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I love it! Experimental, raw, whimsy, fun, innovative and bold.

nice description. we haven't had enough whimsy on latter-day stones albums. where did all the whimsy go????

Yes I do!!! like the whole album. On with the show is a favorite one nice song great mellotron part.

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I would call this a great album, although puzzling probably at the time, and upon first listen.

If they had included Dandelion/We Love You on it and taken off "See What Happens", you'd have had an absolute classic.

Agreed! always thought Child of the Moon would of fit in nicely as well, but was told it wasn't written until Beggars Banquet sessions, but it sure sounds like a TSMR tune.

With these changes, this coulda been an excellent album.

So very true!!

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It is now my favourite Rolling Stones album.

. It really grows on you year after year!

I'm not sure if this is OT or not, but I would like to know the reason why we don't we sing this song all together, and see what happens?

Probably because a lot of us would be out of tune.

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How it can not be a Classic? Is this a Stones forum?

She's a Rainbow
2000 LYFH
2000 Man

And then you have the musicians that participated, starting with Lennon+Macca
John Paul Jones, Steve Marriot, Ronnie Lane, Nicky...

Nicky was quite OUTSTANDING on this album!

i like it..most of it anyway.

tho`See What Happens and On With The Show are crap.

I would go even further than His Majesty: it is not just my favourite Stones album, it is my favourite album of all time. It is a portal to lysergic nirvana, yes even including See What Happens, in fact especially See What Happens.
Child Of The Moon didn't come later actually Blue, it was worked on during the SM sessions (see volume 1 disc 2 of the Satanic Sessions)

I love the album, although it would have been a classic if they added We Love You and Dandelion and put See What Happens on a B-side

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Child Of The Moon didn't come later actually Blue, it was worked on during the SM sessions (see volume 1 disc 2 of the Satanic Sessions)

Those 2 Child of the Moon work in progress tracks actually date from Beggars Banquet sessions.

Child of the Moon is very much a part of the Beggars Banquet sessions, no proof of it being wriiten in time for, or even attempted during Their Satanic Majesties Request sessions.



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There are parts of it I find great. There are songs that I love or I think are great or very good. That's it. As an album it stinks. It has more good songs on it than Dirty Work has.

I would call it classic. Everytime I listen to it I like it more. And not the main songs like "200 Lightyears" or "Citadel", "200 man". The ones I am starting to really like are "The Lantern" and "Sing this all together".

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Child Of The Moon didn't come later actually Blue, it was worked on during the SM sessions (see volume 1 disc 2 of the Satanic Sessions)

Those 2 Child of the Moon work in progress tracks actually date from Beggars Banquet sessions.

Child of the Moon is very much a part of the Beggars Banquet sessions, no proof of it being wriiten in time for, or even attempted during Their Satanic Majesties Request sessions.

Thanks, I had heard that too His Majesty, it's funny because Child of the Moon sounds so "un-beggars banquet- like" and more "Satanic Request-like", even though it wasn't written yet, it would of fit TSMR album perfectly!

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Child Of The Moon didn't come later actually Blue, it was worked on during the SM sessions (see volume 1 disc 2 of the Satanic Sessions)

Those 2 Child of the Moon work in progress tracks actually date from Beggars Banquet sessions.

Child of the Moon is very much a part of the Beggars Banquet sessions, no proof of it being wriiten in time for, or even attempted during Their Satanic Majesties Request sessions.

Thanks, I had heard that too His Majesty, it's funny because Child of the Moon sounds so "un-beggars banquet- like" and more "Satanic Request-like", even though it wasn't written yet, it would of fit TSMR album perfectly!

That's the way I feel it too...Child OTM has nothing that sounds like Beggars

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Yes i love it i´ts a great album and very underestimated, but the main things is that i enjoy it and has the best song i can use the word FUN for. It makes the living deads come.

real real good...even gooder after a bonger

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That's the way I feel it too...Child OTM has nothing that sounds like Beggars

It's a bridge, as is Jigsaw Puzzle etc.

I kinda wish they'd done more stuff along the lines of COTM, Pay Your Dues and Jigsaw Puzzle. Tighter ship all round compared to 1967, but still with traces of LSD in the sonics.

The lead guitars on Beggars Banquet sound very much like the lead on Sgt Pepper. Yet more linkage to psych on Beggars Banquet which unfortunatley was totally gone by 1969.

The Satanic Sessions box sets show that there is much that is similar between the sessions in 1967 and 1968. Tis a pity they chose to go the more normal and boring blues/rock route from circa 1969 onwards.



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Tis a pity they chose to go the more normal and boring blues/rock route from circa 1969 onwards.

They no longer had Brian Jones to get ideas.

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Tis a pity they chose to go the more normal and boring blues/rock route from circa 1969 onwards.

They no longer had Brian Jones to get ideas.

yeah too bad he turned himself into a waste case.

as for the album, thumbs up!

The "psychedelic" format, with the repetitions and noises between tracks, doesn't work for me, but I live with it because I love nearly all the songs. For whatever reason - the album's relatively poor reception, the accusation of copying the Beatles, the departure of Brian - the band quickly threw out pop and psychedelia as influences after TSMR and concentrated on blues/rock, country and reggae. Not that those aren't great, but there were major losses as well as gains in their musical change of direction.

One of my nominations for that "great through headphones" thread would be The Lantern (been listening to that a lot this week).

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I do not like it at all, the weakest effort of the band in my opinion, the only album that I will never hear again. A compromise with the psychedelic fashion of '67, no genuine Stones music, half-baked and boring. TSMR was an awkward chatting-up to the zeitgeist. They denied their roots due to financial interests. The same holds for Between the Buttons with few exceptions.

I have a sad confession: I think I've only listened to it once. That was the period when I was about 13, in the early throeas of Stones passion and collecting all their albums.
Other than that, it lacks alot of things.

it wasn't love at first listen, but it grooves me a lot now
it's beautiful to hear the guitar laying the groundwork for so much of what lies just ahead -
and if you ever have a chance to spend a week 250 meters underground, be sure to take Their Satanic Majesties with you:
ohhhh my how they shine!

Not as bad as I want it to be. But I still don't like Sing This All Together and On With the Show. The rest is rather good! And a great foray into psychedelia with a darker edge. Love The Lantern. It would have been a much stronger album with We Love You and Dandelion on it...

Also, the production on 2000 Man is stunning! The acoustic sounds incredible and if you didn't know this song was recored in the 60's you would think it is more contemporary.



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She's A Rainbow
Citadel
The Lantern
2000 Light Years From Home
2000 Man

This would have made one of the best EPs ever - by any band. Unfortunately, the rest (maybe with In Another Land as an exception) just isn't of the same quality, imo.

Much better than its reputation. I for one always loved that album.

Half is GENIUS/Half is SO-SO. One of the best album covers ever !!! I like the original title - "Cosmic Christmas" - better than what they went with in the end.....

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I kinda wish they'd done more stuff along the lines of COTM, Pay Your Dues and Jigsaw Puzzle. Tighter ship all round compared to 1967, but still with traces of LSD in the sonics.

The lead guitars on Beggars Banquet sound very much like the lead on Sgt Pepper. Yet more linkage to psych on Beggars Banquet which unfortunatley was totally gone by 1969.

The Satanic Sessions box sets show that there is much that is similar between the sessions in 1967 and 1968. Tis a pity they chose to go the more normal and boring blues/rock route from circa 1969 onwards.

I totally agree. It's sad that they left their experimental spririt in the 60's when it fit so well with their new approach in 68. But they didn't have Brian's ideas and lust for odd sounds anymore after Beggar's and Keith had found a formula he obviously loved very much. It was the right thing for the Stones I guess but they loose me as a listener.

Fanatistic album. But, it could have been so much better if they skipped 'Sing This Song Together' and added 'We Love You' and 'Dandelion'.

Mathijs

Love this LP. Always have. Agree We Love You/Dandelion woud have been great additions. Always thought of Sing This Song Altogether(See What happens) as a psychedelic Going Home.

It's so very lonely, you're 2,000 Light Years from home

There are some very good songs imo, but overall I think the album is not a classic. With a good producer to help guide them through this, and the addition of We Love you, and Dandelion to this album this could have become a classic. Those songs where recorded during this time frame. Child of the moon would have fit nicely on to this album had it been recorded in time.