Beggars Banquet
Abkco - Abkco
The Rolling Stones
Release date: 2002-08-27
Audio CD
Album Rock, Bass, Blues-Rock, England, Hard Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock Music, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock/Pop
1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. No Expectations
3. Dear Doctor
4. Parachute Woman
5. Jigsaw Puzzle
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Prodigal Son
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Factory Girl
10. Salt of the Earth
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Beggars Banquet
Date undefinedI am the Stones Authority. This is a very special album for a number of reasons. It is the first album of the Stones second era. It is really the first post Brian Jones album. Sure he was there for the sessions, but so was the janitor, and that doesn't make him relevant. And, even though this is 1968, it is in a way the first post Sixties album by the Stones. This was the album that defined what the new Rolling Stones band would be as it transitioned to the Seventies, while the other great acts of the Sixties were coming apart or finding it impossible to make the transition to relevancy outside the context of the Sixties, this album established the fact that the Stones would remain relevant for some time to come. They would survive - and before this album this was not at all a certainty. This album is the Rolling Stones grown up, mature and very, very good at what they do. The album represents a watershed in the band's history, and as such many aficionados rate it quite high and sometimes as their best album ever. I understand their emotion, but outside of its context, which is how all work should be judged in my humble opinion, is it relevant to another listener who is not a product of the context in which the work is done? I appreciate Mozart. I understand that his work is great. I do not have an understanding of the context in which the work was composed. The music is so good that it transcends the limitations of my understanding. Beggars Banquet is a very good album in any context. It is one of their four best albums. It is not their best. It is not their second best. They would get even better. Much better. I do love this album and for these songs: "No Expectations", Parachute Woman", "Jigsaw Puzzle", "Stray Cat Blues", "Factory Girl" and "Salt Of The Earth". The others are not too bad either. A must have album for the serious rock music fan.
Beggars Banquet
Date undefinedAin't reviews; these is messages.
Anyway, musta been '71 or '72, I was 11 or 12, just some nerdy kid with big glasses and short hair living in an econo-apartment complex. The kool boy, cigarettes and harness boots, broken home and little supervision, was right down the hall. Bored occasionally, the dude would have me over, showing off with tough talk about "getting some" and playing the "bitchin'" solo from Grand Funk's "Inside Looking Out." One day, I brought over a record to hear, he was real skeptical, rolls eyes, but what so, here comes "Sympathy For The Devil" which, incomprehensibly, he never heard. Dude was working hard to look bored and hip but, splonk, by the time the guitar comes in, he's got this look on his face ~ stunned.
Dude got punked.
Beggars Banquet
Date undefinedFollowing the bad year of 1967, which saw drug busts and the unsuccessful attempt to one-up the Beatles with "Their Satanic Majesties Request", the Rolling Stones needed to regroup. They did, spectacularly. The group made its fans wait an entire year for its next album, but when "Beggars Banquet" was finally released in December, 1968, it was evident from the very first track, the instantly-unforgettable samba "Sympathy For The Devil", that the wait was worthwhile. The material is strong, and utterly without the psychedelic affectations which had weakened the previous LP. As if to offset the references to the diabolic, "Banquet" includes a cover of the Reverend Robert Wilkins' Gospel parable "Prodigal Son". "Street Fighting Man" (though it backs off from advocating any type of actual revolution) is an anthem of the times, and "Jigsaw Puzzle" a cryptic little portrait of the late Sixties. "Parachute Woman" and "Stray Cat Blues" reflect the group's return to its bedrock blues base. In Jimmy Miller, who would work with them through 1973, the band found the best producer it would ever have. "Beggars Banquet", in short, marks the beginning of the roughly four-year period when the Stones were, both live and in the studio, the finest, most powerful rockers in the world.
