Aftermath (album)

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Aftermath is the fourth UK and sixth US studio album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1966. The album proved to be a major artistic breakthrough for The Rolling Stones in that it was the first full-length release by the band to exclusively feature Mick Jagger/Keith Richards compositions.

The album is also notable for its musical experimentation, with Brian Jones - possibly inspired by George Harrison's use of sitar on The Beatles' Rubber Soul - playing a variety of instruments which feature prominently in each track, including the sitar on "Mother's Little Helper" & "Paint It Black", and the dulcimer on "Lady Jane" and "I Am Waiting".

Once again, two editions of the album were released. The first release of Aftermath appeared in April of 1966 as a fourteen-track long-player, and is considered by many to be the definitive version. Issued between the non-LP single releases of "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "Paint It, Black", Aftermath proved a big smash, spending eight weeks atop the UK charts.

In the US however, fourteen tracks was considered too many. With a substituted cover art, the American edition of Aftermath, released that June, features a subtly re-shuffled running order that eliminates "Out Of Time", "Take It Or Leave It" and "What To Do" (all later released in the US), while replacing "Mother's Little Helper" with current #1 hit "Paint It, Black". Despite compromising producer Andrew Loog Oldham's and The Rolling Stones' intentions for the album, the revamped Aftermath shot to #2 in the US, eventually going platinum. In 2002, the US edition of Aftermath was ranked number 108 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Aftermath was important in establishing Jagger and Richards as respected songwriters in the same vein as Lennon-McCartney and Bob Dylan and also redefined The Rolling Stones from being R&B enthusiasts to a progressive and artistically-inventive group.

In August 2002 both editions of Aftermath were reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.

UK Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger/Keith Richards.

"Mother's Little Helper" - 2:45
"Stupid Girl" - 2:55
"Lady Jane" - 3:08
"Under My Thumb" - 3:41
"Doncha Bother Me" - 2:41
"Going Home" - 11:13
"Flight 505" - 3:27
"High And Dry" - 3:08
"Out of Time" - 5:37
"It's Not Easy" - 2:56
"I Am Waiting" - 3:11
"Take It Or Leave It" - 2:47
"Think" - 3:09
"What To Do" - 2:32

US Track listing

US edition of Aftermath

"Paint It Black" - 3:45
"Stupid Girl" - 2:55
"Lady Jane" - 3:08
"Under My Thumb" - 3:41
"Doncha Bother Me" - 2:41
"Think" - 3:09
"Flight 505" - 3:27
"High And Dry" - 3:08
"It's Not Easy" - 2:56
"I Am Waiting" - 3:11
"Going Home" - 11:13

External links

[Aftermath]

Albums by The Rolling Stones
U.K. studio albums and EPs 1964 - 1967: The Rolling Stones (EP) \| The Rolling Stones \| Five by Five (EP) \| The Rolling Stones No. 2 \| Out of Our Heads \| Aftermath \| Between the Buttons
U.S. albums 1964 - 1967: England's Newest Hitmakers \| 12 X 5 \| The Rolling Stones, Now! \| Out of Our Heads \| December's Children (And Everybody's) \| Aftermath \| Between the Buttons \| Flowers
Albums 1967 - present: Their Satanic Majesties Request \| Beggars Banquet \| Let It Bleed \| Sticky Fingers \| Exile on Main St. \| Goats Head Soup \| It's Only Rock'n Roll \| Black and Blue \| Some Girls \| Emotional Rescue \| Tattoo You \| Undercover \| Dirty Work \| Steel Wheels \| Voodoo Lounge \| Bridges to Babylon \| A Bigger Bang
Live albums: got LIVE if you want it! (EP) \| Got Live if You Want It! \| Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert \| Love You Live \| "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) \| Flashpoint \| Stripped \| No Security \| Live Licks
Compilations: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (US) \| Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (UK) \| Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) \| Made in the Shade \| Sucking in the Seventies \| Rewind (1971-1984) \| \| Forty Licks \| Rarities 1971-2003
Post-contract ABKCO albums: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 \| More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) \| Metamorphosis \| \| The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus \| Singles 1963-1965 \| Singles 1965-1967 \| Singles 1968-1971
Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts: Jamming with Edward

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