(Not counting the 40 Licks compilation, which was so good, song for song, that it made me rethink my youthful assumption that Beatles/Stones wasn’t much of a rivalry.) But while Aftermath is my third favorite of the three, the ‘B’ section is already too hard to pick from, and I’ve got a more recent ‘E’ that I want to be sure to write about. If (like me) you’re only going to own three Stones albums, you could do a lot worse than Aftermath, Beggars Banquet, and Exile on Main Street. Which is an important caveat for this inaugural post… The Rolling Stones, Aftermath(U.S. In part because I’ll try not to include any single singer or band more than once, what’s picked won’t necessarily be the best album or my favorite album for that letter, just one that I decided to listen to with fresh ears. So as a summer diversion, each installment in this new series ( Albums A to Z) will find me reflecting on one album in my collection, starting with the A’s (lots to pick from!) and making my way inexorably to the Z’s (slimmer pickings). Like, say, listening to some of the hundreds of albums that I accumulated in the years before becoming a parent of twins in 2009 and haven’t really had time to enjoy since then. Summer break has finally begun at Bethel University, and while that means that I’ve got all sorts of scholarly projects underway, it also means that I can take time for some decidedly unacademic pursuits.
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