The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request

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• Their Satanic Majesties Request is the sixth studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in December 1967. This record marks a deliberate and daring step into psychedelia, with the band experimenting with Mellotron, orchestration, sound effects, and nontraditional song structures as they sought to expand their sonic palette. While the albums sessions were marked by turmoildrug busts, legal woes, and internal tensionit still produced standout songs like Shes a Rainbow, 2000 Light Years from Home, and Citadel that reflect the groups ambition to blend their blues-rooted identity with the late-60s spirit of psychedelia.

  Over time, Satanic Majesties has been reassessed more generously by critics, often seen as an eccentric detour rather than a failure. Its strengths lie in its imaginative textures, bold sonic jumps, and the Stones willingness to disrupt expectations. Though it departs from the leaner rock & roll their fans knew, the album remains a fascinating cultural artefactone where the Stones flirted with the eras tropes and surfaced something uniquely theirs in the process.

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  Satanic Majesties remains a singular entry in the Stones catalog. It is the strange result of a bizarre set of personal, professional, and cultural circumstances. Pitchfork

  No album in the Stones vast canon has incurred such abuse as Their Satanic Majesties Request, including from the band themselves the album was more an acid-fried dispatch from the Stones besieged front line. Louder Sound

  The result is quite like a hippie freakout record but the result is a good blend of chaotic-yin yet still with enough control-yang to make it more than just the sound of a buncha whacked-out druggies banging away on their instruments. Head Heritage (Julian Cope)

  Although The Rolling Stones are a mainstay of rock and roll, their attempt to branch out into psychedelic fare is both bluesy and experimental. Far Out

• Artist: The Rolling Stones Label: ABKCO Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Psychedelic Rock

• A1 Sing This All Together
  A2 Citadel
  A3 In Another Land
  A4 2000 Man
  A5 Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
  B1 She’S A Rainbow
  B2 The Lantern
  B3 Gomper
  B4 2000 Light Years From Home
  B5 On With The Show