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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 113437
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $14.88 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Their Satanic Majesties Request Track Listing:
1. Sing This All Together
2. Citadel
3. In Another Land - The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman
4. 2000 Man
5. Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
6. She's a Rainbow
7. Lantern
8. Gomper
9. 2000 Light Years from Home
10. On With the Show
Editorial Review:
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
Their Satanic Majesties Request Reviews:
Why don't we buy this album all together? 
2007-08-20 - As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.
"Their Satanic Majesties Request" saw the light of day in November of 1967 and to this day brings the most spirited debate of its merits than all other Brian Jones era music combined!
When you engross yourself in the myriad of reviews through 40 years you'll notice that many on the negative side aren't taking issue with the songs but the departure of the previous Jagger/Richards formula and the idea of following the Beatles-"Sgt. Pepper."
The criticism is highly unjustified. Abandoning your previous output of genius is certainly acceptable if the results don't tarnish the past and how do you fault any band from emulating a Beatles album?
"Their Satanic Majesties Request" is musically phenomenal in the consistency of the compositions and nothing that the ears absorb show the ten tracks sounding forced or uneven.
"Sing This All Together" lays the groundwork for the eventful journey. As Jagger delivers the message for the album the music perfectly blends to make for a superlative track. Especially on the remastered version you can experience the guitar mix as if you were at the control room board. "Citadel" turns up the psychedelic volume a few notches and the energy level is hard to surpass. "In Anther Land" gives us a track penned by Bill Wyman and the additional treat to hear him deliver the words. "2000 Man" is brilliant. Jagger's vocal inflection and the guitars are without flaw. How about the way Mick throws us a curve and sings "And my kids don't understand?" Putting himself in the role of the older generation that was often criticized by the 60's rockers. "Sing This All Together" makes a return but this time it is titled "Sing This All Together" (See What Happens) and stretched from 3:46 to over eight minutes. "The Lantern" reaffirms the synergy between Jagger's vocals and the instrumentation. "Gomper" may surprise you for the skillful results of landing in the realm of a George Harrison Rubber Soul/Revolver composition. "2000 Light Years From Home" can create the moods of hypnotic, magical, and haunting all in a matter of a few notes from the keyboards. Ending the festivities as if you are listening to a barker from the circus "On With The Show." A rather ironic title since it sadly signifies the end to some of the best forty plus minutes that will emanate from a CD.
Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
L-oosely (rolling) S-tones on 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!
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.)
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.
Not Their Best Effort
2006-06-10 - 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.
