Between the Buttons

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Between the Buttons was released on 20 January 1967 and was the fifth studio album by the Rolling Stones. Recording ran from August 1966 in Los Angeles and London, including at Olympic Sound Studios. It was the last album that Andrew Loog Oldham produced entirely. Brian Jones often left his guitar lying and played vibraphone, electric dulcimer, banjo, kazoo, theremin and saxophone.

The result is an eclectic album with influences of psychedelia, baroque pop and music hall, with piano by, among others, Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche and Nicky Hopkins. Mick Jagger himself was not happy with it: according to him the sound was lost through the repeated bouncing down of the four-track tapes. Critics were more positive later. Robert Christgau called it underrated, and the American version with Ruby Tuesday appears in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Let's Spend the Night Together3:37Apple Music ↗
2. 2Yesterday's Papers2:05Apple Music ↗
3. 3Ruby Tuesday3:16Apple Music ↗
4. 4Connection2:10Apple Music ↗
5. 5She Smiled Sweetly2:46Apple Music ↗
6. 6Cool, Calm & Collected4:19Apple Music ↗
7. 7All Sold Out2:19Apple Music ↗
8. 8My Obsession3:18Apple Music ↗
9. 9Who's Been Sleeping Here?3:57Apple Music ↗
10. 10Complicated3:17Apple Music ↗
11. 11Miss Amanda Jones2:48Apple Music ↗
12. 12Something Happened to Me Yesterday4:55Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗

See also

• The Rolling Stones