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The Rolling Stones - Flowers Audio CD

A fair review of the The Rolling Stones "Flowers" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Rolling Stones reviews here, or go back to the The Rolling Stones tabs.

The Rolling Stones Band: The Rolling Stones
Title: Flowers
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Release Date: 2002-08-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Ruby Tuesday 2: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing in the Shadow? 3: Let's Spend the Night Together 4: Lady Jane 5: Out of Time 6: My Girl 7: Backstreet Girl 8: Please Go Home 9: Mother's Little Helper 10: Take It or Leave It 11: Ride on Baby 12: Sittin' on a Fence

Few hidden gems here
e. If you are a Stones fan (and if you're reading this then you probably are), you're probably familiar with all the hits on this CD (i. , the songs that are on greatest hits compilations). You may be tempted to get the CD to hear some hidden gems -- songs that are good but that for some reason didn't become hits. Anyone doing that will, I think, be disappointed. The songs that did not become hits did not do so for a reason, and the reason is that they're really not that good.

When they made "Flowers" the Stones had not yet reached their peak of the 1969-74 glory years. Prior to that, although they made some really good stuff, they also made some clunkers. This CD reflects that.


The Stones are still GREAT
They are still far better than anything today! . Music to really take you back but also great for those who have never heard the Stones.


Stones of the 60s
Hardly played songs that are just so GREAT!. This is the one that brings back memories.


TECHNIGLOW STONES..........
Hands down.
The 60's Stones are the Stones at their best. I have always found myself to be avid in that when it comes to a bands albums, I need to have the REAL albums. So things like hits compilations and US re-cuts of UK titles really bother me for the most part. I also have a strong disposition when it comes to singles. But with The Rolling Stones of the sixties, it's all about the singles, and the albums of this period really only act as a collection of said singles, whether they be the propers, the comps, or the US rehashed UK versions. SO, when it comes to The Stones, I take it what ever way it comes.

I have a memory attached to this album, where a few of us were getting down at this girls house one day back in the day, and all we had to listen to was this album on a beat up record player. Ahhh, good times indeed. . . this has always remained one of my favorite collections of Stones songs. Flowers mixed up the "psychedelic" cuts of the Stones, right in the period before every rock band around hashed out their psychedelic albums in 1967. I guess it'd be better described as the pre-pyschedelic phase (where it was getting weird but still concentrating on the music, and not so much about just being weird. )

This one has ballads, blues, and straight up rock, all with a tinge of techniglo that you can see on the cover. The title is very appropriate to the material within, and the mix just straight ahead rocks out. Classic hits like SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER are mixed with the lesser known (my favorites are the dark ballads) like OUT OF TIME. Everything is good. If I tried to trade up here for proper Stones albums I'd get completely lost, this mix is a perfect disc for me. Peace and Love peeps.


Insiteful Stones Release
The boys were beginning to spread their songwriting wings, as exhibited by "Ruby Tuesday", with its lush orchestral arrangements, the horns and effects on the dark "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In the Shadows" . This is an interesting release of B sides and tunes that were not available on the UK releases by the Stones. "Let's Spend the Night Together" features the classic piano of Nicky Hopkins, with racey lyrics for the time and overlooked vocal harmonies on the break before the band comes back in. "Lady Jane" is dominated by a crisp harpsichord, and strings that add a sophistication previously not heard on earlier Stones releases. A different version of "Out Of Time" with a full orchestra appears later on Metamorphisis, which was sampled by the Verve for "Bittersweet Symphony". On this disk, the song begins with a naked Hammond organ before the band joins. "My Girl" is a version of the Temptations tune, one of the first of many the Stones would cover over the years (others include "Ain't To Proud To Beg" and "Just My Imagination") "Back Street Girl" is a lovely acoustic tune, again with harpsichord. "Please Go Home" has some interesting vocal effects for the time period that sound almost like the backward tape technique that was being experimented with. "Mother's Little Helper" has sitar and an interesting social commentary for a group that would later take a different stance on recreational drug use. "Take It Or Leave It" features melodic vocal La La lines backing a pretty melody. "Ride on Baby" and "Sitting On a Fence" are also quiter, more melodic songs with nice acoustic guitar work. This is a great release for the period, that show a different style of songwriting for the Stones.


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