Flowers is a U.S. compilation of tracks from the U.K. versions of Aftermath and Between The Buttons, plus singles and outtakes including the double A-sided "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday".

The album contains more classic Jagger/Richards titles: "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In the Shadow?" (making its first album appearance) is the early Stones at their most surrealistic and angst-ridden, plus the acoustic, pensively sardonic "Sittin' on a Fence".