Editing Between the Buttons (section)

== Critical reception and legacy ==
{{Album ratings
| subtitle = Retrospective reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |last1=Unterberger |first1=Richie |title=''Between the Buttons'' – The Rolling Stones |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-the-buttons-mw0000191516 |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418222211/https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-the-buttons-mw0000191516 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2Score = A<ref name="Browne">{{cite magazine |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |issue=673 |date=20 September 2002 |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/09/20/satisfaction/ |title=Satisfaction? |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |location=New York |access-date=17 October 2014 |archive-date=21 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021083236/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,350618,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Great Rock Discography]]''
|rev3Score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |first=Martin C. |last=Strong |author-link=Martin C. Strong |title=The Great Rock Discography |publisher=Canongate |location=Edinburgh, UK |year=2006 |isbn=978-1841956152 |page=993}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[MusicHound Rock]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |editor1-last=Graff |editor1-first=Gary |editor2-last=Durchholz |editor2-first=Daniel |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |edition=second |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |location=Detroit |isbn=1578590612 |page=952 |chapter=The Rolling Stones}}</ref>
|rev5 = [[Music Story]]
|rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.music-story.com/the-rolling-stones/between-the-buttons |title=Album The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons |website=[[Music Story]] |language=fr |date=n.d. |access-date=26 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126072340/http://www.music-story.com/the-rolling-stones/between-the-buttons |archive-date=26 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="RSguide">{{cite book |chapter=The Rolling Stones |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/695 695–699] |first=Tom |last=Moon |author-link=Tom Moon |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |title=[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=Fireside |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
|rev7 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]
|rev7Score = A<ref name="hull">{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=30 June 2018|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2647-Streamnotes-June-2018.html|title=Streamnotes (June 2018)|website=tomhull.com|access-date=11 February 2020|archive-date=12 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012124355/http://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2647-Streamnotes-June-2018.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
''Between the Buttons'' was called "among the greatest rock albums" by [[Robert Christgau]],<ref>[http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/stones-76.php The Rolling Stones] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014075130/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/stones-76.php |date=14 October 2014 }}. [[Robert Christgau]]. Retrieved 17 October 2014.</ref> who later included it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981).<ref>{{cite book |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |year=1981 |title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]] |publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]] |isbn=0899190251 |chapter=A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties |chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php |access-date=March 16, 2019 |via=robertchristgau.com |archive-date=12 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190312052515/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php |url-status=live }}</ref> He also wrote of the album for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's "40 Essential Albums of 1967": "[T]his underrated keeper is distinguished by complex rhymes, complex sexual stereotyping, and the non-blues, oh-so-rock-and-roll pianos of Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche, Nicky Hopkins, and Brian Jones."<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|last2=Fricke|first2=David|date=12 July 2007|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums1967-07.php|title=The 40 Essential Albums of 1967|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=20 March 2020|via=robertchristgau.com|archive-date=24 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224044735/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums1967-07.php|url-status=live}}</ref> 

[[AllMusic]]'s [[Richie Unterberger]] hailed it as one of the Rolling Stones' "strongest, most eclectic LPs".<ref name="allmusic"/> In a retrospective review for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] called the album "a cheeky set of sardonic [[Swinging London]] vaudeville rock",<ref name="Browne"/> while ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine's Christopher Walsh wrote that "it's brimming with overlooked gems, the band delivering a captivating blend of folky, Beatles-esque pop and tough bluesy rockers."<ref name=Billboard>{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=Christopher |title=Super audio CDs: The Rolling Stones Remastered |newspaper=Billboard |pages=27 |date=24 August 2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27 |access-date=17 October 2014 |archive-date=16 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416062136/https://books.google.com/books?id=CQwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

Tom Moon wrote in ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' (2004) that the album was "lighter and thinner" than ''Aftermath'' and, "having belatedly discovered pop melody, Jagger and Richards were suddenly overdosing on the stuff."<ref name="RSguide"/> Music scholars Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon observed [[baroque pop]] and [[music hall]] on the album.<ref name="all" /> [[Jim DeRogatis]] included ''Between the Buttons'' in his 2003 list of the essential [[psychedelic rock]] albums.<ref name="DeRogatis 2003 568" />

In 2003, the American version of ''Between the Buttons'' was ranked number 355 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list, and re-ranked number 357 in 2012.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-rolling-stones-between-the-buttons-50754/|title=Between the Buttons ranked 357th greatest album|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=18 June 2020|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804234813/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-rolling-stones-between-the-buttons-50754/|url-status=live}}</ref>