Christmas of 1967 I was a freshman in high school, sitting at my cousin's house in front of their stereo. The songs, especially 2,000 Light Years, had me transfixed. I remember what it was like hearing it for the first time like it just happened yesterday. And I can only say this about a few other albums, like the Beatles White album and Hendrix's Electric Ladyland. Even if it was not the Stone's usual style, the innovation and the production quality were amazing. Along with that lenticular image on the cover. All kinds of later music from others was influenced by this landmark album.
Nothing else sounds like it. It was brilliant. People talk such nonsense about it including the current Stones. Charlie’s contributions were stellar. Very unique drumming and percussion. That they were able to create such music under the pressures they were under during that time is amazing in itself. That they had an active roll in producing and mixing it is also a big thing. The Beatles had George Martin to do all that. The Stones did it themselves. Great record that is becoming more known and appreciated as time rolls by.
@@soarornorThe Stones, especially Mick, rarely have anything worth saying about their own work. Rarely has a major artist been so seemingly dismissive about his own work. Of course they never listen to their records once they're finished anyway
@@johnryan3913 The Pink Floyd have been similar. Dismissive of some of their greatest work pre Dark Side of the Moon. I remember a long, long time ago reading an interview with Mick talking about Satanic Majesties. It was a bit after its release. He said if it were up to him they’d do more of that kind of thing but their audience didn’t like it much so they let it go. I don’t know about audiences not liking. I seem to recall at the time of its release that people were quite enthusiastic about the record. It was an excellent piece of work and definitely a part of that time. The only similarity to the.Beatles were that both bands and many of that era were into making expansive, unique records. It was like a competition. It was the perfect time for that.
Funny, as big a fan as I was prior to 'Satanics...". I wanted the album as much for that lenticular image as I did the album itself. Of course I was only 12. My mom was horrified by the albums title and image so it was an instant no-go. lol. I came up with the scratch though to buy the 45 RPM 'Shes A Rainbow' / '2000 Light Years ...'. She never knew who or where the 2 tunes came from.
@@SonofNun123 Me too. I stopped off at a small drug store and they had a rack of albums. I turned around and saw that album and that was it. Had to buy it. Still a favorite.
It’s absolutely NOT a copy of Sgt. Pepper! Anyone that says that is in need of a musical education. Satanic Majesties is a British psychedelic masterpiece of its own.
I agree its not a Sgt Pepper Rip off, but its not psychedelic either. Its a Critique of all the flower power piece and love stuff, but using the psychedelic motifs and style to Critique it. It is a classical technique or tactic in art. Like parody. But its not just mocking it either. Sgt Pepper is also obviously a Critique of psychedelic flower power stuff. Its in your face if you actually listen to the lyrics. the Beatles and Stones are on the face of it Critiquing the California peace and love but also the vision of a universal world though technology. They knew people from earlier who were at the fore front of computing and so fourth who knew what the future was going to be like: L what now was going to be like: like now. All full the bright shinny fun stuff the whole world on a screen but the catch is a loss of proximity acquaintance. One world but viewed from nowhere. Its in your face in Sgt Pepper. But satanic Majesties Request is much darker. They are using surrealism to say the unsayable. That was a French art thing Mick Jagger was into, but began in post World War Two Germany really. Compare to various writers who write sci fi or surrealism to convey a world that does not really make sense. This began I think, with Leibnitz's 17th 18th Century vision of the enlightenment "Everything has a reason". The 19th century Critique says "no it doesn't". Some artists realised that you could not convey this with a straight narrative. that the form of narrative has to be as weird as the subject its about. Of course this can attract a lot of rubbish fake artists, con artists, pretention, and so on, that might be difficult at first to distinguish from the real McCoy. Like all the dreadful guitarists who tried to represent Jimi Hendrix with out the years and years of work on guitar before them. Difference between a built up habit and a copy of the surface. Like Picasso's "Dove" drawings. There's no short cuts really. No learn it faster than any body else book. No quick 2 days and you've got it or your money back. Satanic Majesty is a flawed masterpiece. Go to Tangier and to the café and hotel they hung out in. I'm not talking about a dr*gs holiday either forget that. Do some historical digging, talk to some people. no one can take your trip for you as Jim Morrison said. Great art demands a lot of time and effort of the audience. not 3 minutes and on to the next thing. Trick is though not to spend years on a piece of "art" to find out that there nothing there to be found. Silence can mean depth or just nothing. I rest my case. Do your own work.
@@michaelshiflett4835 Agreed. It’s brilliant. I’ve never understood people saying that. Everyone was trying to do the ultimate psychedelic album. I thought the Stones did a quite admirable job.
@@harveyyoung3423 You haven't any idea of what you're talking about. Satanic Majesties is CLICHE psychedelic music. That's how psychedelic the album is. Involving harpsichord (prevalent in the British psychedelic pop scene), Tabla (prevalent in Indian inspired psychedelic rock); mellotron, electric dulcimer, and lyrics about space travel. All things we have come to label psychedelic rock. Every cliche of psychedelic rock is on that record - and it's brilliant. They weren't mocking anything except Sgt. Pepper's album cover. They lived the lifestyle. Dropping acid, traveling to Morocco, wearing beads and hippie-esq fashion (especially Keith). They weren't "peace & love" per se, but where exactly do you get this idea that they were so amused at the idea of peace and love that they mocked it? First you say it isn't psychedelic, and then you say it's using psychedelic music to mock psychedelic music? What a worthless comment and a waste of time. Rubbish word-salad from a Schizophrenic.
I really believe that if any band not named “The Rolling Stones” had recorded Satanic Majesties, it would’ve been hailed as one of the great albums of this period. Its resemblance to Sgt. Pepper is superficial at best. After this album, they brought in Jimmy Miller to record Beggar’s Banquet and the Stones’ “golden era” began.
Interesting hypothetical. I love the album, personally. If it were done by a band like 13th Floor Elevators or some underground psych band , it may have been overlooked at the time, but it would’ve been on a “Nuggets” compilation and hailed as a forgotten classic decades later.
This in my view is an excellent album. Wide ranging with all kinds of interesting ideas. I prefer it to the much vaunted Exile on Main Street. I think the Stones should have been as experimental in later albums as well.
I dont care what anyone says- I love Their Satanic Majesties Request. Have it on 3D ( lol) cover, Cd, Lp , 8 track. Id love to hear the unreleased stuff from around the time
@@familydogg1234 I think it is still up on TH-cam. There’s a whole lot of in process recordings at Olympic studios during the making of the album. Very fascinating. Like sitting in the control room with Mick while they were putting the tracks together. It was all released on (of all things) a DVD. Why a DVD is anyone’s guess because there is no video. It’s all the out takes and recording process track by track of that album. It’s great stuff. It might still be available on eBay or discogs. And I agree. It’s a brilliant album unlike any other.
"Beggar's Banquet" was their way back from being wannabe Beatles. Yet this album before it was the best misstep ever, maybe! (RIP Brian Jones not too long after this one)
Its crazy how despite the fact that Brian Hated this album and was in a very bad state of mind and health at the time Brian managed to do some of his greatest work on this record . Brians mellotron Playing on this album was amazing . His Mellotron Playing on We Love You and 2000 light Years was incredible . He had never played the Mellotron prior to Satanic Majesties but he taught himself very quickley which is even more impressive when you consider the Mellotron was a very difficult instrument to master but Brian mastered it seeminlgy in a matter of days and wrote the insanely good Mellotron parts for We love You and 2000 Light Years from Home . Not to mention all the toerh instruments he played on the album .. Yet somehow he gets no writing credits on the album . He should have Gotten writing credits on at least We Love You and 2000 Light Years from home .
Yes I agree because it some verry good songs . In my opinion are the stones in total better composer's in compair to the beatles , woensdag you look to all the years .
Amazing! Fantastic work on this very critically acclaimed album. 1967 was such a great year for music, so many great albums came out then! Since it was mentioned…any chance that you’ll do Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn? One of my favorite albums, due to Syd Barrett’s invaluable and unique approach to songwriting and guitar playing. He’s one of my favorite/most inspiring musicians and guitarists! Thank you for all that you do!
I haven’t said it (written it?) out loud yet… but I’ve been praying for him to give that album the Film Retrospective treatment for awhile now lol or even just any Pink Floyd albums at all from that era
@@CantTellYou Here’s hoping that he’ll eventually do it! I’m more than certain that it’s definitely ground-breaking and innovative enough to deserve some attention. Many Floyd fans don’t even know about Syd Barrett and the early years of the Floyd 😪
This album is to me akin to the Beatles' Let it Be--both albums are routinely referred to as "disastrous" yet each contains 5 or so songs that any other group (say Oasis) would kill for, especially when you consider the non-LP tracks We Love You and Dandelion. Their lesser reputations are really more of a reflection of the astounding quality of the work that precedes and follows it.
I love the album. Gompers, Citadel, 2000 Light Years..... its like a heavier Incredible String Band. The cover, the maze, the smoke inner sleeve. What a time.
I never saw it as a Sgt pepper copy. I saw it as it's own thing. There are some great songs here and it's a shame cause all people wanna do is shit on the album due to the pepper comparisons. However, if sing this and it's reprise were replaced with we love you and dandelion the album would be a masterpiece and maybe taken more seriously. Plus I think the stones just became a target for the millions who'd copy pepper or psychedelic music at the time since they were released back to back even though technically the stones recorded theirs first. So yeah underrated and underappreciated if you ask me.
I do feel like a lot of that “copy” talk often comes more from the album covers than the actual sound lol If anything, it’s more close in sound to Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (but even that comparison doesn’t stick considering most of these songs were recorded before that album release)
@CantTellYou I love Piper at The Gates of Dawn. It's my favorite Syd era album next to Saucer Full of Secrets, but yeah, it does have the same similar psych vibe like thise albums. It's also got the haunting vibes of Velvet Underground and Nico in a so weird It's amazing way. I made my own personal version if the tracklist and it even includes child of the moon which was recorded during those sessions and next to 10,000 light years it really adds to the sci-fi theme
It's an interesting record from a profoundly experimental period in rock and roll. Their single, "We Love You" is one of my favourites from the entire period. It's fearsome in its drive, intensity, and creativity. A radical sound collage from a radical period. Great track. Surprised it didn't sell in 1967.
You state that Jagger took acid for the first time during the summer of 1967, but in 19th Nervous Breakdown - written in late 1965 - he says "On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind but after a while I realized you were disarranging mine"
This fascinating documentary shows the paradox of Brian disintegrating mentally over the year yet he is pretty active in recording the album though there are occasions when he either doesn’t turn up or turns up in an incapacitated condition. Mick and Keith were pretty high on drugs themselves. Brian plays a variety of instruments to good effect.
One of my all time favorites!! Check out the unreleased track “SHES DOING HER THING “ was meant for the album, sounding like a power pop, post punk ish, psychedelic vibe. I never heard Mick say it was to be a “concept album”. They explored varied themes, and was, to me, a cut and paste art project. I always fantasized that they would connect with Jimmy Miller, and had proper guidance with the album, instead of trying to do EVERYTHING themselves, even building the set of the album cover….
This and all of your other works are phenomenally amazing, I glad you are now touching on the Stones works. I hope you are able to make one about the years before the Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed sessions, those were also turning points in their careers, I would love to hear your take on it . ❤💯
So glad to run across this history of Satanic Requset. Always my favorite Stones album. For me it blows Sgt Pepper away. The very best of Psychedelica 💙💜
This album is much more Psych and experimental if you compare it to Sgt.peppers. It doesn't make it better, but I don't think it's a copy, certaintly because they started the project way before pepper was released.
23.55 oh yeah , look at them‼️ It's obvious they're high on LSD . Seriously though , thanks for putting this documentary together , it's inspired me to buy Bill Wyman's books , yes all 3 of them . Cheers 👌 ✨️✨️✨️
That was an excellent video. John Lennon actually put it about that "Satanic Majesties" was a Pepper rip-off and he said that "We Love You" was an "All You Need is Love" rip-off. Now, in a roundabout way, there may be some truth in this. However, I think people go overboard about rip-offs. They are sometimes barefaced copies with little attempt to disguise their intentions, but much of the time they are responses to what is going on at the time, musically. What are often mooted as rip-offs can be bold pieces that were influenced or inspired by a certain song or album, but which bear little resemblance to said inspiration. We Love You is a great song, as is All You Need is Love, but other than the words "Love" and "You" being in both titles, they are as unalike as it is possible to be. There's nothing defiant about "All You Need is Love" whereas "We Love You" drips with anti-establishment sentiment. Instrumentally, virtually all the invention of the Beatles' track comes not from the Beatles, whereas in "We Love You," the Stones are all in great form, with, ironically, some help from Lennon, McCartney and Nicky Hopkins. The same is true of the two albums as a whole. Despite on the way to doing a Syd Barrett, Brian Jones is in sparkling form on the album, as is Keith. As for the album being fake-psych, I disagree. Among many of the more serious album-making artists at the time, music was going in that direction. The Stones themselves, through "Aftermath" and "Between The Buttons" had been moving away from their early roots and the seriousness with which albums were now being taken had given them the chance to grow and experiment and write different types of songs. Plus the introduction of new instruments like the sitar and the mellotron had expanded the range of what sounds could be found in songs, not to mention the band fully utilizing Brian Jones' instrumental capacity in ways they hadn't prior to "Aftermath," plus having a sympathetic ally in Nicky Hopkins. Many may see it as the Stones trying to do psychedelia, but I think this overlooks the reality that not only had psychedelia bled into much music-making, it was also inventive, expansive music-making. Whether the Stones liked it or not is irrelevant. "Beggars Banquet" and beyond would not have happened without "Their Satanic Majesties Request" because the blues, quite frankly, was limiting as an art form and the Rolling Stones at that time just had more inventive music in them.
It's interesting the mystique around Brian Jones and how people say he was such a musical genius in some ways, but he never wrote a song for the stones and never sang. Bill Wyman even wrote sort of a clunker song on this album, but Brian couldn't muster up anything.
The Acid was called California Sunshine not Sunshine and that Acid is very potent and lasts a long time . 1 hit lasts 16 hours and starts to kick in after to 10 to 15 minutes .
@ It’s funny about that kind of thing. So much goes by but only some of it stays with us. That must have been something to live in London at that time. UFO club. Roundhouse, Middle Earth, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pink Floyd, The Who, Kinks, Beatles and Stones, King Crimson, and so many more. Must have been the wildest thing ever to have all that creativity emerging from every corner. For me it was the foundation even though I was nowhere near it in the US. An amazing and unique time. 🌸🌸🐸🌸🌸
I very fond of the album, but I’m also in the minority that loves the Brian Jones era of the Stones and the Syd Barret Floyd albums. I hadn’t listened to the whole album until I heard the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Satanic Majesties Second Request, and I got curious about what the non hit songs were like. I dig it all the way through. If you like it and have never listened to old-school BJM, check it out. You’re in for a treat !
Am I the only person who heard on my album at the very end (after the "final" track) that there was a brief "We wish you a merry Christmas" slowed down and distorted? Not mentioned in this documentary, not acknowledged in any fashion on the album cover. If you've still got the original album, give it another focused listening!
At the time, as reported in the vid, Their Satanic Majesties seemed to be an imitation of Sergeant Pepper, which had been released the previous spring. The two parts of Sing This All Together paralleled the two parts of the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the use of sitar echoed Within You Without You, among other "trippy," psychedelic features of the two albums. The voice saying "Where's that joint?" at the start of Sing This All Together part two was reported at the time to be Paul McCartney, not Mick. It sounds like Paul to me. I've always liked the album, especially The Lantern, She's a Rainbow, Citadel, and 2000 Light Years From Home.
@@parkergambino9025 I haven't checked in years but on my sleeve I could find only John and George and I thought to find Ringo and Paul I might need the 3D. 🤷♂️
13.28 "We Love You ( Goodbye ) No wonder Ian Stewart didn't bother turning up❗️Charley and Bill must have been NONPLUSSED to say the least . Andrew Loog Oldham couldn't hack it , Brian seemed to get stuck on mellotron , Ian played golf , but ( thanks to a dependable supply of psychotropic chemicals at that time in history ) various combos improvised an excellent LP 🙏
Wait a second! I am the only guy who liked the Stones psychedelic stuff! I want these other comments removed! This is complete violation of my squater/hipster rights and I demand justice!
I rather liked this album. Granted: it was no Aftermath or Between the Buttons, but it was far better than a lot of their later releases. And more innovative. I recall my brother buying the 45, In Another Land. The Lantern was the B-side and very captivating. Wish that drugs hadn’t played the role they did, but it is what they made it. That said, it was one of their finest.
They thought it was progressive to break the last vestiges of family, and commitment, and used the hypocracy of the leadership to drive home their position for complete debauchery. That is what the devil does. I grew up on rock. I get it. I play guitar, and write songs too. Music comes from the radio in our head, and the things we tune into. We can truly be free in Christ. We cannot separate politics and religion. They are joined at the hip. I cannot buy into a secular world view, and be a Christian at the same time. Look at the mess we have made. "Imagine" was a beautiful piece of musical witchcraft. We did Imagine. Now Imagine communism, food shortages, totalitarianism, no private property, private businesses, and private transportation. Imagine showing papers at state lines. Imagine citizens being stripped of all our rights. Totalitarianism is the way of Nimrod. If we read our bibles, we would avoid it. ,
Great album! The fact that the band rejects this album is what makes them posers, not the reverse. Whatever. They did something no one else could, and they still do! 2000 light years... 'nuff said
She`s A Rainbow is a good tune. The problem with booze and drugs with musicians is it tricks you into thinking you are creating something better than it really is.
To us heads or hippy freaks, the song 2,000 Light Years Fron Home was the big one. Yes, She's Like a Rainbow was great. Also, we liked On With the Show as we didn't want to get up and change the album. The first side rarely got played. I guess this was Brian's groovy on psychedelics but his paranoia with the busts were too much, sadly. I read in one of the earliest Stones books way back in 71 that Keith who was complimented for the Sympathy for the devil said it wasn't me, Brian did it. I know that's not on here but interesting methinks.
It's a good album,but the Stones are the blues not psychedelia. One year later they released Beggars Banquet and the single Jumpin Jack Flash,which rocked hard. Thanks for the vid.
Narrator refers twice to the 4 on the cover when it is obviously 5. Interesting note is at least 2 Beatles are hidden in the album art. George and John. I have read all 4 are there but on my copy which isn't 3D I can only find G & J. Even in this video you can see John's face in red in the lower right.
i listened to it a few times and it didnt measure up to previous albums with radio hits. STICKY FINGERS was next album to wake me up . im not a diehard stones fan.
Christmas of 1967 I was a freshman in high school, sitting at my cousin's house in front of their stereo. The songs, especially 2,000 Light Years, had me transfixed. I remember what it was like hearing it for the first time like it just happened yesterday. And I can only say this about a few other albums, like the Beatles White album and Hendrix's Electric Ladyland. Even if it was not the Stone's usual style, the innovation and the production quality were amazing. Along with that lenticular image on the cover. All kinds of later music from others was influenced by this landmark album.
Nothing else sounds like it. It was brilliant. People talk such nonsense about it including the current Stones. Charlie’s contributions were stellar. Very unique drumming and percussion.
That they were able to create such music under the pressures they were under during that time is amazing in itself. That they had an active roll in producing and mixing it is also a big thing. The Beatles had George Martin to do all that. The Stones did it themselves. Great record that is becoming more known and appreciated as time rolls by.
@@soarornorThe Stones, especially Mick, rarely have anything worth saying about their own work. Rarely has a major artist been so seemingly dismissive about his own work. Of course they never listen to their records once they're finished anyway
@@johnryan3913 The Pink Floyd have been similar. Dismissive of some of their greatest work pre Dark Side of the Moon. I remember a long, long time ago reading an interview with Mick talking about Satanic Majesties. It was a bit after its release. He said if it were up to him they’d do more of that kind of thing but their audience didn’t like it much so they let it go. I don’t know about audiences not liking. I seem to recall at the time of its release that people were quite enthusiastic about the record. It was an excellent piece of work and definitely a part of that time.
The only similarity to the.Beatles were that both bands and many of that era were into making expansive, unique records. It was like a competition. It was the perfect time for that.
Funny, as big a fan as I was prior to 'Satanics...". I wanted the album as much for that lenticular image as I did the album itself. Of course I was only 12. My mom was horrified by the albums title and image so it was an instant no-go. lol. I came up with the scratch though to buy the 45 RPM 'Shes A Rainbow' / '2000 Light Years ...'. She never knew who or where the 2 tunes came from.
I bought this album brand new with the 3 D cover when it first came out. It's still one of my favorite Rolling Stones albums too this day.
same here
@@SonofNun123 Me too. I stopped off at a small drug store and they had a rack of albums. I turned around and saw that album and that was it. Had to buy it. Still a favorite.
It’s absolutely NOT a copy of Sgt. Pepper! Anyone that says that is in need of a musical education. Satanic Majesties is a British psychedelic masterpiece of its own.
I agree, well said!
I agree its not a Sgt Pepper Rip off, but its not psychedelic either. Its a Critique of all the flower power piece and love stuff, but using the psychedelic motifs and style to Critique it. It is a classical technique or tactic in art. Like parody. But its not just mocking it either. Sgt Pepper is also obviously a Critique of psychedelic flower power stuff. Its in your face if you actually listen to the lyrics. the Beatles and Stones are on the face of it Critiquing the California peace and love but also the vision of a universal world though technology. They knew people from earlier who were at the fore front of computing and so fourth who knew what the future was going to be like: L what now was going to be like: like now. All full the bright shinny fun stuff the whole world on a screen but the catch is a loss of proximity acquaintance. One world but viewed from nowhere. Its in your face in Sgt Pepper. But satanic Majesties Request is much darker. They are using surrealism to say the unsayable. That was a French art thing Mick Jagger was into, but began in post World War Two Germany really. Compare to various writers who write sci fi or surrealism to convey a world that does not really make sense. This began I think, with Leibnitz's 17th 18th Century vision of the enlightenment "Everything has a reason". The 19th century Critique says "no it doesn't". Some artists realised that you could not convey this with a straight narrative. that the form of narrative has to be as weird as the subject its about. Of course this can attract a lot of rubbish fake artists, con artists, pretention, and so on, that might be difficult at first to distinguish from the real McCoy. Like all the dreadful guitarists who tried to represent Jimi Hendrix with out the years and years of work on guitar before them. Difference between a built up habit and a copy of the surface. Like Picasso's "Dove" drawings. There's no short cuts really. No learn it faster than any body else book. No quick 2 days and you've got it or your money back.
Satanic Majesty is a flawed masterpiece. Go to Tangier and to the café and hotel they hung out in. I'm not talking about a dr*gs holiday either forget that. Do some historical digging, talk to some people. no one can take your trip for you as Jim Morrison said. Great art demands a lot of time and effort of the audience. not 3 minutes and on to the next thing. Trick is though not to spend years on a piece of "art" to find out that there nothing there to be found. Silence can mean depth or just nothing.
I rest my case. Do your own work.
@@michaelshiflett4835 Agreed. It’s brilliant. I’ve never understood people saying that. Everyone was trying to do the ultimate psychedelic album. I thought the Stones did a quite admirable job.
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You haven't any idea of what you're talking about. Satanic Majesties is CLICHE psychedelic music. That's how psychedelic the album is. Involving harpsichord (prevalent in the British psychedelic pop scene), Tabla (prevalent in Indian inspired psychedelic rock); mellotron, electric dulcimer, and lyrics about space travel. All things we have come to label psychedelic rock. Every cliche of psychedelic rock is on that record - and it's brilliant. They weren't mocking anything except Sgt. Pepper's album cover.
They lived the lifestyle. Dropping acid, traveling to Morocco, wearing beads and hippie-esq fashion (especially Keith). They weren't "peace & love" per se, but where exactly do you get this idea that they were so amused at the idea of peace and love that they mocked it?
First you say it isn't psychedelic, and then you say it's using psychedelic music to mock psychedelic music? What a worthless comment and a waste of time. Rubbish word-salad from a Schizophrenic.
I thought people were just being creative.
I really believe that if any band not named “The Rolling Stones” had recorded Satanic Majesties, it would’ve been hailed as one of the great albums of this period. Its resemblance to Sgt. Pepper is superficial at best. After this album, they brought in Jimmy Miller to record Beggar’s Banquet and the Stones’ “golden era” began.
I think the opposite-if it wasn't by the Rolling Stones it would've been ignored & rightly so.
Interesting hypothetical. I love the album, personally. If it were done by a band like 13th Floor Elevators or some underground psych band , it may have been overlooked at the time, but it would’ve been on a “Nuggets” compilation and hailed as a forgotten classic decades later.
The WORST album of the 1960's is a thousand times better than the BEST album of today.
Says the guy who hasn't listened to any new music since 1974.
Album is all right. Hey they wanted to be non bluesy.
This in my view is an excellent album. Wide ranging with all kinds of interesting ideas. I prefer it to the much vaunted Exile on Main Street. I think the Stones should have been as experimental in later albums as well.
They were, on Bridges to Babylon
I dont care what anyone says- I love Their Satanic Majesties Request. Have it on 3D ( lol) cover, Cd, Lp , 8 track. Id love to hear the unreleased stuff from around the time
@@familydogg1234 I think it is still up on TH-cam. There’s a whole lot of in process recordings at Olympic studios during the making of the album. Very fascinating. Like sitting in the control room with Mick while they were putting the tracks together. It was all released on (of all things) a DVD. Why a DVD is anyone’s guess because there is no video. It’s all the out takes and recording process track by track of that album. It’s great stuff. It might still be available on eBay or discogs. And I agree. It’s a brilliant album unlike any other.
the unreleased stuff isn't hard to find
And the God of Heaven will surely judge all those that were involved. 😢😢😢😢😢
Lenticular
one of my favorite stones albums
People hate on it, but I love it. It has some real gems on it.
I loved it when it came out and still like some of the songs.
I always thought psychedelic Stones was a refreshing sound. And it probably helped pave the way for Gimme Shelter.
2000 light years is an excellent psychedelic track!! One of my faves!!
@@doctorvortex979 That's the only song on it that's worth a repeat.
Fantastic as always!
This and Beggars Banquet have always been my favorites.
"Beggar's Banquet" was their way back from being wannabe Beatles. Yet this album before it was the best misstep ever, maybe! (RIP Brian Jones not too long after this one)
Its crazy how despite the fact that Brian Hated this album and was in a very bad state of mind and health at the time Brian managed to do some of his greatest work on this record .
Brians mellotron Playing on this album was amazing . His Mellotron Playing on We Love You and 2000 light Years was incredible . He had never played the Mellotron prior to Satanic Majesties but he taught himself very quickley which is even more impressive when you consider the Mellotron was a very difficult instrument to master but Brian mastered it seeminlgy in a matter of days and wrote the insanely good Mellotron parts for We love You and 2000 Light Years from Home .
Not to mention all the toerh instruments he played on the album ..
Yet somehow he gets no writing credits on the album .
He should have Gotten writing credits on at least We Love You and 2000 Light Years from home .
And "Gomper" for sure.
What on earth would lead you to believe the mellotron was a very difficult instrument to play?? To service/maintain, sure. To play? Not quite.
I always liked this album!
Yes I agree because it some verry good songs . In my opinion are the stones in total better composer's in compair to the beatles , woensdag you look to all the years .
@@henkhor-pi5bm I agree...there catalog of great tunes is Massive!
Amazing! Fantastic work on this very critically acclaimed album. 1967 was such a great year for music, so many great albums came out then! Since it was mentioned…any chance that you’ll do Pink Floyd’s debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn? One of my favorite albums, due to Syd Barrett’s invaluable and unique approach to songwriting and guitar playing. He’s one of my favorite/most inspiring musicians and guitarists! Thank you for all that you do!
I haven’t said it (written it?) out loud yet… but I’ve been praying for him to give that album the Film Retrospective treatment for awhile now lol or even just any Pink Floyd albums at all from that era
@@CantTellYou Here’s hoping that he’ll eventually do it! I’m more than certain that it’s definitely ground-breaking and innovative enough to deserve some attention. Many Floyd fans don’t even know about Syd Barrett and the early years of the Floyd 😪
ANOTHER brilliant video! Thank you so much!
Excellent video! Much appreciated! I liked the album when it came out and have liked it ever since. We Love You has always been a favorite,
These videos are always so great. More Stones content please!
Highly disciplined and great album, despite historical context.
This album is to me akin to the Beatles' Let it Be--both albums are routinely referred to as "disastrous" yet each contains 5 or so songs that any other group (say Oasis) would kill for, especially when you consider the non-LP tracks We Love You and Dandelion. Their lesser reputations are really more of a reflection of the astounding quality of the work that precedes and follows it.
Love listening to your videos! Thank you!!
I love the album. Gompers, Citadel, 2000 Light Years..... its like a heavier Incredible String Band. The cover, the maze, the smoke inner sleeve. What a time.
Just Gomper, not Gompers. Sorry to correct you.
I like this album since the beginning
since 1967 !
Many good songs !
The line is wrong !
Number 10 must be number 1 and so on...
Thank you!!
We love your videos
TRES Cool/Heavy =The Mellotron of Brian's 200,0000 Light Years from Home! Stellar/Spacey/Capacous/Aviary!
Been a stones fan since day one 8 o'clock, and this is my favourite album. Brilliant.
Excellent film as always sir.
I never saw it as a Sgt pepper copy. I saw it as it's own thing. There are some great songs here and it's a shame cause all people wanna do is shit on the album due to the pepper comparisons. However, if sing this and it's reprise were replaced with we love you and dandelion the album would be a masterpiece and maybe taken more seriously. Plus I think the stones just became a target for the millions who'd copy pepper or psychedelic music at the time since they were released back to back even though technically the stones recorded theirs first. So yeah underrated and underappreciated if you ask me.
I do feel like a lot of that “copy” talk often comes more from the album covers than the actual sound lol
If anything, it’s more close in sound to Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (but even that comparison doesn’t stick considering most of these songs were recorded before that album release)
It's very different from Sgt Pepper .
It's a much darker record and very unique .
@CantTellYou I love Piper at The Gates of Dawn. It's my favorite Syd era album next to Saucer Full of Secrets, but yeah, it does have the same similar psych vibe like thise albums. It's also got the haunting vibes of Velvet Underground and Nico in a so weird It's amazing way. I made my own personal version if the tracklist and it even includes child of the moon which was recorded during those sessions and next to 10,000 light years it really adds to the sci-fi theme
@@adamwatson6916 I agree. This album Flowers, and Between The Buttons and Aftermath were the best pop they did.
The Mother's of invention LP "We're Only in it for the money"(1967) was the best parody of Sgt Peppers, both musically and in the cover art.
To think they went from that spaced out turd to Beggars Banquet and 3 more of the greatest albums ever made in a row.
Another fantastic documentry.
Nicky Hopkins was like rock’s piano god for years.
It's an interesting record from a profoundly experimental period in rock and roll. Their single, "We Love You" is one of my favourites from the entire period. It's fearsome in its drive, intensity, and creativity. A radical sound collage from a radical period. Great track. Surprised it didn't sell in 1967.
My favourite Stones album
10000000000% AGREED
This is one of the most exquisite music documentaries from a most extraordinary period for music IMHO.
You state that Jagger took acid for the first time during the summer of 1967, but in 19th Nervous Breakdown - written in late 1965 - he says "On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind but after a while I realized you were disarranging mine"
Released in 1965 I always wondered how that line got past the censors. They were really strict back then. I don't think they knew what it meant.
This fascinating documentary shows the paradox of Brian disintegrating mentally over the year yet he is pretty active in recording the album though there are occasions when he either doesn’t turn up or turns up in an incapacitated condition. Mick and Keith were pretty high on drugs themselves. Brian plays a variety of instruments to good effect.
One of my all time favorites!! Check out the unreleased track “SHES DOING HER THING “ was meant for the album, sounding like a power pop, post punk ish, psychedelic vibe. I never heard Mick say it was to be a “concept album”. They explored varied themes, and was, to me, a cut and paste art project. I always fantasized that they would connect with Jimmy Miller, and had proper guidance with the album, instead of trying to do EVERYTHING themselves, even building the set of the album cover….
This and all of your other works are phenomenally amazing, I glad you are now touching on the Stones works. I hope you are able to make one about the years before the Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed sessions, those were also turning points in their careers, I would love to hear your take on it . ❤💯
All that was going on, consumed, experienced...No Wonder TSMR is their BEST WORK ! BEST LP!
I still say it's a (mostly) great album.
I am an unconditional fan of the Stones (prior to Ron Woods of course.) And I must say I really liked that album. I have it with the 3 d picture.
I always felt it was an underrated album.
So glad to run across this history of Satanic Requset. Always my favorite Stones album. For me it blows Sgt Pepper away. The very best of Psychedelica 💙💜
Although this is another unabashed Beatles copy, I absolutely love this album. Citadel is a top 5 stones track
It’s alright since Sgt.Pepper’s is an unabashed Pet Sounds copy anyway.
@@AgripapostThat's so far from true it's laughable. Sgt Pepper sounds nothing like Pet Sounds.
@@Agripapost Nice try. Half the tracks on Pet Sounds the Beatles would have tossed.
This album is much more Psych and experimental if you compare it to Sgt.peppers. It doesn't make it better, but I don't think it's a copy, certaintly because they started the project way before pepper was released.
@@Agripapostand that’s completely fine considering pet sounds is an unabashed copy of Rubber soul
Love your stones videos man
23.55 oh yeah , look at them‼️
It's obvious they're high on LSD .
Seriously though , thanks for putting this documentary
together , it's inspired me to buy Bill Wyman's books , yes all 3 of them . Cheers 👌 ✨️✨️✨️
That was an excellent video.
John Lennon actually put it about that "Satanic Majesties" was a Pepper rip-off and he said that "We Love You" was an "All You Need is Love" rip-off. Now, in a roundabout way, there may be some truth in this. However, I think people go overboard about rip-offs. They are sometimes barefaced copies with little attempt to disguise their intentions, but much of the time they are responses to what is going on at the time, musically. What are often mooted as rip-offs can be bold pieces that were influenced or inspired by a certain song or album, but which bear little resemblance to said inspiration. We Love You is a great song, as is All You Need is Love, but other than the words "Love" and "You" being in both titles, they are as unalike as it is possible to be. There's nothing defiant about "All You Need is Love" whereas "We Love You" drips with anti-establishment sentiment. Instrumentally, virtually all the invention of the Beatles' track comes not from the Beatles, whereas in "We Love You," the Stones are all in great form, with, ironically, some help from Lennon, McCartney and Nicky Hopkins.
The same is true of the two albums as a whole. Despite on the way to doing a Syd Barrett, Brian Jones is in sparkling form on the album, as is Keith.
As for the album being fake-psych, I disagree. Among many of the more serious album-making artists at the time, music was going in that direction. The Stones themselves, through "Aftermath" and "Between The Buttons" had been moving away from their early roots and the seriousness with which albums were now being taken had given them the chance to grow and experiment and write different types of songs. Plus the introduction of new instruments like the sitar and the mellotron had expanded the range of what sounds could be found in songs, not to mention the band fully utilizing Brian Jones' instrumental capacity in ways they hadn't prior to "Aftermath," plus having a sympathetic ally in Nicky Hopkins.
Many may see it as the Stones trying to do psychedelia, but I think this overlooks the reality that not only had psychedelia bled into much music-making, it was also inventive, expansive music-making. Whether the Stones liked it or not is irrelevant. "Beggars Banquet" and beyond would not have happened without "Their Satanic Majesties Request" because the blues, quite frankly, was limiting as an art form and the Rolling Stones at that time just had more inventive music in them.
It's interesting the mystique around Brian Jones and how people say he was such a musical genius in some ways, but he never wrote a song for the stones and never sang. Bill Wyman even wrote sort of a clunker song on this album, but Brian couldn't muster up anything.
@@efolson In Another Land was no clunker. Excellent song that fit perfectly in that album.
@@soarornor I am pretty sure Brian sang backup vocals on stones material.
The Acid was called California Sunshine not Sunshine and that Acid is very potent and lasts a long time . 1 hit lasts 16 hours and starts to kick in after to 10 to 15 minutes .
❤ Love this album. Highly underrated
This is my scene and it drymbles thy wedge!!!
PLEASE GO THROUGH THE STONES ALBUMS NOW
2:46 What's the source for Syd Barrett having commented?
I love this channel
My favorite stones album, L.S.D. inspired
Piper is a REAL psychedelic album
I was there in London 1967-68-69-70..Full into the whole scene.. Hyde Park 69 on Acid.
@@abw48 Those must have been the most incredible days. The explosion of creativity was unparalleled.
@@soarornor : I wish I had paid more attention at the time...Many blank spots in my memory.
@ It’s funny about that kind of thing. So much goes by but only some of it stays with us. That must have been something to live in London at that time. UFO club. Roundhouse, Middle Earth, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pink Floyd, The Who, Kinks, Beatles and Stones, King Crimson, and so many more. Must have been the wildest thing ever to have all that creativity emerging from every corner. For me it was the foundation even though I was nowhere near it in the US. An amazing and unique time. 🌸🌸🐸🌸🌸
@@soarornor : I was never a Club going guy but some of the best music was in the Pubs around London.
@ I can believe it. Does this kind of thing exist anymore in England?
They played Ed Sullivan again in 1969….
I very fond of the album, but I’m also in the minority that loves the Brian Jones era of the Stones and the Syd Barret Floyd albums. I hadn’t listened to the whole album until I heard the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Satanic Majesties Second Request, and I got curious about what the non hit songs were like. I dig it all the way through. If you like it and have never listened to old-school BJM, check it out. You’re in for a treat !
More stones recording vids plz
12:47 this is where the snoring comes from at the end of In Another Land
As per Memoirs of Billy shears 2000Light Years From Home is a PID song
It's incredible to me that Anita would leave Brian (a beautiful man) for Keith (a man).
He must have hit her one too many times.
Excellent content 👌👍
Am I the only person who heard on my album at the very end (after the "final" track) that there was a brief "We wish you a merry Christmas" slowed down and distorted? Not mentioned in this documentary, not acknowledged in any fashion on the album cover. If you've still got the original album, give it another focused listening!
At the time, as reported in the vid, Their Satanic Majesties seemed to be an imitation of Sergeant Pepper, which had been released the previous spring. The two parts of Sing This All Together paralleled the two parts of the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the use of sitar echoed Within You Without You, among other "trippy," psychedelic features of the two albums.
The voice saying "Where's that joint?" at the start of Sing This All Together part two was reported at the time to be Paul McCartney, not Mick. It sounds like Paul to me.
I've always liked the album, especially The Lantern, She's a Rainbow, Citadel, and 2000 Light Years From Home.
The albums have one thing in common: both bands didn't like their own album.
It's the best album that they ever recorded.
Their Satanic Majesties Request... My Favourite Album (since I was six)! :0)
When the narrater talks of tilting the album is when we can see John in the lower right surrounded by red. George can be seen on Charlie's sleeve.
I think all 4 Beatles are hidden away "Where's Waldo" style on the cover
@@parkergambino9025 I haven't checked in years but on my sleeve I could find only John and George and I thought to find Ringo and Paul I might need the 3D. 🤷♂️
Ever thought of doing a video on the recording of Billy Joel’s “The Stranger” or any content about him?
13.28 "We Love You ( Goodbye )
No wonder Ian Stewart didn't bother turning up❗️Charley and Bill must have been NONPLUSSED to say the least . Andrew Loog Oldham couldn't hack it , Brian seemed to get stuck on mellotron , Ian played golf , but ( thanks to a dependable supply of psychotropic chemicals at that time in history ) various combos improvised an excellent LP 🙏
I WISH We Love You and Dandelion made it to the album. My favorite song is One With The Show (weirdly) !!
Wait a second! I am the only guy who liked the Stones psychedelic stuff! I want these other comments removed! This is complete violation of my squater/hipster rights and I demand justice!
Squater pwr!⚡️
I rather liked this album. Granted: it was no Aftermath or Between the Buttons, but it was far better than a lot of their later releases. And more innovative. I recall my brother buying the 45, In Another Land. The Lantern was the B-side and very captivating. Wish that drugs hadn’t played the role they did, but it is what they made it. That said, it was one of their finest.
When I saw the.cover it did remind me of pepper. So what the Beatles broke up..the Stones played on...
After the prince andrew scandal - this title makes sense
Somebody stole the 3D photo right off my album. Bummer. People are strange.
informative stuff brought up on the stones
I bought the Satanic Sessions and listened to all 8 CD's - I always loved that album.
They thought it was progressive to break the last vestiges of family, and commitment, and used the hypocracy of the leadership to drive home their position for complete debauchery. That is what the devil does. I grew up on rock. I get it. I play guitar, and write songs too. Music comes from the radio in our head, and the things we tune into. We can truly be free in Christ. We cannot separate politics and religion. They are joined at the hip. I cannot buy into a secular world view, and be a Christian at the same time. Look at the mess we have made. "Imagine" was a beautiful piece of musical witchcraft. We did Imagine. Now Imagine communism, food shortages, totalitarianism, no private property, private businesses, and private transportation. Imagine showing papers at state lines. Imagine citizens being stripped of all our rights. Totalitarianism is the way of Nimrod. If we read our bibles, we would avoid it.
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Great album! The fact that the band rejects this album is what makes them posers, not the reverse. Whatever. They did something no one else could, and they still do! 2000 light years... 'nuff said
She`s A Rainbow is a good tune. The problem with booze and drugs with musicians is it tricks you into thinking you are creating something better than it really is.
That is very true with any artist.
Always Steller Content!! Thanks!
This dude is from Allabammy , He's faking this accent.....
JK
Secretary-Security. Two unique and different new words you may wish to learn to understand.
To us heads or hippy freaks, the song 2,000 Light Years Fron Home was the big one. Yes, She's Like a Rainbow was great. Also, we liked On With the Show as we didn't want to get up and change the album. The first side rarely got played. I guess this was Brian's groovy on psychedelics but his paranoia with the busts were too much, sadly. I read in one of the earliest Stones books way back in 71 that Keith who was complimented for the Sympathy for the devil said it wasn't me, Brian did it. I know that's not on here but interesting methinks.
One of their best albums ever!!
Am I the only one that kinda likes the title 'cosmic Christmas' lol
I remember getting _...Satanic Majesties Request_ when i was 15 and thinking it was badass. I STILL think its badass🤟
It's a good album,but the Stones are the blues not psychedelia. One year later they released Beggars Banquet and the single Jumpin Jack Flash,which rocked hard. Thanks for the vid.
Does this mean there won’t be a Beatles one this weekend?
One of the best albums...EVER...!
We Love you was a top ten double a side in the U.K. In the States the b side, “Dandelion” barely made the top ten, on a handful of regional charts…
I hate to say this but it is my favorite album by The Stones!
Narrator refers twice to the 4 on the cover when it is obviously 5.
Interesting note is at least 2 Beatles are hidden in the album art. George and John. I have read all 4 are there but on my copy which isn't 3D I can only find G & J. Even in this video you can see John's face in red in the lower right.
The request that no one requested
Congrats for this video,
there's a lot of rubbish out there about the Stones 👍
i love this album
Wow a Billy childish name drop? I’ll take it!
The establishment was and still is the real problem.
i listened to it a few times and it didnt measure up to previous albums with radio hits. STICKY FINGERS was next album to wake me up . im not a diehard stones fan.
She’s a rainbow is a beautiful song