Beggars Banquet

I feel often that with this generator I'm getting nicer and more open towards the albums I get, which is probably good overall, but it's making my positive-to-negative ratio feel slowly more and more lopsided to the former of the two. Luckily, I can count on The Rolling Stones to put me straight and remind me that my tastes and opinions are still consistent with when I started. For instance, here is the third Rolling Stones album to get a three star. Is it bad? No, in fact I could totally understand why someone would like, nay, love this, but it just feels so generic in a modern lense where Rolling Stones was falling so behind on the revolutions happening around them in music that they decided to fall back and rest on what they knew, and there can be merit in that, but what makes this more special past an admittedly great opening track. If I wanted music that sounded like this I would either go earlier into the 60's or later into the next decade, not give the very personal genres of folk and country to the British boy band. I''ll never deny Rolling Stones their iconic status, as they've certainly earned it from various track to track, but I don't understand so far what any of their albums as a whole work of art has done for the music landscape but seem like music your great uncle swears is better than the Beatles.

I'm still not sure I like the Stones, but there was enough familiar music I enjoyed that I enjoyed the album as a whole.

The start of the stones incredible 4 album run, this album is great but probably the weakest of those 4 albums, hence doesn’t quite get the full marks when compared to sticky fingers or Exile on Main Street

This album is a wonderful kind of bait and switch, starting off with something quite philosophical but then veering into blues songs about traveling and heartbreak. The slide guitar swirls around the vocals like a dance, enough to distract anyone from his jigsaw puzzle. And don’t worry about being so far from home—it ain’t no crime. Just make sure you don’t let your mama know what you’ve learned how to do. For all the swagger of these songs, however, there’s an underlying theme of a desire to return home, a longing for peace and quiet.

It’s rare that I’ve been blown away by what they’ve got. On this one, “Sympathy for the Devil” was good but overstayed its welcome. Out of their stuff that’s come across the generator so far, I liked Let it Bleed more

This is the best drinking album of all time in my experience. An emotional rollercoaster of anthems and sing alongs. The beginning of the Jimmy Miller era, where The Stones settled into the sound that would define them for the rest of their career. Man, if you wanna see the magic of them creating a song in the studio, watch Jean Luc Godard's "Sympathy for the Devil." That song began as a folky acoustic country campfire thing and just kept building and building like a drizzle into a thunderstorm. So many songs on this album seem to capture what I can only imagine was what it really felt like to be alive at that time. Especially a song like "Street Fighting Man." It's like the antithesis of "All you need is love." I'm glad they ditched the psychedelia and came back down to earth.

I remember reading a review years ago which said the Stones made a very successful career by regularly releasing mediocre albums which had 2 or 3 fantastic singles to carry them. I still feel like that's pretty accurate after giving this another go. I'm sure they had fun recording 6 mins of "Jigsaw Puzzle" but it pales in comparison to something like "Sympathy for the Devil". Remove "Sympathy" and "Street Fighting Man" and thos would be a forgettable 1/5 for me. You can't deny the genius and influence of those two songs though!

Sympathy For The Devil is pretty tired at this point, No Expectations wisely takes things into a lower gear. There is a lot of roots american and blues acoustic on this record. Prodigal Son is a great song.

Decent, with one outstanding song (sympathy...) and a few other good ones. I struggle to see why they were such a big deal though - there is very little innovative or exciting here. Maybe they were already past that point of their career.

Ei oo Rollarit rokkiklassikoita turhaan. Tasapainoinen, teknisesti tarkka ja monipuolinen levy, 4/5.

So, this is the first time I have ever listened to a Rolling Stones album. I know this band is legendary but due to some indelible marks made during my formative years from being bombarded with the song 'Start Me Up', I had put a mental block on them. Now that my time had come, I was glad to find out that I had the wrong impression.

What struck me the most throughout the album, is how varied and diverse the song arrangements were. This is made loud and clear with the opening track. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is slow-to-boil perception bending tale, with a catchy piano progression, a bass guitar, a collection of utility percussionists, some people saying "woo-woo" over and over again, a couple of guitar cameos, and Mic giving it his all on top. Just brilliant.

Songs like 'No Expectations' layer and build and are constructed as they play out. Others tracks, while straight forward in their structure, flourish in that they are built on non-pop roots like delta-blues ('Dear Doctor', 'Prodigal Son') and bluegrass ('Factory Girl').

This is definitely much more than just another classic rock album, and with the one exception of 'Stray Cat Blues', doesn't align (in a great way) with what I was expecting.

Hadn't listened to this album before, Sympathy for the Devil is a classic - great opener - then it went down hill from there, next few songs were so lackluster, derailed the rest of the album. Beggars Belief would have been a better title.

Pues si empiezas con Sympathy for the Devil ya mal no puede salir nada. Junto con Dear Doctor, Jig-Saw puzzle y Street Fighting Man, son las canciones que más me han gustado pero el conjunto es muy bueno. Increíble imaginar a alguien escuchándolo en 1968.

Never understood the appeal of The Rolling Stones. This album is just boring to me.

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