Artist – Album: The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Released: 15th
April 1966
Sounds Like: It’s going to light up a field in Somerset in late
June
So, the sun has finally decided to join us in 2013, the
nights are getting longer, and we’re beginning to hear rumours of beer gardens
and barbeques. It won’t be long ‘til the first topless fat blokes are seen
strolling proudly down high streets across the land, surveying pasty shops and
bookies with regal authority. It can all mean only one thing – summer is not
too far away. Which can mean only one other thing. Festival season is due to
start, yay! A series of great, smaller gatherings
are already happening over the next few months, electrifying news is coming in
from foreign music lands (check this mind-blowing R.Kelly and Phoenix
collaboration at Coachella in California: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzxImerisPo&feature=youtu.be),
and tickets for the biggest festival of them all – Glastonbury – go on resale
this Sunday. Exciting times.
Of course,
Glastonbury would be amazing any year, but this year it promises to be extra
special. As well as the previously blogged about Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds,
Alabama Shakes, Public Enemy and Vampire Weekend, I would love to see the likes
of Elvis Costello, Evan Dando and the aforementioned Phoenix. But towering
above all of those are The Rolling Stones. Any of you people lucky enough to be
going, well, I’ve never been more jealous.
47 years earlier,
Jagger, Richards and co released Aftermath. It was arguably the first great
album of their career and inarguably (because it’s fact) the first one made
entirely of original songs. It may have been the year before that they’d released the legendary ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ and unfortunately the UK version of the album missed out
on the incredible ‘Paint It, Black’, but
there are still some special moments of this early incarnation of The Stones.
The dark ‘Mother’s Little Helper’ and
the ballad ‘Lady Jane’ are standouts,
as is the utterly brilliant ‘Under My
Thumb’, which possesses a funky background that masks the psychotic
possessive lyrics. Elsewhere it’s just good to hear Jagger do his thing and the
tragic figure of Brian Jones experiment with loads of instruments with a versatile virtuosity.
Worth a listen even if you’re not lucky enough to be seeing them in the summer. Grrr...
Albumaday... rating:
8/10
1. Mother’s
Little Helper – 2:45
2. Stupid
Girl – 2:56
3. Lady
Jane – 3:08
4. Under
My Thumb – 3:41
5. Doncha
Bother Me – 2:41
6. Goin’
Home – 11:13
7. Flight
505 – 3:27
8. High
and Dry – 3:08
9. Out
of Time – 5:37
10. It’s
Not Easy – 2:56
11. I
Am Waiting – 3:11
12. Take
It or Leave It – 2:47
13. Think
– 3:09
14. What
to Do – 2:32
Listen to ‘Under My Thumb’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcgZIz0Fd-w
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