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Give Satanic Majesties A Chance

Hope all are doing well. My 92 year old mother beat the virus. So can you. But I digress.
I never liked SMR when it came out and neither did anyone else including the Stones, who described it as "rubbish".
But times change and I decided, for some reason, to pop my 2002 Inaugural Edition Hybrid Disc 2002 in the CD player.
It was a remaster and came with a Certificate of Authenticity. Authentic rubbish I guess. But anyway - there is quite a bit of aimless meandering in some of the songs, but the album was better than I remembered. "In Another Land", "She’s a Rainbow", "Citadel" are not bad songs and they’ve managed to capture some very nice piano, drums and bell sounds.
All in all, better than I remember. Maybe give it another listen if you’re so inclined, misuse of the plural possessive notwithstanding.   Be well.
chayro

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Here’s what Keith Richards thinks of Satanic Majesties and Sgt. Pepper:

"No, I understand—the Beatles sounded great when they were the Beatles. But there’s not a lot of roots in that music. I think they got carried away. Why not? If you’re the Beatles in the ’60s, you just get carried away—you forget what it is you wanted to do. You’re starting to do Sgt. Pepper. Some people think it’s a genius album, but I think it’s a mishmash of rubbish, kind of like Satanic Majesties—"Oh, if you can make a load of ****, so can we."

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/interviews/a36899/keith-richards-interview-0915/

Keith is more of a roots music guy, I guess. He also likes to rip people and music in interviews.  He does it so often I wonder if he really means it or if it's some kind of inside joke.
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I agree.  I haven't listened to it in a while, but I love psychedelic music.  I just put up Keith's quote because I thought it was relevant.
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