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''Flowers'' is an American compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released in the summer of 1967.〔[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19813/m1/ Show 46 - Sergeant Pepper at the Summit: The very best of a very good year. [Part 2] : UNT Digital Library]〕 The songs either appeared as singles, had been omitted from the American versions of ''Aftermath'' and ''Between the Buttons'', were collected from studio sessions dating back to 1965, or are reissues of songs recently released on other albums. Three tracks had never been released. "My Girl", "Ride On, Baby" and "Sittin' on a Fence", the first of which was recorded in May 1965 during the sessions for Satisfaction, and the other two of which were recorded in December 1965 during the first lot of ''Aftermath'' sessions. The title refers to the album's cover, with flower stems underneath the portrait of each band member. Bassist Bill Wyman claims that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards deliberately arranged the stem of Brian Jones's flower so that it had no leaves, as a prank.The portraits are from the British version of ''Aftermath''. ''Flowers'' reached #3 in the US during the late summer of 1967 and went gold. In August 2002 it was remastered and reissued on CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records. == Critical reception == Because of its assorted compilation, ''Flowers'' was originally disregarded by some music critics as a promotional ploy aimed at American listeners.〔 Robert Christgau, on the other hand, argued that music managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Lou Adler produced a concept album out of ''Flowers'' by "rendering their product invisible" when they released it soon after the Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. He wrote in 1970 in ''The Village Voice'': In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger gave ''Flowers'' four-and-a-half out of five stars and said that the music it compiles is exceptional enough not to be dismissed as a marketing "rip-off": "There's some outstanding material you can't get anywhere else, and the album as a whole plays very well from end to end." Tom Moon gave it five stars in ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' (2004) and wrote that "it holds together as one of the Stones' best records, a concept album about the social scene that gathers around five rich young men with an appetite for sex, drugs, and gossip." 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「Flowers (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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