Re: whats so bad about Satanic Majesties
Date: March 18, 2005 15:16
To Gazza: OK, but I don't know... A group is a weird thing. Keith might well hate it or have always hated it... Did Brian himself have had a chance to have clear enough hindsight at all about it?... I swear I once read an interview in which Jagger said he was rather fond of this album. Who knows?... Strange thing is Brian's mellotron colors an important track from it (plus you have to include what he does to We Love You, as well as his reed contribution on Dandelion). AFAICT, it just might be considered as Mick's own slightly twisted mid-sixties baby instead of Keith's... Even Bill has an important track on it (seems lots of fans who enjoy TSMR like this track)...
When I think about it, actually, TSMR doesn't really even sound like a TYPICAL psychedelic album in the first place... Too much British, accomplished, classical influences, too much avant-garde cynicism, not enough flowers in the hair (if we forget about Dandelion), too much pessimism and darkness...
I am not even very fond of psychedelic music, and I see TSMR simply as The Rolling Stones, in all their mid-60s, novel glory... With a founding member dwindling near twilight, and another one's saturated axe roaring louder and louder in the back...
You know, to me, even in the disco fad thing, they were still the Stones!