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silkcut1978_
I never understood why somebody decided to put Ruby Tuesday and Let's Spend The Night Together on this LP only a few months after those songs were on BTB.
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silkcut1978_
I never understood why somebody decided to put Ruby Tuesday and Let's Spend The Night Together on this LP only a few months after those songs were on BTB.
Replace them with "Who's Driving Your Plane" and "What To Do" and this would have been a perfect supplement for the US-market.
In Germany this LP was much more a compilation as most of the songs had been already released on AfterMath and BTB.
Anyway, neither fish nor fowl, a rather strange release but a lot of fine tunes on it.
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thkbeercan
Flowers LP was a reaction to the American "Summer of Love" in 1967.
This was a marketing decision by the American record company (or Allen Klein) and was not prepared by the Stones.
It was more or less a rush release and was assembled from released tracks which had not appeared on US LP's, non-LP singles, unreleased tracks which were left-over from the "Could You Walk On Water" project and a few previously released tracks which more or less fit into the 'hippy' times.
The Beatles had issued Sgt. Pepper on June 1st. The Stones would not have anything new in that vein until 6 months later...These were the days when bands were expected to produce product a couple of times a year. But the Stones had nothing ready to fill the pipeline that summer...
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Rockman
By the way, it's possibly the greatest of all Stones compilations.
No the UK version of Hide Tide Green Grass towers way over it ...
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silkcut1978_
I never understood why somebody decided to put Ruby Tuesday and Let's Spend The Night Together on this LP only a few months after those songs were on BTB.
Replace them with "Who's Driving Your Plane" and "What To Do" and this would have been a perfect supplement for the US-market.
In Germany this LP was much more a compilation as most of the songs had been already released on AfterMath and BTB.
Anyway, neither fish nor fowl, a rather strange release but a lot of fine tunes on it.
Sad Day and Long, Long While should have been included as well and they could have dropped Lady Jane another repeated track.
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Rockman
First chance ta hear Stones Ride On Baby .... eeeeeenough said
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silkcut1978_
I never understood why somebody decided to put Ruby Tuesday and Let's Spend The Night Together on this LP only a few months after those songs were on BTB.
Replace them with "Who's Driving Your Plane" and "What To Do" and this would have been a perfect supplement for the US-market.
In Germany this LP was much more a compilation as most of the songs had been already released on AfterMath and BTB.
Anyway, neither fish nor fowl, a rather strange release but a lot of fine tunes on it.
Sad Day and Long, Long While should have been included as well and they could have dropped Lady Jane another repeated track.
You're right, I forgot that Lady Jane was on the US Aftermath as well.
@Dandy: still I don't think of Flowers as a compilation in first place. It's the same mishmash of songs like December's Children or other early US-releases. They reached out for whatever was left in the pot of songs that weren't released in the US up to this point. They only failed by including 3 songs that were available before. But 9 (new and none LP-tracks) out of 12 isn't too bad, isn't it?
For the rest of the world it was a compilation of songs mostly widely available - with only 3 new songs on it.
Why on earth they cut down Out Of Time to a 3 minute pop-song is beyond my imagination.
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Rockman
First chance ta hear Stones Ride On Baby .... eeeeeenough said