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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 1010
Released: August 27, 2002 |
| Our Price: $11.05 |
| Used Price: $7.11 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Beggars Banquet Track Listing:
1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. No Expectations
3. Dear Doctor
4. Parachute Woman
5. Jigsaw Puzzle
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Prodigal Son
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Factory Girl
10. Salt of the Earth
Editorial Review:
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Description of Beggars Banquet:
Opening with "Sympathy for the Devil," the Stones' infamous we-are-evil poem, this all-original 1968 album began a quality streak almost unmatched in rock & roll. Mick Jagger begins writing from the working-class hero's perspective--especially on the anthem "Street Fighting Man" and "Salt of the Earth"--and Keith Richards buttresses his partner with rock-solid slide licks recently graduated from the School of Old Blues Records. "Jig-Saw Puzzle," which inexplicably never became a hit, is the only known instance of Jagger's describing the Stones' individual personalities in verse. --Steve Knopper
Beggars Banquet Reviews:
Some great stuff but a little overrated 
2009-11-28 - Here are my Marks out of 10 for each track:
1. Sympathy For The Devil - 9/10
2. No Expectations - 8/10
3. Dear Doctor - 7/10
4. Parachute Woman - 8/10
5. Jigsaw Puzzle - 6/10
6. Street Fighting Man - 8/10
7. Prodical Son - 5/10 - (sounds like an outtake)
8. Stray Cat Blues - 8/10
9. Factory Girl - 6/10
10. Salt Of The Earth - 4/10 - (seems forced)
The Best Stones Album of All 
2009-09-22 - Too bad the Stones departed from R&B in favor of what - psychedelia? (Her Satanic Majesties Request); disco? (Some Girls) new wave? (Emotional Rescue) and where were their heads were thoughout the entire 90's? They could have been the greatest band of the 20th century had they continued in the vein of Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and even the convoluted Exile on Main Street, but they just ended up being a concert band, releasing albums just to increase ticket sales. If there was ever a Stones' album you needed in your collection, this is the only one. It's the Stones at their creative peak.
Very good recording
2009-09-11 - This is probably the best Album that the Rolling Stones ever created. I have both the earlier 1996 Abkco release and this one the 2002 DSD Remaster..This one is defiantly cleaner and more crisp, the older version however sounds more like the original vinyl with all its flaws and slower running time...I definitely prefer this one in the car because it is much easier to understand the words and hear the individual instruments, also the sound is more uplifting.
No Beggars At This Banquet
2009-09-02 - Hey, in 2009 no one, including this reviewer, NEEDS to comment on the fact that The Rolling Stones, pound for pound, have over forty plus years earned their place as the number one band in the rock `n' roll pantheon. Still, it is interesting to listen once again to the guys when they were at the height of their musical powers (and as high, most of the time, as Georgia pines). This album from the 1964 to 1971 period, moreover, unlike let us say Bob Dylan who has produced more creative work for longer, is the `golden era" of the Stone Age. While this CD has a rather definitive selection of some of "greatest hits" from this period so there are no bad tracks here the stick outs are the super-rock classic "Sympathy For The Devil"(as always), the very epitome of the 1960s quasi-revolutionary style "Street Fighting Man", the bluesy "No Expectations" and a song that has risen in my estimation over the years, "Factory Girl". Need I say more-no beggars need apply here.
I just rediscovered this
2009-08-24 - I bought this when it came out in 68, but I RETURNED it to the store because my 15 year old ears couldn't stand most of the country tracks. There were only two outright rockers: Sympathy and Street, at least to me back then. Country music seemed like the lamest possible thing to me then and to hear Mick's ridiculous attempts to sound country only added to my disdain. Flash forward to today. I finally listened to this again and, of course, was blown away. Not only did the country rock sound fine, but I was totally taken by some of Charlie's hard drumming on Parachute Woman and maybe Jigsaw Puzzle, which I didn't appreciate back in the day either. Oh well. Live and learn. I've jumped on the bandwagon for one of the best Stones' records ever.
