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Track Listings
| 1. Sing This All Together |
| 2. Citadel |
| 3. In Another Land - Bill Wyman |
| 4. 2000 Man |
| 5. Sing This All Together (See What Happens) |
| 6. She's A Rainbow |
| 7. The Lantern |
| 8. Gomper |
| 9. 2000 Light Years From Home |
| 10. On With The Show |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I ordered this disc as it was advertised as an SACD disc to use on my new SACD player. It is not an SACD disc at all but an ordinary audio cd with some so say hi tec recording on it. I have been conned. Dont buy if you are looking for an SACD disc.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Johnny M
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The phrase 'ill-advised' is always bandied about whenever critics cover this phase of the Stones' career, but what is more ill-advised - settling into a cosy cul-de-sac that a straitjacket label like 'The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band' leads to, or being brave enough to transcend genres with a vision of pop music as a limitless vista of endless possibilities?
For me, the Stones were at their best when they escaped the confines of R&B and widened their musical horizons, something they were equipped to do with aplomb courtesy of Brian Jones' ability to play any instrument he picked up. Now that 'Pop' has become as much of a restrictive dead-end as any other label, the province of test-tube boy-bands churning out focus group-approved ballads so saccharine Pat Boone would have baulked at singing them, it's refreshing to revisit an era when Pop was actually a platform for invention, innovation and adventure; and despite their best efforts to subsequently distance themselves from it and find money-spinning solace in the repetition of The Riff, the Stones were once as sonically ambitious as the Beatles, as this album proves.
I first bought 'Satanic Majesties' on vinyl in the 80s - that poor-quality 'flexi' vinyl typical of the period and housed in a cheap cardboard sleeve that began to disintegrate within months. I mainly bought it for '2000 Light Years From Home' and that seemed to be the only track I ever played before flogging the LP along with a bunch of others at my local second-hand record shop. But giving the album a fresh hearing 25 years later has certainly been worthwhile. In many respects, it's a miracle the Stones managed to record anything in 1967, let alone a brave experiment like this one. Of course it will always languish in the shadow of 'Sgt.... Read more ›
For me, the Stones were at their best when they escaped the confines of R&B and widened their musical horizons, something they were equipped to do with aplomb courtesy of Brian Jones' ability to play any instrument he picked up. Now that 'Pop' has become as much of a restrictive dead-end as any other label, the province of test-tube boy-bands churning out focus group-approved ballads so saccharine Pat Boone would have baulked at singing them, it's refreshing to revisit an era when Pop was actually a platform for invention, innovation and adventure; and despite their best efforts to subsequently distance themselves from it and find money-spinning solace in the repetition of The Riff, the Stones were once as sonically ambitious as the Beatles, as this album proves.
I first bought 'Satanic Majesties' on vinyl in the 80s - that poor-quality 'flexi' vinyl typical of the period and housed in a cheap cardboard sleeve that began to disintegrate within months. I mainly bought it for '2000 Light Years From Home' and that seemed to be the only track I ever played before flogging the LP along with a bunch of others at my local second-hand record shop. But giving the album a fresh hearing 25 years later has certainly been worthwhile. In many respects, it's a miracle the Stones managed to record anything in 1967, let alone a brave experiment like this one. Of course it will always languish in the shadow of 'Sgt.... Read more ›
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By miro's mum
Format:Audio CD
To start compairing this album to other Stones albums is really missing the point. To see(or hear) what's going on with any artist it's essential to view everything chronologically. When the Rolling Stones started they did versions of already existing music that excited them and presumably had made them want to form a band in the first place. Eventually they start experimenting doing their own stuff so by "Aftermath" they have an album with all their own compositions ....But still it's boys enthusiastically exploring and discovering what they are capable of. It's a fascinating trajectory if followed in sequence, so 'Satanic Majesties' is not such a great leap from 'Between the Buttons'... They cover a very broad range in these first six (British) albums,some more contrived than others, but all interesting and important both for them and the wider evolving youth culture. People tend to focus on 'Exile on Main Street' as the stones most decadent album but 'Satanic Majesties' is the band at it's most unfocused and spaced out. The combination of drug enthusiasms and external pressures from arrests and overwork and rapid Cultural flux means that 'Satanic Majesties' is the polar opposite of their first album's gritty directness and simplicity. As such, between those two extremes the Stones begin to be able to define themselves.
During the break from incesant touring and after taking stock obviously they decided they didn't want to get more spacy and 'experimental' but to dig in to what they loved most, hence the sequence of'BeggarsBanquet'-'Let it Bleed' & 'Sticky Fingers' (and the bonus of 'Ya Ya's') is boy's turning into men...(creatively speaking)still not without awkward and contrived moments but all fantasticly entertaining and exciting.... Read more ›
During the break from incesant touring and after taking stock obviously they decided they didn't want to get more spacy and 'experimental' but to dig in to what they loved most, hence the sequence of'BeggarsBanquet'-'Let it Bleed' & 'Sticky Fingers' (and the bonus of 'Ya Ya's') is boy's turning into men...(creatively speaking)still not without awkward and contrived moments but all fantasticly entertaining and exciting.... Read more ›
36 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Dismissed by many as a barefaced Sgt. Peppers rip-off, this album divides audiences and critics alike. It's rather like Marmite in that you either love it or you hate it. Me, I'm somewhere in the middle! While Their Satanic Majesties Request pales alongside the Stones' next album, Beggars Banquet, that doesn't mean to say it's bad. Indeed, in many ways it was the first real album they produced.
In keeping with the time, this record is a journey rather than a mere collection of songs. And the songs are not half bad, either. Sing This All Together, 2000 Man, She's a Rainbow and 2000 Light Years From Home are perfect slices of gothic psychedelia that sound nothing like anything The Beatles were doing at the time. The lengthy space-jam Sing This All Together (See What Happens) is like the more accomplished spiritual cousin of Aftermath's Goin' Home, the difference being that this track actually works. Then there is the closer, On With The Show, an hilarious piece of burlesque showmanship from Mick and the band.
Given the troubles the Stones were going through at the time - Mick and Keith's respective jail sentences, the deterioration of Brian Jones - it is a miracle this album was made at all. Given that it is such an interesting and unique piece in the Stones' puzzle, it should be celebrated for what it is, not condemned for what it isn't.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Satanic Majesties Demand...
...Your attention. You can find yourself '2,000 Light Years From Home' if you lose yourself in this album. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Alan Robert Lancaster
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Different Stones Album
I brought this as a vinyl LP years ago - it was their mystical album and different from their normal stuff. When I saw it listed as a CD I had to buy it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by A. WINFIELD
5.0 out of 5 stars
I want to know their second Request.
Do you like Rolling?
Do you like Stones?
Do you like Psychedelia?
Honestly, this is the only Stones album you need. Why? Read more
Do you like Stones?
Do you like Psychedelia?
Honestly, this is the only Stones album you need. Why? Read more
Published 2 months ago by Pesto Fingeration
5.0 out of 5 stars
Relieved...........
Been doing the rounds of the various Stones' releases tonight, and I'm so pleased that Satanic Majesties has got so many favourable comments. Read more
Published 2 months ago by ranger
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well worth a listen
I first listened to this album back in the early 70's but failed to appreciate it's qualities at the time, no doubt due to the fact that I had been brought up on the more familiar... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Al-13
5.0 out of 5 stars
At Last! A Proper Remaster!
Years ago, I purchased the previous incarnation of this album on CD and it bears the inscription "Remastered". Er...I don't think so! Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. T. Garratt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Happy
This was a present for my father and was therefore dispatched to another address. He seems very happy with it!
Published 5 months ago by karyn
5.0 out of 5 stars
the beginning of the classic stones phase
This is a beautiful, evocative record, not only of its time but also stands up today. It contains a lot of classic tracks and one of the Rolling Stones greatest recordings 'She's A... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Stephen Goldsmith
5.0 out of 5 stars
slightly weird but wonderful
First of all let me say i agree with Amazon reviewer Moz the CD version of the album would have given a more complete picture of the period if "We love you" and "Dandelion" had... Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. M. Tuck
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Album
This classic album was so far the best that I bought in the last 6 months. The cover with the graphics are bright fantasticos. Great for collectors and fans of the Rolling Stones
Published 8 months ago by MagoPeu
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