The Rolling Stones – Flowers (1967/2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The Rolling Stones – Flowers (1967/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 37:17 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Abkco Music & Records, Inc.

1. Originally a U.S. only collection of hits and deep cuts recorded in 1965 and 1966.

2. The U.S. and U.K. Top Ten hits include:
“Ruby Tuesday” (U.S. #1, U.K. #3)
“Let’s Spend The Night Together” (U.K. #3)
“Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? (U.S. #9, U.K. #5)
“Mother’s Little Helper” (U.S. #8)

3. The deep cuts include “Ride On, Baby,” “Sittin’ On A Fence,” “Take It Or Leave It” and the Stones’ cover of Smokey Robinson’s “My Girl.” Also includes “Lady Jane” and “Out Of Time”, found here in its well known edited version.

4. Features guest musicians: Ian Stewart and Jack Nitzsche on piano, organ and harpsichord. The Mike Leander Orchestra provide the string section on “My Girl.”

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Flowers was dismissed as a rip-off of sorts by some critics, since it took the patchwork bastardization of British releases for the American audience to extremes, gathering stray tracks from the U.K. versions of Aftermath and Between the Buttons, 1966-1967 singles (some of which had already been used on the U.S. editions of Aftermath and Between the Buttons), and a few outtakes. Judged solely by the music, though, it’s rather great. “Lady Jane,” “Ruby Tuesday,” and “Let’s Spend the Night Together” are all classics (although they had all been on an LP before); the 1966 single “Mother’s Little Helper,” a Top Ten hit, is also terrific; and “Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?,” making its first album appearance, is the early Stones at their most surrealistic and angst-ridden. A lot of the rest of the cuts rate among their most outstanding 1966-1967 work. “Out of Time” is hit-worthy in its own right (and in fact topped the British charts in an inferior cover by Chris Farlowe); “Backstreet Girl,” with its European waltz flavor, is one of the great underrated Stones songs. The same goes for the psychedelic Bo Diddley of “Please Go Home,” and the acoustic, pensively sardonic “Sittin’ on a Fence,” with its strong Appalachian flavor. Almost every track is strong, so if you’re serious about your Stones, don’t pass this by just because a bunch of people slag it as an exploitative marketing trick (which it is). There’s some outstanding material you can’t get anywhere else, and the album as a whole plays very well from end to end. – Richie Unterberger

Tracklist:
1. The Rolling Stones – Ruby Tuesday (03:15)
2. The Rolling Stones – Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? (02:35)
3. The Rolling Stones – Let’s Spend The Night Together (03:38)
4. The Rolling Stones – Lady Jane (03:08)
5. The Rolling Stones – Out Of Time (03:42)
6. The Rolling Stones – My Girl (02:39)
7. The Rolling Stones – Back Street Girl (03:26)
8. The Rolling Stones – Please Go Home (03:19)
9. The Rolling Stones – Mother’s Little Helper (02:47)
10. The Rolling Stones – Take It Or Leave It (02:47)
11. The Rolling Stones – Ride On Baby (02:53)
12. The Rolling Stones – Sittin’ On A Fence (03:02)

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