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Geez...the other stones albums are all good, more or less, but man!... come on! This album is awsome...the songs are great, what more can you ask for? Connection, complicated, cool calm collected, and the rest...back street girl, all sold out...

Banquet was all right, and i didnt care for exile much... personally, i liked 'em best when they had brian, but even compared to aftermath - this albums just better.

Syd Barret (of Pink Floyd fame) supposedly wore out his copy... not that this sounds anythinglike piper...but if you like the beatles albums of '66-67, and the kind of stuff that was around then...this a great buy. Forget the lsd, forget the drugs, just enjoy the music.

bomb

this album rules. i mean seriously, it wears a crown and is a monarch and makes laws that govern the land. the land of your head!! or at least mine.

Great album

A few weeks back I bought this version because I have no problem living without Ruby Tuesday and Let's spend the night together. I think of this album as the first modern Stones album - some people call it a transition on the road to Beggar's Banquet. Whatever, it's a great album. Yesterday's girl is a great starter, I'm sure Brian Jones was playing those marimbas - a wonderful instrument that more people should use nowadays. The only song I skip over is the Bo Diddly gone acid Please go home. It's sort of grating. The masterpiece on this album is Who's been sleeping here. This song would have fit on Beggars banquet, Let it Bleed etc. There are a handful of distinctive vocalists in rock, Jagger, Jim Morrison, Eric Burdon who were unlike anyone else. Jagger is a master singer, and he shines on this album. It cracks me up when Bruce Springsteen is held up as an equal to Mick - sorry, it just ain't so. Jagger can sing a variety of music in a variety of styles, Springsteen can't. In addition, Jagger shows a wit and intelligence in his lyrics that make the boss look shallow by comparison. For example, Backstreet girl - the melody is beautiful, the instrumentation is gentle and delicate, and Jagger's arrogant, contemptuous lyrics are amazing. It's a positively weird combo unlike anything by anyone else. He also strikes a nerve in Who's Been Sleeping Here with his "was it your mummy or your daddy?" No one can deliver the lines like Mick. I think Bill Wyman's bass playing on this record is also great, and Brian Jones seems to have been at his creative best on this album, and he was a force to be reckoned with. There is psychedelia and British Music Hall stuff on this collection as well, but as I said, I prefer this version as opposed to the American one, and I recommend it heartily.