Saturday, 18 September 2021

The Rolling Stones - Could You Walk On The Water? (1966)

One of the greatest crimes of the Rolling Stones in the 60s, beside the drugs, is that they left some of their greatest tunes off of their American albums, which were designed to have the singles on 'em. 19th Nervous Breakdown, for example, is one of my favourite tunes by them, but since it came out, it'd been relegated to various greatest hits compilations. My goal with these is to not have overlapping tracks, and while the US album Flowers is fantastic and picks up a lot of great tunes that were left of the likes of Aftermath and Between The Buttons, it also includes tunes that were included on both of those albums, like "Ruby Tuesday" and "Let's Spend The Night Together", and I'd also like to restrict this album to stray tracks from the tail end of '65 and throughout '66.  That leaves us with an album for the end August in 1966. 

The song 'Who's Driving Your Plane?' was released as the b-side of 'Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?' in late '66, but it was recorded in early august of '66, wheras 'Have You Seen Your Mother' was recorded in September of '66, by which point I imagine this album would've been in the process of being released.

I've used the album art and title from a reconstruction by Soniclovenoize



Side One

  1. 19th Nervous Breakdown
  2. What To Do
  3. Sad Day
  4. Long Long While
  5. Out Of Time
  6. Who's Driving Your Plane?

Side Two

  1. Sittin' On A Fence
  2. Looking Tired
  3. Mother's Little Helper
  4. Take It or Leave It
  5. Ride On, Baby
  6. If You Let Me


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