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Anno decisamente prolifico e determinante, il 1967 per gli Stones (e ovviamente per la storia del rock tutto) che vede importanti uscite del calibro di Their Satanic Majesties Request e Between The Buttons, ma non solo.
Un ponte virtuale tra i due mondi apparentemente distanti è forse quest'album.
Flowers è una raccolta di singoli apparsi nelle versioni USA o UK di Aftermath, del già citato Between The Buttons e di altri pezzi (da 90) registrati due anni prima durante varie sessioni.
La seconda metà dei sixties rappresentò per le pietre rotolanti la prima vera svolta di stile e sound verso sonorità più psichedeliche e ricercate (non era ancora tempo per il blues sporco di Beggars e soci) grazie anche alle intuizioni, seppur sempre meno, del compianto Brian Jones.
Nella famosa cover che vede sovrapposte le foto dei ragazzacci (quasi segnaletiche) a dei gambi, l'unico a non possedere foglie è appunto quello del biondo e malinconico Jones (Wyman affermerà che l'idea era stata data da Richards e Jagger).
Sempre più distante ed introverso, può essere apprezzato appieno in quella che forse è una delle ultime sue valide prove.
Nome azzeccato quello della compilation per il contesto sociale ed artistico.
Il brano più interessante, oltre alla catchy e Beatlesiana Ruby Tuesday, è secondo me Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? con quell'intro distorto e ammiccante a molte idee che negli anni a seguire verranno sviluppate (da altri) con arrangiamenti orchestrali e feedback deliranti.
Gli inediti risalenti al periodo Satisfaction sono My Girl, Ride On, Baby e Sittin' On A Fence, ultimi barlumi in cui si riconosce il loro sound primordiale.
Noti e apprezzati appieno altri episodi del calibro della controversa Lady Jane e di Mother's Little Helper.
Definitivamente un bel disco da mettere su per comprendere e godere di questi Stones dalle sfaccettature figlie del loro tempo.
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Ruby Tuesday (03:19)
She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and goes
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Don't question why she needs to be so free
She'll tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained
And nothing's lost
At such a cost
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
There's no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams
And you will lose your mind
Ain't life unkind?
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
03 Let's Spend the Night Together (03:40)
Don't you worry 'bout what's on your mind, oh my
I'm in no hurry, I can take my time, oh my
I'm going red and my tounge's getting tied (Tounge's getting tied)
I'm off my head and my mouth's getting dry
I'm high, but I try, try, try, oh my
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together now
I feel so strong that I can't disguise, oh my
But I just can't apologize, oh no
Don't hang me up and don't let me down (Don't let me down)
We could have fun just groovin' around
Around, around, around, oh my
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
You know I'm smiling, baby
You need some guiding, baby
I'm just deciding, baby, now
I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together
Let's spend the night together now
Oh my my my my my my my
This doesn't happen to me ev'ry day, oh my (Let's spend the night together)
No excuses offered anyway, oh my (Let's spend the night together)
I'll satisfy your every need (Your every need)
And now I know you will satisfy me
Oh my my my my my my
(Let's spend the night together)
(Now I need you more than ever)
(Let's spend the night together)
Together now, oh my my my my my my my
(Let's spend the night together)
Now I need you, need you more than ever, oh my
(Let's spend the night together)
I'll satisfy your every need, whoa my my
(Let's spend the night together)
Now I know, I know you'll satisfy me, whoa my my
(Let's spend the night together)
I beg you baby, whoa my my my my my my
04 Lady Jane (03:10)
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
My sweet Lady Jane
When I see you again
Your servant am I
And will humbly remain
Just heed this plea my love
On bended knees my love
I pledge myself to Lady Jane
My dear Lady Anne
I've done what I can
I must take my leave
For promised I am
This play is run my love
Your time has come my love
I've pledged my troth to Lady Jane
Oh my sweet Marie
I wait at your ease
The sands have run out
For your lady and me
Wedlock is nigh my love
Her station's right my love
Life is secure with Lady Jane
09 Mother's Little Helper (02:49)
What a drag it is getting old
"Kids are different today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
"Things are different today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Men just aren't the same today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy, you can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Life's just much too hard today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day
12 Sittin' on a Fence (03:02)
Since I was young I've been very hard to
please
And I don't know wrong from right
But there is one thing I could never
understand
Some of the sick things that a girl does to a
man, so
I'm just sittin' on a fence
You can say I got no sense
Trying to make up my mind
Really is too horrifying
So I'm sittin on a fence
All of my friends at school grew up and
settled down
And they mortgaged up their lives
One things not said too much, but I think
it's true
They just get married cause there's nothing
else to do, so
I'm just sittin' on a fence
You can say i got no sense
Trying to make up my mind
Really is too horrifying
So I'm sittin on a fence
I'm just sittin' on a fence
You can say I got no sense
Trying to make up my mind
Really is too horrifying
So I'm sittin on a fence
The day can come when you get old and
sick and tired of life
You just never realize
Maybe the choice you made wasn't really
right
But you go out and you don't come back
at night, so
I'm just sittin' on a fence
You can say I got no sense
Trying to make up my mind
Really is too horrifying
So I'm sittin on a fence
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