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  1. The Rolling Stone' 'Between the Buttons' feat. 'Ruby Tuesday' & 'Let's Spend the Night Together' - RVM [Radio.Video.Music]
    January 14, 2017 @ 4:57 am

    […] Classic Rock ReviewLead vocalist and songwriter Mick Jagger has expressed dissatisfaction with the end result due to the excess tape noise generated by track bouncing and excessive overdubbing. […] […]

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  2. The Rolling Stones' 'Between the Buttons' feat. 'Ruby Tuesday' & 'Let's Spend the Night Together' - RVM [Radio.Video.Music]
    January 20, 2017 @ 12:24 am

    […] Classic Rock ReviewLead vocalist and songwriter Mick Jagger has expressed dissatisfaction with the end result due to the excess tape noise generated by track bouncing and excessive overdubbing. […] […]

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  3. VdGGmouse
    November 12, 2019 @ 10:12 pm

    Their worst album. Just awful – I don’t know how anyone who loves The Stones (like I do) can listen to what Jagger accurately describes as pure ‘rubbish.’

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    • Cody
      May 9, 2020 @ 11:36 am

      I completely disagree. A varied album with a variety of moods and textures. Different than anything else the Stones ever did.

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      • Scott Atkin
        August 9, 2020 @ 12:49 pm

        I am referring to the original album – the UK album which means no Ruby Tuesday and no Let’s Spend the Night Together. I might have been too rough on the album. It’s not awful – I was wrong. I do feel most of the songwriting is weaker than on other Stones albums. Back Street Girl is great – good vibe. Who’s Been Sleeping Here’ is ok musically but isn’t a great performance. Maybe that’s what I mean – almost all the songs reach an ‘ok’ level but other than Back Street Girl they all are short of what I consider Stones level greatness. Feel the same with Complicated. Under developed or is it too repetitive? The album delivers more attitude than great songwriting and great performances. As a fan of The Stones I can always find reasons why I like what they do but it’s not so easy to find reasons not to like what they do. They are still The freaking Rolling Stones! After literally 50 years of berating this album I’m finally finding the few reasons to appreciate it – even still – will I ever come to appreciate/like ‘Something Happened To Me Yesterday?’ – I guess anything’s possible.

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  4. aibi
    April 4, 2021 @ 3:42 pm

    Not the strongest Stones record but its weirdness and the swingin’ sixties vibe makes it a very interesting chapter.
    I particularly like Richards’s backing vocals. He never sounded so clear and melodic (and the fact that he recently sang live connection seems to indicate the he loves this record better than his partner, who has never lost occasion to spit on its legacy).
    She smiled sweetly is a really an odd number, almost a lo-fi pastiche, with no guitars and all the instruments mixed very badly under Jagger’s uncertain crooning. And it’s beautiful.
    You can’t understand Who’s been sleeping here without thinking about how strong Dylan’s influence was around 1966. Infused with melodic ideas very close to Dylan’s “To Ramona”, it’s an interesting ride, more challenging than Jigsaw Puzzle of the following year, also dylanesque, but out of place in a very mature and – close to a masterpiece – record like Beggars Banquet. Miss Amanda Jones (dedicated to london scenester and Salvador Dali’s muse Amanda Lear) is the only rocker, at least on the uk version, and it’s a fun track. Something happend to me yesterday is not as good as any Kinks (or Small Faces) cockney anthem but you can at least hear Richards having a good time singing it (not Mick, who seems utterly bored). But it is the perfect finale for a very peculiar album. 7/10

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  5. Buck Ewer
    October 1, 2022 @ 7:20 pm

    Brian Jones did not play piano on Goodbye Ruby Tuesday.
    The liner notes specifically credit – JACK NITZSCHE with piano on Goodbye Ruby Tuesday.
    You are in error.

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    • Alpha Dog
      October 5, 2022 @ 12:14 pm

      Thanks for the info.

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