“Their Satanic Majesties Request” 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 ... Read review
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Majestiesis actually as sloppy an artifact asFlowers. But even at their most (wilfully?) goofy '60s moment, the Stones came up with some good songs. "She's a Rainbow" is fine second-tier pop-psychedelia, while "2000 Light Years From Home" can still transmit a pretty handsome case of the Fear. Bill Wyman's "In Another Land" is as thin as his phased vocal, but still plays better than "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)". Not the most essential Stones disc by a long shot, but one that fans will want to own sooner or later.--Rickey Wright
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Advantages: She's a rainbow is a wonderful song Disadvantages: A bit twiddly and self-absorbed in parts
...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 ... ...really be left to the likes of Love, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane.
But, if you’re prepared to put aside any preconceptions about what the Stones should sound like, and if you like 60s psychedelic music, why not give Their Satantic Majesties a listen?
“Their Satanic Majesties Request” 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 dismissed by critics, but it there are some excellent tracks on it, so let’s not write it off completely.
My own favourite track is “She’s a rainbow”, which has a Summer of Love flower-power sound – and is very reminiscent of Arthur Lee’s Love. The lyrics are very evocative, describing wonderful colours, they must surely have been drug induced. Then there’s “Citadel”, with its fantastic guitar work, and “The Lantern”, which sounds to me like the kind of thing that inspired the Stone Roses. Actually, I’ll even go so far as to say that these three tracks are as good as (probably better) than anything on Sergeant Pepper. The attempt to produce something like Sgt Pepper becomes all the more evident with the strange vaudeville song, “On with the show”, but even this track works surprisingly well.
Overall, the album just wasn’t what we expect from the Stones, and it’s made up of the kind of music that, frankly, they don't do best. This kind of stuff should really be left to the likes of Love, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane. But, if you’re prepared to put aside any preconceptions about what the Stones should sound like, and if you like 60s psychedelic music, why not give Their Satantic Majesties a listen?
Advantages: Some of the best psychedelia ever written. Disadvantages: Nothing like their other albums.
...classic artists starting, or at their most successful, every instrument and production technique imaginable at the time being used, and The Rolling Stones doing the most un-Rolling Stones album they've ever done. Yes, there are gritty guitars surfacing from time to time, there are blues chord sequences on the odd song, but on the whole they somehow managed to make a near perfect psychedelic pop record. The Rolling Stones. Crazy times, I tell you.
... ...rock movement of the time.
Their Satanic Majesties Request 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 ...
SecondThought 07.06.2004
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Without a doubt, no Rolling Stones album&mdashand, indeed, very few rock albums from any era&mdashsplit critical opinion as much as the Rolling Stones' psychedelic outing. Many dismiss the record as sub-Sgt. Pepper posturing; others confess, if only in private, to a fascination with the album's inventive arrangements, which incorporated some African rhythms, mellotrons, and full orchestration. Never before or since did the Stones take so many chances ... ...record has been unfairly undervalued, partly because purists expect the Stones to constantly champion a blues 'n' raunch worldview. About half the material is very strong, particularly the glorious "She's a Rainbow," with its beautiful harmonies, piano, and strings; the riff-driven "Citadel"; the hazy, dream-like "In Another Land," Bill Wyman's debut writing (and singing) credit on a Stones release; and the majestically dark and doomy cosmic rocker ...
jamiegiles 29.06.2000
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Advantages: Experimental, ambitious and successful more often than not Disadvantages: A couple of fillers
...beads and kaftans, and prettifying their music with strings and brass, sounded totally false, most of the songs were good enough to take it. If it wasn't the Stones their fans knew and loved, they had started to broaden their sound on earlier numbers like "Lady Jane" and "Ruby Tuesday".
They developed this softer, more melodic side well on the lovely "She's a Rainbow" and the more strident "Citadel". The shorter version of "Sing This All Together" ... ...in a more ambitious direction, and the druggy, surreal "2000 Light Years From Home" was in a class of its own. Even Bill Wyman got a chance to take centre stage for once on the whimsical "In Another Land". The extended jamming version of "Sing This All Together" is mere padding and "On With The Show" a throwaway novelty, but apart from those lapses this album still stands up well. It has a period charm which some of the later albums completely lack. ...
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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 SatanicMajestyRequests 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 TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest.
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Title
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Performer
Rolling Stones (The)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Psychedelic
Release Date
21/10/2002
Original Release Year
1967
Label / Distributor
Universal IMS / Universal Music
Engineer
Glyn Johns
Producer
The Rolling Stones
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Format
Performer
EAN
42288232926
Additional notes
Album Notes
The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Bill Wyman (vocals, bass); Keith Richards (guitar, background vocals); Brian Jones (guitar, various instruments); Charlie Watts (drums).
Additional personnel includes: J.P. Jones (strings); Nicky Hopkins (piano). Part druggy experiment, part musical rivalry with the Fab Four, and a total anomaly in the Rolling Stones' catalogue, THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST contains at least three psychedelic classics in "Citadel," "She's a Rainbow," and "2000 Light Years From Home." That it also contains an extensive sample of Bill Wyman snoring and an eight-minute stoned jam that begins with the timeless phrase "Where's that joint?" is a measure of SATANIC MAJESTIES' breadth of genius and folly. There's a lot going on here--try comparing the wayward Eastern atmospheres of "Gomper" to anything on BEGGAR'S BANQUET, and marvel that you're listening to the same band. The fact that Jagger and Richards could still come up with the unimpeachably charming "She's a Rainbow"--pop psychedelia at its finest--and a fair stab at psychedelic R&B in "The Lantern," while attempting to negotiate the band's rocky passage through Flower Power is a tribute to their vision, their perseverance, and their drugs of choice.
Album Reviews
NME (7/8/95, p.46) - 8 (out of 10) - "...a bold move which infuriated some critics at the time, but who can argue with the languorous psychedelia of `2,000 Light Years From Home', the anthemic innocence of `She's A Rainbow' or the wit of `2,000 Man'? Marvellous..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Citadel
2.
In Another Land
3.
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
4.
She's A Rainbow
5.
Lantern
6.
Gomper
7.
2000 Light Years From Home
8.
On With The Show
9.
2000 Man
10.
Sing This All Together
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