Flowers (Rolling Stones album)
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| Compilation album by The Rolling Stones | ||||
| Released | 26 June 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 3 December 1965 – 13 December 1966 | |||
| Genre | Rock, psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 37:20 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | London (US), ABKCO (UK) | |||
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
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Flowers is an American compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released in the summer of 1967. The songs either appeared as singles, had been omitted from the American versions of Aftermath and Between the Buttons, were collected from studio sessions dating back to 1965, or are reissues of songs recently released on other albums.
Three tracks had never been released. "My Girl", "Ride On, Baby" and "Sittin' on a Fence", the first of which was recorded in May 1965 during the sessions for "Satisfaction," and the other two of which were recorded in December 1965 during the first lot of Aftermath sessions. The title refers to the album's cover, with flower stems underneath the portrait of each band member. Bassist Bill Wyman claims that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards deliberately arranged the stem of Brian Jones's flower so that it had no leaves, as a prank.The portraits are from the British version of Aftermath.
Flowers reached #3 in the US during the late summer of 1967 and went gold. In August 2002 it was remastered and reissued on CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.
Because of its assorted compilation, Flowers was originally disregarded by some music critics as a promotional ploy aimed at American listeners.Robert Christgau, on the other hand, argued that music managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Lou Adler produced a concept album out of Flowers by "rendering their product invisible" when they released it soon after the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He wrote in 1970 in The Village Voice:
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