![]() Jagger’s lyrics are rather ungentlemanly, but it’s one of The Rolling Stones best tunes. “Under My Thumb” is still an extraordinary record. Without the marimba part, it’s not really a song, is it?” (PS What’s A Marimba?)Īside from Jagger’s chronic misogyny, the album is notable for Brian Jones’ creativity on a number of exotic instruments, including a ferociously picked sitar on Mother’s Little Helper, dulcimer on the stately “Lady Jane” and the lovely “I Am Waiting”, plus most notably / famously of all, the marimba on “Out of Time” and “Under My Thumb”.Īs Bill Wyman said about the latter: “Well. Ironically one of the last songs on the album, “It’s Not Easy” bemoans how hard it is living on your own. Either way Ms Shrimpton’s days were numbered, and history will tell us she may have had a lucky escape. But perhaps that might have been too subtle. No better is “Out of Time” (“ you’re obsolete baby” – always the way to a girl’s heart, I find), and it was a wonder that the next song on the album wasn’t titled “Welcome To Dumpsville, Population: You”. It is, even now, quite breathtakingly misogynistic. Next is “Under My Thumb”, a victorious brag about a girl who has “changed her ways” thanks presumably to Jagger’s sheer wonderfulness: “It’s down to me, yes it is / The way she does just what she’s told” he tells us. His one-man tirade against women on this album begins with “Stupid Girl”, which is less than flattering to the opposite sex in the same way that The Death Star was less than flattering to Alderaan. Jagger appeared to use Aftermath as a series of not-so-subtle messages to (soon to be ex-) fiancée Chrissie Shrimpton. More Sexist Than A Whitesnake / Kiss Collaboration! For example, “Flight 505” has a great heavy bass line and there’s a playful piano introduction that knocks out the riff to “Satisfaction”.Ģ. Even the more straightforward R&B numbers have nice flourishes. version even had “Paint It, Black”, taking Brian Jones’ sitar to number one in the charts. Here’s why:įrom opener of “Mother’s Little Helper” to the soul groove of “Under My Thumb”, the under-rated ballad “I Am Waiting” and hit single for Chris Farlowe “Out Of Time”, it’s the songs that make Aftermath a great album. The reason it fetches a high price? Probably because of all the early Stones LPs, Aftermath has the strongest reputation. Or, part five of a quest to discover whether it’s worth buying those early Stones albums on vinyl… AftermathĪftermath was the most difficult album to find on vinyl at a decent price – most copies were on sale for £30-£40 upwards, so when I found a nice copy for £20 I snapped it up.
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