Their Satanic Majesties Request
by The Rolling Stones

Yeah, I’ve been putting this off for a while, and now I see why. You want psych Stones. That Aftermath US release. A few good songs, like Well All Sing This Together, She’s A Rainbow, 2000 Light Years From Home, but the rest doesn’t sound, let alone feel like the Stones. Even for psych standards it’s pretty bad next to Surrealistic Pillow and 13th Floor Elevators.

This is not the Rolling Stones, they are trying to be psychedelic and moving with the times at hand, rather than be Rolling Stones, (Blues, Soul, Rock n'Roll),'Shes A Rainbow', '2000 Light Years' best here.

Worst Stones album ever. A few good cuts with "She's a Rainbow" and "2000 Light Years from Home" with the rest being throwaways. What the Stones were thinking venturing into Psychedelia is beyond me. A poorly conceived pretentious response to The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's" release. The only redeeming value is the three dimensional cover.

From Brandon8 03/22/2024 22:41 | #302626

A psychedelic detour that has some flimflam as Keef has said avoid Gomper and On With The Show but She’s A Rainbow is a classic and the songs with 2000 in them are quite good as well. The next album the band begins their best run.

Not one of their best, but 2000 Lightyears from Home and She's A Rainbow are classics. The 8-minute long track 5 is pointless and really drags the album down.

From Tamthebam 10/22/2023 14:58 | #299584

A good 8 track album no need for Track 5 or the track Gomper the remainder of the tracks make a decent album. She's A Rainbow is a classic Stones song and 2000 Man and 2000 Light Years are the other highlights .

An album which may not appeal to diehard Stones fans but which will sit happily near the top of any psychedelic top 100. As with The Who, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, Marc Bolan, to name but a few, several artists produced excellent psychedelic albums but never returned to the genre.

From IlMala 01/27/2022 13:50 | #280179

As long as i am definitely NOT a fan of Rolling Stones... that's one of my favourite albums from their dischography... by far... Actually the style looks much more related to Beatles (according to my ears...), so that... i enjoy it so much.

From turbottski 08/27/2021 14:56 | #272923

They never did anything like this before, nor after. Many say, and I agree to a certain extent, that this was an attempt to match 'Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' by The Beatles. There may have been some self-inflicted peer pressure to do something psychedelic but I don't see 'Sgt Pepper' as that psychedelic, apart from a few exceptions. This album is more in the realms of 'We Love You', The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'All You Need is Love' and generally early Pink Floyd and The Incredible String Band. What this album doesn't share, is the characters of Ray Davies, Syd Barrett, early Bowie and The Beatles' 'Mr Kite'.
Instead we have a full immersion into trippy and exoctic instrumentation and songs set in a dreamworld. This album could only have been released in 1967.
Is it any good? Does it deserve the bad press it got? I think the decades have been kind on this album and it is generally well received now and features in most YouTuber's top tens.
I love this album. Being born in 1970, I could not hear it on release, I first heard it when I was 15 and it was a total surprise. There was no internet to warn me of what to expect.
It's got a hazy, druggy vibe but the songs are a mix of excellent pop and 60's rock with eastern and psycadelic touches.
We have the beautiful 'She's a Rainbow', the spacy '2000 Light Years From Home', the country tinged but poppy '2000 Man', the music hall pastiche of 'On With the Show' and the rest is fairly psycadelic. Some excellent moments with the latter but a stinker with the over long 'Sing This All Together (See What Happens)'.
An artefact of it's time but thoroughly enjoyable generally.
I have commented on each individual track, if you have the time.

From VictorVale 03/18/2021 18:45 | #267495

Ousada travessia no psicodelismo! Melhor do que comentam!