Which albums do you consider the most experimental the stones had? Do you like them or do you prefer the classic stones sound?

Do you think Bridges to Babylon and a Bigger bang are expermiental?


And which albums do you consider the most traditional of their sound?

I think the most experimental are:

1.-Their Satanic Majesties
2.-Undercover
3.-Black and Blue
4.- Some Girls
5.- Emotional Rescue

satanic majesties, black and blue, between the buttons, goats head soup.

probably most stones albums have some degree of experimentation.

for most traditional sound, thats a difficult question, as the stones dont really have the one sound.

The first, and perhaps most daring, experimental album was BTB, imo.

UNDERCOVER
BRIDGES TO BABYLON
THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST
BLACK AND BLUE

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DandelionPowderman
The first, and perhaps most daring, experimental album was BTB, imo.

So Satanic wasn't experimental and a move away from the pop/r'n'b they had been playing up till that point??

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Silver Dagger

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DandelionPowderman
The first, and perhaps most daring, experimental album was BTB, imo.

So Satanic wasn't experimental and a move away from the pop/r'n'b they had been playing up till that point??

They moved, more or less, from rhythm and blues to music hall and pre-psychedelia with BTB. There wouldn't have been a TSMR without BTB.

Maybe I said it a bit clumsily



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Their Satanic Majesty's Request and Bridges To Babylon are two of their most experimental, in my opinion. The former was unlike anything they had previously attempted, whilst the latter found the Stones dabbling in modern-sounds, trends, styles and production. Certainly, they had been at he forefront in years previous, but here were fifty-something's genuinely attempting to be relevant, fresh and exciting. The album is somewhat hit-and-miss - it's definitely over-long -, but they were trying. Their previous effort, Voodoo Lounge was an attempt at all-out retro, whilst 2005's A Bigger Bang was a mesh of the modern and classic. I find the adventurous and daring Bridges To Babylon to be the most satisfying.

Maybe add Aftermath to the list since it was the first Album of all Jagger/Richard compositions?

Between The Buttons
Their Satanic Majesties
Black and Blue
Undercover
Bridges To Babylon

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DandelionPowderman
The first, and perhaps most daring, experimental album was BTB, imo.

So Satanic wasn't experimental and a move away from the pop/r'n'b they had been playing up till that point??

Anybody else getting confused with the BTB abbreviation?

What a drag it is gettin' old

Between The Buttons.

Thanks Dandy,

I understand, Its just that Between the buttons and Bridges to Babylon being mentioned/abbreviated in the same thread can be confusing.><

What a drag it is gettin' old

Use B2B for Babylon and most people will get that (I think)

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Use B2B for Babylon and most people will get that (I think)

Ha Ha I'll have a go though I struggle enough with abbreviations as it is!><

What a drag it is gettin' old

Between the buttons. Without any doubt. Miss Amanda Jones and All sold out for example...magnificent stuff...

2 1 2 0

Exile on mainstreet, 1st and only (forget compilations) double album, Just wanna see his face, recording in a basement.... I can go on

Aftermath--- who else was doing 11:00 minute blues tracks in 1966 ????

Beggars Banquet--- again, which major acts were doing country-blues albums in 1968 ??

Majesties Request--- obvious/// and very good....

Undercover
Their Satanic
Black and blue

Exile On Main Street

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DandelionPowderman
The first, and perhaps most daring, experimental album was BTB, imo.

So Satanic wasn't experimental and a move away from the pop/r'n'b they had been playing up till that point??

Anybody else getting confused with the BTB abbreviation?

Interesting, innit, that two LPs have the same letters.

BTButtons
BTBridges

Or...

Buttons
Bridges or Babylon

BTB 67
BTB 97