BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (US EDITION)

TRACKLIST Side A 1. Let™s Spend The Night Together 2. Yesterday™s Papers 3. Ruby Tuesday 4. Connection 5. She Smiled Sweetly 6. Cool, Calm, Collected Side B 1. All Sold Out 2. My Obsession 3. Who™s Been Sleeping Here 4. Complicated 5. Miss Amanda Jones 6. Something Happened To Me Yesterday INFO œ Released in the UK in January 1967 by Decca Records and February by London Records in the US  Between The Buttons was the Stones™ fifth British and seventh US studio album. Released as the follow-up to Aftermath, this album marked a high point in the band™s career, continuing their ventures into psychedelia and baroque pop balladry, it is among the band™s most musically eclectic works. Brian Jones sidelined his guitar on much of the album, instead playing a wide variety of other instruments including organ, marimba, vibraphone, and kazoo. œ Piano contributions came from two session players: former Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart and frequent contributor and studio legend Jack Nitzsche. It was the last album produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, the band™s manager and producer of all of their albums to this point. œ The album has one of the most striking sleeves of the period, featuring a classic Gered Mankowitz image on the cover. The photo shoot took place at 5:30 in the morning following an all-night recording session at Olympic Studios. Using a home-made camera filter constructed of black card, glass and Vaseline, Mankowitz created the effect of the Stones dissolving into their surroundings  according to Mankowitz„ što capture the ethereal, druggy feel of the time; that feeling at the end of the night when dawn was breaking and they™d been up all night making music, stoned.› œ The songs continued Aftermath™s lyrics of acute social observation and savage insight, their earlier raw, rootsy power enhanced by other influences of the period  notably The Beatles, The Kinks, and again Dylan. It is one of their strongest, most varied LPs, with many great songs that remain unknown to all but Stones devotees. œ The inventive arrangements and innovative instrumentation on brooding near-classics like All Sold Out, My Obsession and Yesterday™s Papers brought a new dimension to the music. She Smiled Sweetly shows their hidden romantic side at its best, Connection is one of the record™s few pieces of more conventional driving rock and album closer Something Happened To Me Yesterday includes Keith™s first solo vocal. œ The US version includes contemporaneous hits  the two songs that gave the group a double-sided number one in early 1967: the shameless and controversial Let™s Spend The Night Together and the beautiful, melancholy Ruby Tuesday.