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“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?
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