Gomper (track)
by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1967
From the album Their Satanic Majesties Request (track #8)
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Gomper appears on the following album(s) by The Rolling Stones:
- Their Satanic Majesties Request (track #8) (this album) (1967)
- The Rolling Stones In Mono (track #141) (compilation) (2016)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/12/2026 08:31 |  Liedzeit | 10,683 | 77/100 |
| ! | 05/26/2026 15:04 | wizardalien | 9,736 | 61/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2026 15:28 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2025 01:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 165,677 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/23/2025 02:26 | brent13 | 11,318 | 85/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 69.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.7.
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turbottski 08/27/2021 14:01 | #272916
The lyrics describe a child, or more correctly a woman, of nature by a lake with lillies and being dried by the sun after swimming. Not sure if she is Gomper. 'Gomper' is a strange title. The core members of the band spent some time in Morocco in 67 and the main chunk of this song is heavilly inspired by that. After the brief singing part, which is light and pleasant, the instrumental part starts in ernest but seems more controlled and disciplined than the catastrophe that ended Side One. Can't quite put my finger on why I really like this but I do - all of it. Like Fry's Turkish Delight, it's full of Eastern promise.
Like the preceding track, the lantern, this is one of those songs that is completely impossible to remember how it goes when it's not playing. When it is though, it starts of fine for a few minutes and then it just drifts into a a mess of a track for it's final few minutes. So-so.
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