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Summary: Heart Pounding Rock and Roll
Comment: I have to admit that even though "Flowers" is sort of a catch all of B sides, songs that came out on UK records, older studio things and a few rereleased songs, this is a collection that I really, really like. I play this record just the way it is. I deleted no songs. nor did I add any, when I put this record on my iPod. I guess I was just so used to listening to the songs in this order that I couldn't bear to change it. All of the songs on this record were penned by Mick and Keith, except for Smokey Robinson's "My Girl." The record opens with the better than excellent "Ruby Tuesday," which kind of sets the tone for the album as it segues right into the rocking "Mother's Little Helper," than it's all she wrote as "Mother" fades into "Let's Spend the Night Together." Wow, if that line up doesn't get your pulse pumping, you blood running, your heart pounding, well you're just plain not human.
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Summary: Time warp
Comment: Ok. So my son bought me this because it was always playing in the background when he was small (along with "Little White Duck" and Leonard Cohen, of course). It doesn't matter that the songs are also on other albums...they have to be somewhere....This album reminds me of what the hell I thought I was doing way back then. The attitudes represented in the songs are a fair representation of the mentality of the times. And remember,"Let's Spend Some Time Together" was left off this disc. It's worth going back to the source!
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Summary: Flowers --- Stone still in bloom
Comment: Flowers is good album. It may feature songs that appear elsewhere, but it is a pivotal album in the Stones catalog. It marks an important turning point in the band, representing the band's original sound and introducing sounds that would be hallmarks of future releases.
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Summary: The Stones 'Yellow Submarine'
Comment: Wow.........some of the more negative reviews are harsh. 'WEEDS' is what one reviewer called 'Flowers'. First, I got to say that I'm a huge Stones fan. 'Exile' and 'Sticky Fingers' are my favorites, but it was 'Flowers', 'Between The Buttons' and 'Through The Past Darkly' that turned me on to the Stones when I was about 13 years old. I didn't know much about them before these records. What I do remember though, is how these records affected me. I would listen to 'Flowers' every morning before going to school and hum every song until I got home and then I'd put it back on the turntable again. 'Have You Seen Your Mother Baby....' is a GREAT single (although legend has it that a much better mix of the tune exists somewhere). 'Ride On Baby' is my favorite. 'Out of Time' is classic 1966 pop. 'Backstreet Girl' is very English. These songs are filled with Brian Jones colors. This record led me to Stones. Like 'Yellow Submarine' led me to The Beatles. Buy it for your kids who are to young for 'Sister Morphine'.
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Summary: Not The Stones Best, That's For Sure!
Comment: The only reason you buy Flowers is because you want all the Stones releases. It was originally released in June of 67 as a clean up of the Stones catalog. The band was working on albums and releasing singles without worrying about getting them onto albums during this time, so I'm sure the record execs were going nuts trying to find a way to grab all the money they could before the band faded away.Let's Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday had been released together as a single in January along with the Between The Buttons album (which did not include either of them). Both songs had just dropped from the charts and were stuck on Flowers to increase sales, as was Have You Seen Your Mother which had been released the previous Sept but had not been included on an album either. Mother's Little Helper had been pulled from the American version of Aftermath for some reason, so Flowers was it's first album release. Lady Jane had been released both as a single and on Aftermath, so who knows why it was stuck on Flowers. Out of Time has such a wierd history, but this was the first American release.
This leaves us with the remainder of the Flowers cuts, which are the reason why Stones collectors still buy the album. All of them are available only on Flowers. Of this bunch, none are especially good, although I do sort of like Mick's rendition of My Girl. The others (Back Street Girl, Please Go Home, Take It Or Leave It, Ride on Baby, & Sittin' On A Fence) have nothing to recommend them.
