The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
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Artist: The Rolling StonesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Abkco
Soundtracks:
- Sympathy For The Devil
- No Expectations
- Dear Doctor
- Parachute Woman
- Jig-Saw Puzzle
- Street Fighting Man
- Prodigal Son
- Stray Cat Blues
- Factory Girl
- Salt Of The Earth
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The Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet *****
Lets, just for arguments sake say that Beggars Banquet is the best Rolling Stones record ever made. It wouldn't be a hard thing to argue and many would agree with that claim. Beggars was the album that started the classic four albums from the Stones. This, Let It Bleed [DSD], Sticky Fingers + 7 Bonus Tracks, and Exile On Main Street [Limited Edition] all make up this classic period and are all essential to a collection, and maybe Beggars more than any other. Where Let It Bleed was unique, Sticky Fingers was the hardest rocker, and Exile is well it's Exile, Beggars is just perfect.
Brian Jones made his exit with this album as he was only on parts of Let It Bleed and it shows. He did his best playing here. The slide on 'Jig-Saw Puzzle' a tender ballad of sorts that on gets better with each passing listen. The sliding-blues-stomp of 'Parachute Woman' is uniquely Jones. But perhaps what is most impressive about Beggars is the fact that you don't hear Keith Richards' guitar for about the first three minutes of the album until he plays one of the greatest guitar solos of all time on 'Sympathy For The Devil' (which is rumoured by some to actually be Jimmy Page of Zeppelin as he was known for his studio appearances, and it does sound like him) perhaps the groups darkest song. For me what is so impressive is the key work through out, often over looked so take a second listen. Their reworking of 'No Expectations' exceeds the original by miles while 'Dear Doctor' is straight country honk at it's finest, and that's only side one.
Side two begins with the classic protest of 'Street Fighting Man' which may or may not be that greatest Bob Dylan song that Dylan never wrote. 'Prodigal Son' will take time for new fans to appreciate but it's worth the wait. 'Stray Cat Blues' is an unheralded classic that never was paid it's dues, but is among the bands best of the period. 'Factory Girl' and the blue collar feel of 'Salt Of The Earth' close the album to perfect avail.
Mick, Keith and Brian made their first 'TRUE' classic with Beggars. It's a shame Brian became a tragedy soon after. Beggars Banquet is a rare album in rock n' roll, there really isn't another like it!
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Opening with "Sympathy for the Devil," the Stones' infamous we-are-evil poem, this all-original 1968 album began a quality streak almost unmatched in rock & roll. Mick Jagger begins writing from the working-class hero's perspective--especially on the anthem "Street Fighting Man" and "Salt of the Earth"--and Keith Richards buttresses his partner with rock-solid slide licks recently graduated from the School of Old Blues Records. "Jig-Saw Puzzle," which inexplicably never became a hit, is the only known instance of Jagger's describing the Stones' individual personalities in verse. --Steve KnopperBeggars Banquet is among the Stones two or three greatest albums, so it's also among the very best rock & roll albums ever made. Though known for its twin anthems of social decay, "Sympathy For The Devil" and "Street Fighting Man," it's actually the album's gritty yet beautiful acoustic country and country-blues numbers--"Dear Doctor," "Prodigal Son," "No Expectations," "Factory Girl"--that has helped Beggars stand up so effectively through the years--that and the fact that Keith Richard's lyrics here often come as close to sincerity as he's capable. When he sings "Let's drink to the hard working people," for once you almost believe him. --David Cantwell
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