In a way, it would almost be weirder if the Rolling Stones did not go psychedelic in , like almost everybody else did at the time, except for a few stubbornly obstinate heroes Somethin' Else By The Kinks — now there's a truly weird album by that year's standards! And seeing Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in kaftans was, after all, no more weird than seeing Eric Clapton with frizzed hair, or The Hollies wielding sitars and playing with tape effects.
There are two reasons why, when discussing the Golden Age of the Stones , and not one year less , one should never make an embarrassing exception for their psychedelic suite.
The Stones did embrace psychedelia, but they put their own and nobody else's stamp on it. While "Majesties' Honky Tonk" could have slotted seamlessly into the finished album take three is most recommended , "Gold Painted Nails" -- the only other titled track -- is simply a grandiosely named jam which doesn't go far, despite consuming most of one well-stuffed disc.
At five minutes in length, take 17 is the most rewarding, but it isn't "She's a Rainbow" by a long chalk. Elsewhere, "Five Part Jam," "Blues 3," and "Jam" are exactly what their titles suggest -- jams and blues jams which could as easily be the band relaxing between takes as the genesis of some future classic.
Ditto "Title 15," which arouses interest only because "Title 12" earlier in the cycle eventually resolved itself into " Light Years From Home. Absent, on the other hand, is the one Majesties outtake with which most fans are familiar, the freaky and festive "Cosmic Christmas. Ultimately, then, Satanic Sessions is a very large and incredibly unwieldy proposition to set before even the most devout Stones enthusiast, a case of getting way too much of a good thing in this case, the manufacturers gaining access to the session tapes , and in terms of listening pleasure, pretty damned boring.
However, there is certainly at least one excellent alternate Majesties single-disc collection to be compiled from the full box, dominated by a stunning minute "Sing This All Together" and bolstered further by early takes of "Flowers in Your Hair" aka "She's a Rainbow" , "Fly My Kite" "The Lantern" , and take one of the aforementioned "Title Even diehards have to draw the line somewhere.
AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. It was a tumultuous period for the Rolling Stones — Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were arrested for drug possession, with Jones spending three weeks in a nursing home. A chaotic spring European tour that involved a riot in Poland also interrupted work flow. It was so druggy—acid and all that.
They remain the only two songs from the album the band has ever played live.
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