Yesterday’s Paper/My Obsession/Back Street Girl/Connection/She Smiled Sweetly/Cool Calm & Collected/All Sold Out/Please Go Home/Who’s Been Sleeping Here/Complicated/Miss Amanda Jones/Something Happened To Me Yesterday
Between The Buttons is considered to be the most pop orientated album from The Rolling Stones, with some songs leaning more towards vaudeville than rhythm & blues. (US:2 UK:3)
"The Rolling Stones 1967 recordings are a matter of some controversy; many critics felt that they were compromising their raw, rootsy power with trendy emulations of The Beatles, Kinks, Dylan and psychedelic music. Approach this album with an open mind though, and you'll find it to be one of their strongest, most eclectic LPs, with many fine songs that remain unknown to all but Stones devotees."
"A good balance between the low-key ballads and effective rock songs. This album arrived at about the point where The Stones music softened a bit, but tunes such as Complicated and Miss Amanda Jones prove that they could still rock out."
"This is very much of its time. With Aftermath completed the band were clearly unsure which way to head, instead they accumulated everything from the 'Swinging London' of the time and produced this cracking little record. The influence of The Kinks can be heard in the vaudeville tracks Cool Calm & Collected and Something Happened; they are very much tongue in cheek but a lot of fun."
"A minor oddity in The Stones discography, as this is just a charming little pop album with some phenomenal production and one of Mick's better vocal performances."
"Buttons fits very well into the timeframe it was recorded as its musical direction is typical for a number of groups from around that time (for example The Kinks). There is a certain vaudeville influence on some of the tracks, as well as a real Old English flavour to virtually all of the songs. On the whole the songs work extremely well with Brian Jones once again making his mark playing some unusual instruments."
"This is the most British of their albums, with two major influences pounding on both the melodies and the lyrics: The Kinks and Dylan. The most striking difference when compared to most Stones albums is that it is far less rock/rhythm & blues orientated; instead its an album chock full of melodic pop songs."
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