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.
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 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 UA-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.
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.
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.
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.
"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)
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
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)
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.
@@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.
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 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 . ❤💯
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!
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 .
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Stones tried to switch things up and make a Pepper album, and they failed miserably. They never had the artistic range like the Beatles. Brian Jones introduced some unique instruments but unfortunately that was short lived. The Stones have always played the same style
To me they were every bit as good as the Beatles. They just needed to stick to their own musical instincts. Once they got back to doing their thing they wrote some of the greatest songs of all time. Edit: It would be cool if you did a series on The Zombies, leading up to Odessey and Oracle.
It's a great album, it's just not a Stones album. It's cosplay. A great album to sit around and do bong hits to. I've never listened to it tripping before.
I love the Stones but this is a terrible album. Never mind - their next album was "Beggars Banquet" leading to their 'classic' period - "Let it Bleed", "Sticky Fingers", "Gimme Shelter", "Exile on Main Street".
Two points in rebuttal 1 - it was actually closer in execution to Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" than it was to Sgt Pepper. A long freakout track, plenty of jammed sections in amongst the pop hooks. The Beatles never really jammed like this on records. 2 - it was a "bad trip" album, as opposed to Sgt Pepper being a largely upbeat "good trip" album.
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.
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 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 UA-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.
Highly disciplined and great album, despite historical context.
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!!
one of my favorite stones albums
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.
I always liked this album!
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.
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
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)
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
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 .
These videos are always so great. More Stones content please!
My favourite Stones album
10000000000% AGREED
Fantastic as always!
I always felt it was an underrated album.
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
THE WHO recorded without Entwistle- The Last Time and Under My Thumb and threated to record a song a week until Richards and Jagger were released.
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.
Excellent film as always sir.
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"
All that was going on, consumed, experienced...No Wonder TSMR is their BEST WORK ! BEST LP!
ANOTHER brilliant video! Thank you so much!
Love listening to your videos! Thank you!!
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 . ❤💯
Thank you!!
We love your videos
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 still say it's a (mostly) great album.
Another fantastic documentry.
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 .
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.
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 .
12:47 this is where the snoring comes from at the end of In Another Land
Love your stones videos man
My favorite stones album, L.S.D. inspired
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.
TRES Cool/Heavy =The Mellotron of Brian's 200,0000 Light Years from Home! Stellar/Spacey/Capacous/Aviary!
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.
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.
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.
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.
I bought the Satanic Sessions and listened to all 8 CD's - I always loved that album.
Am I the only one that kinda likes the title 'cosmic Christmas' lol
PLEASE GO THROUGH THE STONES ALBUMS NOW
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 love this channel
They played Ed Sullivan again in 1969….
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.
Secretary-Security. Two unique and different new words you may wish to learn to understand.
Thanks!
Very much appreciated.
Does this mean there won’t be a Beatles one this weekend?
Excellent content 👌👍
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 Stones tried to switch things up and make a Pepper album, and they failed miserably. They never had the artistic range like the Beatles. Brian Jones introduced some unique instruments but unfortunately that was short lived. The Stones have always played the same style
It's the best album that they ever recorded.
Wow a Billy childish name drop? I’ll take it!
The best thing about the album was the holographic cover art.
To me they were every bit as good as the Beatles. They just needed to stick to their own musical instincts. Once they got back to doing their thing they wrote some of the greatest songs of all time.
Edit: It would be cool if you did a series on The Zombies, leading up to Odessey and Oracle.
Wyman ‘unleashes on his Ludwig drum kit?’ 🙄🤷♂️🤔
Dude is cracking me up omg
Brian Jones - STOP YOUR DRUGS
It's a great album, it's just not a Stones album. It's cosplay. A great album to sit around and do bong hits to. I've never listened to it tripping before.
I don't think the title worked well in regions that weren't in the monarchy. Unless they wanted to appear evil.
Mick saying that the album cover should "be grander and cost more than Sgt Pepper's," tells you all you need to know.
Amazing what could trigger people back then.
1:17
Well, this is what happens when ya
sell out = NO reward
4 some reason early on I never got n2 "Satanic..." although I luved the cover! I liked Beggers Banquet alot better.
lets gooooo
Beatles>Stones
yeah but the stones are great especially in the 60s
This dude is from Allabammy , He's faking this accent.....
JK
K you i didnt donate a scrap of magpie crap to u .
I love the Stones but this is a terrible album. Never mind - their next album was "Beggars Banquet" leading to their 'classic' period - "Let it Bleed", "Sticky Fingers", "Gimme Shelter", "Exile on Main Street".
Between the buttons and satanic majesty is the worst period for the stones they got it back together in 68 beggars banquet
1967 had so many great albums. This one don't even make the top 50.
The most overrated band in history.
Miserably lousy copy of the masterpiece Sgt. Pepper...😂👎
'She's a Rainbow' is a great track
"Miserable" and "lousy" may be pretty harsh..It was 1967 that's just where music was. I think it was a great album
Two points in rebuttal
1 - it was actually closer in execution to Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" than it was to Sgt Pepper. A long freakout track, plenty of jammed sections in amongst the pop hooks. The Beatles never really jammed like this on records.
2 - it was a "bad trip" album, as opposed to Sgt Pepper being a largely upbeat "good trip" album.
@@flippikatit’s garbage. Deal w it.
@@bannorknah.
Once again trying imitate the fab four
A poor effort of trying to duplicate The Beatles.
I think it's a pretty crap album. They should have listened to Oldham.
horrible album with a gew good songs like 2,000 Light Years & Citadel; I believe Child Of The Moon from those sessions
Thanks!
Thank you. These help allot as the stones videos don’t tend to do aswell!