#330 The Rolling Stones, 'Aftermath' (1966)

The Rolling Stones’ fourth album and their first consisting solely of songs composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. But for me, this album belongs to Brian Jones and Charlie Watts. On this record, Jones made a marked effort to experiment with instruments not usually heard in popular music; sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, Japanese koto and marimbas. What would ‘Paint It, Black’ be without Jones’s sitar melody? Or ‘Under My Thumb’ without the marimbas. Jones makes those songs.