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AFTERMATH DELUXE 2016...(All tracks combined UK and USA version of course)...50 YEARS!Quote
hopkins
Totally excellent and consistent. This was a ground-breaker in it's time and all these songs hold up for me amazingly well. They are precious to me. These first several albums are so great. I would include Buttons too. To be alive and so young as each and every Stones album came out, to be able to live with the whole album, each of them, and play them through in their entirety many times was life affecting and life affirming in so many ways. Aftermath was, and still is, a gem to me._________________________________________________
From wiki: "The main engineer for the album was also pivotal in making the group feel comfortable during the sessions as he, according to Wyman, let them experiment with instrumentals and teaming up with session musicians like Jack Nitzsche to variegate their sound. Wyman also stated that he and Brian Jones would pick up instruments that were in the studio and experiment with various sounds for each song. This album is also notable for being the first LP to feature completely original material for the group, as Jagger and Richards were growing not only as songwriters, but as arrangers as well. In 2003, Jagger recalled that Richards was writing a lot of melodies and the group would perform them in a number different ways which were mainly thought out in the studio, as opposed to the strict arranging and recording planning of other groups of the epoch.
Brian Jones was very important in shaping the album's tone and arrangements, as he experimented with a vast array of ethnic instruments such as the marimba, sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, and organ, which contrasted with the folk, pop, country, blues and rock compositions, thus resulting in a very diverse melting pot of musical styles. Aftermath was also the first record on which the majority of the guitar playing was left to Richards due to Jones' multi-instrumentalism, a habit that served as an intense training period for Richards' craftmanship which culminated in his playing almost all of the guitars on Let It Bleed."