You have to realize that after the Beatles released Sgt Peppers in early 1967, most of the other big name groups like the Stones, the Beach Boys, Tommy James and the Shondells and many others went insane trying to emulate the Beatles. I was a fairly new teenager (14) when Sgt Peppers came out and even I realized that it single handedly changed music forever.
Pet Sounds came out before Sgt. Pepper and was an influence on the album, but Pet Sounds was inspired by Rubber Soul. The first time the Beatles tried to sing like the Beach Boys was on Here, There and Everywhere.
I love me some psychedelic Stones! "Dandelion" is another in this same vein. Everyone was experimenting with mind expansion at the time. There's a great illustrated version of this song worth a watch.
This is such a great album yet so underrated. From the same album, you have to check out 2000 Light Years From Home. It's like nothing The Stones ever recorded, and has an incredible beat!!!
Good choice. Pianist Nicky Hopkins was an exceptional piano player and contributed greatly to the Stones, as well as other bands. His work on John Lennon's Jealous Guy is also fabulous. For other listeners, there is a video out there that is more fun to watch along with the great music, full of beautiful women.
When I was younger I knew a gal named Rainbow whose parents named her after this song. "She's a Rainbow" has been used in several notable television commercials in the decades since its release, mostly commercials advertising computers, televisions, and software (for an example from 2020, search TH-cam using the query Adobe Photoshop: Fantastic Voyage). John Paul Jones features on several hits by Donovan too, like "Hurdy Gurdy Man". The Stones were tracking after The Beatles, but doing it their way and taking it a bit further with the flower power magician costume get ups. Another track from Their Satanic Majesties Request that you gotta hit is "2000 Light Years from Home". Charlie Watts really grooves hard on that one.
It is a great tune and a real departure from their Bluesy Rock n Roll roots. Here they drew on English folk and Classical influences mixed with some Beatles psychedelia. That period in the mid 1960s saw them grow as songwriters and exploring different musical avenues. The Beatles were the biggest band in the world at the time and the Stones had to keep up with them with consistent hits and remaining trendy which they successfully pulled off. The whole album is a real departure from what they were initially all about....I used to hate listening to 'Satanic majesties request' until I listened to it buzzed on weed....then it became a masterpiece!! When I was 18 it was a favorite record to listen to with my friends at our stoner parties!! Check out '2000 light years from home' from the same album.
I'd say Their Satanic, while definitely a departure, was not as much of one by late 1967, for Between the Buttons, their true baroque pop, psychedelic, music hall masterpiece had come out earlier in the year. Moreover, Aftermath, released in 1966, had given hints of the Stones looking to Eastern classical forms and non-traditional instruments in popular music. Their Satanic is really the culmination of those forays.
Still some great blues influences in this psychedelic stew. Glad they did not foray in that music hall shite Beatles did on Sgt Pepper. Beatles ruined a bunch of potential pop songs on that album.
1967 London was a tumultuous year. Summer of Love, everyone on LSD, drug busts sent Mick & Keith to jail, many great psychedelic albums. Along with this album were beatles "St.Peppers", Jimi hendrix "Are You Experienced?", Cream "Desraeli Gears", Pike Floyd "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", Small Faces "Ogden's Not Gone Flake", and more. What a fun time it must have been. Everyone knew each other and partied hardy!! Legend says that the inspiration for this song was that femme fatale, Anita Pallenberg. Anita started as Brian's girlfriend until she ran off with Keith, and had a very realistic sex scene with Mick in some obscure trippy film, which almost caused a rift between Keith and Mick. Keith and Anita were a couple for quite a few years and had 3 kids. I LOVE this song ❤
'Performance', by Nicholas Roeg was a cool if trippy, sometimes disturbing film. They actually fed lead James Fox those 'shrooms. Another great tune too, 'Memo from Turner', with Ry Cooder. ✌🏼🫠🍄🎶🌈❤️✨️🕊
@@damonhines8187 coincidentally, I just yesterday watched a documentary called "Catching Fire" about Anita Pallenberg. Very interesting woman who charmed many men, including 3 members of Rolling Stones. I watched it on Hulu, but I believe it might be available somewhere online. Highly recommend it for all Stones fans as Anita was the muse for many of their songs.
@@cindyfalstrom7231 yes, she was a fascinating woman. I loved her in 'Barbarella' with Jane Fonda. A great line I won't spoil. 😅 I saw her, much older, in something else a few years ago. Must look it up. Nah, don't recognize anything from the list of her films. Something from the 00s, probably. Cheers. ✌🏼😎🎶❤️✨️🕊
@@damonhines8187 My mother was SO angry with my father for taking my sister and I to see "Barbarella" when we were quite young because it was considered too risque sexually. That part went right over our heads, but my dad loved it !! I watched it again a few years back and thought "what's the big deal"? Times have certainly changed. I don't remember Anita's part very much, but did have a crush on the angel after seeing him the first go round 😍 I am very nostagic for the sixties....
Anita was the great tyrant (Wikipedia) and delivers the great line "Throw this feathered fruitcake to the Matmos". Too good. I believe the angel's name was Pygar. I was 12 in '68, and probably saw it around '73 at an "underground"/repertory cinema we frequented/inhabited where we'd smoke joints, dose ourselves with acid, etc. I was stoned out of my skull and sat through it twice, catching more on the second go-round. 🫠🤪 🖖🏼😶🌫️🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
The title comes from the wording on the British Passport that says “Her Britannic Majesty requests…” they wanted to release it as “Her Satanic Majesty Requests” but the record company said no so it was changed to “Their” The cover art was done by the same photographer as Sgt.Peppers. It was their only psychedelic type album and wasn’t critically acclaimed at the time. After the Stones went with a grittier rock sound. It was mostly completed before Sgt.Peppers but it was released after Sgt.Peppers was released so a lot of people said that the Stones were copying the Beatles, I feel it was just the vibe in the air and no copying was done.
Brian adds some level of texturization during the Stones baroque pop, music hall, and psychedelic period. But he's not the catalyst for their forays into this music. He was opposed to it. I think he gets too much credit for this sound.
I was never much into Stones in the 60s, but this album was really growing through the years. Its true that Sgt Pepper changed a lot. Hendrix break through among the music artists in London, starting his concert (with the whole rock elite in the audience: Beatles, Stones, Beck, Clapton etc) with a cover of Sgt Pepper, 4 days after its release(!). The cover of Zappa's "We're only in it for the money" is a beautiful parody of the Sgt. Pepper album. So much changed 67-68 preparing for the prog the following 10 years. You should check Arthur Brown's hit "Fire" from Summer of 68, preparing for Sabbath, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Cooper and the metal. But, please, check the TV video - it explains all! It was a real hit both in the UK and US - and it is real fire!
That's a really good album. Totally underrated. As John Lennon said in an interview, "the Stones were always trying to copy us", in regards to this album. Allegedly , Lennon and McCartney are singing back up on the album. I think there was lots of strange shit going on around both the bands at this time period in their careers.
I spent $50 for a Japanese CD version of this because it had the 3-D cover which the US version did not have. On the 3-D cover, you can see the faces of The Beatles in the props in front of The Stones.
They were accused of copying The Beatles, but this was a much better album than they get credit for. They called it Satanic Majesties Request because a British passport begins with “Their Britannic majesties request and require…”, and they were pissed off at the government for harassing them and even imprisoning them. Public outcry got them sprung from jail. After this record they went back to the blues where they’d started, and began a four album streak of greatness. The great Nicky Hopkins is on piano of course. “2000 Light Years From Home” is another psychedelic masterpiece from this album, if you haven’t done it yet. When Jagger and Richards were released from prison they gratefully recorded a quick single, “We Love You” and “Dandelion” with jail doors slamming on the first one and Lennon and McCartney on backing vocals on both.
The original cover has a piece of plastic with small lines on it. As you moved the album the cover image moved. It was something common on toys in the 60s
Always been a fan of the Stones. Never liked the Beatles. Except Norwegian Wood. Don’t Know why! 🤷🏼♀️ That’s what makes music so great! 😀 So much to choose from. Love your reactions Biz. So genuine
this is an insanely underrated album... comparing the album to Sgt Pepper is completely pointless... it's like comparing honey to mustard... two different things
The psychedelic era had a lot to do with the vibe of this album. The great Nicky Hopkins on piano. JPJ arranged the strings? Cool! So yeah, more Stones please. Between the Buttons and Aftermath are good old albums. There's loads more.
Top tune! I enjoy Stones LP a lot more than Beatles Sgt Pepper. Mainly because I hate the music hall influences on Sgt Pepper but love the blues influences Stones got in their music.
I’m Just Waitin’ on a Friend is great. I don’t know what album it’s on. The video with them singing it is cool. Mick and Keith meet up and go to a bar in it.
Nicky Hopkins' chops are a premium signature on anybody's track. "The Session Man" was just released as a doc on his life. He notably liked working with The Who the most. He died at 50 y/o from lifelong complications and surgeries from Crohn's Disease. Just awful. Chuck Leavell is a fitting replacement for him...and since 1982, the Stones keyboard man and Musical Director...A real and acknowledged 'anchor' for the group. 60 Minutes did an excellent story on him...and his deep work with nature conservation on his huge acreage in Georgia...I believe.
I tell ya another good one around this time period is ruby tuesday,but the live version from steel wheels(89) tour is much better than the original,great lyrics.
Yeah, that's what he means. I don't think the term had passed into the vernacular sufficiently to raise alarms with the morality police yet. ✌🏼🫠🍄🎶❤️🌈✨️🕊
You have to realize that after the Beatles released Sgt Peppers in early 1967, most of the other big name groups like the Stones, the Beach Boys, Tommy James and the Shondells and many others went insane trying to emulate the Beatles. I was a fairly new teenager (14) when Sgt Peppers came out and even I realized that it single handedly changed music forever.
Pet Sounds came out before Sgt. Pepper and was an influence on the album, but Pet Sounds was inspired by Rubber Soul.
The first time the Beatles tried to sing like the Beach Boys was on Here, There and Everywhere.
@@buttereggmanandtheketones4868And Rubber Soul was inspired by The Byrds!
Love the Brian Jones era of the Stones. Nicky Hopkins on the piano.
2000 Light Years From Home
I love me some psychedelic Stones! "Dandelion" is another in this same vein. Everyone was experimenting with mind expansion at the time.
There's a great illustrated version of this song worth a watch.
As someone who loves to trip, the line "She comes in colors" is awesome. IYKYK.
RIP Charlie!!
Try "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In the Shadows", or my personal favorite, "19th Nervous Breakdown".
This is such a great album yet so underrated. From the same album, you have to check out 2000 Light Years From Home. It's like nothing The Stones ever recorded, and has an incredible beat!!!
One of my favorite Stones songs!!
Good choice. Pianist Nicky Hopkins was an exceptional piano player and contributed greatly to the Stones, as well as other bands. His work on John Lennon's Jealous Guy is also fabulous. For other listeners, there is a video out there that is more fun to watch along with the great music, full of beautiful women.
Also played in Jerry Garcia Band
When I was younger I knew a gal named Rainbow whose parents named her after this song. "She's a Rainbow" has been used in several notable television commercials in the decades since its release, mostly commercials advertising computers, televisions, and software (for an example from 2020, search TH-cam using the query Adobe Photoshop: Fantastic Voyage). John Paul Jones features on several hits by Donovan too, like "Hurdy Gurdy Man". The Stones were tracking after The Beatles, but doing it their way and taking it a bit further with the flower power magician costume get ups. Another track from Their Satanic Majesties Request that you gotta hit is "2000 Light Years from Home". Charlie Watts really grooves hard on that one.
One of the best song of Rolling Stones🤘
It is a great tune and a real departure from their Bluesy Rock n Roll roots. Here they drew on English folk and Classical influences mixed with some Beatles psychedelia. That period in the mid 1960s saw them grow as songwriters and exploring different musical avenues. The Beatles were the biggest band in the world at the time and the Stones had to keep up with them with consistent hits and remaining trendy which they successfully pulled off. The whole album is a real departure from what they were initially all about....I used to hate listening to 'Satanic majesties request' until I listened to it buzzed on weed....then it became a masterpiece!! When I was 18 it was a favorite record to listen to with my friends at our stoner parties!! Check out '2000 light years from home' from the same album.
I'd say Their Satanic, while definitely a departure, was not as much of one by late 1967, for Between the Buttons, their true baroque pop, psychedelic, music hall masterpiece had come out earlier in the year. Moreover, Aftermath, released in 1966, had given hints of the Stones looking to Eastern classical forms and non-traditional instruments in popular music. Their Satanic is really the culmination of those forays.
Still some great blues influences in this psychedelic stew. Glad they did not foray in that music hall shite Beatles did on Sgt Pepper. Beatles ruined a bunch of potential pop songs on that album.
1967 London was a tumultuous year. Summer of Love, everyone on LSD, drug busts sent Mick & Keith to jail, many great psychedelic albums. Along with this album were beatles "St.Peppers", Jimi hendrix "Are You Experienced?", Cream "Desraeli Gears", Pike Floyd "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", Small Faces "Ogden's Not Gone Flake", and more. What a fun time it must have been. Everyone knew each other and partied hardy!!
Legend says that the inspiration for this song was that femme fatale, Anita Pallenberg. Anita started as Brian's girlfriend until she ran off with Keith, and had a very realistic sex scene with Mick in some obscure trippy film, which almost caused a rift between Keith and Mick. Keith and Anita were a couple for quite a few years and had 3 kids.
I LOVE this song ❤
'Performance', by Nicholas Roeg was a cool if trippy, sometimes disturbing film. They actually fed lead James Fox those 'shrooms.
Another great tune too, 'Memo from Turner', with Ry Cooder.
✌🏼🫠🍄🎶🌈❤️✨️🕊
@@damonhines8187 coincidentally, I just yesterday watched a documentary called "Catching Fire" about Anita Pallenberg. Very interesting woman who charmed many men, including 3 members of Rolling Stones. I watched it on Hulu, but I believe it might be available somewhere online. Highly recommend it for all Stones fans as Anita was the muse for many of their songs.
@@cindyfalstrom7231 yes, she was a fascinating woman. I loved her in 'Barbarella' with Jane Fonda. A great line I won't spoil. 😅
I saw her, much older, in something else a few years ago. Must look it up. Nah, don't recognize anything from the list of her films. Something from the 00s, probably. Cheers. ✌🏼😎🎶❤️✨️🕊
@@damonhines8187 My mother was SO angry with my father for taking my sister and I to see "Barbarella" when we were quite young because it was considered too risque sexually. That part went right over our heads, but my dad loved it !! I watched it again a few years back and thought "what's the big deal"? Times have certainly changed. I don't remember Anita's part very much, but did have a crush on the angel after seeing him the first go round 😍 I am very nostagic for the sixties....
Anita was the great tyrant (Wikipedia) and delivers the great line "Throw this feathered fruitcake to the Matmos". Too good. I believe the angel's name was Pygar. I was 12 in '68, and probably saw it around '73 at an "underground"/repertory cinema we frequented/inhabited where we'd smoke joints, dose ourselves with acid, etc. I was stoned out of my skull and sat through it twice, catching more on the second go-round. 🫠🤪
🖖🏼😶🌫️🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
The title comes from the wording on the British Passport that says “Her Britannic Majesty requests…” they wanted to release it as “Her Satanic Majesty Requests” but the record company said no so it was changed to “Their”
The cover art was done by the same photographer as Sgt.Peppers.
It was their only psychedelic type album and wasn’t critically acclaimed at the time. After the Stones went with a grittier rock sound.
It was mostly completed before Sgt.Peppers but it was released after Sgt.Peppers was released so a lot of people said that the Stones were copying the Beatles, I feel it was just the vibe in the air and no copying was done.
If you look closely at the a,bum cover you can find the faces of all four Beatles hidden among the flowers.
I bought the album when it was released, that was a 3-D cover. If you look closely, you can see the Beatles faces in that picture.
U can’t beat this. So great
This was when Brian Jones was still in the Stones. That’s the difference.
Brian adds some level of texturization during the Stones baroque pop, music hall, and psychedelic period. But he's not the catalyst for their forays into this music. He was opposed to it. I think he gets too much credit for this sound.
@ Oh, I didn’t know that. It just seems that after he was no longer in the group is when the music changed.
That Album cover was the old school 3-D with the ridges on plastic film yeah pretty cool cover.
The way back machine!
Great reaction, great track! x
The late Brian Jones started the
Rolling Stones. Sadly he drowned in his pools. He’s in the 27 club.
I was never much into Stones in the 60s, but this album was really growing through the years. Its true that Sgt Pepper changed a lot. Hendrix break through among the music artists in London, starting his concert (with the whole rock elite in the audience: Beatles, Stones, Beck, Clapton etc) with a cover of Sgt Pepper, 4 days after its release(!). The cover of Zappa's "We're only in it for the money" is a beautiful parody of the Sgt. Pepper album. So much changed 67-68 preparing for the prog the following 10 years. You should check Arthur Brown's hit "Fire" from Summer of 68, preparing for Sabbath, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Cooper and the metal. But, please, check the TV video - it explains all! It was a real hit both in the UK and US - and it is real fire!
Ouh la la ouh la la ouh la la la la … Genius
That's a really good album. Totally underrated. As John Lennon said in an interview, "the Stones were always trying to copy us", in regards to this album. Allegedly , Lennon and McCartney are singing back up on the album. I think there was lots of strange shit going on around both the bands at this time period in their careers.
I spent $50 for a Japanese CD version of this because it had the 3-D cover which the US version did not have. On the 3-D cover, you can see the faces of The Beatles in the props in front of The Stones.
The original US record album had the 3-D cover.
@@johnrobb8435 I know, I used to have a copy but it got ruined. I also don't have a record player.
I got one! Got lucky and found it in a used record store in Austin in the ‘80s.
They were accused of copying The Beatles, but this was a much better album than they get credit for. They called it Satanic Majesties Request because a British passport begins with “Their Britannic majesties request and require…”, and they were pissed off at the government for harassing them and even imprisoning them. Public outcry got them sprung from jail. After this record they went back to the blues where they’d started, and began a four album streak of greatness. The great Nicky Hopkins is on piano of course. “2000 Light Years From Home” is another psychedelic masterpiece from this album, if you haven’t done it yet. When Jagger and Richards were released from prison they gratefully recorded a quick single, “We Love You” and “Dandelion” with jail doors slamming on the first one and Lennon and McCartney on backing vocals on both.
Yea, top album!
Citadel from that album is a BANGER!
I see this is still in the Stones setlist, so it must be a favourite of Mick and Keith.
Love it. There's also a single version of this song that's shorter and less freaky.
Hey man. Another great song to check out is SHES SO COLD. Another great example of a great drummer Charlie Watts. (r.i.p).
The original cover has a piece of plastic with small lines on it. As you moved the album the cover image moved. It was something common on toys in the 60s
Old school 3D. Got an original press.
“Lenticular”
John Paul Jones, later of Led Zeppelin, arranged the strings of this song during his session musician days.
Always been a fan of the Stones. Never liked the Beatles. Except Norwegian Wood. Don’t Know why! 🤷🏼♀️
That’s what makes music so great! 😀 So much to choose from. Love your reactions Biz. So genuine
Moonlight Mile would be a great next one. One of their deeper cuts. Great reaction.
The trippiest song by the Stones you'll ever hear is the flip side of this single-2,000 Light Years From Home.
“We Love You” might rival it.
It was all about the music back then and having fun
HERE.
Good Stones psychedelia! Molly Tuttle does a great cover of this!
Stones!
this is an insanely underrated album... comparing the album to Sgt Pepper is completely pointless... it's like comparing honey to mustard... two different things
The psychedelic era had a lot to do with the vibe of this album. The great Nicky Hopkins on piano. JPJ arranged the strings? Cool! So yeah, more Stones please. Between the Buttons and Aftermath are good old albums. There's loads more.
Crazy Mama needs to be next if you want more Stones.
Easily my favorite Rolling Stones song.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#charliewatts
Top tune! I enjoy Stones LP a lot more than Beatles Sgt Pepper. Mainly because I hate the music hall influences on Sgt Pepper but love the blues influences Stones got in their music.
I’m Just Waitin’ on a Friend is great. I don’t know what album it’s on. The video with them singing it is cool. Mick and Keith meet up and go to a bar in it.
Hello ...............thanks for the reaction...............try from the same album 2000 years from home .......... spacey psychedelic .....RK
Nicky Hopkins' chops are a premium signature on anybody's track. "The Session Man" was just released as a doc on his life. He notably liked working with The Who the most.
He died at 50 y/o from lifelong complications and surgeries from Crohn's Disease. Just awful.
Chuck Leavell is a fitting replacement for him...and since 1982, the Stones keyboard man and Musical Director...A real and acknowledged 'anchor' for the group.
60 Minutes did an excellent story on him...and his deep work with nature conservation on his huge acreage in Georgia...I believe.
And of course he was in The Allman Brothers Band in the mid-‘70s…
Thanks for the recommended doc. Love learning the behind the scenes stories...
Love the whole album but many do notllll It is not the ordinary Stones.
I love all the Stones albums from start up to 1973-ish.
I tell ya another good one around this time period is ruby tuesday,but the live version from steel wheels(89) tour is much better than the original,great lyrics.
Odd collection for the Stones. Like it. '2000 light years from home' and 'the citadel' are fun and 'in another land' sounds like early Pink Floyd
Da Devil made them do this album! Tsk!tsk!
Their last great album was Tattoo You and you have to listen to Worried about you ❤️🍻💯
Yeah, that's what he means. I don't think the term had passed into the vernacular sufficiently to raise alarms with the morality police yet.
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