Aftermath

Very enjoyable. Always liked Paint it black but never listened to the rest of the album. I should listen to more Rolling Stones.

Not really many notes. They sound like the beatles, and i thought it was strange that the UK release had 4 more songs and took off Paint it black, which was the biggest hit they've ever had.

Some real stinkers on this one lads. 3.75

Classic 60s/70s rock, nice bunch of well-known Stones' songs. Overall good.

Going home's a bit long isn't it? Stormer, but every now and again I thought of Jagger and felt a bit sick.

Thought "Mother's Little Helper" might be feminist-adjacent, then "Stupid Girl" came on and dismissed the notion. And Under My Thumb. Jfc. The rest of the album was good though. I love British rockers and the Rolling Stones are fun.

Pretty goods. Very versatile sound. They feel genre-fluid within just this album

2nd guy in looks like Mark Hamill Paint It, Black: hey i know this one, good start. added to my old music and borderlands playlist

Not my favorite stones, but man did it set a tone

7/10

1966. Key Songs: Under My Thumb, Paint It Black

Good

Just boring.

NB: as they’re a British band, I’m reviewing the UK version. This is an important album in the Stones’ musical development, their first to contain all original songs, with moves into a wider range of genres and instruments. So I can see why it’s on the list. However, for me it’s quite a way off the heights they’d hit in the late 60s/early 70s, with even the best songs here not really in the same league as their best material. It’s also too long, and in no world did ‘Goin’ Home’ need to be eleven minutes. Strong 3 stars.

Liked Out of Time and Think but overall not as good as I wanted it to be

Paint it black is the only song that stands out and will be added to my playlist. The rest are kind of problematic

A great Stones album, with my favorite of their Paint It Black, but the album does have its highs and lows.

Originals. Bluesy rock. I don't get all the hate. Mother’s Little Helper Under My Thumb (Paint It Black)

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Dès la deuxième piste on a une vraie chanson de merde Mick jagger semble boring et générique Il y a quand même un Groove déjà caractéristique, j’imagine que pour l’époque c’était super C’est très country en fait Going Home est très bien, il y a un côté Michael Gira ! 6,5/10

Not bad!!! Good songs. 3.5

I wanted to spite vote this a five just because people seem to really underrate the Stones, but I can’t. This album is fine, Paint It Black is a great song, but the rest is just not that good. 6/10.

2026.09.08.

Some great tracks but overall very dated in that it sounds very hippy dippy 60s. “Going Home” is a tedious filler track. Get rid of that and the whole album improves.

I've always had a weird aversion to the Rolling Stones, probably because I am too young to remember them in their prime. That said, dad rock or not, this album was... ok. Peaked too early with Paint it Black but was listenable throughout.

It’s the stones. But not one of their better ones

Forgot that the Rolling Stones had different UK and US albums (similar to the Beatles). This UK version doesn't have "Paint It Black," but it does have three more songs so kind of a push? Regardless of the version, this is baby Stones and the band would evolve to make excellent work. Top tracks: "Lady Jane," "Under My Thumb," "Mother's Little Helper"

Finns en brittisk release eoch en amerikansk release. Jag fick den brittiska, som saknar paint it black. Den låten hade kanske kunnat höja betyget, annars har jag aldrig riktigt varit ett fan. Under my thumb är en bra låt, men texten är otroligt sunkig. 3/5

Good album. This is like an appetizer before the main course. After her satanic Majesty‘s request things really started rolling for them. That’s when they started to release masterpieces for like a 20 year run. Crazy.

Ja, een Stones album, prima, niet al te avontuurlijk

Slightly dull

Typical for the era. Paint it black probably the best known song on this album.

Obviously the hits are great, but those aside this is a really good album that sounds like it helped to usher in the more edgy, harder sound of rock. There are sounds on here that few other besides the Beatles were experimenting with in 1966. And The Beatles certainly never would have written and released “Stupid Girl” in 1966… or really ever. That’s the difference between the two. The Stones were always just edgier and more raw. Them being a part of the British Invasion, and these early to mid sixties albums really paved the way for some of the American bands and artists to do their thing. This is a really good album.

Need to go back and listen to lyrics

N prestei muita atenção mas bom pra passar o tempo

Didn’t mind this one but probably wouldn’t listen again. It definitely shows the stones finding their feet and fine tuning their sound for greater things to come.

A few obvious bangers, good stuff overall. Quite a few songs that complain about women, which is pretty boring.

The Rolling Stones are one of the finest and most influential rock & roll bands of all time. That said, this album is quite a bit repetitive and, if I dare say, boring. A couple of gems here and there, but as an entire album it falls a bit flat, especially knowing their greater works.

Listened to UK version. Drags a bit. I enjoyed a handful of the songs but also found myself a little bored throughout.

A solid album - some hits I already loved. I didnt know Lady Jane but its a great song. More like 3.5 stars for me.

Quand on se replonge dans Aftermath, le premier dilemme ressemble à un casse-tête de discophile : quelle version choisir ? L'édition britannique de Decca avec ses quatorze morceaux étalés sur cinquante-quatre minutes, ou la mouture américaine de London Records, rabotée à onze pistes mais dopée par un hymne fracassant en ouverture ? Dans le doute, j'ai choisi la méthode directe : m'enfiler les deux versions coup sur coup pour juger sur pièces. Au final et quelle que soit la rive où l'on pose le diamant, le constat reste identique. C'est un 3 sur 5, soit une note mitigée pour un album de transition qui oscille entre fulgurances pop et exercices d'atelier laborieux. Certes c'est le tout premier album à part entière des Stones, celui où le groupe s'émancipe enfin des reprises pour signer l'intégralité des compositions via le tandem Jagger/Richards. Mais soyons lucides deux minutes : on est encore très loin de la puissance et de la noirceur qui feront la grandeur de Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed ou Sticky Fingers, ces trois sommets qui trônent fièrement à 4 sur 5 dans mon panthéon personnel. Pour mesurer la portée exacte de ce disque, il faut comprendre d'où revenaient les Stones à cette époque. Jusqu'alors, leur discographie ressemblait à un joyeux bazar orchestré par un manager opportuniste, Andrew Loog Oldham. Leurs précédents longs formats n'étaient que des compilations bricolées de rhythm and blues américain où s'entrechoquaient des hommages à Muddy Waters, des cavalcades de Chuck Berry, des piratages de soul sudiste et, de temps à autre, un original griffonné sous le pseudonyme collectif de Nanker Phelge. Avec Aftermath, capté aux studios RCA de Los Angeles par l'ingénieur Dave Hassinger, Mick Jagger et Keith Richards prennent enfin les commandes de leur destin créatif. C'est l'heure de l'émancipation totale, le moment où ils s'obligent à composer un disque entier sans béquille extérieure. L'ambition était louable, presque obligatoire après la déflagration Rubber Soul des Beatles quelques mois plus tôt. Mais s'affranchir du répertoire des bluesmen de Chicago ne suffit pas à transformer des jeunes loups londoniens en orfèvres pop infaillibles. L'album capture cette mue spectaculaire, avec toute la fragilité et les inégalités criantes que cela implique. L'examen comparatif des deux versions met parfaitement en lumière les hésitations stratégiques de l'époque et les faiblesses du matériel. L'album britannique, dans sa générosité de cinquante-quatre minutes, souffre d'un sérieux problème de digestion. Quatorze titres, à cette époque du vinyle, c'était une épreuve qui forçait à resserrer les sillons au détriment de la dynamique, tout en intégrant des morceaux de remplissage particulièrement faibles. Le disque démarre fort avec la satire sociale de « Mother's Little Helper », mais il s'embourbe rapidement dans des facilités pop telles que « Take It or Leave It », « Think » ou l'anecdotique « What to Do », qui sonnent comme des faces B d'un groupe cherchant encore sa véritable signature. La version américaine de London Records prend le parti inverse : elle élague à la hache, élimine quatre titres dont « Out of Time » et « Mother's Little Helper », mais frappe un grand coup psychologique en intégrant d'entrée de jeu le monumental « Paint It, Black ». Ce choix éditorial américain modifie radicalement l'impact initial sans pour autant masquer les tares sous-jacentes. En ouvrant sur « Paint It, Black », le pressage US installe d'emblée une tension vénéneuse, une cavalcade existentielle portée par le beat métronomique de Charlie Watts et la basse saturée de Bill Wyman. Ce morceau à lui seul ringardise la moitié de la pop contemporaine et prouve que les Stones peuvent rivaliser avec n'importe qui sur le terrain de la noirceur urbaine. Mais le revers de la médaille est cruel : une fois ce sommet franchi, le reste de la face A américaine accuse une baisse de régime spectaculaire. En amputant l'album de la verve pop d'« Out of Time » — pourtant l'une des compositions les plus réussies de Mick et Keith avec ses chœurs soignés et son marimba bondissant —, le label américain a déséquilibré l'ensemble au profit d'une efficacité commerciale brute. Qu'on privilégie la version UK pour sa complétude ou la version US pour sa concision, on se heurte au même constat : un disque boursouflé d'un côté, tronqué de l'autre, pour un résultat qui ne dépasse jamais le rang de galop d'essai. Si Aftermath parvient malgré tout à surnager, ce n'est d'ailleurs pas au seul crédit des compositions de Jagger et Richards, mais bien à l'inventivité désespérée de Brian Jones. Le guitariste fondateur, de plus en plus marginalisé au sein de sa propre formation et incapable de rivaliser avec le tandem d'écriture officiel, transforme son amertume en pure audace sonore. Délaissant les six cordes traditionnelles qui l'ennuient, il s'empare de tous les instruments atypiques abandonnés dans le studio pour en faire les véritables moteurs esthétiques de l'album. C'est son marimba chaloupé qui donne à « Under My Thumb » cette texture vénéneuse et dansante sans laquelle le titre ne serait qu'un shuffle bluesy ordinaire. C'est son dulcimer des Appalaches qui confère à « Lady Jane » une atmosphère de madrigal médiéval délicatement surannée. C'est encore son sitar qui tire « Paint It, Black » vers la transe orientale, ou ses interventions à l'harmonica qui injectent du relief à des grilles d'accords très basiques. Avec la complicité du pianiste et arrangeur Jack Nitzsche, Brian Jones agit comme un décorateur de génie : il habille des pièces nues avec des tentures somptueuses, camouflant les faiblesses d'écriture sous des trésors de trouvailles sonores. Sur le plan des textes et de l'attitude, Aftermath marque l'avènement officiel du personnage jaggérien : le dandy arrogant, narquois, distant et impitoyable. Mick Jagger y abandonne les postures de jeune premier éploré pour adopter une gouaille fielleuse qui fait voler en éclats la bienséance bourgeoise de l'Angleterre des années soixante. Il s'attaque à l'hypocrisie de la classe moyenne dépendante aux tranquillisants (« Mother's Little Helper ») et théorise un machisme triomphant qui fera couler beaucoup d'encre. Mais avec le recul des décennies, le mépris étalé sur « Stupid Girl » sonne bien plus comme le caprice vexé d'un adolescent bourgeois contrarié que comme une véritable charge corrosive, tandis que la mise au pas revendiquée dans « Under My Thumb » relève davantage d'une provocation potache de cour de lycée que d'une réelle noirceur subversive. Il y a dans l'écriture de Jagger en 1966 une volonté manifeste de choquer le bourgeois, mais cette posture manque encore de la maturité et du venin existentiel qui rendront ses textes ultérieurs véritablement vénéneux. Le moment où l'album dérape de manière presque embarrassante reste l'interminable pensum intitulé « Goin' Home ». Étalé sur plus de onze minutes, le morceau a été vendu par une certaine critique complaisante comme une révolution copernicienne, la première grande improvisation dilatée du rock enregistrée en studio, pionnière des délires psychédéliques à venir. Soyons honnêtes et appelons un chat un chat : « Goin' Home » est surtout un jam bluesy mollasson qui tire à la ligne de façon éhontée. Après deux minutes de blues acoustique tout à fait convenable, le morceau s'égare dans un marasme répétitif où Keith Richards tricote des plans éculés pendant que Mick Jagger improvise des râles et des onomatopées sans grand intérêt, incapable de conclure. Ce n'est pas une audace avant-gardiste, c'est simplement le son d'un groupe en panne d'idées qui laisse tourner la bande magnétique pour meubler la face d'un vinyle. Placé en plein milieu de parcours, ce morceau fait l'effet d'un violent coup de frein qui plombe l'élan de l'album et illustre cruellement l'incapacité des Stones de 1966 à structurer un format long sur la durée. Le gouffre esthétique devient vertigineux dès lors qu'on compare Aftermath aux sommets absolus que le groupe atteindra quelques années plus tard, à commencer par cette fameuse tétralogie dorée où s'illustrent Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed et Sticky Fingers. Lorsque les Stones reviennent aux affaires en 1968 avec Beggars Banquet, ils ne cherchent plus à singer la pop contemporaine ni à cacher leur jeu sous des enluminures exotiques : ils ont enfin absorbé le blues rural et la country pour en faire une matière première organique, sauvage et dangereuse. Sur « Sympathy for the Devil » ou « Street Fighting Man », la menace n'est plus une pose de garnement, elle est le pouls réel d'une époque qui vacille dans les émeutes et les gaz lacrymogènes. L'année suivante, Let It Bleed enfonce le clou avec une brutalité crépusculaire incomparable : « Gimme Shelter » et « Midnight Rambler » plongent l'auditeur dans une angoisse viscérale où chaque note transpire la peur et le stupre, sans l'ombre d'un remplissage. Et que dire de Sticky Fingers en 1971 ? L'arrivée de Mick Taylor apporte un lyrisme incendiaire qui enterre définitivement les tâtonnements d'Aftermath, offrant un écrin royal à des chefs-d'œuvre de désespoir et de débauche comme « Wild Horses », « Can't You Hear Me Knocking » ou « Sister Morphine ». Voilà les véritables piliers du panthéon stonnien, des disques taillés dans le marbre brut qui justifient amplement leur note de 4 sur 5. À côté de ces géants indestructibles, Aftermath fait donc figure de brouillon attachant mais encombré de scories. C'est l'album où les Rolling Stones apprennent le métier de créateurs à plein temps, expérimentent des formules en direct et découvrent leurs propres limites avant de trouver la recette magique qui les propulsera au sommet. Tout n'est pas à jeter, loin s'en faut : le brio orchestral de Brian Jones, l'efficacité insolente de quelques singles imparables et l'émergence d'un ton résolument moderne justifient qu'on s'y penche avec curiosité. Mais vouloir faire passer cet ensemble disparate pour un monument intouchable relève d'une réécriture nostalgique de l'histoire. Aftermath est et reste un disque en demi-teinte, tiraillé entre ses ambitions pop et son ancrage blues, qui mérite très exactement son 3 sur 5. Une étape charnière et indispensable pour les historiens du rock, mais une expérience d'écoute inégale qui rappelle que même les plus grands ont dû essuyer les plâtres avant de régner sur le monde.

Did this get picked on the strength of Paint It Black? Paint It Black is great. Stupid Girl is terrible. The rest is fine.

This album is kinda like pumpkin pie for me—I enjoyed the first bite and get why people might like it, but I was sick of it by the end.

Paint it black is an all timer, the rest are not noteworthy. Rolling stones is just kinda like that, like maybe 10 songs worth listening to

A few great songs, but the rest seem like filler. 3/5

Some great classic songs but still has the old early 60's sound for the rest of it.

I don't like the Stones, and this album just reaffirmed my opinion. There are some fun moments, but they're overshadowed by the excessively misogynist lyrics, even for a 60s record. I can still appreciate how that's their first album full of original songs and how their music related to the moment, The Beatles, and all that. Still, this music just doesn't connect with me.

Niet vervelend niet leuk

You probably should listen to this before you die. A sign of what was coming from the stones. Not the best album but I think they did alright form here.

When they hit, they're brilliant. When it misses, oof. 11 minute rambling blues jam is not what I'm talking about. Wildly uneven with moments of brilliance.

Meh

A few notable songs from their catalogue, but mostly kind of forgettable. Unlike some of their better work, this album seems to be stuck in the 60's. 3/5 Might listen again

6/10 Album meh. No es malo pero tampoco tiene algo que me llame demasiado, queda ahi en el medio. Cumple para estar de fondo pero no se si mucho mas

Uk edition

Good listening, no standout tracks

So so

Good lord they were horny early on. Like. Uncomfortably horny.

Good.

I'm no fan of classic rock but "Out of Time" did manage to get stuck in my head.

I was excited when this album came up and then I found out there are two versions? I had no idea. -1 for no painted black, but its still one of my favorite stones albums.

los hits aunque no son super hits son buenazos, uno que otro buen deep cut, es chido oir lo ecléctica que se va haciendo su paleta sonora, facil sería de menos un cuatro si no fuera por el blues de once (11!) minutos, es lo que más recordaba de escuchas anteriores y no como algo bueno (y ojo que el pedo no es la duración, o bueno sí pero no sería si estuviera chida la rola base o el jam extendido pero nel)

Heard before; 3.5; Fun, hard rocking blues songs. I like the fuzzed out bass and keyboards mixed in. At the same time, this is a reocord that makes me go back and forth on the Rolling Stones. While the music is certainly very good, it's hard to understand why this music endures when other music doesn't. I suppose there's something to be said for the consistency of this album, as most of the tracks are solid. Favorite Track: Paint It Black

Watching the band evolve with their first album of originals? Part blues, rock n roll and pop. 'Under my thumb' in particular shows the huge promise here.

not my favorite stones by any means. but it is solid. “under my thumb” is great. other personal highlights are “mother’s little helper” and “i am waiting”. the u.s. version with “paint it black” is cool too. certainly gives this album another single.

5th Rolling Stones album for me here, and it's getting a bit tedious. Can these paragons of dad rock really be worth that much of my time?... Well, for once, I'd say yes. This may be the version of the Stones I like best, with a sound closer to The Beatles and the original British Invasion rather than the American blues-rock they later tried to emulate. It's also simpler and more to the point, whereas their later albums sometimes feel bloated. There are some pleasant songs and a couple of true hits here (I have a soft spot for "Mother's Little Helper" and "Out of Time"), but also a vague feeling of repetitiveness and a lack of depth that ultimately left me only half-satisfied. Kind of all right, but not something I'd listen to very often. Let's say a strong 3*. 6/10

Interesting proto-Stones album, lots of different sounds from the early 60s/50s, hadn't really hit their stride yet but there are a few really good songs on here

3 stars only because of Paint It Black, one of the best songs ever

The misogyny hasn't aged well.

In theory this is my favourite period for the Stones with them writing their early tunes and Brian Jones mostly engaged and innovative, but it is still only half a decent album to me and the lyrics are so odious. But that marimba part on Under My Thumb.

Not my favourite Stones record. Paint it black is an electric kick-off, but it's pretty mediocre from there. I don't think this album needed an 11 minute closing track either.

I listened to the US version. Pretty cool stuff. Paint It Black rips...the rest, you can see where they're headed but they're just not there yet. Just give me the Mick Taylor era, really. If I'm going to listen to the Stones, that's what I want to hear. I guess the historical significance here is that this is the first album where there are no covers and they wrote all the stuff themselves. Awesome. But I'd rather listen to Goat's Head Soup (which isn't on the generator). So that's what I'm gonna do now.

Glimpses of what I love about the Stones, but I think a lot of their other albums make a lot more sense on a list like this.

2 significant Rolling Stones songs, but the Rolling Stones aren't really an album kind of band. They're more of a singles kind of band to me. So I love the big songs but overall the album is just alright to me.

Favourite Songs: Mother's Little Helper Going Home

Opening with Paint It Black is certainly a bold statement - it's an absolute banger of a track too. As seems to often be the case with the 'Stones by my estimation, it's an album that's one-third awesome rock staples and two-thirds pointless filler. You have tracks like Under My Thumb or Paint It Black that capture you instantly and then pretty forgettable songs like... I dunno, I forgot them already. Fav tracks: Paint It Black, Under My Thumb

Yeah, this score is carried by Paint It, Black tbh

Paint it Black is only on US version

How do you make a song as good as Paint It Black, and then lump it with a collection of completely forgettable songs?

Listened to the UK version so I didn't even get to hear Paint It Black....fine music but lyrics aged like milk

Drugi najbolji Stones album dosad, zanima me hoće li kasnije biti još konkurencije. Nisam njihov veliki ljubitelj ali činjenice su da je Paint it Black pjesmetina i da kad ih poredim s ostalom popularnom muzikom iz ovog perioda zvuče nekoliko svjetlosnih godina ispred (osim Kinksa i donekle Whoa). Slušala sam britansku čini mi se.

A very down the middle album

7/10

Remarkable mainly for the first songwriting attempts of the Glimmer Twins. You can hear what they were reaching for but sounds quite naive in the pop vein of the time. Great to hear Brian Jones’ musical accompaniments playing everything bar the kitchen sink. 3

Fine, bland considering what the stones did at their peak.

I really haven't listened to anything by the Stones that hasn't been played on the radio. This was pretty good. Obviously I already knew the big hits on this one, and the rest were enjoyable.

This is not the Stones era I like. Meh.

classique, fondateur … 3-/5

2,9 Highlights: Mother's Little Helper, Out Of Time

It’s the Rolling Stones…. So giving it a 3/5, not my cup of tea but still a good listen.

The classic Rolling Stones album with two all-time classic songs and then they just left the recorder running until they filled a record. Stupid Girl is kinda amazing - they keep saying "look at this stupid girl" and you're waiting for them to subvert it or be like why do I like her so much and instead they just say "she's the worst thing in this world". Absolute purity of message I respect it.

meh. old.

Has a pretty good selection of songs and I thought it was pretty enjoyable. 7/10

Own it, but haven't really listened before. Some great songs on here, some dreck too. Going home is such a downer, kills the album. Picks up on the 2nd side. Does not need to be 50 mins, could have cut 15-20 mins. 3 Heard before? Yes Owned: Yes, 94/353 (26%) Will I get: Already have

Not one of their bests but a solid 3 stars

In the Beatles vs the Stones debate, I’m firmly in the Beatles camp, but I do have admiration for the stones, particularly their longevity. The songs here aren’t as familiar to me, but I appreciate the sound. I have wondered in the past how the stones would have sounded if they had a great producer in the studio like the Beatles did. Because I feel like they have good ideas but don’t develop and flesh them out as well as George Martin did with the Beatles. Which is kind of how I feel about this album — good ideas not entirely realized. I am also puzzled to see Paint it Black as part of others’ reviews… that song was not on the album on Apple Music…

This is my first Stones album and I was looking forward to my first exposure to one of the most famous, revered, and influential bands of all time. There aren’t that many times anyone gets to experience that. Unfortunately, I was hardly moved as a whole by this record. I’m assuming there’s better to come with The Stones, as this was the first albun made up of all their own material. Maybe there is something I’m not getting but I thought that, while innovative for the time, certainly, I didn’t fall in love with the tracks here much more than what we’ve heard in the late 60’s. They are well-performed and have some catchy and high-energy moments, but the inconsistency is an issue and nothing blew me away. On top of this, there is some serious misogyny going on and while it’s the 60’s, it certainly doesn’t make me want to listen to it now any more. I might be being a little generous in the end, but there are plenty of solid songs that sound alright for the mid 60’s and some lyrics that aren’t hard to listen to are actually good and interesting. Not exactly taken with this project though. I’m curious what, if any, Stones album will capture me and show me why they’re so loved. 1 listen Favorite Tracks: Mother’s Little Helper

60s music that isn't terrible

Two great tunes on this album but some of the others just felt... lifeless?

Klarer ikke å engasjere verken på den ene eller andre måten. Sorry!

One of the best albums by the Stones in the 60s---although unlike so many people, I love Satanic Majesties Request. How they were able to record "Goin' Home" at 11 minutes---broke barriers even though I find it boring. "Lady Jane," "Mother's Little Helper," "Under My Thumb" are the standouts for me.

Would love to listen to this with the windows down, tracing the Welsh coast in my dinghy, cigarette in mouth and speakers turned to the max. I should probably learn how to drive

MIDDD and besides the first song, don’t really appreciate the couple songs that have outdated views on women and they were boring too so

So the American version has Paint It Black, the first really great Rolling Stones song. The UK version opens with Mother's Little Helper, which is an interesting track, but not as effective as Paint It Black. The rest is just kinda messy. Lady Jane feels like a mediocre costume drama. Under My Thumb is musically great Stones, but lyrically dreadful Stones. The rest of it wanders stylistically and indulgently, and it's just... not great, sometimes boring. It's historically interesting as a prologue to the great albums that started 1968, but it's not an album I would tell anyone they really should listen to. 2.5/3, rounding up for the sake of Paint it Black as if it's the American version.

I don’t get the hate people are heaping on the Rolling Stones for this album. It is a product of its time, dated as that may be. This music is 60 years old- older than most of the people even reviewing it, and the philosophy of applying whatever moral standards you have from today to music and art of the far flung past is an extremely flawed idea that is just going to lock you out of being able to enjoy things. This is virtue signaling at its finest, and projecting your moral superiority over music old enough to get a senior citizen discount makes you look like a moron. Nobody is going to fuck you because you think Mick Jagger is a tool for singing about stupid girls. If I were to look into the personal lives of every artist I ever listed to, and added or removed their music from my library based on their moral fiber, I would probably not listen to very much music at all. Assessing your enjoyment of music through a lens of “was this person a good person?” is a fool’s errand and serves only to drive you insane. That said, the music is really good. It has the eternal hits Paint It Black and Under My Thumb on it, which instantly catapulted it to classic status, even back in 1966, but there’s a wide variety of music on here that honestly, the Stones didn’t really go back to much after this album. This one is important because it’s the first time the Stones did an album entirely of their own compositions. Their first 3 albums were mostly just blues covers, which was a thing bands did at that time- lots and lots of covers. This is the demarcation point where the Stones became themselves and ascended the other run of the mill, milquetoast, blues-rock Beatles influenced bands of the era. The Beatles had set the pattern with the matching outfits and mod/bowl haircuts, and everyone else was following. It was still going to take a few albums/years for them to come out from under the long shadow cast by John, Paul, George, and Ringo, but we’ll probably get there on another album. Lady Jane is a really interesting one- which is like a medieval twangy, greensleeves esque ballad with a very knightly/war of the roses theme lyrically. Doncha Bother Me is a jangly, bouncy tune that sounds more akin to what they’d be doing later, and the rest of it is a mix of Beatles sounds, and other 60s era pop music. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I could take it or leave it…

I listened to both UK/US versions, and honestly the US one was better, trimmed some fat. Under My Thumb is on both tho so net negative either way. Overall it wasn't bad, but a good amount was just eh. The standouts were good tho, I will admit that. Highlights-Mother's Little Helper(UK), Paint it Black(USA), Stupid Girl(guilty pleasure), Lady Jane, Doncha Bother Me, Think, Goin' Home.

I don't really get the Stones. They're fine, but nothing to get excited about.

I know and love the later Stones albums after this one, but I’ll be honest and say I’ve never listened to this. I knew the singles obviously, but the rest was new to me. It was a bit disappointing. Quite repetitive and the songs just aren’t all that strong. Add in the frankly terribly misogynistic and dated lyrics and it makes for a pretty average experience. Released between Rubber Soul and Revolver, quite how anyone at this point thought they were at the level of the Liverpudlian lads is beyond me.

I love Paint it Black, maybe my fav Stones song, but otherwise meh.

These are good smokey, smarmy Stones songs. But goddamn are they misogynistic. I learned Under My Thumb way back when I was heartbroken, and because I was young and foolish, I probably vibed with the notion of blaming other people for being upset. But I can’t imagine covering it today without making some changes.

A lot of these classic rock records can be hit and miss. not a lot of substance or similarity blending these tracks together. the highs are high and the lows are zzz..

Good.

5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background Listened to both the U.S. and British versions of this. Very front loaded. First 4 tracks are very strong. Back half feels like a pale imitation of their influences.

It's strange — I have a difficult time with many Stones albums. A couple (Exile, for certain) are brilliant from start to finish, but most of the rest have timeless songs parked next to ones I'm content to never hear again. When everything clicks, it's the epitome of rock and roll. When it doesn't, it can be dismissible, even distasteful. Funny, there's some sort of magic that happens in a brilliant song, and it's not easy to qualify. Anyway, half of these have it.

At first, I was reviewing the American release, but then I realized that they, like the Beatles, had a different version for the UK. There are definitely a few gems on here. Out of Time, Mother's Little Helper, Think... But there are quite a number of mid- to just plain bad songs (Lady Jane), plus a whole heap of misogyny. The UK version is definitely better than the US one, though that one has Paint it Black.

Yeah, I’m a Rolling Stones and Beatles fanboy (yes, that’s possible); this is a solid album, though I find *Sticky Fingers* quite a bit better. I don’t get the hate for the Stones at all—come on, Mick and Keith are the coolest people on earth.

Very catchy, to a surprising degree

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11 songs Paint It, Black is a 5/5 song, that's for sure, but other than that, I found the album to be pretty mediocre. Also worth mentioning that I listened to the US version, which I think is superior, as the UK version didn't have Paint It, Black and was a bit more bloated.

The first song was a nostalgic punch in the face but other than that it is, fine.

Jamais écouté avant. Même si c'est le premier album intégralement signé Jagger/Richards, et en quelque sorte le réveil artistique à part entière des Stones, Aftermath ne s'éloigne en réalité pas tant que ça de leurs racines blues, passées au crible des instincts pop parfois géniaux des Glimmer Twins, et leur goût de la provocation pas toujours du meilleur goût, à mettre aussi sur le compte de leur jeunesse. Seule l'intégration d'instruments moins traditionnels (dulcimer, marimba, sitar sur Paint It Black, absent de la version britannique de l'album) par Brian Jones leur permet d'explorer de nouveaux territoires. L'album compte quelques morceaux de génie, c'est incontestable, de Mother's Little Helper à Out of Time entre autres, mais aussi des compositions terriblement standard et oubliables. Difficile pour moi de le placer au même niveau que les autres chefs-d'œuvre sortis la même année. Top : Out of Time (Paint It Black sur la version US) Flop : Stupid Girl

Kind of a tough album, because it's hard to know if I'm rating the Rolling Stones compared to others or compared to far superior efforts that I know will follow this 1966 album, where they finally seemed confident enough in their own songwriting to let loose. "Paint It Black" and "Under My Thumb" are the clear standouts, and in the "competition" they were indirectly having with the Beatles at the time, those are the only two tracks that might have had a chance to make it on either Rubber Soul or Revolver, which is how far the Beatles had come by then. Still, this is really the Stones' first effort to focus on the album level (rather than the singles' successes they had already experienced). So points for that, I guess?

Still early Stones, only a couple of years away from their creative peak. You can start to hear the band they will become.

Boy, Mick Jagger really didn't seem to like women. Despite this, it's still a good album. 3.4/5

3/5

Not my favourite of the Stones period. Clearly still trying to find their blues / rock roots.

I play a little game while listening to these albums: I wonder what score this album has? I've been wholly wrong a few times but bang on for this album by the stones (3.4). Two very good songs that we all know. The rest not so much and I have been taking points off for random too long tracks of what sounds like extended free improvisation "noodling". So point off for the 11:13 of going home. I would really like to give it 3 1/2, so right on the average but obviously can't. Ok 1/2 a point for a song about prescription drug abuse (Mother's little helper). Sorry doesn't get it over the line.

Paint it black was good

Longer than I wanted

It's alright. Nothing that I'd consider a stand out.

There are some bangers in this one but I didn’t give it enough listens to really flesh out my review. Probably a mid/high 3.

this was cool. comments on this are mad charged. im not sure i listened to the lyrics very carefully. im not sure whats happening most times with regards to most things

immediately went to the edit page after looking at the lyrics of stupid girl and undr my thumb whyyyy do i never pay attention to lyrics.....downgraded from 4 to 3 but i still think that sonically this is the best rolling stones album and everything should sound like paint it black forever

it's ok, pretty neutral on stones Will I listen to again: 11%

Favorite song: Paint it, Black (of course, there's a reason that song has withstood the test of time and become a classic). Surprise favorite song: I am Waiting. Song I struggled to make it through: the final song, Going Home. 11 minutes and 13 seconds of absolute nonsense in the worst, most self-indulgent, nonsensical way. Overall I give this album 3 stars, there are a couple of redeeming classics / good songs, but an equal or greater number of what fell on my ears as duds.

The Brian Jones and Beatles fingerprints all over this thing are really great. I really really like the instrumentation and production. Sounds like that side had yet to be refined, and was a little derivative, but really strong. I'm usually not too sensitive to lyrics, but the misogyny on this one really is a vibe kill.

Pretty solid old classic rock that doesn't stray too far from the formula. a Couple breakout songs that I had heard before but you can mostly guess what you're in for early on in the album. I think the Vocals are the major identifying factor that give it its edge here and in the future.

(Review for UK Version) A solid album and seminal for 1966, released months before The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" and The Beatles "Revolver". The Rolling Stones have reached the apex of their early style with more original material than earlier releases. They've already written "Satisfaction", "Play With Fire", "As Tears Go By", "Get Off of My Cloud", so they'd have already solidified themselves in rock history by this album. While this has some big songs for them--"Mother's Little Helper", "Under My Thumb", "Out of Time", "Paint It Black" for the US release--they are still a few years away from hitting their pinnacle. That's the biggest mark against this album. Although it's quite good, it just pales in comparison with basically everything that comes after it: over a decade of great albums. 3.5 / 5, rounded down. This is a pretty big stepping stone for them. Of all the bands that started in the 60's, The Rolling Stones discography is maybe most emblematic of the changes in the world and musical landscape. In just 3 years after this album, the 60's would die in a cloud of confusion and darkness, with The Rolling Stones performing at Altamont Free Concert. With Aftermath, the darkness is looming, but it's hiding in the peripherals. The Free Love movement is dwindling, and leaving behind some scars. And yet, as a whole, Aftermath feels less essential for me personally.

Classic

Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Under My Thumb (disappointing rapey lyrics though) Date listened: 16-17/06/26 Listen when: - Definitely grows on me the more I listen so this rating could 100% go up but right now it stays where it is.

A few really good tracks, but as an album, it has too much filler to stand out. Faves: Mother's Little Helper, Lady Jane, Under My Thumb

Bangers and some weaker songs

I listened to both the UK and US versions of the album. Both start off with different hits (Mother's Little Helper and Paint it Black, respectively) that are not included on the other version. Those are the best two songs overall, so it's strange they both weren't included on both. Anyway, I was excited after the UK version started, but it quickly devolved into a whole lot of disrespect for women, which was a real turnoff. Musically, I think it's pretty great. Lyrically, it sucks.

*63 Det er ikke rigtig the best of the bunch, men der er stadig en solid musikalitet.

Er ikke vokset op i et stones hjem :( Det er fint, men det får mig altså heller ikke helt op at dinge

Disclaimer: jeg kommer fra et Stones-hjem 2.8

ikke så meget at sige. Ganske fint med et par fede numre, men jeg er ikke specielt overvældet

3/5 Favorite Song: Think

https://500songs.com/podcast/song-176-sympathy-for-the-devil-by-the-rolling-stones-part-one-a-man-of-wealth-and-taste/

I’ve never been the biggest Rolling Stones fan. This album started of pretty strong, I really enjoyed the first four songs, but from “Goin’ Home” and onward this album really did drag, and was a bit boring.

7- / 10

Paint it Black and then…a pretty okay blues record. Eh.

Nemám ich až tak rád. Som viac beatlesovský ... Ale je to z ich lepších albumov

Paint It, Black is great. The rest is nothing.

nothing that really stands out, just good overall

Mother's Little Helper is a strong opener. I hear the misogyny argument, and I know it was a different time, but Under My Thumb sounds great. It seems like the sort of thing that was written after a bad relationship. Good to know that we have evolved to gangsta rap and Taylor Swift to cover those cringey issues now in a commercially successful way. Lady Jane and Out of Time were OK, and I appreciated blues elements and experimentation throughout the album, but the other tracks weren't memorable.

Blandad säck

Gillar verkligen Stones, ett av väldigt få artister på listan jag sett live. Men detta album hade llte väl många dussinlåtar.

This is alright. Honestly, it's better than that, I'm just still not that much of a Rolling Stones fan. It's fine.

“paint it, black” and other stuff

I was annoyed to find out after three listens that I had been listening to the U.K. version, which is worse for not having Paint It Black. That is (or would be) one of the two all-timer, rock canon songs on this record, alongside Under My Thumb, which is generally how I feel about Stones records; a couple of eternal tunes, then a bunch of other stuff. That 'other stuff' here has some bright spots - Mother's Little Helper, Out of Time - and also some dull spots, like the dumb, indulgent Going Home. Evens out to about a 3!

6/10

Decent but nothing super outstandingly good

It’s a pretty solid album, not sure why it’s compared to rubber soul, though. Enjoyable, some pretty solid tracks, but I don’t know if he reaches that level. Three stars.

Paint it black and under my thumb were alright

The temptation is to give them high marks because they’re the Rolling Stones. The thing is, while the good songs are really good, there’s a lot of filler here.

Some I liked more than I should. Some showed the talent on display, some obviously missed by miles. It seems I write the same every time I review their albums.

Paint it Black and Under My Thumb (despite its lyrics) are fantastic songs musically. The rest of the album was disappointing. I’ve never understood how this band was compared to The Beatles.

"Look at that stupid girl" I loved so much and so glad I've discovered it LOL. Some of the songs like Going Home I couldn't stand it was so boring.

A classic.

Awww baby stones

bad sequencing and a little bloated tracklist make what should be a great album feel like a little bit of a slog near the end which is unfortunate cause i dont think any of the tracks are Outright Bad

Mostly slow, some good tunes

This is just what I think of when I think of oldie rock. Nothing more or less, nothing better or worse.

I've never heard this album, but yet it feels so familiar. Kudos somehow, Rolling Stones.

Turns out I'm not the biggest Stones fan. Don't get me wrong, the album is good, and a few songs stand out. It's just not that special to me. I think it's an album where I needed to hear it a lot closer to when it was release to fully appreciate it. Nothing on the record blew me away. And about 4-5 songs in I realized that 90% of Mick's lyrics are just repeating the same one to two lines for the entire song. Maybe their other albums will be better.

6.5 - fine, stones don’t do much for me

Kinda average

Mid table Stones

here we can see the Rolling Stones becoming a rock band in the contemporary sense of the word: a band that writes and performs all-original material. previous LPs were partially (or even mostly) comprised of cover versions that showed their love and respect for American folk and blues; but on Aftermath, the Stones start to really put their foot in the ring as contributors to that lineage. as a songwriting duo, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards clearly had a lot of room to grow from here, but standouts like "Mother's Little Helper", "Under My Thumb" and "Out of Time" stand up just as strongly as do the songs from their more legendary albums to follow. Brian Jones is a much bigger factor in this era of the band, with his sitar parts in particular giving a lot of flavor to the musical formula they were working with. this is most notable on "Paint It Black", one of their earliest hits, which landed on the American edition of Aftermath, but not the UK one, so it's not factoring into my review here. that being said, there's still plenty of sitar from Jones, along with marimba, koto and dulcimer. the 52-minute duration of the UK pressing strikes me as ambitious, but not exactly desirable. "Goin' Home" is an 11-minute jam that's one of the earliest examples of such a track on a studio rock album, but not necessarily one of the most notable. the deeper cuts also start to feel pretty repetitive after a while. keep the tracks you like and throw 'em in a playlist or something. light 7/10.

Good album.

Thanks to the game "Guitar Hero III" the song "Paint It, Black" is engraved in my heart :) Sounded to me a kind of deconstruction of country music with rock&roll mixed in.

I enjoyed this album I just thought it felt soooo long. I was like where is the end of it. Some great tracks I can't fault a lot of it but it just feels so drawn out.

Feeling quite conflicted on this one as there as re hip hop records on this I've marked down for their unpleasant misogyny but musically I really like Under My Thumb which is one of several toxic male manipulator anthems from Jagger and co. The US version of this has Paint It Black on it, which is one of the best songs of the decade but there's also quite a few filler tracks on here too, so I'm going to prevaricate and award 3 stars rather than face the bigger question of whether pop music was sexist from it's inception.

Not my #1 Rolling Stones album - some of the songs are repetitive or have annoying lyrics - but includes hits Paint it Black (one of my absolute favs by them) and Under My Thumb.

Surprisingly good album! Rolling Stones is one of the most overrated bands ever. IMO, they’re more of a singles band than an album band, but this album is actually okay. It starts out really strong before the 11 minute drag starts, and brings along the next 3 poor tracks. Out of time is awesome and the album ends in an okay manner. 6/10

Note: I listened to the US edition of this album because that's what was on YouTube Music, though I think the recommendation was for the US edition, which has a pretty different track listing. I know that the Stones are a big deal, and this album is important because it's the first of their albums without any cover songs on it. It's a shame that I didn't like it anywhere near as much as I wanted to. The only song that I'd definitely listen to again is "Paint It Black." A lot of the other songs have very strong instrumentation and would sound great if it wasn't for the horrifying levels of misogyny in the lyrics, even by Rolling Stones standards. And there's no world in which the Stones work as a jam band, so my attitude towards the 11-minute album closer, "Goin' Home," was "Just end already!"

I don't think I've ever listened to Aftermath in full before and there are definite peaks and troughs. It's got that sound of a band in transition - there's the outright pop direction of songs like Mother's Little Helper, Under My Thumb, and Out of Time, then there are the blues tracks like Going Home (which was a slog), High and Dry, etc. The two styles don't sit comfortably alongside one another here to my mind, but they merged these influences almost seamlessly on their future records. An awkward listen all in all. Fun as their earlier years were, I think they had to get their next album (Between the Buttons) and their clumsy psychedelic effort (Their Satanic Majesties) out of the way before they could really get going in earnest. Personally, I don't think you need to listen to anything before Beggar's Banquet. From then on, they were untouchable.

RATING: 7.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Mother’s Little Helper LOWLIGHT: Doncha Bother Me

Liked the front half of the album but got a bit repetitive by the end.

Sorry lads but I'm not a Stones guy. This is fine.

Fun but not mind blowing. Three

Some songs were great, others not so much. Some lyrics need rethinking. Good Lord.

There are six The Rolling Stones albums on this list, I feel like this one could have been cut. Perfectly fine, but to my ear ordinary, rock and roll.

While I enjoy their hits, the rest of their music doesn't roll for me. ★★★

If the Wikipedia page is correct, I have now listened to everything The Rolling Stones has to offer in this generator after completing 59 percent of this journey. I'm an original album purist, so I only listened to the United Kingdom version, and that may be the difference maker here. Again, I wasn't very impressed. A few key songs helped carry this album to some enjoyability. In this generator, my favorite album by The Rolling Stones is "Let It Bleed". Overall, I say the band is influential, obviously has tremendous longevity, but is overrated as well. Favorite Track: "Lady Jane".

It feels like blasphemy to say, but I wasn't that fond of this album. It was alright to have on in the background I suppose, but with a group like The Rolling Stones I thought it'd knock it out of the park. Was just fine for me, but no takeaways and I wouldn't listen again.

Really shows the blues roots of this band.

Already knew Paint it Black, rest never heard but familiar. I get the hype but had to be there

son los rolling, ya de por sí son icónicos, el principio del álbum tiene sonidos e instrumentos que suenan un poco orientales y me encanta, pero al final va decayendo un poco y acaban con country, está bien pero me gusta mucho más el principio

Nice

Apparently their first album containing tracks they wrote themselves, it’s pretty much the blueprint for their sound. Paint It Black does a lot of heavy lifting for this album and it’s a shame that it’s the opener as it’s a hard act to follow.

This album does nothing to dispell my feeling that the Stones were a singles act until the late 60's. Any albums they have on this list that predate 'Beggar's Banquet' shouldn't be on here - just like this one. The best thing to take away from this is that before The Beatles releases the years ahead Revolver, Lennon joked they should call it 'Before Geography'. Best Tracks: Mother's Little Helper; Under My Thumb; Out of Time

I thought this was a solid Stones album! It didn’t blow me away but I thought it was enjoyable to listen to and I would give it another listen in the future if I was in the mood for some blues/psychedelic rock!

Teniendo en cuenta que he escuchado la versión USA. Mucho mejor que otros discos de ellos en esta lista. Hay grandes canciones que me he guardado: «Paint It, Black», «Doncha Bother Me» y «It's Not Easy». Especialmente interesante «Under My Thumb».

Paint it black and Under My Thumb rip. When this album rocks - it rocks. When it sucks - it sucks. Too bad it sucks more than it rocks. A lot of this was just Temu Beatles. Overall not the worst stones album. Relatively inoffensive if not bland.

I think i really only enjoy popular Stones songs, the album was okay but a bit boring for me in some parts. I appreciate it but it's not all for me.

That's it? It was fine, but also not super special?

It's hard to rate, cause there's some good stuff. It's just not my style.

No me disgustó, 3/5

Solid, but not up to the levels of Exile, Sticky Fingers, or Let it Bleed. You can kind of see the band starting to move into that territory, but they haven't arrived quite yet. 7/10

Not my favorite from them

Good album

Great vocals and instrumentals, style is very of its time and good (night bar music), just not enough to be much more memorable than this listen. Paint it black will always be a classic, but I found some more liked songs.

An older album. Again I seem to prefer modern producing rather thay the spacious recording of older times. This album was an easy listen. Didn't blow me away, didn't aggravate me either. (3/5)

Never a big Stones fan, they always seemed petulant

Stones albums lose the raw energy that came across when they performed to the point where their albums are just meh

Listens: 4 Standout Tracks: Paint It Black, Under My Thumb I feel like the Rolling Stones have some sort of split-brain going on. On one side of the brain, you have absolute bangers like Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, Paint It Black, Under My Thumb. And on the other, you've got really weird (but not necessarily bad) shit like Lady Jane. Maybe my beef is just with that track, which feels otherwise out of place compared to the rest of the album. Its a baroque tune in a sea of rock and roll and blues. Why is it on the album? Paint it Black and Under My Thumb are 5's and the rest of the album is a 3 (Going Home is a 4).

Favorite: Lady Jane

One or two good songs , the rest just about average.

There are two versions of this album - the UK version and the U.S. version - that have slightly different track lists. I listened to the U.S. version mainly because the first song on the album is "Paint It Black" and the song isn't on the UK version at all. "Paint It Black" is my favorite Rolling Stones song and one of my all-time favorite songs, period. As far as the whole album, I definitely enjoyed listening to it. I think the Stones did some things on this album that other bands weren't really doing at the time - experimenting with different instruments, etc. It's not always a popular opinion, but I've always been a bigger Stones fan than a Beatles fan (probably because my Dad is as well). Setting aside the fact that some of the lyrics on some of the songs are pretty cringey and the fact that the last song - "Goin' Home" - just goes on for way too long and never really goes anywhere, this is a solid album.

Cool, different, a little too country/blusey for my liking. Still decent. 3.5/5

bakeliten halgattam, úgyhogy eleve egy másfajta, sokkal nyugodtabb, lassabb, odafigyelősebb halgatási élmény volt. tetszett, de kicsit jobban szeretem a későbbi rockot - ezért a 3 csillag

… Oh… … Well, this is my third time writing this for some reason. Anyway this is the Stones’ first album that a lot of people really pay attention to, due to the fact that it has “Mommy’s Little Helper” on it (which I love, as does my dad) as well as featuring the classic “Paint It, Black” on the American version, which also removes the tedious 11-minute “Going Home.” This album’s also interesting because it has some sort of concept, I suppose in the same way that an album like Aesop Rock’s “Labor Days” has a concept, though that’s one of the best albums of all time and this… I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s basically just endless pessimism as a concept I’m pretty sure. And that’s all well and good, but that basically makes them the evil version of early Beatles, because they take just as much from much better and more capable Black artists as the Beatles used to, but it’s so much less competent (which in most cases is saying something because some of that shit wasn’t good at all). As I mentioned, “Mother’s Little Helper” is superb, but it falls off fast from there, and there’s not much else interesting on the album. It’s just a slog of Mick Jagger trying to be interesting and instead being boring if not grating. I don’t know. It gets to you after a while, how nothing this album is without its highs. Still not bad though. 6.9/10

Couple of great songs…the rest a disappointment.

Middle of the road. One hit song. Not so hyped about the Rolling Stones.

It was alright, I dont think im much of a Rolling Stones fan It seems.

I generally like the 'Stones, but this isn't a strong album.  This is a few classic singles accompanied by a bunch of filler.  What was with that 11-minute Going Home song?  There were about 7 unnecessary minutes in there. Liked Songs Added: Mother's Little Helper Lady Jane Under My Thumb Out Of Time What To Do

Paint it Black is in my top 3 Stones songs and that gives this album some extra points for me as some of the other songs like Stupid Girl don't stand up to the test of time. I do appreciate that this is an album where the Stones found their sound and that's cool.

Rolling Stones albums are just so shitty, One or two good songs with a lot of filler.

'sfine. Honestly this album really feels like the attention was on the first four songs, and the rest are more of the plodding 'okay' blues numbers that The Rolling Stones do. I respect The Rolling Stones a lot but I'm not a superfan. Decent enough album though.

Some great hits and some ones I haven’t heard before. I enjoyed this album.

Feels like I should enjoy this more, but besides Paint It Black it’s a bit forgettable

Solid one from the Rolling Stones,

3 starw

Mucho rock, actitud y ADN Stones. No me parece su mejor álbum, pero si se siente que es el camino que los lleva a conseguirlo. Under my Thumb.

3.0 - Ok

(67/100)

Se nota que aún estaban en fase experimental con el sonido. Está bien, pero tampoco vi nada que me flipase o que destacar demasiado.

Album #121 The Rolling Stones: Aftermath I will admit that I’ve never actually delved into The Rolling Stones' discography. They have a handful of amazing songs that I have long enjoyed, including the first track from this album, “Paint it Black”; their sound has never gripped me enough to seek out full albums. Of the British Takeover bands, I instead listen to The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Who, before even considering The Stones. I know that Aftermath isn’t considered to be them in their prime, so I am not going to judge the band solely on this album. I can’t say that this impressed me too much. There are some great songs, but overall, everything sort of has that same bluesy atmosphere, which isn’t my favourite sound. There seemed to be a trend in the late 60s of ending your album with a 10-plus-minute song, and this worked for some, like the Velvet Underground with Sister Ray, and The Doors with The End. But Going Home by The Rolling Stones just isn’t able to captivate me as much as the previously mentioned songs, so it ends up feeling like a drag. I don’t think this album is bad by any means; however, I do find it a little dull. Best Songs: Paint It Black, Lady Jane, I Am Waiting Worst Song: Going Home Score out of 10: 6.5

I get why this album is on the list. However, of all the Stones' albums, I don't think that this one should have been on the list. I listened to the U.S. version of this album rather than the U.K. because I love "Paint It Black" and can't stand "Mother's Little Helper". I love that, even on this album, they didn't stick to formulaic songwriting. The difference between "Paing It Black", "Under My Thumb", and "I Am Waiting" are stark in all good ways.

Kinda underwhelmed I expected more but overall solid

Paint it, Black muy buen tema. Es re un album que escucharía estudiando o programando. Los rolling no decepcionan.

No me encantó. Es como que quiero que se parezcan a los beatles y no llegan a ser tan buenos. Out of time es la única que volvería a escuchar

Musically, I enjoy this iteration of the Stones with its well-crafted pop gems and different genre leanings. The baroque stylings of “Lady Jane” are particularly cool. The misogyny is over the top, though.

Not really all that into the Stones but some of the songs were enjoyable

It’s fine, there’s a few classic songs and a lot of just okay filler. Not every Rolling Stones album needs to be on this list!

Empieza con un temazo indiscutido, luego fluctúa entre muy buenos temas y algunos medio pochos, no es de los mejores discos de los Rolling para mí, pero ningún disco de ellos es malo.

Why was "Paint it Black" not on the UK version? Accidently played that one and got "Mother's little Helper" as the opening track. 2 Stars for the UK version and 3 for the US only cause "Paint it Black" is a banger. Rest of it's "meh"

3 stars and only because I love Paint It Black so much. When they're good, they're really good, when they're bad they're awful!

Solid 3. There are better Rolling Stones albums out there.

A couple cool songs. Got this album right after The Who and it's just too much British loosey goosey for me in a row. We CAN play really well, but how do we make it sound like we never rehearsed this before

"Aftermath" de la banda "the rolin ton" review de twerkdelhueso: Ay alrin una cancion de tiempo promedio, xd😂😂😂 "Mother's Little Helper" m encanto como introo, muy resfrescante despues del mundo distopico horrendo en el q me metio prince. El tema espantoso q trata y la escritura l dan pila personalidad a la intro, droga droga droga eee e drogaaa e e e, pero visto desde una perspectiva pila mas realista. En "Lady Jane" da un giro brusco en la vibe, cambiandole tol color al lente, pasando de uacha estupida pajera, a una balada ahi con dulcimer creo, o otro instrumenyo ahi d cuerda q guitarra no es eso, y no m van a convencer d que si es. Este tipo d contrastes le da pila vida al album y aun mas ganas de escucharlo bien ahi. Pense q ya lo habia escrito pero no, m encanta el paneo del album. "Under My Thumb" musica d ascensor, ahr. No se si eso q suena como un pedo a la izquierda es un bajo.. no se q es... .. m esta dejando confusion, un temita muy tranquilo para manejar y conocer estados unidos, asi lo siento. La dupla de "Doncha Bother Me" y "Going Home" q crean, almenos en mi, una atmosfera dl viejo oeste los 2, no me encantaron, la calidad del audio se tomo en serio lo d viejo oeste y se redujo pila. 11 minutos es innecesariamente largo para lo q demuestra la cancion, y en el final senti q mick jagger m iba a tocar. Incomodo y prescindible. Se celebra la picardia de un tema largo, no quiero dejar malentendendidos, no es repetitivo, pero no m vuela la capocha, y si lo escucho high lo skipeo antes de entrar en un (posiblemente nulo) viaje. "Flight 505" El rokanrol: emos vuelto. No vi la letra perdon no se q decir d esta tema chau m aburrio. Los temas siguientes no m explotaron ni sorprendieron na, lo resumiria en: son los rolin ton. Porq se nota ese sonidillo d ellos pero no m parece la gran cosa. Se nota y tiene protagonismo su gran abanico de instrumentos, tenian guita los pavos, ahr q el abanico son harmonica y guitarra. "Take It Or Leave It" tiene una campanilla q m gusta es re cute, re lindo el tema pero nunca explota ni apasigua, se queda tibio todo el rato, la letra esta buena pero es eso que nunca va a quedar en el coco de nadie si es asi de neutro. En "Think" al fin volvemos al bajo q m rompe la olla, ese q tanto m agrado de las primeras canciones del disco, diria q las guitarras estan buenas pero sinceramente casi no las escucho, esta grabada para el culo pero no esta mal eso. Supongo que un tema mas clasico o normal. "What to do" es historicamente la primera cancion del mundo con adlibs, porfavor no chequen que eso sea verdad, solo confien. El famoso "album bajo la ley de la gravedad universal", lo que caracteriza a este tipo de proyectos, es un comienzo bien alto, tanto como la atmosfera y condiciones biologicas lo permitan, q poco a poco va bajando hasta lo mas terrenal, teniendo algunos altibajos por el inservible jetpack en la espalda de mick jagger, q aunque se esmere y rompa sus limites no puede pelearle a la gravedad del planeta. Teniendo un inicio q resalta por su personalidad y atrevimiento extrovertido, brillando en lo mas alto con "Lady Jane" (mi personal favorito jejjjjj), pero que por desgracia no puede sostenerlo por mucho mas. Estoy sobrio 3.5/5, va a aparecer como q le di 3 ignora eso

Yeah, this is a hard one to rate. The music is pretty good, but the misogyny is rampant. Half the songs are really enjoyable, half the songs are boring and flat. There's two versions of the album, One of which has the absolute classic "Paint It Black" on what is its only album release as far as I can tell, and the other is the real version. Whether I look at it as a great album full of bad lyrics or a bad album with a few real crackers, either way I feel like it averages out on the whole. A 3/5 it is.

My personal replays: Mother's Little Helper

Bit old school but good

Absolutely fine. Nothing outstanding

How did they make paint it black and going home and shove all the boring stuff between it Paint it black is like they were touched my aliens and said, this is what you need to do.

Transitional album for the Stones, didn’t realize they hated women so much.

3.5/5

i think my first introduction to The Rolling Stones was "Paint it Black", which, if I'm remembering this right, was the menu music for the game Twisted Metal Black. or at least it was somewhere in the game. i remember that it was my favorite part of the game, which otherwise bored (or scared) me

Accidentally listened to the UK version, which didn’t have Paint It Black, so I gotta give this a placeholder 3 star review and revisit

A little dated 60s blues rock from the stones but it has its moment. Paint It Black will always be a classic.

General thoughts: I had a hard time deciding between the US or UK versions; the setlists looked wildly different, and opening with "Paint it Black" along a shorter run seemed like an advantage for the US, but I ended up picking the UK because it's their country of origin. Inevitably, I have to compare it to what the Beatles were producing during those years, which would be Rubber Soul. If this were really a race, Aftermath feels some years behind. The opening track sets a gist of a psychedelic and more mature undertone. Actually, the start is strong but falls trepidly after 'Under My Thumb'. The rest of the album is basic Rock'n'Roll and Blues tunes, nothing that makes you think 'Hey, this is something only The Rolling Stones are capable of doing'. No, it's something pretty generic. The album sounds really unpolished and badly produced; there's this constant echo, like it was recorded in a big hall. The drums are lame as hell. The guitar in comparison was really good and unique, it's like it's there doing it's own thing, shining in parallel with the vocals but at the same time not stealing the spotlight. After getting familiar with the UK version I checked the US version and it's basically a rearrangement + "Paint it Black". Side A is near perfect and then side B is average but tanking again thanks to "Goin' Home". Overall, the final rating is similar. Outstanding song(s): Under My Thumb, Lady Jane, Mother's Little Helper Weakest song(s): Goin' Home - Yeah, let's make the outro of the most generic song in the album 11 minutes long, 1/5 of the duration! Cover: This is clearly 'With The Beatles'. Real rating: 3.21

160726 15:05 3.5

Oh, the trend of the times when an artist was simply a singing head, performing what others had written before them. On this album, The Rolling Stones for the first time abandoned this vicious practice — all the songs here are written by the Jagger / Richards duo, with only the influence of old blues standards remaining, heavily diluted by sitar, marimba, and harmonica, unusual for the genre. Did the band succeed? At first, it certainly did; the entire first half of the album, ending with the epochal jam "Going Home," is excellent. The second half stumbled and then completely lost its way; these aren't exactly bad songs, they're just boring, especially considering the band's current stature. After listening to the album, the initial confusion over the fact that four tracks were cut from the American version dissipates; but they added Paint It Black - that's what I call an equal exchange.

Like other Stones stuff, there are a couple of great songs on here, and the rest is pretty filler-y.

A relic. I bet it was pretty great when it came out. I enjoyed it, but I can't see myself listening to it again

Entry #4 from the Stones. They still have some country flavor on a few tracks, as with their other records. Overall this album is not as good as the earlier Stones albums, although it does have a few hits.

Sigh, more Rolling Stones. Pretty good album cover. Pretty stupid(=sexist) lyrics, but these songs are catchier than some of their others. More mellow and poppy. Not a terrible album, but not really a standout either. (Among albums, that is. A standout among Rolling Stoneses, maybe, since I don't hate it.) Highlights: 'Under My Thumb', 'Take It or Leave It' Lowlight: 'Goin' Home' (Wiki: "The song, while lengthy, is built around a common theme, as opposed to later Stones songs of great length")

I listened to the UK version because it had my favorite Rolling Stones song on it, Mother’s Little Helper, which wasn’t on the US version. The US version had Paint It Black though, which is my second favorite Rolling Stones song. The only other song I knew was Under My Thumb which I like. I wasn’t a fan of the rest of the album.

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Pretty good

Light 3,5

Out of time, himno

Reasonable

Another Rolling Stones album. This one has some good songs on it but nothing that totally wins me over. Not the best, not the worst. Solid 2.5 stars.

As a Stones fan this album didn’t do much for me.

This album is the perfect showcase of The Rolling Stones experience. You get to enjoy Mothers Little Helper and Lady Jane, but you also get to suffer through Going Home and High And Dry. Favourite track: Out Of Time

Nice One

All in all a really enjoyable listen. Cool to see how the Stones expanded their influence. But, there was still a lot of white guy blues. This rating is for the UK version, which is what I listened to. That 11 minute track is the middle is rough. But, the US version would probably be a 4, given that it's shorter and has Paint It, Black on it.

Fine, good classic Stones stuff

I find it interesting that I got this "AfterMath" a day after I got The Beatles' Revolver. Both albums came at pivotal times for the groups, and were a change of direction in sound. Revolver is an all-timer. AfterMath is not.

Can’t stand Jagger’s vocals, but musically quite a treat. The last couple of minutes almost sound like proto hi-nrg

:D 2 historicall hits from Rolling Stones in this album

The Rolling Stones seem to create a lot of tracks that sound like the Rolling Stones. They do have a very specific sound. I enjoyed listening to this album, but I find most of their albums and tracks sounding the same and all merging into one another. 2 starts, plus a bonus star for my fav track, 'Mothers little helper'

Paint It Black - 5/5 Stupid Girl - 2.5/5 Lady Jane - 2.5/5 Under My Thumb - 3/5 Doncha Bother Me - 3/5 Think - 3/5 Flight 505 - 2.5/5 High and Dry - 2/5 It's Not Easy - 3/5 I Am Waiting - 3/5 Goin' Home - 3/5 I ultimately decided to listen to the US version of this album just because it had Paint It Black. I had liked Under My Thumb until I actually listened to it and it turned me off. The first track really carries this album as the rest of it. They're a lot more misogynistic than I realized. A 5 for the first track and a meh for the rest averages out to a 3 so I guess that's what I'm going with. Overall: 3/5 Favorites: Paint It Black

Note: Listening to the US release Finally, some original Stones compositions. This is largely where that began, as the Stones experimented with unique instrumentation and leaned on exotic influences (ala the Beatles with "Rubber Soul"). Thus ushering in their "pop rock" period. I guess it'll depend on who you ask, but I tend of prefer this era of the Stones for pretty much the reasons listed above. That being said, can't really ignore the misogyny that creeps in here and the overall quality sort of dips halfway through the record as things start to feel repetitive. I was a little disappointed in all honesty, especially after how things started. Oh well, at least they later gave us Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers.

Trying to look at this without knowing it’s the Stones to see how it sounds.

One of the more enjoyable Stones albums I think. Paint It Black is a very cool track. Fave Tracks: Paint It Black, Under My Thumb 3.4/5

This early Rolling Stones album is quite a mixed bag. The hits featured here are strong but other tracks seem a bit musically lost. The final track - What To Do - sounds like immitation Beatles. Other tracks have a country and western sound. I'm to score this album on what I'm hearing rather than The Stones and their future sound.

While I can appreciate the impact, appeal, and talent of the Rolling Stones, I find that apart from a few tracks of theirs, their style doesn't do much for me. While I think it’s reductive to compare them with the Beatles, it’s such a pervasive discussion, I thought I’d briefly give my take. Personally, I don’t think there’s any comparison at all. The Beatles were at the forefront of every aspect of the music industry, and I almost see the Rolling Stones as constantly playing catch-up, reliably delivering hits, but not quite landing solidly at each chapter of their journey. In regards to character as well, although I think it’s always best to separate the art from the artist, for many of these 60’s boy bands, and the majority of other bands in the following decades, their image was such a huge part of their success. Once again, there is no comparison. The Beatles were witty, charming, and each had distinct qualities. The Rolling Stones lack that quality, and I’d even go as far as saying some of them are detestable. Especially Bill Wyman, being sexually engaged with a 13-year-old girl when he was in his 40s.

Let it Bleed is the best Stones album. This one has Under My Thumb on it - which is my favourite song of theirs, though. Or does it - there's a US version of the album that I'm convinced I've already listened to. Either way, this is #7 now of Stones albums, and they vary wildly in quality. Aftermath (UK version) doesn't have Paint It Black. It does have lots of twangy guitar, pretty standard but listenable chord progressions, and light, poppy song lyrics. Perhaps a statement of what was to come, but then again, I only know their hits. Listenable, if forgettable.

Sounds very dated and possibly not entirely what I think of from the stones. It was fine, but nothing more. 2.5 is fair and won't be back

Starting an album with "Paint It Black" is wild and really set the bar too high. I've learned since that it was a decision for the US release and now I wish I had done the UK version. Stones have never really been my thing but I have nothing bad to say. Favorite Songs: Paint it Black, I Am Waiting

Fave track was I Am Waiting, the rest was OK. Paint It Black is overplayed and I don't like Under My Thumb.

First Stones I got on the list, it's very safe and enjoyable.

En del bra låtar men lite för mycket 60-tals-vibe

Another pretty decent bluesy entry from The Stones. It was alright, nice to listen to, nothing mind boggling. I listened to the UK version apparently and it didn't have Paint It Black on it, so what the hell? Standouts on this listen were "Mothers Little Helper" "Under My Thumb" and "Doncha Bother Me" Can't give this any higher than a 3. It was fine. Not bad, not great.

Some interesting stuff... but The Rolling Stones are not my cup of tea