Mother's Little Helper (track)
by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1966
From the album Aftermath (track #1)
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Mother's Little Helper appears on the following album(s) by The Rolling Stones:
- Aftermath (track #1) (this album) (1966)
- Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (track #7) (compilation) (1971)
- Rolled Gold+: The Very Best Of The Rolling Stones (track #18) (compilation) (2007)
- Flowers (track #9) (compilation) (1967)
- Singles Collection: The London Years (track #32) (compilation) (1989)
- Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (track #5) (compilation) (1969)
- Get Stoned (track #14) (compilation) (1977)
- Singles 1965-1967 (track #14) (compilation) (2004)
- The Rolling Stones In Mono (track #85) (compilation) (2016)
- The Rolling Stones In Mono (track #130) (compilation) (2016)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 02/05/2026 11:20 | sebfox | 3,862 | 88/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2026 19:45 | Robert_fripp | 823 | 86/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2025 01:33 | Exist-en-ciel | 78,509 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 12:44 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 |
| ! | 10/10/2025 19:33 |  JR | 3,495 | 88/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 87.9/100, a mean average of 87.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.3.
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An actual sad song
A brilliant opener. A busy and bored housewife's pill popping habit is the theme of this great track which further explores the Stones new social awareness in their lyrics and yet another example of how important Brian Jones was to the band at this point. Classic track.
sheep21 03/20/2013 10:54 | #69122
Underrated killer, catchy Stones tune.
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