Aftermath

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Product Details

Artist : Rolling Stones
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0018771947622
Label : Universal Music Group
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2002-11-05
UPC : 766481857525

ASIN : B00006AW2L

Track Listings for

Disc-1
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

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Customer Reviews

Inferior to the 14-track UK version - save your money (2005-05-12)

It's a pity that the Stones CDs weren't released like the Beatles' ones, that is in their original British incarnations with 14 songs per album, not as 11-track rip-offs. Still, it's hard to diss a collection that kicks off with Paint It Black and includes Lady Jane, Under My Thumb and I Am Waiting. My point is, There's something better out there.

A Great Moment For Pop Rock (2004-06-19)

"Paint It Black" and "Under My Thumb" are two of my personal favorite rock songs of all time. So why did I give this only three stars? The main reason is that there's so much filler. "Stupid Girl," "Lady Jane" and "Flight 505" are fairly catchy, and are the better of the filler, but have such stupid lyrics. Most of the rest of the album shares this quality of repetitive, stupid lyrics. In the song "Stupid Girl," for example, they just repeat "Look at that stupid girrrrl...Look at that stupid girrrrl" over and over again for way too long. This is pretty much their formula for the rest of the filler too. It sounds very dated. So little effort went into the rest of this album, it's annoying. "Going Home" immediately lapses into 10 minutes of jam-time that doesn't go anywhere. Nevertheless, the drumming is kind of catchy and the singing is okay when you don't really pay attention. For instance, this is a good CD to play at a pool party or some other event, but a bad CD to play in a car ride or while working. Keep in mind, "Paint It Black and "Under My Thumb" are about worth the price of the CD because they're so good. When you put this CD on random play and one of these two songs comes on, you can tell right away that "Paint It Black" and "Under My Thumb" are in a whole different ballpark than the rest of this album. However, both of these songs are available on the Forty Licks CD, so just get that, unless you're a completist and need all the original albums.

I'm going to quote another reviewer here because this sentence was so articulate of Pop Rock of this era: "Take the 5 star Aftermath reviews with a grain of salt. Boomers tend to hype things from their coming of age."

THE STONES ARE COMING INTO THEIR OWN (2004-02-17)

Aftermath is one of my favorite Rolling Stones albums. It was a landmark album for the band as it was the first Rolling Stones album to consist of all original Jagger/Richards material. The days of doing cover versions of other artist's songs were slowing down as the band was beginning to develop their own style and sound. With original hits over the previous 15 months, such as "Heart Of Stone," "The Last Time," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," and "Get Off Of My Cloud," Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were developing into a very strong songwriting team. Besides Mick and Keith coming into their own as songwriters, Brian Jones was beginning to show his versatility as a musician as he played several differernt instruments: Indian sitar on "Paint It Black," marimbas (African xylophone) on "Under My Thumb," and mountain dulcimer on "Lady Jane," "I Am Waiting," as well as harmonica "High And Dry," "Goin' Home," and guitar and keyboards. The album also contains the 11-minute blues jam "Goin' Home," "Doncha' Bother Me," and the hilarious "Stupid Girl". The album was immediately praised as one of their best albums and has remained a fan favorite from the Brian Jones era. The album has some great pop tunes on it. However, the album does have some songs which don't do much for me like "Think," "It's Not Easy," and "Flight 505". Don't just judge the Rolling Stones by their radio hits, some of their studio albums have a lot of hidden gems, and this is one of them. The sound has been greatly improved for SACD as part of ABKCO Records "Rolling Stones Remastered Series". I highly recommend this album.

HISTORICAL REFERENCEThe album peaked at #2 on the US charts. The Aftermath sessions also produced the hit singles "19th Nervous Breakdown," "Mother's Little Helper," and "Paint It Black" in the US. Many songs on this album were also covered by other British artists at the time like The Zombies, Chris Farlowe, The Searchers, and others. The 11-minute "Goin' Home" is what inspired The Doors to make their song "The End" over 11-minutes long. The album was recorded entirely at RCA Studios in Hollywood, the same studio where Elvis Presley had once recorded, during two separate sessions, one in December 1965 and the other in March 1966. It was also the first Rolling Stones album recorded entirely in the United States, and it was also the first Stones album released in Stereo.

Aftermath: Stones Apocalypse (2004-01-05)

By 1966, The Rolling Stones had already been recognized as the indispensable figureheads of cool; they were salacious, arrogant, irreverent, and genuinely gifted musicians. Their innate talent for pumping out addictive singles took them to the top. And with the right they had earned, they took their influences from wherever they wanted, and did with it what they felt. This album is the Stones' zenith of innovation; swinging London genius sleaze with poppy, yet raucous R&B, and feverish delivery, set in a harsh, but sometimes delicate background of lust, boredom, and excess. The album begins with Paint It Black; a good taste of the classic dark edge the Stones would come to use more heavily on later albums, and what would eventually become their psuedo-demonic trademark. The song incorporates a mesmeric sitar, played by the remarkably talented Brian Jones, and charges on with a hazily delayed, but insistant drum beat, while Jagger spouts his troubled accounts of his "darkness". "Stupid Girl", is a lightly masoginistic anthem directed towards a girl, and it is rather playful, but done with such searing contempt that is causes the listner to shudder at the thought of the receiving end. The album slows its churn, with the impossibly beautiful Lady Jane. An archaic ode to a love, or many loves, perfected with the use of a harpsichord, and a dulcimer, both of which are played skillfully by Brian Jones, making for a dreamily fragile and haunting piece. Somehow this easily slips into the masculine Under My Thumb, another teasing number; with slick and bitter Jagger lyrcis & delivery, and a marimba to soften it's edges, along with a languid guitar. The album continues with more brilliance, carried off with seeming ease, and builds, accompanied by a howling slide guitar and brush drum, full boogie piano, and grating guitar, a perfect framework for the ascension into the celestial with the last two numbers. I Am Waiting takes us back to the elegance and mystique of Lady Jane, but ups the ante with an even softer melody, which is somehow urgent with it's sweetly plucked dulcimer, and gentle refrain, "Waiting for someone to come out of somewhere..." sung in fragmented tenderness. After this, he listner is left with the smooth electric-strum intro of Goin' Home, the nearly twelve mintue masterpiece, chock full of raw sexuality, chugging, soft rhythm, and primitively delivered lyrics of the singers wish to return to his love. The song comes off in basic R&B form, and gently descends into a long, strange, testament of zombie-like lust, complete with grunts and a variety of unrestrained vocal affects which leave one breathless and begging for more.

One Of Rock's All-Time Greatest (2003-11-18)

Actually, if it wasn't for the stupid, pointless "Going Home", I would've given this bad boy a whole FIVE stars. Be that as it may, this is still a killer album. And might I add that it's the first album with ALL original songs. No covers!We begin with the dreary sitar of Brian Jones to introduce "Paint It Black", a true classic. And it beats the crap out of "Satisfaction" any day of the week. It's essentially a psychedelic song, highlighted by Jagger's plaintive vocals. "Stupid Girl" is a funny little song that has Mick criticizing the female race in a somewhat cynical way. I don't think that "Lady Jane" is quite as beautiful as some people claim it is, but I'll admit that it's a wonderful ballad. "Under My Thumb" is the other radio classic on the album (along with "Paint It Black"), and it's a good song, but most radio hits are usually overrated. "Doncha Bother Me", however, is a fantastic blues tune with some top-notch guitar licks and Jagger's moody vocals. Then you have some arse-kickin' rockers like "Flight 505", "It Ain't Easy" and "I Am Waiting". "High And Dry" is a cool, country-esque tune with a somewhat unusual vocal melody, "Think" is basically your average Stones song, and "Going Home" is totally pointless, like I said in the introduction. It's basically just Jagger rambling on like a fool for about EIGHT MINUTES! What's the deal, Mick?But don't let that song detract from the overall glory of the album. Finally they stop doing other people's material and let those creative stones start a-rollin'...

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