Bless her heart and yours, that’s awesome. Lost mine last April (89 1/2).
Give Satanic Majesties A Chance
Hope all are doing well. My 92 year old mother beat the virus. So can you. But I digress.
I never liked SMR when it came out and neither did anyone else including the Stones, who described it as "rubbish".
But times change and I decided, for some reason, to pop my 2002 Inaugural Edition Hybrid Disc 2002 in the CD player.
It was a remaster and came with a Certificate of Authenticity. Authentic rubbish I guess. But anyway - there is quite a bit of aimless meandering in some of the songs, but the album was better than I remembered. "In Another Land", "She’s a Rainbow", "Citadel" are not bad songs and they’ve managed to capture some very nice piano, drums and bell sounds.
All in all, better than I remember. Maybe give it another listen if you’re so inclined, misuse of the plural possessive notwithstanding. Be well.
I never liked SMR when it came out and neither did anyone else including the Stones, who described it as "rubbish".
But times change and I decided, for some reason, to pop my 2002 Inaugural Edition Hybrid Disc 2002 in the CD player.
It was a remaster and came with a Certificate of Authenticity. Authentic rubbish I guess. But anyway - there is quite a bit of aimless meandering in some of the songs, but the album was better than I remembered. "In Another Land", "She’s a Rainbow", "Citadel" are not bad songs and they’ve managed to capture some very nice piano, drums and bell sounds.
All in all, better than I remember. Maybe give it another listen if you’re so inclined, misuse of the plural possessive notwithstanding. Be well.
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You got me to hunt down my Satanic Majesties' Request. It turned out to be a British Decca pressing with a 2D record jacket. I evidently sold off my bought-the-first-day-it-came-out 3D American pressing decades ago to try and get some coin. The recording is so painfully bright, I quickly reverted to random needle drops. Pressing and recorded clarity is outstanding but, for better or worse, the record is pan-potted to the point of pain. Genuine soundstaging does happen, but rarely, and only in individual pan pots. The music is self-indulgent but I have to admit that the guys sound like they were having a helluva good time. Bottom line, a curiosity at best. P.S., the lead-out groove is as quiet as any I've ever encountered. It's been playing the entire time I've been grinding out this post. |
Sorry to disagree, but I like "Their Satanic Majesties Request." It may not be in my top five Stones album favorites, but I still like it. I don’t care if Mick did call it rubbish. I did some research and found that he did cash the check. I liked it so much I bought the special edition Vinyl/CD that came out a few years ago. Yes, that’s right, I’m the one! |
Here’s what Keith Richards thinks of Satanic Majesties and Sgt. Pepper: "No, I understand—the Beatles sounded great when they were the Beatles. But there’s not a lot of roots in that music. I think they got carried away. Why not? If you’re the Beatles in the ’60s, you just get carried away—you forget what it is you wanted to do. You’re starting to do Sgt. Pepper. Some people think it’s a genius album, but I think it’s a mishmash of rubbish, kind of like Satanic Majesties—"Oh, if you can make a load of ****, so can we." https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/interviews/a36899/keith-richards-interview-0915/ Keith is more of a roots music guy, I guess. He also likes to rip people and music in interviews. He does it so often I wonder if he really means it or if it's some kind of inside joke. |
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