Their Satanic Majesties Request

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Clearly their answer to Sgt. Pepper, or at least "All You Need is Love," Satanic Majesties is actually as sloppy an artifact as Flowers. But even at their most (willfully?) 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 --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land - Wyman, Bill
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
She's a Rainbow
The Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years from Home
On With the Show

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Clearly their answer to Sgt. Pepper, or at least "All You Need is Love," Satanic Majesties is actually as sloppy an artifact as Flowers. But even at their most (willfully?) 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

Album Description

This Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) recording offers high-resolution sound and is playable on both standard CD players and SACD-compatible devices.

Album Description

Full Title - Their Satanic Majesties Request. Remastered reissue of 1967 album, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Digipak.

Customer Reviews:

Great Product - Misleading Information.......2007-07-18

This work from the Rolling Stones is one that rank pretty high with the other top releases, It does kind of remind me of Sgt. Peppers a little in concept. It has DSD stamped all over it, only to find that it is just a redbook cd, I was under the impression it was a DSD release with the extra fidelity that DSD offers. No Dice.

Review of the 2002 Remaster (not of the album itself).......2007-07-11

This review is for people who know the album well, but are not sure if the 2002 Abkco remaster is worth buying the album again. Buy it! The 80's Abcko CD's are muddy and flat. The remasters are clean and dynamic, with nice seperation between instruments.

Hearing the remaster is a revalatory experience which made me appreciate the album all the more. I now understand that the rumbling drum in beginning of "2000 Lightyears" is the engines igniting, taking you for a journey. Turn that one up loud, it is a thrill ride. "See What Happens" and "Gomper" are no longer tedious excess, but actually jams that go somewhere. The joy of "On With the Show" comes through now. Now I understand that the acoustic beginning of "2000 man" is to be a breath of fresh air half way through side one. It is so pretty, now. Wyman's bass in the middle of tune is great. He plays wonderful full warm notes that just carry the part. Yes, Wyman's bass can finally be heard on the remasters! "She's a Rainbow" now has punch to it...now it sounds like a true Stones song, rather than a Beatles parroting. This is definitely a Stones album.

I think a lot of the people who are down on this album only heard the crumby early CD. With the old CD you get an impression of a cluttered mess of an album. With the remaster you hear the nuances of a band achieving mastery of their craft in an expanding art form. Pick up a copy.

Surprisingly good!.......2007-06-07

What a surprise this cd is! While most of the reviews give it five stars (nice touch, Amazon, by the way with the new look of the review pages), outside of Amazon, it is arguably the most slagged off Stones' effort in their history. While it is not their greatest by a long shot, it is better than many I've long since owned and listened to. I finally gave in to buy this and was really glad that I did. Despite being a Stones' head for over three decades, I have avoided owning this, largely due to my dislike of psychedelia as well as the enormous amount of derision it has received. Man, was I wrong! This cd knocked me out right from the first listen. What blows my mind so much is the fact that this is a disc which, despite the psychedelic influence, contains some very strong guitar work. good melodies, nice acoustic work, prototypical Keef riffs, and a handful of songs that sound like they could've easily been on the follow-up to this (Beggar's Banquet). From all I'd read about it, I was expecting the Stones meet Pink Floyd, but at the core, this album stays true to the Stones. Yes, the eight plus minutes of Sing This All Together (See What Happens), a reprise of the opening number, is loaded with plenty of LSD influenced nonsense, but there are arguably more trippy and clearly more ridiculous things on Between the Buttons, a critically well-received album released the same year this nugget was released.
In short, I can not urge you strongly enough to investigate this disc on your own. While it might seem as if I'm damning this album with faint praise, let me say that I sincerely believe you won't be disappointed. It may never be your favorite Stones recording, but I doubt very highly that it would ever be considered your least favorite either.

WOW!.......2007-05-20

This is definately a mind expanding album. Although, it was criticized by the media of the era, their is nothing short of brilliance here. The Citadel is very heavy. She's a Rainbow is the most popular from this, but I think 2000 light years from home is their most flavorfull cut. It is very athereal. Jaggers' vocals give a great spatialness. I would recommend this cd to people who either don't like, or don't know the Stones. It is one of those cds that will balance your listening pleasures.

Not Bad Considering They Were Police Targets.......2007-04-10

Something everyone seems to forget when comparing the patchiness of Satanic to the brilliance of Sgt. Pepper was that the Stones of '67 were under a year-long ordeal of police harassment after Brian Jones (mistaken for Mick) admitted to a reporter that he used LSD. The cops swept in on a party in Feb. '67 (waiting til George Harrison had left), and so began numerous trials, days in jail, nothing the Beatles with their cuddly public image ever had to face.
That the tracks here hold together as well as they do - "She's A Rainbow" and "2000 Light Years" as powerful as anything on Pepper, "2000 Man," "Citadel," and "The Lantern" having their own folky and rock charms-
is a testament to a band's endurance, and probably why they outlasted the sixties. Had McCartney, or particularly Lennon, been busted as many times for their copious drug use that year, Pepper probably wouldn't have sounded half as good as it did.

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i'm listening to this album right now for the thousandth time
Anton is the second coming of John Lennon
Great album by a great band
Buyer Beware
An Instant Timeless Classic

Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
Brian Jonestown Massacre
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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005YJKA
Release Date: 1996-06-18

Album Description

Sophomore album from 1996 does, as promised, spring forth from the Rolling Stones' long-underrated 1967 masterpiece Their Satanic Majesties Request, copping not only Mick and Keith's leering bad-boy attitude but also their their rock-and-roll-circus spirit.

Customer Reviews:

i'm listening to this album right now for the thousandth time.......2007-01-14

buy this cd and listen to it over and over again, but don't be scammed by people trying to sell it to you for 40.00. you can get this cd at cd stores for under $20.00 brand new. considering the d.i.y. effort that went into all of the BJM recordings it's ridiculous that someone is trying to make that much money from their cds.

Anton is the second coming of John Lennon.......2007-01-03

Second Request is a great album (buy it in a used record store for like $12). It took me some time to get used to; I fell asleep listening to it, and would wake up periodically through the night and and think "good song" before drifting back off to sleep. Anenome is an amazing song, whose style ranges from grunge to kinda bluesy to psychedelic. Other good songs are No Come Down, Donnavan Said, all Around You, and Miss June 75.

If you are unfamiliar with BJM, Methodrone is great, so is Take It From The Man. Give it burns out too quickly, and mental illness sucks. Bravery is decent, as is Bringing It All Back Home Again. The rest is hit or miss. Anton is a beast, Dig! is crap and he is suing the maker. She is a tool.

Great album by a great band.......2006-03-07

If you are interested in this album it won't disappoint. Do yourself a favor and get a copy from the bomp records website for $12 (shipping included).

Buyer Beware.......2006-02-09

There are times when independent sellers on amazon.com are, shall we say, a bit opportunistic. I see prices from $35-50 listed for this CD -- keep in mind it's a circle of metallized plastic with a lifespan of ten years or so (less, if you don't treat it like a librarian or a collector would).

Also, consider that I purchased it THIS MORNING, brand new, at my local independent record store for $13.

Don't get scammed by people with e-bay fever.

Okay, let's talk about the album.

Despite a few sonic flaws (that could even be seen as adding to the overall package -- read on), TSMSR is a pretty well-realized paean to the salad days of the late sixties: Byrds- and Stones-influenced slow-spinning songs mingle with no small amount of sitar. Even the physical layout and photos seem plucked from a time capsule.

The 60's "era" is approached with humor and grace, and not treated like some kind of unassailable religious event as some revivalist bands are wont to do. There is a healthy dose of hedonism here too -- no morality plays to soothe the cultural right wing. Instead, BJM gives them the finger.

This isn't a genre exercise though. As well as these songs might blend into that time period, it just as effortlessly references the stylistic range of His Name Is Alive or the jangle of XTC. What's being displayed is a genuine affection for the instrumentation and recording techniques of the 60's. The attitudes and morals are coming from a decidedly more modern space, informed by the failures of the 60's as well as the successes. And the songwriting is sharp, clever, and catchy.

So things are a little murky, and there are tape flaws that come through at lower volumes. Really, a pristine digital recording would be an affront to the smoke-ringed, liquid-light atmosphere this little gem serves up.

Now go to your local independent music store and comb through their bins. Enjoy!

An Instant Timeless Classic.......2005-12-30

Some of the greatest art ever created came from the minds of spirits of tortured souls. BJM's manic brainchild and iconoclast, Anton Newcombe, may indeed be Brian Jones reincarnate, but Jones and the Stones got nothing on these guys. Who ARE these guys anyway? Well, first go rent the documentary film, DIG!, which is the story of playful rival bands BJM and The Dandy Warhols.Then Buy this CD and hear for yourself WHY Dandy frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor is convinced BJM is the greatest rock band in the world. Yes, their sound is soaked in the tradition of sixties psychedelia, but I have a feeling their music won't sound dated at all 40 years from now. Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request is the definitive BJM record and thus it's gonna set you back a few bucks, but check out the others as well. These discs love repeated spins under the laser. Enjoy this rare artist (Anton) while he's still alive!

Their Satanic Majesties Request + 10 Bonus Tracks

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Their Satanic Majesties Request + 10 Bonus Tracks
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This is a special edition Russian import cd. It has all 10 songs on the original album plus an additional 10 bonus tracks (20 songs total). Please see the above photo of the back cover for a list of songs. There is also a mini-poster included with this cd.

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ASIN: B000E6G4VY
Release Date: 2006-04-18

Tracks:

Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Antoher Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
She's A Rainbow
Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years From Home
On With The Show

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Dsd Mastered Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

L-oosely (rolling) S-tones with D-arvons.......2007-01-03

Perhaps THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek parody of the psychedelic excesses prevalent in 1967. If so, it succeeds in such aspirations "majestically." Or maybe Mick and the boys were only ripping off SGT PEPPER'S as a lark-- I'd like to think this is the case. Merry Pranksters weren't exclusive to California, after all.

To really appreciate this album in all its glory, one must see the original LP with its murky animated 3-D plasticine artwork (Look-- they turn their heads!). To savor the music however, a CD is quite sufficient.

This set has a lot of terrific songs on it. The only reason it gets a middling rating is "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)" --an unnecessary endless jumble that brings SATANIC MAJESTIES to a screeching halt-- much like Lennon's car crash does to the White Album on "Revolution #9." Both tracks badly mar the records they are on, yet neither experience would be truly complete without them. So, we must muddle through somehow.

THEIR SATANIC (etc.) has the distinction of containing both (to my mind) the best and worst examples of the Stones' golden era (1965-'73). The latter of course, being the cacophonous song mentioned above. Now, my all-time favorite Rolling Stones track may surprise you--- its....."On With The Show." For all its intended prurience, this one has always made me smile. You see-- there's a bit of Merry Prankster in us all!

Not Their Best Effort.......2006-06-11

I think you have to be stoned to listen to this record In fact in the opening of "Sing this All Together (See What happens)" you can hear Mick say "Where's that joint?" and that really freaked me out the first time I heard it, because what I was doing. None of the songs here, in my opinion, measure up to anything on any of their other records and I am happy that this sort of psychobabbley experiment stopped here. To be fair, because I knew I was going to be reviewing several of the Stones records with my friends, I gave this record several listens, because it had been years since I'd last heard it and I have to say, if you're not stoned, then none of this makes much sense. However, if you're passing a joint around and this record is playing in the back ground, they you're probably really going to like it. And if you're doing a stronger psychedelic, you're probably really going to love it.

I Love this Record.......2006-06-11

Every note, every word, every song, I just love this record. It's true that my friends don't like it as well as I do, but I can't help that. The Stones, Like the Beatles with "Sgt. Pepper" and Bob Dylan with "Blonde on Blonde" went a little psychedelic. But I think this record tops those other efforts. The music is just fab. Can I say that, fab. I shiver every time I play "2000 Light Years from Home." Those opening chords send chills up my spine. "On with the Show" is a pure delight as is "Citadel." I love "Sing this All Together," the opening song, but I really like to get into the long and strangely weird sort of instrumental "Sing this All Together (See What happens)." Anyway, like I said, I just love this record and if you give it a chance I think you will too.

I'm Afraid John Lennon was Right.......2006-06-11

I read a playboy interview with John Lennon years ago. In it he said that this record was an attempt by the Stones to copy "Sgt. Pepper." Even though he was a bit negative about the Stones in the interview, I'm afraid that he was right. This record is a poor attempt at copying the Beatles. I don't think they should have done it. However, I do, on occasion, listen to this CD. I actually kind of like the music and all of the stuff that's going on. You can't dance to this one, that's for sure, but you can put the headphones on, lay back and sort of be taken away.

We Open Our Heads and the Pictures Come.......2006-06-10

This is the Stones trying to be the Beatles. Sadly, they don't quite pull it off. This is a great rock and roll band that never should have tried going psychedelic. I know, I know, Mick and Keith had been busted for ganja during the recording of this record, were tried, convicted, got jail sentences which were commuted. Brian had been busted too, but still that's no excuse for trying to be what you're not. Getting high and listening to the Beatles is a lot of fun, I'm sure, but Sgt. Pepper, this record is not.

All that said, there is some good and worthy material on this record, like "Sing this All Together," "Citadel" and "2000 Light Years from Home." For me those songs earn the record three stars, even though "Light Years" is a bit hard for me to listen to more than once or twice a year. "Gomper," is horrible as is "On with the Show." But that's just my opinion. Anyway, like the boys in the band say on the first song on the record, if you open your heads the pictures will come. I suppose that means if you're stoned, really stoned, then this whole record sort of makes sense. But since I haven't been stoned in a very, very long time, this record doesn't make much sense to me.

Though this is a three star record, I'm giving it an extra star for the packaging. If you're a collector, you're gonna want this one.

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A Unique Masterpiece
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Their Satanic Majesties Request
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ASIN: B000003BEV
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
She's A Rainbow
The Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years From Home
On With The Show

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Clearly their answer to Sgt. Pepper, or at least "All You Need is Love," Satanic Majesties is actually as sloppy an artifact as Flowers. But even at their most (willfully?) 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

Customer Reviews:

L-oosely (rolling) S-tones on D-arvons.......2007-01-03

A Unique Masterpiece.......2006-11-03

In 1967, EVERYBODY went psychedelic: Cream, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Traffic, the Doors, and all the rest of them, including, yes, the Beatles and the Stones.
So this is not the Stones "copying the Beatles".
The Stones (led by Brian Jones) wore extravagant multi-colored trans-gender clothes when the Beatles were still in their trite Brian Epstein-imposed uniforms. They were into the ritual music of Jajouka, in the mountains of Morocco, a good 20 years before "World music" happened.
This album is just an expression of what the Stones were about, and too bad if it does'nt fit the narrow clichéd commercially accepted limits of what's to be thought of as "Rolling Stones music".
Every song here is beautiful: great lyrics, great melodies, great arrangements, great playing and singing.
And the overall atmosphere is unique and extremely poetic, a kind of ominous futuristic World Music.
This is one of the Stones' 4 album masterpieces, right along "Aftermath", "Begger's Banquet" and "Let it Bleed".
(I know I'll get crucified for leaving out "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main Street", but I'll stick to my guns.)

Not Their Best Effort.......2006-06-11

I Love this Record.......2006-06-11

Every note, every word, every song, I just love this record. It's true that my friends don't like it as well as I do, but I can't help that. The Stones, Like the Beatles with Sgt. Pepper and Bob Dylan with Blonde on Blonde went a little psychedelic. But I think this record tops those other efforts. The music is just fab. Can I say that, fab. I shiver every time I play "2000 Light Years from Home." Those opening chords send chills up my spine. "On with the Show" is a pure delight as is "Citadel." I love "Sing this All Together," the opening song, but I really like to get into the long and strangely weird sort of instrumental "Sing this All Together (See What happens). Also, I know that my friend Sara knows her stuff. If she says, John Lennon panned this record in a Playboy interview, then he probably did, but I find that a bit odd, because he and his buddy Paul do backing vocals on both versions of "Sing this All Together." Anyway, like I said, I just love this record and if you give it a chance I think you will too.

I'm Afraid John Lennon was Right.......2006-06-11

I read a playboy interview with John Lennon years ago. In it he said that this record was an attempt by the Stones to copy Sgt. Pepper. Even though he was a bit negative about the Stones in the interview, I'm afraid that he was right. "Satanic Majesties" is a poor attempt at copying the Beatles. I don't think they should have done it. However, I do, on occasion, listen to this record. I actually kind of like the music and all of the stuff that's going on. You can't dance to this one, that's for sure, but you can put the headphones on, lay back and sort of be taken away.

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Their Satanic Majesties Request

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ASIN: B000KJTK6Q
Release Date: 2007-01-30

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ASIN: B00006RT4Z
Release Date: 2006-08-22

Tracks:

Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land - The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
She's a Rainbow
Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years from Home
On With the Show

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Not Their Best Effort
I Love this Record
Not The Stones Best, but You Can Still be Taken Away
We Open Our Heads and the Pictures Come

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ASIN: B000EU1L04
Release Date: 2006-04-25

Tracks:

Frontside
Sing This All Together
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In Another Land
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Shes's A Rainbow
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2000 Light Years From Home
With The Show

Album Description

European paper sleeve pressing. Part of Abkco's `Rolling Stones Remastered Series'. Includes an `Inaugural Edition' Certificate! Universal. 2006.

Album Details

Eu Distributed Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Dsd Mastered Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. Yes, the Cover Photo is in 3D!

Customer Reviews:

Not Their Best Effort.......2006-06-11

I Love this Record.......2006-06-11

Every note, every word, every song, I just love this record. It's true that my friends don't like it as well as I do, but I can't help that. The Stones, Like the Beatles with Sgt. Pepper and Bob Dylan with Blonde on Blonde went a little psychedelic. But I think this record tops those other efforts. The music is just fab. Can I say that, fab. I shiver every time I play "2000 Light Years from Home." Those opening chords send chills up my spine. "On with the Show" is a pure delight as is "Citadel." I love "Sing this All Together," the opening song, but I really like to get into the long and strangely weird sort of instrumental "Sing this All Together (See What happens)." Also, I know that my friend Sara knows her stuff. If she says, John Lennon panned this record, then he probably did, but I find that a bit odd, because he and his buddy Paul do backing vocals on both versions of "Sing this All Together." Anyway, like I said, I just love this record and if you give it a chance I think you will too.

Not The Stones Best, but You Can Still be Taken Away.......2006-06-11

We Open Our Heads and the Pictures Come.......2006-06-10

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