Metamorphosis (The Rolling Stones album) Metamorphosis (The Rolling Stones album) Metamorphosis is the third compilation album of The Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records (who usurped control of the band's Decca/London material in 1970) after the band's departure from Decca and Klein. Released in 1975, "Metamorphosis" centres on outtakes and alternate versions of well-known songs recorded from 1964 to 1970. After the release of "Hot Rocks 1964–1971" in 1971, an album titled "Necrophilia" was compiled for release as the follow-up, with the aid of Andrew Loog Oldham, featuring many previously unreleased (or, more accurately, discarded) outtakes from the Rolling Stones'
Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album) identifying "Aftermath" as the album that marked "the entry of these erstwhile blues traditionalists into the album-rock pantheon alongside Dylan and the Beatles, with its canny use of sitar, marimba, and dulcimer". On its top 10 Rolling Stones albums list, "NME" listed "Aftermath" at number 6, while stating that "1966’s ‘Aftermath’ saw the Stones at once rejecting and redefining rock’n’roll lore. The first all-originals Stones album, it's so classic-packed their reputation as sub-Beatles hopefuls never recovered." Reviewing the American version for AllMusic, Ritchie Unterberger said the album "did much to define the group as the bad boys of rock &