Flowers

Some of the Stones' early hits brought together, some on other albums I already had, some I didn't have anywhere else in the collection.A few good, fast numbers like 'Have you seen your mother baby...' and 'Mother's Little Helper' (Aftermath), and strident like 'Take it or leave it' or 'Please go home' and wistful, like 'Sittin' on a fence'. The album takes you through the gamut of emotions, up and down like a big dipper (rollercoaster) at the fair

One hell of an album from the best band in the world performing at their best. A must for any Stones fan.

Amazon is selling this as the 'hybrid SACD' version. It is, in fact, the DSD version (ie just a normal CD) so I've sent it back for a refund. Shame, because it's a good album. So my search for the SACD version begins again, having wasted a week because of this purchase. Thanks for nothing, Amazon.

Flowers es el segundo álbum recopilatorio de la banda británica The Rolling Stones, lanzado para los Estados Unidos en 1967. Llegó al puesto #3 en las listas americanas en el verano de 1967.

I had this record when it came out. I had to replace it with a cd over the years. Brian Jones was a talented musician for a short time only with the Rolling Stones. He passed away early in life and what a loss to the music.

A huge and rare thank you to Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein for having producer Andrew Loog Oldham unleash this record for the American fanbase. He offers a very strong album of killer singles (a few on prior U.S. albums) and luscious leftover tracks from the UK versions of "Aftermath" and "Between the Buttons". "Mother's Little Helper"/"Lady Jane" and "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend the Night Together" are all known and wonderful A/B 45 sides and worth acquiring again in this context."Flowers" reflects the Rolling Stones spinning around in their own world, chasing glamor and other indulgences. The undisciplined intensity of the other single here, "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow" is the wildest single of their career. With its zany title, Keith Richards' raw guitar, pounding piano and blaring horns, the Stones have never sounded more progressive and apocalyptic. That could be why the song barely scraped the Top Ten.The one misstep is the inclusion of their Temptations cover of "My Girl". I don't regard it as lousy but vaguely directionless. I would have subbed it with that great obscurity - the Spectorized hard-blues of "Who's Driving Your Plane?". Its psychoanalysis would have undergirded "Flowers" concept perfectly. Plus, Ian Stewart plays piano at his bluesy best.It's okay though, because there are titanically impressive rarities which make "Flowers" a must for scoping out. The musically lovely "Backstreet Girl", with its accordion accompaniment", is a Parisian musette set in juxtaposition to Mick Jagger's sardonic words. "Please Go Home" is another put-down song. I love how the use of reverb funnels Mick's frustrations. This cut is heavy on the Bo Diddley sound with Brian Jones weirding it up way more (as only he can) with his theremin.Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts are the model rhythm section for not overplaying, but serving the song in the most exciting way. Bill's thunderbolt bass and Charlie laying down his trademark groove on "Ride On Baby" own this song. As on that hidden gem on "Between the Buttons", "All Sold Out", this is early evidence to me that Charlie is rock's number one drummer.My assumption is that Andrew subconsciously chose the running order of "Flowers". Yet the best was saved for the end. "Sittin' On a Fence" is in my personal top ten of greatest Stones tracks. With Mick haggling over lifelong commitment, he presents himself at his peak of unwilled vulnerability and Keith's and Brian's get-up-and-go acoustic guitars hold the music up to stunning effect.There can be a reasonable argument as to if "Flowers" works as a legitimate Rolling Stones album. But I believe it does because the three songs that make their second appearance on a Stones record are bagged so naturally with the rest of the music. A point of interest: the album's artwork is the most telling in the Rolling Stones catalogue.

Excellent !

既発売の米国盤アルバムから漏れた曲を中心とした「落ち穂拾い」アルバムだが、結果として、シスコのフラワー・ムーブメントの代表作の感になってしまった_ラッキーな作品。特に_ラスト2曲は_英国盤では見かけ無いが、棄て難い佳曲。