Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
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Free Music Notes for Beggars Banquet
Free Music Review: The Best
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the Stone's single 5 star album.Not one bad song.When this came out around the time of the "White Album",I was amazed that for once,The Stones had won the healthy competition they'd had with the Beatles.Free Music Review: the stones best?
Hit: 5 Stars
if not it is still one of the greatest albums of all-time.it's unreal to me that they released this in 1968?! unreal.what a great band and who would have guessed that they'd still be going,especially keith richards?! this album is perfect from beginning to end and a must for stones fans and the like.i've heard that you're either a stones or a beatles fan.well i am definitely a fan of both,as was my mother who passed albums by both of them on to me when i was around 5 years of age,and this was one of them.thanks mom.Free Music Review: have some sympathy and some taste
Hit: 5 Stars
the rolling stones beggars banquet the year 1968 the last album with the orignal rolling stone brian jones who mysterisly died in a pool in 1969 but that's another story this is about the stone dirtiest and sleaziest band ever beggars banquet opens with the epic sympathy for the devil..a classic the comes
no expectation a good song..
dear doctor a story about how a guy doesn't want to get married great
parachute women a bit of a dud okay i guess
jig saw puzzle good just not great
street fighting man the classic that everyone knows and is still played live today nearly 40 years later
prodigal son the classic cover of the blues FANTASTIC toe tapping fun
stray cat blues..not bad
factory girl it picks up here a good song
salt of the earth a great way too finish the stones one of many classic albums
Free Music Review: But What Can A Poor Boy Do? - INCREDIBLE REMASTER!
Hit: 5 Stars
Plenty let me tell you! This CD is AMAZING. Clearly the seeds of the incredible Exile on Main Street. This release found the stones in transition from post British Invasion with cute hair cuts to lettin' it all hang out while creating a serious work of art (that is coincidentally lots o' fun).
Not only is the song cannon superb (no clicking of the skip button on this release) and often downright humorous (Dear Doctor, Factory Girl), the slide guitar playing in abundant, it's hard to make out who is actually doing the singing... is it Mick Jagger assuming some character role or is it one of the other Stones? I mean, who is THAT who sounds like an ol' black share cropper singing on Prodigal Son?
And the sound... The sound is INCREDIBLE:
Sympathy for the Devil never sounded so good - the listener is surrounded by growls, snarls, howls, demonic percussion and manic piano and of course that crazy blues Mephitso guitar solo.
When I was a young teen, Street Fighting Man was a favorite. I always loved that mysterious mix of strings, sitar, and Jack Nitche's pentatonic (didn't know that word back then) piano lines floating above the cacauphony at the end and in the middle transition. Street Fighting Man sounds way better than ever. I couldn't stop playing it. on this SACD release Charlie Watts sounds like he's playing a bass drum with a 500 ft diameter on Street Fighting... - Ba-Boom! That drum has to be HUGE!
It's all great people. great! Great! GREAT! I enthusiastically encourage purchase, even if you have the earlier CD release of Beggar's Banquet. You will be pleased!
Postscript: Out of all the SACD re-releases, this is just so superior. Actually, it is far superior to ANY remastering job I have heard period. Unless you own the vinyl, just throw out your old copy and buy this now! It is actually worth every penny of the $17.95 list price. One of the most gratifying CD purchases I have ever made.
A word of warning on the used disks. Make sure they are the 2002 remaster before wasting your money. I once purchased a used King Crimson CD advertised along with the remasters. It was a 20 year old remaster that really sucked.
Free Music Review: The Bluesiest And Best Stones Album
Hit: 5 Stars
After their awful TSMR album, an attempt by the Stones to jump on the psychedelic bandwagon, they returned to great form in doing what they always do best - playing R&B. However on this album there is even more emphasis on the B than usual.
This is the only Stones album I know which does not have one filler track on it. All the tracks range from good to eeceptional. Particular standouts are: 'Sympathy for the devil', the melancholy 'No expectations', 'Jigsaw puzzle', with its rather Dylanesque lyrics, and the rousing 'Salt of the Earth', the final track featuring Keith Richards on vocals with a backup gospel choir.
'Prodigal son' is an attempt by the Stones to perform a song in Delta blues style, and Keith's excellent acoustic guitar makes it sound authentic. In fact Keith's guitar playing on this album is much improved over previous Stones albums. There is even a C&W track, 'Dear Doctor', with a narrative throughout by Jagger and is done with a little tongue-in-cheek humour. 'Factory girl' is often knocked as a poor track, but people tend to miss the point. It's another bluesy track about a working class guy standing outside a factory in the cold and wet, waiting for his unattractive girlfriend to finish work. The song perfectly complements the other tracks in sentiment, and evokes a poor man's view on life. Had this song been on LIB or SF, then it would have been out of place. But on BB it works well.
BB is easily the best Stones album for me, and one you will never tire of listening to if you are into (what was then genuinely classed as) R&B. It was also the start of the Stones greatest period of musical output, 1968 - 1973, as well as the last album to completely feature the Stones original line-up.