always found this period gets slated unfairly, i think it shows along with the blues, rock and soul music the stones excelled in, that they were an extremely versatile band in those early days.

between the buttons and satanic majesties in particular are critisized unfairly in my opinion these albums add to the mystic of the rolling stones. add in a few other compositions from 1967 and we would have a fantastic double album.

side 1

ruby tuesday
lets spend the night together
sittin on a fence
back street girl
connection
complicated
coolcalm collected
something happened to me yesterday
miss amanda jones

side 2

dandelion
we love you
citadel
2000 man
2000 light years from home
shes a rainbow
in another land
on with the show


i just feel that if the kinks or the beatles had produced those songs they would have been hailed as classics but not for the stoens as it didnt fit the image.

the LBJ years are not underrated.

I call this period "The birth of the wit". Underrated? Noway. Fine music - and yes a bit forgotten. Your double album sums it up. You should know better buttons67.Were you around back then?

no wasnt around then, born in 1968, got into stones in 1987.

just love the sound and catchy tunes of that era.

love most era,s

and the variety that comes with it.

I wouldn't call it underrated. They recorded in my view the best material of the Jones era and this includes their first album of all original material.

1966 - 1967: Aftermath, Between the buttons and Their satanic etc. were all released during that period. IMHO the first is over-rated, the second one under-rated and the third one a bad joke, despite some, I mean 2 good (2000 Light years, Citadel) tunes; crap I´d call the album.

Had it been a put-on on Sgt peppers´, it would have been great.

But it vwasn´t, I´m afraid.

PS

Have you seen your mother LIVE, aka Got live if you want it etc was interesting, but terribly recorded (and mixed, if it was at all) and horrendously played. They must have been drunk all the time...

Aftermath was the first album I ever bought, in June 1966 (I was disappointed, having heard the excellent Out of Our Heads (US & european, not the inferior UK) and waiting eagerly for something even better.

But how can you top The last time AND Satisfaction - no, you can´t, can you as the brittons might want to put it.

Aftermath and Between the Buttons are 2 damn fine albums if I do say so my damn self.



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i miss "child of the moon". Had to be on such Album

Who slates this period?

I love this period of the Stones. Aftermath in my opinion is a classic, and Between the Buttons is definitley underrated. There where some great singles during this time period that where left off these albums, plus some great outtakes that where released later. Brian Jones really shines during this time period. The eceletic instruments he used added so much to the songs of this time period. The Satanic Majestys album was a mess. They did not have Andrew there to help rein things in, drugs, too much time in the studio drug arrests etc. However if We Love you and Dandelion which where recorded during this time fram where on this album, maybe replacing 2 other songs it definitely would have helped. She's a Rainbow was good, John Paul Jones was 19 I believe when he arranged this song for the Stones. 2,000 light years from home was good as well.

It's by far my favourite RS era, but then I'm probably more of a pop than a rock fan...

Underrated by whom? It's great!

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Underrated by whom? It's great!

It's not underrated, it's just that the 1968-1972 era is a little overrated in comparison with the rest of their career.

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Underrated by whom? It's great!

It's not underrated, it's just that the 1968-1972 era is a little overrated in comparison with the rest of their career.

well that's becuz it was their best period. basta.

The music of '67 MAY be overrated, particularly when compared to '66 ...

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Underrated by whom? It's great!

It's not underrated, it's just that the 1968-1972 era is a little overrated in comparison with the rest of their career.

well that's becuz it was their best period. basta.

It's not even their best selling period.

Maybe but more lost in the fog of the Beatles/Beach boys and Hendrix, Velvet and Doors and lost because of Beggars and what came after.

1964 - 65 is my favourite period but also the following two years was great from hundred of bands among Stones..hundreds of brilliant bands and solo-artists...

No-one can underrate 1966-1967 with Blonde on Blonde Revolver Aftermath Between the Buttons Axis Bald as Love among all albums...

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It's the period where they made the greatest leap forwards in their career. And it was all too brief.

Great stuff done then. I find it much more to my taste than the classic 1968-72 period as much as I love that. Really the 1963-67 is the Stones I love. 1968-78 I like a lot. After that.....

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Great stuff done then. I find it much more to my taste than the classic 1968-72 period as much as I love that. Really the 1963-67 is the Stones I love. 1968-78 I like a lot. After that.....

Really, I know between the rest of the world and the USA there is a difference, but the release Flowers is decent, has as in the OP, "Sitting on a fence", "Ride on Baby", "Backstreet girl", really a load of classics.

Over at Amazon.co.uk, someone writes that Between the Buttons is a very "English" sounding album, I can probably see that in parts.

Metamorphosis is a bit like Flowers which is to say, not a real studio album, outtakes, both I like quite a bit. Both CDs, I made sure early I had before some of the classiques which I know so well.

Flowers is good in spite of being a record company deal because those songs are just so well done individually. Even My Girl has a freshness to it.

If it's not highly rated, it's underrated.

I think Brian Jones reached his peak on Ruby Tuesday.

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always found this period gets slated unfairly, i think it shows along with the blues, rock and soul music the stones excelled in, that they were an extremely versatile band in those early days.

between the buttons and satanic majesties in particular are critisized unfairly in my opinion these albums add to the mystic of the rolling stones. add in a few other compositions from 1967 and we would have a fantastic double album.

side 1

ruby tuesday
lets spend the night together
sittin on a fence
back street girl
connection
complicated
coolcalm collected
something happened to me yesterday
miss amanda jones

side 2

dandelion
we love you
citadel
2000 man
2000 light years from home
shes a rainbow
in another land
on with the show


i just feel that if the kinks or the beatles had produced those songs they would have been hailed as classics but not for the stoens as it didnt fit the image.

Looking at the songs from that period it seems that the Rolling Stones didn't write any agressive, mean, or nasty(in a good way!) tunes. Once they start writing about sex drugs and rock and roll they changed into something different, shocking. And that what a lot of people associate with the rolling stones. But as musicians they did pretty well during 1966-67, I agree with that.
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