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''Aftermath'', released April 1966 by Decca Records, is the fourth British studio album by the Rolling Stones. It was released in the United States in June 1966 by London Records as their sixth American album. The album is considered an artistic breakthrough for the band: it is the first to consist entirely of Mick Jagger/Keith Richards compositions, while Brian Jones played a variety of instruments not usually associated with their music, including sitar, Appalachian dulcimer,〔 marimbas, and Japanese koto, as well as guitar, harmonica and keyboards, though much of the music is still rooted in Chicago electric blues. It was the first Rolling Stones album to be recorded entirely in the US, at the RCA Studios in California, and their first album released in true stereo. In August 2002 both editions of ''Aftermath'' were reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records, with the UK version containing an otherwise unavailable stereo mix of "Mother's Little Helper". In the same year the US edition of ''Aftermath'' was ranked No. 108 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.〔^ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.〕 == Creation == According to Bill Wyman in ''Rolling With The Stones (2002)'', the album was originally conceived as the soundtrack for the never filmed feature ''Back, Behind And In Front.'' The whole deal fell off, though, when Mick met with the potential director, Nicholas Ray, but didn The main engineer for the album was also pivotal in making the group feel comfortable during the sessions as he, according to Bill Wyman, let them experiment with instrumentals and teaming up with session musicians to variegate their sound. Wyman also stated that he and Brian Jones would pick up instruments that were in the studio and experiment with various sounds for each song. This album is also notable for being the first LP to feature completely original material for the group, as Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were growing not only as songwriters, but as arrangers as well. In 2003, Mick recalled that Keith was writing a lot of melodies and the group would perform them in a number different ways which were mainly thought out in the studio, as opposed to the strict arranging and recording planning of other groups of the epoch. Brian Jones was very important in shaping the album's tone and arrangements, as he experimented with a vast array of ethnic instruments such as the marimba, sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, piano, which contrasted with the folk, pop, country, blues and rock compositions, thus resulting in a very diverse melting pot of musical styles. It also has to be noted that he often learned the instrument in question on the fly, thus becoming the most diverse and all-round musician in the group. ''Aftermath'' was also the first record on which the majority of the guitar playing was left to Richards due to Brian's multi-instrumentalism, a habit that served as an intense training period for Keith's craftmanship which culminated in him playing almost all of the guitars on ''Let It Bleed.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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