner much attention or sales).

They were made for the UK market - first and foremost so for me it is a no brainer. They were only ever butchered up for the US market to give them more appeal by including singles.

UK = The real albums
US = Some of the album with hits thrown in

BUT: I'd buy both

i prize my us version of aftermath

>> it's believed that these records are more what the band (or Oldham at least!) intended them to be. <<

Out of Our Heads is the other way around - the US version came first, and the UK version was the "pieced together" one.
but you really need both the US and UK versions of OOOH (Aftermath as well, in my opinion)

I generally prefer what the artist originally intended, but with the Stones (growing up in the US) I prefer the US versions, especially Now!, that is a great listen. If you are trying to get every song thru 1969 via the ABKCO remasters you have to get all the US ones prior to Aftermath:

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According to [www.lukpac.org]:

*Q3.2) What do you have to get if you're a completist?

*A3.2) Currently, it seems that a few of the current reissues are wholly redundant; thus,
some aren't needed from an audio standpoint. The following is the rundown:

i) Absolutely Necessary:

England's Newest Hit-makers
12x5
Now!
Out Of Our Heads! (US Version)
December's Children
Aftermath (UK)
Got Live If You Want It!
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Flowers
Beggar's Banquet
Let It Bleed
Get Your Ya-Yas Out
Metamorphosis
More Hot Rocks
The Singles Collection: The London Years

ii) Necessary, but with options:

Between the Buttons (can choose US *or* UK version, as Flowers will pick up
the slack)
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
AND
Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
OR
Hot Rocks

iii) Unnecessary:

Out Of Our Heads! (UK Version)
Aftermath (US Version)

Ha ha. Cool. I would prefer to have the UK editions because all the singles are on all the goddamn hits comps and I do like the idea of getting the albums the way they Stones wanted them, not London Records. Some day that's what I'll do. For now, I continue to listen to the original CDs.

flowers is the only cd with my girl though

If you were just some dunt and only got hits albums, wouldn't Hot Rocks pretty much cover Big Hits 1 and 2? Something tells me no because of We Love You, Dandelion and She's A Rainbow not being on Hot Rocks.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to offer your thoughts. For what it's worth, I have UK Aftermath and Between The Buttons, and the rest US. However I'm buying those funny little Japanese paper sleeve editions and am struggling if I do the same again.

Actually only the first UK album had an "intended" tracklisting.

12 X 5, No. 2, Now!, UK & US versions of Out Of Our Heads and December's Children, all constisted of what material that was available first or what was left to release. Secondly, the British market didn't put singles on their albums and had Ep's which the US market didn't tolerate. So it's a matter of market politics actually. The Stones didn't have direct involvement in track selecting before 1966.

From Aftermath onwards, they concentrated of making "real albums" however, and you can also feel the albums are becoming more consistant.

I would like an official re-release of No. 2, but I can live without it also, because albums like Now! is covering the same era quite nicely.

Although released some 8 months after the US-High Tide Green Grass ....
UK version belts US ta pieces .... Better track line-up...more tracks...
great cover shot .... And it had Little Red Rooster .....Shame SACD is same as US ....



ROCKMAN

UK all the way.

This happened at the sixties, and the problem was to find a single one of Stones US-albums on LP, and still is. To buy stuff on CD released before 1992 I can't find intressting...

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UK, no question 'bout it