Between the Buttons
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 20 January 1967
- Tracks on this edition
- 12
- Running time
- 36:54
The cover
Gered Mankowitz took the Stones to Primrose Hill at dawn for Between the Buttons, after an overnight recording session. His recollections in IORR’s cover history describe a homemade glass-and-card filter smeared with Vaseline to blur the picture’s edges.
Charlie Watts supplied the cartoons and poem on the back.
Cover photography: Gered Mankowitz (IORR archive account); Back-cover cartoons and poem: Charlie Watts (IORR archive account)
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What critics said
Michael Gallucci hears Between the Buttons moving towards psychedelia in his Ultimate Classic Rock retrospective, with music hall touches in “Yesterday’s Papers”, “Connection” and “Something Happened to Me Yesterday”. He finds a smaller advance than Aftermath. Gallucci finds the American edition with its added singles arguably stronger, while judging the British programme selected here a clearer link to Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Tracklist
UK edition · 20 January 1967
Select a song for details
- 1Yesterday’s Papers2:02
- 2My Obsession3:11
- 3Back Street Girl3:18
- 4Connection2:04
- 5She Smiled Sweetly2:39
- 6Cool, Calm & Collected4:05
- 7All Sold Out2:11
- 8Please Go Home3:10
- 9Who’s Been Sleeping Here?3:42
- 10Complicated3:06
- 11Miss Amanda Jones2:38
- 12Something Happened to Me Yesterday4:48
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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