Aftermath by The Rolling Stones -- UK Version or US?

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Which is preferable?

For a spirited argument for the UK:

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/albums/the_rolling_stones_aftermath.php

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

UK for me

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

>the single-best Rolling Stones song ever...‘Out of Time.’

Yes, well, debatable.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

it is a great song - its way too long on aftermath, although that version has a better intro. the single version is a better length.

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

UK although I wish it had Paint it Black on it somewhere.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

This should be "Defend the indefensible: the lack of bonus tracks on the Stones reissues." The correct way to reissue these would have been with the UK tracklisting and the UK cover plus the additional US tracks as bonus tracks and the US cover on the inside of the digipack or on the flipside of a jewel case booklet so it can be turned either way.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Or, if they had to release the US versions for nostalgia's sake they could do it the way I outlined above for UK release and then do the inverse for US release (US cover & tracklisting with deleted UK tracks as bonus tracks). I think they could have pitched the UK versions to the US market though with a "now available for the first time in it's original format!" type of campaign. Trying to cash in by selling both versions is just stupid.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Walter OTM--that was an awful, "F.U. fans!"-move by Abkco. There's about 10 songs from their 60's output that I still don't have, scattered on Flowers and Fazed Cookies. I refuse to buy them. (I did pick up Metamorphasis used, though)

I had the cassette version when I was a kid, which led off with 'Paint it Black.' Now that I have the UK version on CD it just doesn't feel right leading off w/ "Mother's Little Helper."

― Keith C (lync0), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Allen Klein in stupid fucker shocka.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

Just listened to the mono uk version for the first time. A lot of these songs I was never in love with on an individual level but sound really good in this sequence + mix. Like “out of time”. Maybe it’s just my mood.

― brimstead, Thursday, 19 December 2024 16:35 (three days ago) link

It probably is my mood because the lustre of even the fucking Rushmore song has returned to me

― brimstead, Thursday, 19 December 2024 16:40 (three days ago) link

Advantages of UK version:
- putting "I'm Going Home" at the end of side 1 instead of 2 makes it more of a low-key experiment instead of "here's our big statement"
- the weaker songs like "It's Not Easy" blend in better with the longer sequence
- "What to Do" is the only weak track among the four removed for the US version

Advantages of US version:
- "Paint It Black" is a more striking opener
- "Think" stands out a lot better at the end of side 1 instead of track 7 on side 2
- possibly, the shorter version of "Out of Time" is an improvement and fits better on Flowers

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 19 December 2024 21:27 (three days ago) link

Prefer the UK version because "Paint It Black" is too striking and distinctive an opener which then leads to an immediate downshift in inspiration ("Stupid Girl"). Also I agree that "Goin' Home" shouldn't be the closer (I'd rather it not be on the album at all). "Paint It Black" really makes more sense as a separate single.

― Josefa, Thursday, 19 December 2024 23:23 (three days ago) link

― James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 December 2024 02:50 (two days ago) link

Seem to remember Greil Marcus stanning for “Goin’ Home” in Stranded

― James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 December 2024 02:56 (two days ago) link

UK, and agree with Josefa's point about "Paint It Black" if it opened the album.

― birdistheword, Friday, 20 December 2024 03:00 (two days ago) link

Yeah, although I never actually listened to the US version.

― James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 December 2024 04:01 (two days ago) link

I'd have replaced two of the tracks with the two from the sessions that ended up on Flowers:

"Ride On Baby" over "Stupid Girl"
"Sittin’ On A Fence" over "What To Do"

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 20 December 2024 18:05 (two days ago) link

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