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2	[[caption-width-right:320:''"We could have fun just groovin' around!"'']]
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4	-> ''"The American release -- I don't like the English version so much because it contains a totally different set of tunes. I understand that they don't like the album very much but I thought that it was an important piece of social comment at the time. I remember seeing Music/BrianJones very drunk in the Speakeasy one night and telling him I like it and thought it superior to ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sergeant Pepper]]'' ... whereupon he belched discreetly and turned around."''
5	-->--'''Music/FrankZappa''' naming ''Between the Buttons'' his third favourite album of all time in "Faves, Raves and Composers in their Graves", ''Let It Rock'' magazine, June 1975.
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7	''Between the Buttons'' is the fifth studio album (seventh American album) by Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}, released in 1967. It is the second of three Stones albums that dabbled in psychedelia, coming after ''Music/{{Aftermath\|Album}}'' from 1966 and before ''Music/TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest'' later in 1967. It's best remembered today for the hits "Let's Spend the Night Together" (later covered by Music/DavidBowie on ''Music/AladdinSane'' in 1973) and "Ruby Tuesday", both of which were nevertheless only featured on the American version.
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10	!! Tracklist (UK Version):
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12	[[AC:Side One]]
13	# "Yesterday's Papers" (2:04)
14	# "My Obsession" (3:17)
15	# "Back Street Girl" (3:27)
16	# "Connection" (2:08)
17	# "She Smiled Sweetly" (2:44)
18	# "Cool, Calm & Collected" (4:17)
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20	[[AC:Side Two]]
21	# "All Sold Out" (2:17)
22	# "Please Go Home" (3:17)
23	# "Who's Been Sleeping Here?" (3:55)
24	# "Complicated" (3:15)
25	# "Miss Amanda Jones" (2:47)
26	# "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" (4:55)
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29	!! Tracklist (US Version):
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31	[[AC:Side One]]
32	# "Let's Spend the Night Together" (3:38)
33	# "Yesterday's Papers" (2:01)
34	# "Ruby Tuesday" (3:16)
35	# "Connection" (2:08)
36	# "She Smiled Sweetly" (2:44)
37	# "Cool, Calm & Collected" (4:17)
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39	[[AC:Side Two]]
40	# "All Sold Out" (2:17)
41	# "My Obsession" (3:20)
42	# "Who's Been Sleeping Here?" (3:55)
43	# "Complicated" (3:15)
44	# "Miss Amanda Jones" (2:47)
45	# "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" (4:55)
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48	!!Principal Members:
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50	* Music/MickJagger - lead vocals, percussion, tambourine, bass drum, maracas, truncheons
51	* Music/BrianJones - guitar, piano, organ, vibraphone, recorder, saxophone, dulcimer, percussion, oscillator, harmonica, organ pedals, tambourine
52	* Music/KeithRichards - guitar, backing and co-lead vocals, bass, piano, organ, double bass
53	* Charlie Watts - drums, percussion, tambourine, claves
54	* Bill Wyman - bass, organ, vocals, double bass
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57	!! Who's Been Troping Here?:
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59	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''B'''etween The '''B'''uttons", "'''S'''he '''S'''miled '''S'''weetly" and "'''C'''ool, '''C'''alm and '''C'''ollected."
60	* BaroquePop: This is the band's only album in this style. Several songs feature classical music arrangements.
61	* {{Bowdlerize}}: The Stones were forced to change the lyrics of "Let's Spend The Night Together" in "Let's Spent Some Time Together" when performing in the Ed Sullivan Show. Jagger agreed to change the lyrics but ostentatiously rolled his eyes at the TV camera while singing them, as well as Bill Wyman. When The Rolling Stones, following their performance of the song, returned on stage, they were all [[ThoseWackyNazis dressed up in Nazi German uniforms with swastikas]], which caused Sullivan to angrily order them to return to their dressing rooms to change back into their performance clothes, at which they left the studio altogether. As a result of this incident, Sullivan announced that The Rolling Stones would be banned from performing on his show again. However, the Stones did appear on the show again and performed three songs on 23 November 1969.
62	* BreakupSong:
63	** "Connection"
64	--> ''Connection, I just can't make no connection.''
65	--> ''But all I want to do is to get back to you.''
66	** "Ruby Tuesday"
67	--> ''Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday''
68	--> ''Who could hang a name on you?''
69	--> ''When you change with every new day''
70	--> ''Still I'm gonna miss you...''
71	* DirtyOldMan: "My Obsession"
72	--> ''Didn't see you were so young''
73	--> ''I could almost be your son''
74	* DisposableWoman: "Yesterday's Papers", where women are described as being as useful as yesterday's newspaper.
75	* FaceOnTheCover: A group shot of the band.
76	* IntercourseWithYou: "Let's Spend the Night Together".
77	--> ''Let's spend the night together''
78	--> ''Don't hang me up, just to let me down (don't let me down)''
79	--> ''We could have fun just groovin' around, around and around''
80	* LastChorusSlowdown: "Ruby Tuesday".
81	* LastNoteNightmare: "Cool, Calm & Collected" has a jolly, jaunty music-hall vibe to it - then after the last verse, the beat starts quickening, slowly at first, getting more and more reckless as the piano gets more and more frantic, until it all collapses into a big reverberating noise.
82	* LeftHanging: We never find out ''what'' exactly happened in "Something Happened to Me Yesterday".
83	* LongestSongGoesLast: Both versions of the album end with "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" (4:55).
84	* MisogynySong:
85	** "Yesterday's Papers"
86	--> ''Who wants yesterdays papers?''
87	--> ''Who wants yesterdays girl?''
88	--> ''Who wants yesterdays papers?''
89	--> ''Nobody in the world''
90	--> ''After this time I finally learned''
91	--> ''After the pain and hurt''
92	--> ''After all this what have I achieved''
93	--> ''I've realized it's time to leave''
94	** "Back Street Girl"
95	--> ''Don't want you out in my world''
96	--> ''Just you be my backstreet girl''
97	--> ''Please don't be part of my life''
98	--> ''Please keep yourself to yourself''
99	--> ''Please don't you bother my wife''
100	** "Miss Amanda Jones"
101	--> ''Hey girl, with your nonsense nose''
102	--> ''All pointing right down at the floor''
103	--> ''Hey girl, your suspender shows and the girl behind you looks a bit unsure''
104	* NewSoundAlbum: The only BaroquePop album made by the Stones.
105	* ObsessionSong: "My Obsession".
106	--> ''My obsessions are your possessions''
107	--> ''One that you should give away''
108	--> ''Give it to me now I've no objection''
109	* OdeToIntoxication: "Connection", about an airport search of their bags, thinly implied to be a drug bust.
110	* OneWomanSong: "Miss Amanda Jones".
111	* OneWordTitle: "Connection".
112	* PepTalkSong: "She Smiled Sweetly"
113	--> ''She smiled sweetly''
114	--> ''And says don't worry''
115	--> ''Oh, no no no''
116	--> ''"There's nothing in why or when''
117	--> ''There's no use trying, you're here''
118	--> ''Begging again, and ov'r again"''
119	--> ''That's what she said so softly''
120	--> ''I understood for once in my life''
121	--> ''And feeling good most all of the time''
122	* QuestioningTitle: "Who's Been Sleeping Here?".
123	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Around the time of recording Jagger, Richards and Jones had been arrested because of drug possession, something that's alluded to in "Connection".
124	--> ''My bags they get a very close inspection.''
125	--> ''I wonder why it is that they suspect 'em''
126	--> ''They're dying to add me to their collection''
127	--> ''And I don't know if they'll let me go?''
128	* ReallyGetsAround: "Who's Been Sleeping Here?"
129	--> ''What you say girl, you see what is wrong''
130	--> ''You, must be joking, you was led alone''
131	--> ''But the butler the baker, the laughing cavalier''
132	--> ''Will tell me now, who's been sleeping here?''
133	--> ''(...) Oh the soldier, the sailor then there's the three musketeers''
134	--> ''(...) Yes, there's the nose-less old newsboy, the old British brigadier''
135	--> ''(...) There's the sergeants, the soldiers, the cruel old grenadiers''
136	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "All Sold Out"
137	--> ''I hope that you're nearly done with me''
138	--> ''You sold me out and that's that''
139	* ShoutOut:
140	** "Who's Been Sleeping Here?" references ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and ''Literature/GoldilocksAndTheThreeBears''
141	--> ''(...) There's the three musketeers, yes, they'll now tell me now, who's been sleeping here?''
142	--> ''(...) Don't you look like a goldilocks?''
143	--> ''But you'll tell me now, who's been sleeping here?''
144	--> ''Who's been eating, eating off my plate?''
145	** In the album cover art of Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'' from 1968, inside the booklet, a text balloon has Zappa say: "Between the buttons!" This is a reference to this album, which Zappa even deemed superior to ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper]]''.
146	* SpokenWordInMusic: "Something Happened to Me Yesterday".
147	--> ''Well thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go. So from all of us to all of you, not forgetting the boys in the band and our producer Reg Thorpe, we'd like to say God bless. So if you're out tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike, wear white. Evening all!''
148	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Music/KeithRichards sings co-lead vocals on "Connection" and "Something Happened to Me Yesterday", the first Stones songs where he sings any lead vocals.
149	* StudioChatter: We can hear a musician counting off near the end of "Ruby Tuesday".
150	* TextlessAlbumCover: On the original vinyl release, although CD versions add the same band and title graphics used on the back cover.

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