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!
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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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. |
While Sgt. Pepper and TSMR were getting all the attention at the time of their release, there was an alternative underground (and not-so-underground) scene developing, one offering a very different music. It is not for no reason that those two albums sound 180 degrees out-of-phase from the albums that were leading the way to the future, though the music contained on the two following albums already at the time of their releases sounded as if from a bygone era: Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding and The Band’s Music From Big Pink, both from the first half of 1968, just as the bitter aftertaste of SPLHCB and TSMR was becoming apparent. I blame the musical missteps on LSD. While the Dylan and Band albums sound grounded, organic, and honest, The Beatles and Stones (and many of their contemporaries) sound just the opposite: lost in space, contrived, phony. That damn drug led to some really bad music (Psychedlia), not to mention the ruin of some musical talents (Skip Spence, Peter Green, Brian Wilson, Brian Jones, Eric Burton). Eric Clapton says Atlantic Records President Ahmet Ertegun’s reaction to hearing the acetate of Cream’s Disraeli Gears album was "What a load of psychedelic horsesh*t". The Dylan and The Band albums were cleansing the palate, so to speak, wiping the slate clean, forging a new beginning by returning to the roots of the music that was the inspiration for an entire generation of writers, musicians, and singers, including those who, like The Beatles and Stones, had lost their way. Clapton felt exactly that way upon hearing MFBP, and promptly dissolved Cream, going to West Saugerties, NY (location of the Big Pink house in which the Basement Tapes were recorded), waiting for The Band to ask him to join. Naw, Eric, we got it covered. ;-) |
I suspect Keith was a little jealous because most of the album was Mick and Brian’s idea. Keith probably wanted more Chuck Berry riffs. 😩 2000 Man, In Another Land, Two Thousand Light Years from Home, The Citadel are super duper, the whole thing really. All tubes obviously. The Stones always seemed to be one step ahead of the competition drug wise, probably due to Keith’s really excellent connections. 😬 |
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