Music CD - The Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones: Aftermath

	Music CD: Aftermath Artist: The Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $8.25 Your Save: $ 5.73 ( 41% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Abkco
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Tracks: 1. Paint It Black 2. Stupid Girl 3. Lady Jane 4. Under My Thumb 5. Doncha Bother Me 6. Think 7. Flight 505 8. High and Dry 9. It's Not Easy 10. I Am Waiting 11. Going Home
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0018771947622 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Abkco Manufacturer: Abkco Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Abkco Release Date: 2002-08-27 Studio: Abkco
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: (4.5 stars) A ROLLING STONES CLASSIC ! (a little underrated and underappreciated, but it stands among their best albums) Comment: The Rolling Stones' Aftermath was quite a big deal back in 1966 when it was first released. Experimental instrumentation and arrangements, all songs were Jagger/Richards compositions (for the first time), and it included a #1 hit single with Paint It Black. It just got pushed to the back of the room when The Beach Boys released Pet Sounds and The Beatles followed with Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band the next year. And when the Stones themselves released their classic Beggars Banquet album in 1968, Aftermath suddenly seemed like old news. It still doesn't take away the fact that Aftermath is the Stones' best early (pre-Beggars Banquet) album, and one of my personal all-time favorites from the band. It opens with a total classic, Paint It Black. Not many songs dare to go where this one does, into the bleak and dangerous world of depression. With an Indian beat that's augmented by Brian Jones playing the sitar, the song rocks in and out of two different formats while Mick Jagger sings of living in hopelessness. Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black Stupid Girl is a mod/hip London scene groupie put-down, and the refined Lady Jane shows an uncharacteristically disciplined side of the band (Brian plays the harpsichord). The marimba (Brian again) and guitar rock Under My Thumb is a classic that's still playing on classic rock radio stations today, and is one of the Stones' greatest songs. Kinda hard to resist the get-even politics, isn't it? Under my thumb The girl who once had me down Under my thumb The girl who once pushed me around The slide guitar blues of Doncha Bother Me is a real winner, and then they go bluesy country with acoustic guitars and a harmonica on High And Dry. Keith Richards shows off some nice guitar work on both. Flight 505 has an old-timey piano intro that gives way to a laid-back rock n' harmony exercise, and It's Not Easy is an irrestible toe-tapping Chuck Berry sounding rocker. I Am Waiting is a strange and hypnotic bit of country psychedelia that features the omnipotent Brian Jones on the dulcimer. The album closes with Going Home, an eleven minute blues epic that starts out innocently enough, but then enters into a dark, sexual, and shamanistic trip into the unknown night. Mick Jagger's sensual vocal improvisations and spirit channeling over a heavy bass and harmonica blues jam won't appeal to the more tidy and polished Stones fans, but it's quite a fascinating piece of work. Bottom line, Aftermath is an essential part of The Rolling Stones catalog and a top-notch Rolling Stones production. One of their best albums in my book. Customer Rating: Summary: PAINT IT BLACK Comment: THIS 1966 RELEASE WAS THE FIRST ROLLING STONES ALBUM WHERE THEY DID ALL ORIGINAL SONGS INSTEAD OF MOSTLY COVER VERSIONS OF R&B HITS. IT IS A GREAT ALBUM THAT SHOWCASES ALL OF THE TALENT THAT THIS BAND CHANNELED AT THE TIME. FROM THE SITAR INSPIRED PLAYING OF KEITH RICHARDS ON PAINT IT BLACK, TO THE HARPSICHIORD PLAYING OF BRIAN JONES ON LADY JANE, THE ALBUM COVERS A WIDE ARRAY OF MUSICAL STYLES AND GENRES, AND CEMENT THE ROLLING STONES IN HISTORY AS THE BAD BOYS OF ROCK AND ROLL. A QUANTUM LEAP FOR THE BAND AND THEIR MUSIC. Customer Rating: Summary: The Best of the Pre-Beggars Banquet Albums Comment: Often considered to be the first "official" Rolling Stones album since it was the first time that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote all of the tracks, Aftermath plays like an early, rough version of Beggars Banquet. In fact, of all the pre-Beggars Banquet albums, Aftermath is the best. It's the first solid Stones record, a foreshadowing of their 1968-1972 winning streak. "Paint It Black" and "Under My Thumb" are obvious highlights, but Aftermath also includes a few underrated gems worth mentioning. "Doncha Bother Me" and "High and Dry" would not have been out of place on Beggars Banquet and "Going Home" clocks in at 11 minutes, making it the longest song on a Stones album. Aftermath is also the last album in which Brian Jones was a creative force in the band. Plus, there's real grit in the album, while the next two are lightweight attempts at sounding like "Village Green era Kinks" (Between the Buttons) and psychedelic Beatles (Their Satanic Majesties Request). Aftermath is definitely a Rolling Stones album worth buying. Here's a list of Rolling Stones albums that no fan should be without: 1. Aftermath 2. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) 3. Through the Past Darkly (Big Hits, Vol.2) 4. Beggar's Banquet 5. Let It Bleed 6. Sticky Fingers 7. Exile on Main Street 8. Goats Head Soup 9. Some Girls 10. Tattoo You 11. Steel Wheels 12. A Bigger Bang Customer Rating: Summary: 4 1/2 stars. Comment: "Aftermath," was the stones first album of all original material, and it has a vibe that's a bit different from their previous recordings. Brian Jones plays a mean sitar on the great opening track, "paint it, black," which is a classic piece of psychedelic rock. "Lady Jane," is a divine acoustic ballad, with a heavy english folk sound about it (trivia bit: on neil young's masterpiece "tonight's the night" he sings a song about borrowing a tune from the rolling stones for one of his songs, because he's too wasted to come up with his own tune. The melody which he borrowed from the stones for that tune is the melody from "Lady Jane."). The blues, as always, are a big part of the stones sound. "Doncha bother me," boasts a fine display of slide guitar wizardry, and "High and Dry," is an excellent acoustic blues piece with a strong sense of melody. "It's not easy," is another standout, with its splendid rhythmic drive. All in all, another fine outting from the stones which i highly recommend. Customer Rating: Summary: The Aftermath of paying their dues Comment: The Stones are getting better and better with each album now and this is their first record that they wrote all themselves. Flight 505, Stupid Girl, Paint it Black and Under my Thumb show a darker side of the group that works as enjoyable music none the less. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: For this 1966 album, one Stone asserted himself even more than Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who for the first time wrote all the album's songs. Brian Jones is all over the opening "Paint It Black," which remains a dark classic more for its spooky sitar than for Jagger's dated psychedelia. Jones's marimba boosts the R&B-derived "Under My Thumb" and his harpsichord somehow makes the subject of "Lady Jane" more interesting. Though Charlie Watts's jazz-derived fills and Bill Wyman's bass continue growing into rock's greatest rhythm section, a disturbing misogyny creeps into Jagger's class-conscious lyrics, especially on "Under My Thumb," and "Stupid Girl." --Steve Knopper