Advantages: An interesting and enjoyable musical experiment from the 1960s Disadvantages: Somewhat dated and indulgent
, hedonism and public vilification in the tabloids, and for band founding-member Brian Jones it was the beginning of the end. It was also a year when the Stones flirted briefly with the musical genre of that moment, psychedelia. The result of that flirtation was a weird album of fairy-tale tunes that during its production had the working title of Cosmic Christmas. It was then decided to call it Her Satanic MajestyRequests and Requires, but the Stones' record company, Decca, objected, guessing that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II might not be too pleased with such a title. So on its release (Dec 1967) the album was given the more gender-neutral title of Their Satanic MajestiesRequest.
The album shone briefly in the sun (it sold very well) before being mauled by enough critics to ensure that it was buried out of sight. It was seen by many ...
Advantages: She's a rainbow is a wonderful song Disadvantages: A bit twiddly and self-absorbed in parts
“Their Satanic MajestiesRequest” was quite a departure for the Rolling Stones, even when it was released in the 60s. Nopwadays, comparing it to the rest of their huge back catalogue it still remains a bit of an oddity – quite different. So don’t expect it to be full of their usual rootsy R & B based rock. What you get instead is a psychedelic album, full of experimental doodling – basically they were trying to produce their own album to rival Sgt Pepper, and in that sense, it didn’t really work.
Having said that, I don’t think it’s a bad album, and I do still enjoy listening to it, as long as I remember to program out a couple of tracks (these are “Gomper” and “2000 miles”, both of which just seem like inconsequential filler tracks to me).
The album is often ...
Advantages: Some of the best psychedelia ever written. Disadvantages: Nothing like their other albums.
the eastern influence from Sgt. Pepper (the same influence that every other band took at the time anyway), and everything else has far more in common with Piper at the Gates of Dawn or Mr. Fantasy. The screeching guitars in Citadel even reflect the American psychedelic acid rock movement of the time.
Their Satanic MajestiesRequest is one of the rare albums where the famous tracks are generally the strongest ones on the album, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. Bad, because, In Another Land aside, there are no surprise classics on the record. Good, because 2000 Man, She's A Rainbow and 2000 Light Years From Home are astoundingly good songs. The former, with its mind-bendingly syncopated drums and two seemingly unrelated musical sections, is the most straight up standard of the three. She's A Rainbow, a gorgeous piano-led number, has ...
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Product details
Title
Their Organic Majesty's Request
Performer
Electric Eels (The)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Release Date
14/04/2003
Recomended Retail Price
11.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1998
Label / Distributor
Overground / Plastic Head
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
652160007124
Catalogue Number
OVER 71CD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Electric Eels include: John Morton, Brian McMahon. This 1998 CD contains exactly the same recordings as 1991's GOD SAYS FUCK YOU and 1989's HAVING A PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION WITH THE ELECTRIC EELS. Early '70s Cleveland art-school proto-punks the Electric Eels are the missing link between Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu, whose Jim Jones and Anton Fier were former Eels. Formed in 1972, the Electric Eels never released any albums in the band's three-year lifetime, but their deliberately provocative, invariably strange--singer Dave E occasionally played a lawn mower onstage--and occasionally violent live shows were justifiably legendary. Combining Dave E's strangled screams and lead guitarist John Morton's heavy riffs with the more free-jazz-inspired and noisier work of rhythm guitarist Brian McMahon and keyboardist Jones, the Electric Eels were where Albert Ayler, Alice Cooper and Yoko Ono intersected. Highlights here include the posthumous "Agitated," and the wilder "Cyclotron" and "Bunnies."
Album Reviews
NME (3/14/98, p.51) - 7 (out of 10) - "...Recorded in the dismal mid-70s in glorious no-fidelity (and largely without the benefit of a rhythm section), THEIR ORGANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST is two parts deranged garage rock to one part Albert Ayler-esque free-jazz..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Agitated
2.
Cyclotron
3.
Refrigerator
4.
Spin Age Blasters
5.
Tidal Wave
6.
Bunnies
7.
No No
8.
Jazz Is
9.
No Nonsense
10.
Anxiety
11.
Natural Situation
12.
Cold Meat
13.
No Nonsense
14.
Cyclotron (Giganta)
15.
Sewercide
16.
Jaguar Ride
17.
You're Full Of Shit
18.
No Nonsense
19.
Accident
20.
Cards And Fleurs
21.
As If I Cared
22.
Almost Beautiful You
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