Aftermath

Lowkey pedestrian.

The Rolling Stones—the world's most successful and arguably most overrated rock band. I'm sorry, but I've never liked them. *Aftermath* was recorded during the Brian Jones era—the period of the band's history that appeals to me the most. Two songs on this album really struck a chord with me: "Lady Jane" and "Paint It Black." They are quite different from one another, yet both are truly excellent in their own way. I can also appreciate "Out of Time," but the rest of the album either leaves me completely cold or is downright annoying. I’m not really a "blues" fan, either, and I’ve always found that particular incarnation of the Stones absolutely repulsive. So, I’ll give the band two stars for those two genuinely good songs—plus another half-star, ideally, though that’s not an option here—so, two stars it is.

What are we meant to take away from songs like “under my thumb” and “stupid girl”? Ridiculous misogynistic album & a boring waste of time.

Honestly some of the songs sound like they wouldn’t sound out of place on a spinal tap covers album. The highs on this album are great but the lows really drag it down.

It's just kinda annoying.

Nope

That was funny this really sucked

This is a good album for a new band to listen to before listening to exile on mainstreet… to realize that early albums often kinda suck. This album kinda sucks.

Did US as it was shorter and has paint it black Not as fond of this as their later work, and when you look at what Beatles/Beach Boys were doing in 1966 this clearly pales by comparison, though I appreciate they both lean much more towards pop than Stones

Let’s repeat the same lyrics one more time.

i can see why this is good music but it gets on my nerves very quickly. not for me

Paint it black go brrrrr Stupid girl repetitive Lady Jane repetitive Inder my thumb repetitive Doncha bother me blues go but still repetative Think is ok Flight 505 eh High and dry the It's not easy ok I am waiting eh, long and repetitive Going home stfu about how tight ur girl is

kinda mid had 3 songs i liked lowkey are some creeps stupid girl 😡

Starts off kinda promising but this is just not a very interesting record

It’s been said that the music of today is all chorus no verse, with heavy repetition to accommodate short attention spans. What, then, the hell would you call this?

oops forgot to rate this 2

Not wow’ed. This is my third Rolling Stones album and I’m starting to come to the conclusion that this band just isn’t for me.

After the genius that is Paint It, Black, the rest of the album falls remarkably short to me. There is way too much repetition within the songs and nothing manages to capture the essence of what makes the first song so great. It's like two completely diffferent bands. I didn't find this album enjoyable, especially the final song, 'Going Home'. How long was his commute? 2/5 Paint It, Black 10 Stupid Girl 4 Lady Jane 3 Under My Thumb 5 Doncha Bother Me 4 Think 6 Flight 505 4 High And Dry 3 It's Not Easy 4 I Am Waiting 3 Going Home 2

Paint it Black was good. I'm surprised at how much I didn't enjoy this considering the Rolling Stones.

Even in 66, Jagger's voice was annoying. Due to studio tech, the recording is thin with a notable absense of kick and bass. Apart from Paint It Black - one of the few original tracks they wrote, this is a work of honky tonk Americana with little subtlety or individuality.

this album sucks, and if you manage to get a version without Paint it Black then it really blows ass

Meh

Dawg I just can’t stand Mick Jaggers voice. Nails on a chalkboard.

j'ai trouvé ça chiant #avisdivergent

Not the worst Rolling Stones album I've heard, that's for sure...but still...let me out of this cage, I'm not doing fine, etc. etc.

Best Song: Paint it, black

emm parece q soy hater de la musica, pero q puedo decir... este album puede q me haya parecido hasta peor q el de prince, porq si hay algo peor q un album malo es un album olvidable y aburrido. q el de prince era las dos pero creo q era mas malo q aburrido, entonces siento q le agarre algo de cariño dentro de todo porq habia momentos q me llamaban la atencion o capaz algun tema por ahi q me parecia bueno. este album de los rolinga puede q sea mas bancable y consistente, y supongo q lo q hacen lo hacen bien para ser rock del 66, pero posta casi todos los temas me suenan igual, y tiene pila de temas. tipo los primeros temas yo decia "emm esta bueno me gusta" pero cuando ya iba como por el quinto tema decia "me aburrrooooo". los unicos temas q destaco son "Lady Jane" y "Under My Thumb" q oh sorpresa son los mas conocidos ahrr. creo q mi cabeza esta configurada para disfrutar el mainstream y soy otra oveja del rebaño.... no pero bueno por eso deben ser los mas conocidos esos temas supongo. lei por ahi q este album fue como un breakthru en la discografia de los rolin y q empezaron experimentar con mas instrumentos y eso... pues vaya mierda de brekthru q cojones estaban haciendo antes esta gente entonces. va puede q escuche un poco esa experimentacion e innovacion si, pero como en tres temas nada mas. apartee, comparo lo q sacaron bandas como los beatles (q eran su competencia directa) o los beach boys ese mismo año y no puedo evitar pensar q esta gente se esta quedando atrasss. q ya se q los roling hacen rock y los birels y los bich boys hacen mas pop y eso pero una cosa no quita la otra ahr. asi q ta diria q este album puede q sea hasta mas pesado q el de prince en momentos porq es aburridisimoooo y tambien es innecesariamente largo, corte casi una horaa. estoy seguro q la otra version es mejor asi q no ser tan duros con los rolinss, igual un dos

Oui bon bof… La première est connu, le reste moins et je comprends pourquoi. Par forcément touché par cet album…

Wow I was really excited to hear this album as a whole since I love Paint It Black, but that ol' 60's rock strikes again.... Now there's no particularly bad songs here, but once again the vast majority of it is just background noise that just isn't memorable at all. I'm sure at the time it was probably newer and exciting, but by today's standards it's just meh...

oh dude... I am bored as hell

It's okay, but it didn't catch me. I listened to the UK version and wished I listened to the US version cause 'Paint it Black' is on it.

I too listened to the UK version. Not much that I enjoyed here, but I didn't hate it. When I think of The Rolling Stones I think of excitement, but this was quite boring.

Let It Bleed is when I really start enjoying the Stones, but there are occasional good songs on this one (“Under My Thumb” is great). Overall pretty unexciting for such a great group.

I really don’t like the pre-Mick Taylor era of The Rolling Stones at all because it reeks of chasing trends and has none of what makes them a great band.

i really disliked the first half of the album, i think its awful. but the later half was more tasteful than i expected. never been a big Rolling Stones fan, but whatever

I agree that they belong on this list, but I never was a huge fan of The Rolling Stones. I am going to rate the UK version because this is the one that I have been redirectioned to, so for me it's a 2. If it would have redirectioned me to the US version, which has Paint it Black, it would have been a 3.

Boring

i just can't wait- for this album to be done with! Would I listen again: literally no Deserves to be on this list: enough is enough 1.8

I'm surprised at how bad this Rolling Stones album is. I love the Stones. Outside of Paint It Black (or Mother's Little Helper, unclear what the actual first track is), I'm hard pressed to find an enjoyable song. The mid-back-half filler is the HIGHLIGHT. I've never liked Under My Thumb which is the other big song on here. It's Not Easy and Flight 505 are ok.

Highlights: Out of Time, Paint It Black. Note: the UK edition has three more songs (Out of Time, What To Do and Take It or Leave It) and swaps Paint It Black for Mother's Little Helper. I listened to both. To me, Aftermath is where we hear the Stones build their recognisable sound. They get creative with instruments and they use more of Keith and Mick's songs. Both editions start with a punch to the face: Paint It Black (US) and Mother's Little Helper (UK). The former a theme song for depression. The latter making it very clear that benzo addiction is not confined to the one class. After track one it gets messy. Like the Stones albums that follow, it's not flawless. The tracklist doesn't have a natural flow to it. You have blues rock songs and you have the psychedelic art rock songs. Overall: 4/10

The most overrated band of all time.

Jagger and his oversized rapey mouth can get out of my ears please and thank you. I am tired of hearing music from the 60s and 70s from men belittling women. It makes me sick. 1 star, but an extra star for Paint it Black. Death to harmonicas.

didnt feel the album much, wasnt in the mood i guess

Of course I know "paint it black", it's a classic that I've known all my life. The next song is kind of stupid, petty, and childish. It's just repeating how stupid a girl is over and over and not being clever about it at all. You can write a song about hating someone and it can be good; you can write a song about someone being stupid and it can be good, just not if you're The Rolling Stones. I am recognizing "under my thumb" a little bit which makes me want to give it a like but then it's also making me feel gross. I like "doncha bother me", I like the instrument that makes a sound after some of the lines. I don't think I've ever seen that word, doncha. This whole album kind of just feelings like men hating women. He thinks girls are stupid, should be under his thumb, and should recognize he's always right. They have their bangers, but I'm not the biggest fan of the rolling stones so far. "High and dry" is okay, but there's definitely a better High and Dry by Radiohead! All radio and no head. I want to give this a 2 I think even though it has "Paint it black"

boring

Yet another rolling stones album, and another chance to really highlight that outside of a handful of songs over their career they are a bit crap. Paint it black is a good song, though I've heard it too many times to really care now. Strange how they didn't bother to experiment with their 60s emo style any further, might have been interesting. But nope, back to some really ropey blues rock. We've definitely had a few of these songs on another stones album we've had (I assume an American one), bit of a pisstake for the list. Could this be the last stones album on the list? I really hope so.

Just monotonous. Paint It Black had it on the precipice of being a 3, but the overall weakness of the rest of the album combined with the fact that it wasn't even included on the UK album caused me to settle on a 2.

Everytime I listen to a Stones album I think less of them. Listening to this one, were they the prototype of the modern incel? Track 1 - older women and mothers are drug addicts. Track 2 - young women are vain, mean and stupid. Track 3 - is an engaged dude cheating. Track 4 - OMG, this is a woman abuser who has brainwashed his "girl" to not look at others, only speaks when spoken to, and behaves like a pet dog. And the reviewer comments "casually offensive lyrics"? Shame on the reviewer as much as on Mick and Keith. Musically it's catchy. I see the draw. But this does not age well.

I’ve always thought people could be divided by whether they like the Stones or the Beatles more. I’ve always said Beatles. This doesn’t change that.

Paint it Black and Under My Thumb are classics. The rest of it just felt like generic 60's rock/blues.

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Certainly not the best rolling stones album... Jeez actually sort of bad at times. A couple good songs to hold is up above copping a 1

Fair

Why is this not good at all

Paint It Black is awesome, the rest of this, not so much.

Va fan heter skiten "1001 Albums you must hear before you die" eller heter den "1001 Albums with one good single you must hear before you die" mannen kom igen. Och så slutar albumet med en 11 minuter lång låt som kunde varit 2, jag visste inte att det var från denna låt Metallica fick sin inspiration.

So this record totally makes this list merely for being a foundational blues rock album. Yeah there’s hits, but given the stones other work, what’s the actual point of putting this on here? This is a prime example of why we don’t need to have half of every big bands discography on here. Overall just a boring album, maybe this was also their first record of all originals? Idk. Sure there’s hits all over, but they’ve been played to death. 1966 is stacked and this album doesn’t really push the needle for me.

ZzzZ easiest 2 probably so far. Why, what makes this so worth everyone's time? I am about halfway through this and it is just boring and uninspired I can not believe these guys have so much music. Hot take the stones are like greenday. Good at the start but far far far far far too many records tryna recapture the flame. I can’t do this. Their first original album and it shows paint it black And that’s it so many other debuts are interesting and cool this is sloppy and boring never again almost a 1 but saved by some songs

Under my thumb really sucked the vibes out of this one tbh - T

I don't know if I'll ever come to terms with early Stones material. It all seems bland to me, a whirl of lackluster songwriting and underage grooming. "Paint It, Black" points towards a certain amount of future greatness, "Out Of Time" creates a nostalgic gravitas that I appreciate -- though I prefer the version by Chris Farlowe. Listening to "Under My Thumb" is an uncomfortable task, though, and the closing track on the US version, "Goin' Home", drags on forever without any common sense.

It's fine. Hard to imagine this being subversive but 60 years ago is a long time.

well i got annoyed by the lyrics in some of the early songs but the music itself was pretty boppy, esp paint it black and going home. ngl i didn’t listen to the whole thing cuz of said annoyance. not a bad record necessarily i’m just annoyed lmaoooo.

Paint it Black as an opener… I do like this song. The Rolling Stones were a huge early concert for me in 1987 so they have a soft-spot with me. I don’t love them, but I like them. Stupid Girl is more jammy-early-Stones. Lady Jane… Jagger crooning slow, folky… no. Under My Thumb is another classic Stones, nice. Doncha Bother Me… bluesy with an annoying guitar riff - no. Think is nice. Flight 505 is 60’s Jagger riffing, High & Dry and It’s Not Easy is some bluesy country… not so much. It’s not easy sounds like 60’s progressive rock / of the day unique but a little dated. I am Waiting is weird and I don’t like it. Going Home is an 11-minute jangle that lost me in the first minute… The back half of this album I did not really like at all.

I had a soft spot for early Stones records, but not anymore.

No está mal pero muy sesentoso para mí gusto. No lo volvería a escuchar por gusto.

Just boring other than Paint It Black and Under My Thumb

It's fine. It's nothing special. Minus one point for how gross Stupid Girl and Under My Thumb made me feel. I could really feel the hatred towards women in the song.

I would pay him a therapy if that means that he'll stop writing those lyrics. Also I don't understand why there is normal version of Aftermath, which I listened and have absolute masterpiece called Paint it black, and then there is UK version which is somehow a lot worse that the original and there is not Paint it black. As a music in the backround while i was cleaning pretty good. Going home is so incredibly boring and long I turned it of after three minutes. But still there's paint it black so it won't be 1*.

2/3. Some truly questionable lyricism here; Stupid Girl is terrible, and Under My Thumb is classic misogyny. I didn't realize they were so country/cowboy crazy at this time, but I enjoyed some of it. Paint It Black is a great song and justifies the rest of the album, though I did enjoy parts of the second half. Nonessential, but Paint It Black just carries it.

Not familiar with this album but know the 2 hit songs. The rest are ok. "Going Home" is way too long and I don't care much for the attempts at blues harmonica and guitar integration. Even though they broke out on this record and experimented with different instruments and genres, it's not that interesting. The Stones got too many albums and are overrated. The more I delve into their work, the more I think they just may be a greatest hits collection. It's been a while since we got one from these guys on the list. Better than the last 2 and I understand the impact this had on their careers. Still, I'll take the shorter US version with "Paint It Black." 2.40 stars.

Not their finest

Not the best rolling stones album

Biggest surprise about this album (US version) is how incredibly dated so much of it sounds. Favorite: Paint It Black Would I listen to it again: No

Album Review 069 Aftermath by The Rolling Stones (1966) Rating 2.5/5 There are two versions of Aftermath, the UK release and the US one - I’m going with the UK version here, even though it’s a weaker album (in my opinion) and omits Paint It Black which is arguably the best song across both versions of the record. Aftermath is the first album by the Stones with 100% their own material and their weaknesses and immaturity in their songwriting at this early stage in their career are clear (especially the misogyny of Under My Thumb and Stupid Girl, etc.). Whilst listening, I read a handful of reviews of Aftermath, one of which saying that Jagger/Richards were the cake and Jones was the icing (yeah a poor analogy but work with me here), but for me it’s Jones’ work that provide the highlights with the unorthodox-at-the-time instrumentation and experimentation. The rest of the album is average at best.

Okay im not a big fan of sad boys moaning to the microphone - why more of albums here are in this way

Honestly, musically underwhelming and overlong. Wears its 1960s-era misogyny on its sleeve to a nearly alarming extent. I listened to the original UK tracklist, which is missing the actual smackdown classic “Paint It Black”, but I’m not going to do this all again for a different opening song and tracklist sequencing. I know what that song sounds like and I’ve heard the rest of the album. I am aware of their more interesting music. It’s enough.

eu nu ascult cantecul ala de 11 minute pa. nimic foarte remarcabil, nu m a prins cine stie ce pana acum. imi place chitara de pe primul track

Alright album, sounds like gow I expected Paint It Black was a fun intro, I liked that song for a while now. However, not much else stuck out to me. 4.7/10

One of the earlier stones albums, not.as sufisticated as the big oned later on

Liked a few of the songs, but wasn't interested in continually listening. Kept stopping it for distractions, and then would forget I was even listening to it.

Too old for my taste

I'm not necessarily a Stones hater or anything but this is just not it yet. Maybe I'd give it 3 stars if so many of the lyrics weren't so gross. I mean maybe they're trying to do an ironic commentary thing in at least some cases but it really doesn't land. Even setting that aside—musically it's definitely no Rubber Soul, for all you can tell on certain tracks that they were trying (it really is pretty funny to take a look at the dates on the Wikipedia pages and realize that the guys got into the studio to start recording this like 5 days after that album dropped... like *2 days* after it got released in North America, which is where they were at the time... I recognize that that day was also like 3 days after they wrapped up some touring obligations/finally had a a schedule clear enough for studio time, but like, that chronology is just always going to read as the Stones hearing Rubber Soul, panicking, and booking some emergency sessions to try and push out something that could compete. lmao). It's not bad, on the whole, it's just really not very interesting to me.

Hmm - I Can see where they are headed, but they are not quite there yet. Plus, the lyrics are crazy

Didn’t realize that Meat Puppets song was a cover! Otherwise a pretty arduous album. Stones didn’t become cool until post Brian Jones.

The Stones only figured it out from Let It Bleed, then perfected it on Sticky Fingers, then did the obligatory 60s/70s double album that would have been their best album if it was a single album. That run of 3 is pretty unimpeachable, but it kind is the reason we think of them as the rock and roll force they are in popular culture. The early and mid 60s stones have muted, clean guitars, no debauchery, minimal energy. It all sounds like it's recorded in black and white somehow. Mick was finding a bit of it, but none of the band have any idea of what their iconic roles would be. Where they did get experimental, in Going Home, it didn't exactly sound authentic. Jim Morrison would do scream scatting about stupid nonsense better next year, and he didn't really do that very well. Sticky Fingers and Exile will get a 5, this gets a 2. The only person in the world the likes this over their better stuff is Wes Anderson

começa mt bem e dps perde o gás e tbm as piores letras da historia pqp

Idk, I don't care much for early stones.

Not bad, but also not something I really listen to in my own time.

Considering how famous they are, they are really, really boring.

To be honest it’s ok. Nothing much to say. Good music but nothing new or extraordinary.

Sometimes when people are empowered to put their thoughts to music...their thoughts then get put to music. I don't really like Mick Jagger's singing or what he sings about on this album. Musically, at it's best it reminds me of one of my favourite discoveries from this project The Flamin' Groovies. Perhaps I'll like their later albums better.

les hits sont des classiques mais dès qu'on s'en éloigne ...

There are like, one or two good tunes on here when Brian Jones gets to go a bit psychedelic, but then the rest are just pure mid-60s blues filler. Jagger’s voice has never honked quite so hard, it’s actually quite annoying. Then there's the lyrics - hashtagproblematic at best, rancid and rapey at worst. A real slog. ¡No bueno!

You turn on Paint It Black, and you're absolutely sure this album is going to be a ripper. Within 30 seconds of Stupid Girl you realize you've been mistaken. The Stones/Beatles debate seems really stupid when you realize this was the type of stuff the Stones were working on when the Beatles were making Revolver. Stones didn't fully hit their stride until Let It Bleed in 69.

Spinal Tap rip off. The abundance of mysoginist lyrics is the only reason I boosted them to two stars. Aside from the occasional foot tap, it was mid at best. I'll have to hold a memory of this album for the foreseeable future... and I want to paint it black.

Now I finally know what Rolling Stones tune Neil Young took for “Borrowed Tune,” so that’s cool. Neil did it better, of course. This one really isn’t it.

maybe i should’ve listened to the uk version..

under my thumb is really good. the rest? forgettable as fuck

I liked this Rolling Stones album much better than the previous one but I'm starting to get really bored with '60s/'70s boy bands. I know they are iconic and did a lot of paving for new music but you can't tell me that out of ALL the albums in the world that this band deserves 2 spots (and maybe more, I'm only like 15 days in). There wasn't anything better than this?

I keep finding that Stones albums are 1-2 incredible songs and an awful lot of dross. Paint it Black is one of the greatest songs of all time. Under my thumb, despite the misogyny, is also catchy. The rest is utter filler. As an album it can just, JUST, scrape a three due to not being awful and the use of some interesting instruments in places, but it really isn't that great. In fact, I've just talked it down to a 2...

Rolling Stones still in their boy band phase

i tthing they have a lot of songs that are to repetitive in the sense of the verses and stuff and i dont really lime that cause i get tired and bored

Great start with Paint it Black! And then, 37 minutes of lame music with misogynistic lyrics and one of the worst 10 minute songs I’ve ever heard!

apart from paint in black the album is very boring, not really my cup of tea

this mfer doesn't know how to sing

Not their fault but i just can’t take this seriously. They sound like a parody of themselves

Wasn't overly impressed by this. Much prefer the stones of the later 60s and 70s. Sounds great for the time though.

The Black Dahlia’s cover of “Paint It Black” (or was it “Paint It, Black”?) rips so fucking hard. Five stars.

Aika rasittavaa vonguttelua, Under my thumbissa hyvä sovitus(marimba). Going home kovasti liian pitkä jammailu (yhdessä kohtaa vähän led zeppelinin tapaista meininkiä), Flight 505 alussa Can’t get no satisfactionin kulku

#237/1001. Going home, babe. What was this? Jagger failing to be Jim Morrison a year before the Doors album was released? Drop some of the shitty songs and jams, rethink your lyrics, put some more effort on the production and perhaps this would be a decent album. Or actually, drop the rock and roll and blues - they are at best when they experiment with sounds, instruments and songwriting. And put only the best songs from the two versions on one album so we can talk.

Der er nogle bops på - Out Of Time er et af deres bedste numre - men altså det er lidt pinligt at lave det her når Beatles laver Rubber Soul inde ved siden af

Det her projekt cementerer at jeg synes Rolling Stones er overvurderede. Skal de egentlig nævnes i samme sætning som bedre britiske 60er-kunstnere, såsom Beatles og KINKS?

Great intro, not so great afterwards

A song over 10 minutes? Mother’s little helper is a strong opening song but the rest of the album drags.

Aftermath will be my final Rolling Stones album to review. The Stones' discography has been a bit of a mixed bag for me. I didn't care for their self-titled album at all, but Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers were insanely good. Unfortunately, I'm betting that this album will fall on the lower end of the spectrum for me, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. For what it's worth, I'll be reviewing the UK version of this album, and I'm already bummed that "Paint It Black" is only on the US version. Even though Aftermath started off on a strong note with “Mother’s Little Helper,” I wound up not really caring much for this album. I like when the Rolling Stones lean more heavily into blues rock, but the blues rock songs on this album weren’t that interesting or novel to me, and the songs that weren’t as blues rock-oriented, like “Lady Jane,” just made this album feel uneven. There were some nice musical elements here and there throughout this album, but my favorite Rolling Stones albums have catchy guitar hooks and riffs, but I felt like that was really missing from Aftermath. On top of that, this album just didn’t have that Mick Jagger attitude and swagger that other Rolling Stones albums tend to have. Aftermath was a bit of a chore to get through, and the eleven minute “Goin’ Home” didn’t do anything to help that. On the plus side though, the aforementioned “Mother’s Little Helper” and “Under My Thumb” are great. I’ve never really liked “Mother’s Little Helper,” mostly because of its discordant sound, but I’d also never paid attention to the lyrics before, and that sound matches the lyrics so well. I think this song is pretty genius. On “Under My Thumb,” I loved the handclaps, fuzz bass, and marimba. The overall sound of this song is really fun and unique, although the lyrics seem to lean into misogyny. Other than that, “High and Dry” and “Out of Time” were pretty good, but the rest of the album was a bit of a slog. I’m going to have to fire up Let It Bleed to rinse my ears of this one.

Not terrible but not great either. To be honest, after the first 5 songs, there was, like, nothing in this album. Everything was extremely basic and uninspired. I liked Mothers Little Helper, but outside of that, the album got repetitive very quickly and ended up feeling underwhelming. It wasn’t hard to listen to or anything. Just wasn’t interesting. 5/10

meh

Meh, stones nooit echt gesnapt

Don’t love The Rolling Stones for whatever reason

Hey I really like that Under My Thumb song. I think I’ll buy the whole album. Oof. There isn’t one album track I’d ever want to hear again. And that, students, is the difference between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. You must own every Beatles album. You only need the Stones greatest hits.

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Despite loving Paint it black, the whole album isn't interesting at all.

Well, it's the rolling stones. I feel obligated to give them a three because they are the Rolling Stones but I'm not going to do it. "Look at that stupid girrrrrrl" get bent

boring, repetitive, weirdly misogynistic

i dont like rolling stones in general

The production and sound are incredible. The unfaltering misogyny is repulsive. When even the Wikipedia introduction says “Women feature as prominent characters in their often dark, sarcastic, casually offensive lyrics,” you know it’s bad. My main concern is that The Rolling Stones are role models who end up normalizing this kind of harmful male dominance/female subordination mindset.

- paint it black on kyllä tuote mutta en tiiä sit näistä muista - pikkasen omituisia nämä naisiin liittyvät sanoitukset - ei tätä jaksa kyllä koko levyä kuunnella

Some songs were catchy but hated some of the lyrics about women. Some songs were just so annoying, wanted to skip. Highlights: Out of Time.

The leg was moving throughout this one. Nothing did in for me in particular.

Arribas muy arriba (paint it black) pero bajos muy bajos (under my thump??)

Har nu plågat mig igenom båda versionerna. Paint It, Black, shoutout GH3 (världens bästa tv-spel genom tiderna) är ju en banger och Under My Thumb är ju en bra LÅT men texten herregud haha. Gubbtrist!

Två låtar in och mer kvinnohat än 50 cent. Spännande. Blir tyvärr lite uttråkad av detta. Den här kom ut samma år som ”revolver” och folk ställer på allvar frågan: ”Stones eller Beatles?” Sjuka, sjuka jävlar.

Går bara ner sig efter Paint It Black som är riktigt bra (Guitar Hero 3 någon?). Resten är okej, rent instrumentellt. Ju mer jag läser texterna, ju mer ogillar jag dessa grabbar. Cringe! Lägligt också nu när Jagger visat sig i Epsteinfilerna. Ännu mer cringe!

Skönt att det inte råder någon större diskrepans mellan aphjärnans och gruppens allmänna inställning till vad som tydligen är ett gubbslems-album. Okej musik med några låtar som är mer än okej.

äntligen har jag förstått! rolling stones är ett misogynt pojkband! de älskar tjejer och de hatar tjejer. det är såå poserande och innehållslöst. och visst! det är lite svängigt. och visst! jag har en väldigt personlig relation till paint it black eftersom det 2008 var min favoritlåt på guitar hero 3. men det räcker tyvärr inte boys.

Mitt förhållande till Rolling Stones och Oasis är rätt lika. Kan bli sugen på deras energi en gång om året och sen tröttna efter två låtar. Samma hände här. Stupid girls

Why on earth did they not include Paint it Black on this album in the UK? What a huge mistake. Without Paint it Black it's a 2, with Paint it Black it is a 3.

i suppose its not bad, just does nothing for me. and am i crazy or are the drums terrible on this

Like the Beatles, their super early stuff is mostly unimpressive. But strong two first tracks

This isn’t a great Rolling Stones album. However it was placed on the list for the significance that the authors had their head up their asses. Once that is realized, you learn that there’s only a very tiny fraction of the albums that you should listen to before you die that they picked.

Hate to say it but I’ve never heard a Rolling Stones song I’ve genuinely liked. Sue me!!! Paint It Black saves this from being a 1 for me. Also Stupid Girl is one of the dumbest songs I’ve ever heard.

no se, bastante aburrido para mi

Its okay. The rolling stones definitely have better albums, i dont think this would have made the list of ‘best albums’ if it didnt have their name attached to it. As a standalone album its pretty mid Also highkey sexist

Paint It, Black is the best song on the album and it wasn’t even on the UK version. Not a Stones album I’ll come back to again

tbh not for me, some songs sounded like a crazed man jamming out on his own in an abandoned garage. others were good but it was all a bit too stripped back for my usual rolling stones taste - i like seeing where they evolved from though

not exactly my vibe. a few songs hit.

Matt man, the first half of this album is just Mick Jagger saying horrible things about women. It has not aged well.

La toune Paint It Black est un banger, mais le reste de l'album est meh, j'ai même pas le goût de faire l'effort de tout écouter. En plus parait que si je m'attardais aux paroles j'entendrais des choses qui ne me plairaient pas ex. de la mysoginie

4/10 This album feels like it’s a bit of a stepping stone for The Rolling Stones. It’s the first album on which they composed all of their own songs, and there are hints towards the sound that I would personally more associate with them, of a more gritty, driven blues rock feel, particularly with songs like Under My Thumb or It’s Not Easy. But it’s also a really mixed bag of a record. They drift from more generic 60s pop-rock akin to the Beatles, the Kinks and the Who to almost folky tunes, and then some way more standard blues tracks, and it never really feels completely coherent. It’s also way too long (I listened to the UK version), particularly the arduous experience of the 11 minute Goin’ Home. If they had trimmed some of the fat here and worked to make it stylistically a bit more coherent, I might have gelled with it a bit more. Some of the stronger elements of the album were not bad, but often felt like fairly generic blues rock. Perhaps the significance is a bit lost to time for me, but it all feels a bit derivative of blues that had come before it, wrapped up in a package of edgy white boys to sell records. The production of the record is a bit all over the place too, with some tracks sounding full and balanced, and others where certain parts of the music was either way too prominent or lost to the background. The musicianship is decent enough, and there are some quality moments in the performances all round, but it’s only when they get into the more driven stuff that it all really connects together for me, particularly Jagger's voice. I’m not generally a massive fan of his vocal style, but with high energy, gritty stuff it can do a good job. Here it was exposed too often for me and that made for a more difficult listen. I came into this not being a big fan of the Stones and they haven’t done much to change that opinion with this record. Perhaps that will change with their later work. Mothers Little Helper - I’ve never really seen the comparison that’s made between the Beatles and the Stones, but here we have it. This is quite similar to the sound of the Beatles at the time, but less good, because frankly Mick Jagger is not as good a singer as any of them. It also lacks the harmonies that thicken up and give interest to the Beatles sound. It’s an ok 60s pop-rock song, and there is a bit of grit. and edge to it, but nothing much more than that. Stupid Girl - Tonally, this sounds exactly like Spinal Tap (back when they were the Thamesmen) doing Gimme Some Money. It’s more fairly run of the mill 60’s British Invasion rock stuff, but It’s a really decent song. I feel like some of the impact of this may be lost to time, because I feel like I could lump this in with a lot of music from the time and, despite it being a well written, catchy song, it doesn’t really do much to stand out. Lady Jane - This is a strangely folk edged diversion from the sound thus far. Jagger is putting on a very deliberate inflection on his vocal which is a bit weird. I mean it’s ok, but it's not particularly exciting. I suppose it’s moderately interesting due to the instrumental choices, but it’s just a bit on the dull side for me. Under My Thumb - This is much more like it. There’s enough of an edge to it that it suits Jagger’s vocal style much, much better. This sounds much more like they’re starting to find their own sound, with a blend of the more bluesy, gritty sound with an edge of the 60s Brit rock in there too. It’s got a good groove to it and the Marimba is nice too. It’s a good blend between slightly more driven sound and the lightness of that Marimba that give it a satisfying tone. Doncha Bother Me - And now we’re on to some more straightforward blues stuff. It’s a pretty good blues track and it’s got a nice bit of grit to it. It builds fairly nicely in intensity, but it is perhaps a bit on the repetitive side. Although at less than three minutes, that hardly matters. Goin' Home - This continues the bluesy vein, but to begin with it’s also got slightly more of the 60s Brit edge to it. The vibe isn’t bad, but it’s a bit on the dull side. And then it drags on. And on. And on. I don’t know why Mick Jagger is trying to filibuster his way through over 11 minutes of this record for, but he’s not very good at making it interesting or engaging. Flight 505 - More fairly generic bluesy rock with a rock and roll edge. Again, the vibe is decent, but there’s nothing particularly hooky about it, it’s just well executed bar band music. The piano and guitar are doing good work here, but it just doesn’t feel like anything that will stick with me. High And Dry - We’re chugging along with more blues here. It feels a bit more engaging, and it’s got a good groove and some nice harmonica playing, but the cymbal splashing from the drums is so, so draining. Out Of Time - Back to something that’s more akin to the other 60’s brit rock of earlier tracks. Jagger doesn’t actually have the chops to pull of some of the lines he tries to on here and it’s all a bit plodding and not that interesting and it goes on for too long. It's Not Easy - There’s a bit more to this. Stylistically it’s pretty similar to the last one, but it’s more hooky and it’s got a bit more zip to it. It feels a lot more fun and engaging. The guitar solo is great too. Much more impressed with this one. I Am Waiting - This is more folky again. It’s got a bit more pace to it than our last folk diversion, but it's quite repetitive, both musically and lyrically, and doesn’t really do anything for me. Take It Or Leave It - Another fairly pedestrian and plodding song that doesn’t have anything particularly hooky or memorable about it. It’s just not musically that interesting and the vibe is nothing particularly exciting here either. Think - Straight off the bat, there’s a bit more zip to this, and the vibe is a bit better. But other than that, I’m not finding it particularly engaging. It just doesn’t really do anything for me. What To Do - I actually know this one. It’s quite a bit more hooky and a nice, full sound, but sits in that land of decent, but fairly generic 60s stuff. It doesn’t have the grit and drive that the Stones do at their best and, while it’s got a more memorable melody to it, it’s still not the most exciting of tracks.

starts out really strong, and then kind of shit

Tem seus bons momentos, mas não me anima para ouvir em looping. Certas camadas instrumentais são bem interessantes. Com letras de Jagger e Richards, há um claro esforço para alcançar o Rubber Soul, dos Beatles, porém sem muito sucesso. Brian Wilson sozinho conseguiu muito mais com o lado B de Summer Days. E nem estou citando o "pai culposo" do Sgt. Peppers, Pet Sounds. Particularmente, acho uma banda superestimada e ter esse álbum como resposta ao Rubber Soul reforça minha perspectiva.

Realno ovaj album njihov mi nije napet, iako mi je Paint it Black bila jedna od dražih kad sam bila dijete i stvarno je dobra stvar. 2/5, 4/10

One star for Paint It Black on the US release and one star for Mother's Little Helper on the UK release. The rest is pure dreck.

Lady Jane is rubbish.

Some notable golden oldies

In the great Beatles vs. Stone debate this album is highly relevant because the Beatles never made an album this bad. Dull, plodding, repetitive. Totally absent of joy.

Not sure if the whole album is worth being in the top 1001 records just for Under My Thumb, Paint it Black, and Mothers Little Helper. There are better Stones records than this one, but the Paint it Black is a classic for sure.

Gave this album a couple serious listens. Outside of Paint It Black and Under My Thumb, it was not doing it for me. It’s got a good sound but nothing stands out. People often say Beatles or Stones, this album has me wondering why.

Paint it black and mother’s little helper, both great. Under my thumb…great song but creepy and rapey. The rest is a snoozefest

Derivative and uninteresting. White people doing Black music with no credit. Opening track was decent. Some songs were a little sex pest-y too.

Repetitive, to an extent, both in tone and song composition, the opening tracks are fairly weak - Under My Thumb is catchy melodically but questionable lyrically (is this about controlling your partner and celebrating it?). Going Home, Flight 505, High and Dry - most of these are entirely forgettable. Maybe this needs to be listened to with the cultural context in mind but it doesn't really stand on its own. It's scraping a low 2 because it's not terrible.

A couple of great tunes (Under My Thumb, Out Of Time) in an otherwise unremarkable British ‘60s blues swamp. Going Home was a particular boring slog.

Yeah, again I'll say it - I'm just not into The Rolling Stones at all. The era is not my favourite either. Another album that doesn't contain anything great for me, certainly not at their peak here IMO. I really like Keith Richards, amazing guitarist. I think he wasted in TRS.

First problem comes with what bloody version I'm meant to listen to. I stuck with the UK version, because that's what it linked to from here, but not a great first impression - the loss of Paint it Black is particularly annoying. It wasn't really worth it, either. This one is a bit dull, nothing stands out to me. Lyrically it's uninspired, and most of the deep cuts straight-up suck. Way too long, too.

Paint it Black. Great tune. Not so sure about the rest of it. Definitely not a "put it on and let it play" kind of record. Respectfully (cause I'm a huge fan), records like this have a lot to do with the success of Greatest Hits compilations.

Not a massive fan of the Stones, but this was probably considered quite left field at the time

So fängt man ein Album an.

mick jagger is a fking weirdo. feels like he's shouting whatever into the mic, complete separation between the music and singer here... as for the rest of this album, its a basic rock sound which is expected given the year of release and so it feels stale, its no fault of the album that time has led to much better sounds and innovations within the genre, but it has made this album feel obsolete. the lyrics range from mediocre to downright bad as stated above. now as for the instrumentals themselves, i found it alright, i liked the guitar and the drums overall the production for its time was good. but again, i dont see a reason to go back to this. its the first stones album ive listened to from start to finish, but my view on these guys remains the same so far..i dont get their popularity.

I hate to admit it but this is the first Rolling Stones project I have ever listened to in full. And I even further hate to admit that I did not enjoy it all that much. It was not very exciting across the board. But I imagine it hit different in the 60s

Mother’s Little Helper is so good and the rest of the album is so…fine. And then there’s an 11 minute blues disaster that sucks and I just hate this album. It avoids the 1 star for a few bangers and that’s it.

I respect TRS but they’re not my fav. Talented but rarely choose to put them on.

Lyrically interesting - but I just found it a bit dull

This particular album wasn't really for me. I heard both the US and the UK versions. Paint it Black in the US version is a standout. There were some good ideas in the album but I don't really vibe with Jagger.

UK-versjonen. Det er april, 1966. En snau måned senere kommer Pet Sounds. En måned etter det, kommer Blonde on Blonde. Og to måneder etter det igjen, Revolver. Man kan se spor av denne fremtiden på tracks som Mother's Little Helper og Under My Thumb, men det utgjør en veldig liten del av hva som egentlig er en samling forglemmelige blues-låter. Og til alle plateselskaper der ute: hvorfor sitter det så jævlig langt inne å tilgjengeliggjøre mono- i tillegg til stereo-versjon? Hard panned 60-tall er ikke en god vibe, ass.

tapped out. decent window into the time but there's gotta be a thousand other albums i find more interesting

Just two songs were up my alley.

Overall, this was another boring experience brought to you by one of the allegedly best groups of all time. I'm starting to think The Rolling Stones are like The Doors in that they're a better singles band than a producer of comprehensively great albums. My evidence: The two best songs on this album are on two different versions of it. This makes each version inferior to the other and forces the listener to track down the missing single. In that regard, I have yet to hear on this list a must hear ALBUM by this group.

This album is very whimsical-sounding, it's kind of nice but at the same time when the entire album is like this, it gets stale. I am just really under whelmed by this album. It has nice pop melodies and all, but I can't get into it. My second Rolling Stones album (Let It Bleed was first), still not impressed.

Blaha

it's OK. Still don't really like the stones.

It's hard to believe people got tear-gassed over this album, but that's the hard part about looking at albums through a modern lens. Rock has gotten so much harder and abrasive - but considering when this album came out, and the dominant cultural attitudes surrounding it I could see how young adults of the 60s would go wild over it. This album is just as much against the dominant culture as it is *of* it. Songs like "Stupid Girl" don't challenge any wider attitudes about the perception of women at the time, but it is hilarious to listen to that song followed by the much more "loving" song "Lady Jane." (Continuing the tradition of weed being personified as a woman) This album really makes you think about what gets called "counterculture." It certainly sits in contrast to the popular crooners of the time, but what is countercultrual about hypermasculinity? Its interesting when counterculture is looked at during this time it is particularly centered around class, but gender and race are relagated to their own categories of rebellion. Sonically, the album is very interesting - no two songs sound alike but they are still cohesive together. You can hear the band experimenting with different sounds , and the heavy blues influence can be heard especially on songs like "Doncha Bother Me," but they feel a bit bland compared to their inspirations. Songs like "Goin Home" kind of drone on, but eventually get interesting. It is funny to read about band members using "strange" instruments like a sitar or marimbas. This might be particularly harsh but this feels like the Ed Sheeran method - taking "strange" instruments from around the world to serve as seasoning for pretty basic pop tracks, but not doing much else.

I listened to the US Version with "Paint it Black" as the leadoff track. This is probably the least impressive Stones album I've heard so far, but that's not to say it's doesn't carry some merit. This is definitely a transitional album, as they are beginning to stray from the typical 60's British rock sound and incorporating elements of what would come on later albums. Highlights: "Under My Thumb"

Interesting. Not any of the mainstream hits, But it's easy listening jams for some old rock n roll

Stupid girl is so old school mean lol DNF

Can pretty safely say I am not a Stones fan. Jagger keeps singing about little girls

Paint it black is great. Otherwise, it doesn’t feel like they’ve arrived quite yet.

Didn't find it that interesting and a little shit

gostei nao

not horrible just extremely mid, disappointing and boring at times paint it, black is good but thats about it, forgot the rest already

I haven't listened to the Stones aside from their biggest singles, but it's surprising to me to read that Paint It, Black came out around this same timeframe. None of the songs on this are all that interesting to me.

si ok sono gli stones, lo so... solo che son molto più abituata a let it bleed

Dey aight

The that this album is mentioned in the same breath as Rubber Soul is an absolute travesty.

not as bad as i expected

Bro lmao what, ok, Paint it Black and Under My Thumb are alltimer songs but the album itself is, well, it’s the Stones

The Rolling Stones have quite a few hits (none on this album though) that I enjoy but since Its from a generation before me (and almost before my parents) I don't have any nostalgia for it. While I can understand what they did historically for music as a whole and all the artists they inspired its not something I enjoy listening to. While not bad I just like other artists in the genre better, perhaps because they learned from this band when they got started.

This kind of sucks? I listened to the UK version, so I missed paint it black, which I like, and instead got a bunch of organ tooting and baroque rock and dumbass lyrics? I keep being unimpressed by the stones average output while still quite liking the big hits, and this one has the hit missing! I thought I liked Under My Thumb thanks to a social distortion cover I discovered on Kazaa years ago, but there's still a bunch of tooting and shit on it? Seems like a lot of people hate Going Home but it might be the best thing on this album, feels less fake blues than their other stuff. I gotta say, this album was kind of a slog. No wonder the velvet underground made waves.

Stones from long ago. They still sound the same, yeah? Listened before? N Saved tracks? N Favorite tracks? Paint It, Black, It's Not Easy ⭐⭐ didn't hate it

Paint it black, alright good start...........then came the rest of the album. Felt like I was in a smokey bar that just needed background music that no is really listening to.

001 review Originally I was shocked at how little Rolling Stones I have in my record collection. Then these songs reminded me of the grand Stones VS Beatles debate and my house has always a Beatles house and remains so. Starting with Paint It, Black makes me understand why people in this era were on a crazy amount of drugs falling into a hole with this as a soundtrack. Complete side note: I was trippin on the punctuation and tried to figure out what was being implied by the comma before black - apparently it was just a typo on original records they removed later. Second side note: I guess that’s just the American version! Then I immediately get ripped out of it with Stupid Girl. Apparently Keith Richards stated this song was written about the girls they met on tour and how shallow and vain they seemed. He’s seems fully unaware of his place in this dynamic. Then the vibes shift again with the super melodic Lady Jane. Just don’t listen to the lyrics because again they seem fully unaware they are any piece of the problematic puzzle. Or maybe they think Going Home balances it? Though that is all about her making him feel good so the scales are still tipped for sure. What To Do is a song 100% written by drugs. The instrumental parts of this album vary greatly and are generally fun. I get some of why the Beatles and Stones are compared so much. You get soft and melodic, wild and dancy, and more rock and rolly. I enjoyed that part. You guys are all musical and can dissect that part way better than I can so I’ll leave that to you. This entire album is just oozing good ol’ gross misogyny. It’s a common theme in many of these songs we’ve heard in this project. This record made me want to go on a feminist rampage. Then to add fuel to the fire I was informed I listened to the American version and I had to go back and listen to the UK version and it’s not an album I’ll return to. This just is not my jam.

Might be a controversial opinion but I think 95% of stones songs are filler at best. This album is a great example of that. Going Home is possibly the worst 10+ minute song I’ve ever heard.

Eka oli hyvä ja olihan tää musiikillisesti ihan monipuolista, mutta sitte kyllästyin. En jotenki pysty kuunnella kauaa putkeen tällasta rolling stones beatles tyylistä musiikkia. Se on tää lauluääni. Se käy mun hermoille ja ärsyttää jos kuuntelen liian pitkään. Ja mitkä on nää sanotukset🤨

Didn't like

So much misogyny! And this album pretty much cements my opinion that Hot Rocks is the most effective and complete greatest hits album in rock history, since it actually makes the Rolling Stones an interesting and enjoyable band...which is the opposite of what this album does.

2/5 - I didn’t need to hear this, because the album tracks were fairly repetitive and the misogyny was gross. There’s better Stones albums than this.

Some see the Rolling Stones as the greatest rock band of all time. Anybody not in that bucket can't help but feel like they're the most overrated rock band of all time. I can't help but find myself in the latter group.

In which the Stones continue to chase the coat-tails of the Fab Four, conspicuously failing to escape their shadow. Stealing their clothes does not turn you into Lennon/McCartney. Two stars: unconvincing, and mostly just boring.

Bleh

Paint It Black and a bunch of generic rock songs

++: Stupid Girl, Under My Thumb, Goin' Home, Flight 505, High and Dry, It's Not Easy, What to Do +: Doncha Bother Me, Think +-: Mother's Little Helper, I Am Waiting, Take It or Leave It -: Lady Jane, Out of Time 5,4/10

some of these songs suck ass lol

This starts off well with "Mother's Little Helper," one of the best songs from their early period. It's perfectly dark despite sounding cheery. And then it goes straight into a goofy pop song that almost sounds like a joke and a sappy ballad. At least after that one "Under My Thumb" has the catchiest melody on the album (if you can ignore the lyrics). From there there's very little that's worthwhile. The main problem is that it's too long, both because of the interminable, unchanging "Goin' Home" and because there are too many songs on the second side that don't add anything new in terms of songwriting. If this was trimmed down it might be pretty good, because the additions of new instruments and inclusion of some psychedelic elements make even the least interesting songs listenable.

Grand

paint it black is ok, the rest of it is doo doo lame ass boring blues rock

There was definitely a theme with the first few songs. “Going Home” probably one of the worst songs I’ve ever listened to in full.

Paint it black is so good. The rest of this is pretty boring and bad.

This is my first time listening to a Stones album that wasn't their greatest hits and it'd fine? I know they have some classics under their belt but I don't think this should be one of them. Paint it Black slaps though

It's OK, some good stuff on here but also just kind of washed over me.

Camarero! Pongame un poco de LSD y con un toque de acido, y de postre un porrito. Pintaba bien hasta que llegó Cletus con la armonica, pero luego se pira. Aptobado raspado por las primerqas canciones que son mas psicodelicas, no entiendo la mezcla de estilos no tienen mucho sentido.

Really only liked a couple songs here (Out of Time was the highlight). Decent guitar riffs but Jagger’s vocals really irritate me, especially in the first half.

Paint It Black followed by blues-y 60’s rock garbage, accompanied by Mick Jagger’s drunkest performance yet. Under My Thumb will give you momentary reprieve, offering style and creativity, before you’re thrown back to the wolves with Doncha Bother Me. That is assuming of course that you’re willing to ignore all the lyrics.

Paint it, Black is good, but the rest are kinda meh. Under my thumb has...questionable lyrics.

Glad to get more Rolling Stones. First impressions, pretty boring, and surprisingly so. Lyrics also pretty shitty. Surprisingly unimpressed by this. ‘Under my Thumb’ hitting the home run on the shittiness. Skipped ‘Going Home’ 11 mins 😬😬😬 Hard to separate from my view of Rolling Stones but if this was a new band, I’d say they haven’t got a future 😬

Starting off with Paint it Black... Awesome Following it up with Stupid Girl and Lady Jane....WTF?! Also why and I getting beach boys vibes from this? Who was copying who at this point?

listened to it twice, hadn't realised I'd left it on loop, totally passed me by without anything of note on both runs

Stupid girl is so so bad, it’s kinda embarrassing Rating this 2 stars solely because of Paint It, Black

So they really have just one single banger huh

Why am I having to listen to this instead of Sticky Fingers or Exile on Main Street? This seems to follow the pattern of most of their albums. One or two decent songs surrounded by glaring mediocrity. When they're hot they're hot but here they are not.

Popular but not for me

Annoying album

Just a typical Rolling Stones album. "Aftermath" was released before they became great. The songs sound nice for a 60s record. "Going Home", despite being lengthy, is the best track on "Aftermath". A slightly disappointing end to the week. 2 stars for "Aftermath".

On the Beatles Stones debate I‘m definitely team Beatles. Stones are just rebellion without innovative songwriting and only life recordings with bad equipment. So far my prejudices regarding stones. Let’s see. 1966. That’s the same year as Rubber Soul Track by track (uk version) Mothers helper: sitar stolen from Beatles Stupid girl: that’s early Beatles just with anti romance lyrics Lady Jane: ok this is original, great instrumentation. and sung with emotions. Only the chorus is a bit dull. Under my thumb: oh it gets more and more original. The stones sound seems to emerge somehow. Marimba is a nice addition. And Jaggers ahs add a lot of texture. Duncher Bother Me: great blues song. Bet this works great live! Even though the genre is totally different from previous songs it somehow fits the album. Going Home: more blues! The home bome bome thing gets on my nerves. Should have been 2m but it’s, 10 minutes!!? Ah it’s a giant jam session. Not many good ideas in there though. Could have been a lot shorter. Flight505: Boogie woogie standard scheme High and Dry. Gospel standard scheme It’s not easy. Rock n roll standard I am waiting. Oh some original songwriting again with great instrumentation. Even some non common time parts. Nice Take it or leave it. Lovely. But not special. Sounds like Phil Spector wall of sound. Think. Again some good songwriting and great instrumentation. But a bit sketchy still. I see how they grew their songwriting skills with this album What to do. Sounds like a Beach Boys ripoff. But not bad. Overall it sounds they trained their songwriting skills with this album. The middle part (Going home-High and dry) they should have left out. Then it would have been a decent album.

Nope, still don't like The Rolling Stones

Second RS album. I still don't care about them.

Like, whatever Mick. Some of these songs really fantastic. Paint it Black (US version) is such a standard bearer for excellence. Songs like Stupid Girl really seem to erase any good will The Stones built up with me for Paint It Black. Cool bluesy stuff, but the stones just feel kinda gross in this album. I feel a bit gross for listening.

I do not think, the Stones and I will come together any time… Fav: Paint it black

Heard the US version of the album before and the UK version's main problem is that Paint It Black (my favourite Rolling Stones song) isn't on it. The album is a mixed bag really, some nice tunes and others I completely don't care for or straight up dislike 2/5

Tregt, uinteressant

Under My Thumb og Paint it Black er nydelige. Ellers veldig dølt. Stupid Girl er en grusom låt jeg håper jeg aldri hører igjen.

Tafatt, tregt og kjedelig. Tre Stones-album er vel nok til å konkludere at dette bandet ikke er for meg. Overbevist om at "Going Home" på repeat er det verste man kan bli utsatt for i Guantanamo Bay. Urgh. Trodde Out of Time var en godlåt, men den slutter jo aldri.

Not a huge stones fan. But I listened.

I'm a Rolling Stones fan, and I was excited to listen to listen to this as it is not an album I'm familiar with. "Paint it Black" sets a lovely tone, but then....eh. It's not bad, it's just ...eh. I listened a second time as a satirical drama/concept album and it was better but it shouldn't be that much work. If you want to get a Rolling Stones album there is better out there. "Let it Bleed" was my gateway and I would recommend it to anyone.

The US version begins with paint it black which I believe everyone has heard at least a hundred times. Might be I never heard with any sound quality because it felt new and better than I remembered. But then you go and spoil it all by singing something stupid like the rest of this misogynic trash record. Stupig girl was an awful song, Lady Jane was boring, Under my thumb is of course alright musically but deeply problematic lyrically. The rest must have been pretty forgettable until the last song where Mick does his thing and just freestyles ang grunts for several excruciating minutes.

Not a fan really. Paint it black banger tho

Helper, Thumb and Going Home were really good, but the rest was one big slug.

Before they really got good.

eh not my type

Despite being a monolith in the rock world, I’ve never been a fan of The Rolling Stones. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is that irks me about them; whether it’s Mick Jagger’s raw voice (when compared to someone like McCartney), or Keith Richard’s guitar playing (which ive never particularly liked). While I can’t deny that there’s interesting instrumentation on this record, for the most part it doesn’t hit me like listening to Revolver or Pet Sounds did the first time. There are certainly tracks I vibe to: Mother’s Little Helper and Doncha Bother Me both made it onto my playlist after this, but everything just falls into the realm of mediocrity that most of the 60s does for me. Ultimately, I just found it boring. Most of the tracks being under 3 minutes made it more tolerable, but why in the everloving fuck is Going Home 11 minutes long? It just drags and drags and made me wanna turn off the record halfway through. If you’ve never heard 60’s rock and roll then maybe it’d be better, but it just ends up sounding bland to me

The Rolling Stones are boring. Maybe 3 songs in their whole catalogue I’ve ever liked. This is a 1 and 1/2 star really, but I’m feeling generous so I’ll round it up to 2.

The rating is due to Under My Thumb's terrible lyrics. While this record holds some great songs (Under My Thumb is musically great), it still bears that filler quality of all Stones records. Some killers, too many fillers.

Not my favorite Stones effort. This isn't the confident, bluesy swagger of the Rollers. It's almost like they're seeking something pop rock that their contemporaries had found. "Mother's Little Helper" and "Under My Thumb" appear here.

Mediocre. Many of the tracks sound the same and the lyrics are poor.

Paint It Black is the best song the Stones ever wrote and they've written a lot of good ones. Mother's Little Helper is great too off the UK version. After that Lady Jane is interesting and Under My Thumb would be good if it didn't feel so gross. The rest is typical sloppy blues. The atrocity that is Going Home really destroys this one. Closing out side one of the UK version and the album on the US version, it's an okay instrumental vamp with Jagger moaning for 11 minutes. I wish I was being hyperbolic, but it's literal moaning for so much of the song. I'd love to scrub my ears out after that one. I have a strong bias against the Stones in that I don't really respect anything they do. It's commercialized rock and roll garbage that waters down the actual gritty music of American blues to be palatable for those middle class white families who will spend the money. I've been generally giving every album a begrudging 3 due to the sheer brilliance of Moon and Jagger's songwriting. When those boys hit, they sure do hit. Luckily, on this album, I just get to be a curmudgeon and give it a two.

Legends, but nothing except 'Paint it Black' for me.

While it has my second all-time favorite Stones song, the rest of the album is really forgettable.

Some interesting ideas, but so far from a coherent, complete album. The country tunes in partictlar were ill advised.

They have numerous better albums. Not worth the time.

When it comes to The Rolling Stones, I'm usually very particular about what I like, and so far I've not found an album of theirs that really draws me in in its entirety. Same goes for this album. I found certain songs enjoyable, but overall, I was just bored. I'm giving this a fairly low score because I know there are better albums by them out there, and I know that ultimately, this isn't going to be one I remember when looking back.

boring. lowkey one of their worst i don't get it

These Rolling Stones albums just get worse and worse.

So diverse in musical styles - while not the best example of each style, certainly credible and enjoyable. However, the misogyny is hard to take. I wish I hadn’t read the lyrics. Without reading them it’s 4 stars. After reading them 1.

May be one of the most overrated bands of all time idk I just wasn’t rocking with it

Good songs, but wouldn't feel the need to own this one.

Die Aufnahmen zu Aftermath fanden in den RCA Studios in Hollywood statt. Die Rolling Stones, eine britische Rockband, produzierten das Album in zwei Sessions, in denen zum ersten Mal alle Songs von Mick Jagger und Keith Richards selbst stammten. Das Album bewegt sich musikalisch zwischen Rock, Bluesrock, Folkrock und psychedelischen Einflüssen. Auffällig ist der Einsatz ungewöhnlicher Instrumente wie Marimba, Sitar, Dulcimer und Cembalo, was dem Klangbild eine experimentelle Note verleiht. Bekannte Titel sind „Paint It Black“, das durch die Sitar eine markante Klangfarbe erhält, „Under My Thumb“ mit prägnanter Marimba, sowie „Lady Jane“, das durch seine ruhige, fast höfische Anmutung heraussticht. Mit „Goin’ Home“ enthält das Album außerdem ein überlanges Stück, das durch seine spontane Struktur auffällt. Die Produktion zeigt die Band auf dem Weg zu größerer stilistischer Eigenständigkeit. Besonders die instrumentalen Erweiterungen tragen dazu bei, dass sich Aftermath von früheren Veröffentlichungen der Band abhebt. Das Album ist ein wichtiger Entwicklungsschritt für die Rolling Stones. Es verbindet klassische Rockelemente mit neuen klanglichen Ansätzen und gibt einen Einblick in die Wandlungsfähigkeit der Band.

Had its good moments here and there but through most of it I felt like the sound and lyrics are too outdated to enjoy. A lot of albums age well but for me this wasn't one of them.

A couple of bangers and a lot of filler. Going Home is eleven minutes I'm not getting back.

I feel like The Rolling Stones just never hit for me on the level I want. They’re not the Beatles 4/10

You aren't always good on your first try. Or second or third or fourth. But they got there eventually. Just not on this album. I couldn't finish it.

The first four songs would make a notable EP but the rest mostly filler. My guess its popularity is due to this being the first album the Stones showed song writing potential. I am a bit confused on why this is a 1001 album when I can name seven Stone's albums that are superior.

I thought I would like this more than I did. 1 good song out of 11 does not equal a good album imo.

Ich hatte nicht das Gefühl, dass das Album rund ist es wirkte eher als hätte man einfach 12 random Songs genommen für ein neues Album. Außerdem finde ich Mick Jaggers Stimme auf Dauer etwas anstrengend. Beste Songs: Paint It Black, Going Home

espero que nao seja o melhor que os rolling stones tenham para oferecer

Couldn’t even finish. If someone introduced me to the Stones with this album I’d never think of listening to them again.

I didn't find this album to be anything special. I know the Stones are very critically acclaimed, often in the same sentence as the Beatles. My favorite track was "Paint It, Black", but even that was an independent single that they threw onto the US release of the album to sell more copies.

I found the lyrics uninteresting and the music wasn't engaging me.

Really just not that great. This was clearly before most rock songwriters actually got good at rock songwriting. The 11-minute track is the only thing dragging this above a 4/10 for me.

Against all odds, the Stones have rolled in for a third time this week, and I am once again underwhelmed. 3 tracks out of the first 4 were pretty decent, but everything that followed was ehhhh. Special mention to the bad trip that is Gone Home: the 11 minute experience of Mick Jagger grunting. Even if I were to rate this by the US version, which has Paint It Black (🔥) and an all-around tighter tracklist, this is once again a miss from the Rolling Stones.

OK so I had to look this up. Apparently Aftermath was the first RS album to be mostly original compositions and where they kind of really came into their sound. So, it makes more sense in context why this would be on here (like Pink Floyd's Pipers) but the album as it stands is super boring and I KNOW the Stones have better releases later on - I can understand now why Beatles fans had kind of a superiority complex over the Stones fans around the mid 60s. Plus, US release eliminated and reordered a few tracks and replaced the opener with Paint It Black, which remained a non-album single in the UK. PIB's inclusion I think would've really done a lot to establish this album's sound, but getting rid of Mother's Little Helper for the US release was a mistake, as it's one of the better tracks. I think mucking around with it a little more (having both PIB and MLH on there for a start) would create a slightly better album, but even then most of the thing would be 40+ minutes of the same tempo in 4/4 with Jagger talk-singing over it with little variation.

I just have a hard time liking TRS

The arc of this album seems completely off? Opens very strong, then dips into a silly ditty, then into a fairly horrific simp. Not too impressed. The singles are okay I guess, but nothing here will remain lodged in my mind. Going Home is the most useless waste of record space I've encountered in ages.

overrated misogyny fest

Not enthused by this. This felt … forced. I can’t really explain where this notion comes from but that’s the impression I got. Going Home did not come off as genuine impro. This album was repetitive in the sense of the songs sounding very similar to one another and I did not like how often the lyrics kept repeating in every song. The song It‘s Not Easy was annoying …. „Not easy…. haaaAAArd“. The best song is obviously Paint It Black.

Oh dear, not for me! Didn’t like one song I’m afraid. Lyrics very dodgy at times and very repetitive. Boring stuff

Dusty mon. Paint it Black is a banger though.

I grew up with a dad who's part of the Silent Generation era. This album really shows up the kind of music he used to listen to and the musical references that many artists from his time evoked through it. However, I got really bored through it and yet I can say The Rolling Stones have a je ne sais quois that makes their music so unique.

One great first tune for me then the rest isn’t memorable (but still easy to listen to)

Unremarkable. Uninteresting lyrics. Annoying vocalist for most songs. Stand out - under my thumb

It was all right. Nothing exciting or terrible. Easy to listen to. Under my Thumb is very unsettling. No thank you.

Early rs. Never been too into them for a whole album

I went for the US version as it was shorter and had "Paint it Black" on it, which was the only song title I recognised. I've never liked The Rolling Stones, and I still don't after listening to this album. They seem like relics from a bygone era, too hard to relate to. PIB is a tune though, and I realised I also knew "I Am Waiting" from the film Rushmore, which is also a nice tune. More of the rest just sounds like fairly ordinary rhythm and blues to me though.

I mean it’s The Rolling Stones so of course they’re influential but this is not their best work (the best is yet to come). The songs were just incredibly repetitive. I don't understand the Beatles rivalry...it isn't close imo. This isn't bad. The vocal style is fun at times and the instrumentals are cool. Sometimes Mick Jagger's voice gets on my nerves tho. The instrumental in "Mother's Little Helper" is really cool. Liked Songs: "Mother's Little Helper" , "Under My Thumb" , "Flight 505" , "It's Not Easy" , "Think" , "What To Do"

The music itself is alright I suppose, but the terrible misogynistic lyrics really bring this one down. I hated "Stupid Girl" and "Under my Thumb" the most. The only reason I give this one a 2 instead of a 1 is because I liked "Paint it Black".

франкоязычная версия Paint It, Black от Мари Лафорет в разы лучше)

Too mannered. To think this was the same year that revolver was released. This album sounds like trying to catch up with rubber soul, but the Beatles had already moved on. Two good tracked under my thumb and out of time which sound almost interchangeable. The stones got better than this but mostly at playing rock n roll.

The US version has Paint it Black, which would have bumped this up slightly. But I listened to the UK version, which was longer and had far more clunkers than stand out songs. I liked Lady Jane and a few of the hits, but the rest dragged this down to a 2. For an album that came out in the mid-60s to be judged as a little bit nasty about women by contemporary media is quite an achievement. Indeed, some of these songs have not aged well at all.

to start an album with "Paint It Black" is absolutely incredible. I can't imagine what it must have felt like on a vinyl record at the time, as a first listen. the rest of it .... really not my thing.

Paint it Black was the highlight. Musically, I can totally see why people got into the Stones. Until Jagger sings - very easy to listen to. Musically very talented.

Paint It Black is an incredible song. But, this album has confirmed for me that I really only like a handful of Stones songs.

Never a fan, and creepy attitude to women 👎

Why is the UK version excruciatingly longer and doesn't even have Paint It Black and why does this site link you to the UK version which is excruciatingly longer and doesn't even have Paint It Black?