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Beggars Banquet |  | Artist: The Rolling Stones
Label: Decca - Pop
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 3036
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 40 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 042288233022
EAN: 0042288233022
ASIN: B00006RT50
Release Date: August 14, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | 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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 An embarrassment of riches... March 17, 2008
Matt_K (Hertfordshire, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The first time I ever heard "Sympathy For The Devil" I was 15 and it absolutely blew me away. It was all too much - the slyly witty lyrics, the strident bark of Jagger's delivery, the creepy ambience...and when the indecently distorted guitar solo kicked in it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard. It more than deserves its reputation as one of the Stones' finest hours, and repeated listening does nothing to dull the magic. And that's just the first track.
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br /The rest of the album is stuffed with tremendous songs, from the beautifully wistful "No Expectations" to the yearning lyricism of "Jigsaw Puzzle" to the strutting classic "Street Fighting Man" to the seamy celebration of the joys of jailbait that is "Stray Cat Blues" (these were more innocent times), the Stones could do no wrong on this record. It's that rare thing, an album that sounds so damned amazing on a first listen that you know you've just found a new friend for life.
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br /Along with "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile..." this is one of my all-time Stones favourites, and if you've never experienced its seedy pleasures then you're in for a treat. Enjoy!!
Land on me tonight December 24, 2008
P. Mcshane (England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As my favourite Stones album, it's definitely tempting to write reels and reels of gushing praise over Beggars Banquet, but I'll try and keep it brief for the benefit of the reader.
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br /The most important album the Stones will ever release, it stands as the first of their four flat-out, unquentionable masterpieces. Most will to the three that followed -- Let It Bleed, Sticky Finger and Exile On Main St. -- as being superior, but I don't agree. It opens with "Sympathy For the Devil," containing the greatest integration of samba into rock as well as Mick's best set of lyrics. That's the album's best song, and the rest of the album rarely fails to deliver such excellence.
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br /The production is lo-fi, which enhances the album's country-blues sound, but it's not as lo-fi as I feel many have made it out to be. I mean, it's hardly White Heat/White Light, is it?
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br /And of course, this is the last album the band would make with Brian Jones, shortly before his demise. The only way I could think improving this gem would be for it to end with "Jumping Jack Flash," whether simply tacking it onto the end or replacing one of the slightly less interesting last two tracks. Arguably the best of its year, and one of the very best of the decade, which is certainly saying something.
Back to Basics December 29, 2008
The Mancunian Candidate
In a year when the big guns of the British music scene were releasing some of their finest works, The Rolling Stones in 1968 took a step back from the Psychedelia that the band had dipped their toe into with Their Satanic Majesties Request, and instead opted to return to the style of music they found more comfortable, the Blues.
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br /In 1968, Beggars Banquet was released on the Decca record label. It marked a return to the essence of what Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are all about. With Beggars Banquet they returned to the sound that got them into music in the first place, demonstrating a passion and purpose to their writing, which I think to some extent, was missing from their 1967 release. It also marked the end of Brian Jones fully contributing to a Rolling Stones album.
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br /Produced by Brooklyn born Jimmy Miller, producer for great Blues connoisseurs The Spencer Davis Group as well as later landmark Rolling Stones albums, the sound on Beggars Banquet is very primal in nature and could be straight from 1930's Chicago, with many of the songs featuring sliding acoustic elements like No Expectations and the unbelievably underrated Jigsaw Puzzle
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br /There are some Rock and Roll numbers to be had on this record as well. Whilst John Lennon was promoting a more passive revolution in the troubling times of 1968, Mick Jagger was right in the thick of London's antiwar protests. The result of his feelings towards these troubling times was the song Street Fighting Man, arguably one of their finest moments as a band.
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br /The opening track to the album also stands out as one of the bands finest moments. Sympathy for The Devil with its very Luciferesque lyrics and an upbeat voodoo feel must have been quite the song in 1968, as it still stands up as a belting epic song to this day.
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br /The Rolling Stones tried outright Psychedelia in 1967, and for me personally, there were bands out there that were much better at writing that sort of material. But when it came to out and out British Blues with a twist, The Rolling Stones were champions and head and shoulders above the rest. In Beggars Banquet they let rip and produced an exceptional album, not just for 1968, but for anytime, the front cover aint that bad either.
Nevermind Forty Licks!!! June 11, 2009
J. Hughes (Glasgow, Scotland)
Deservedly rated as amongst the best of their work. Beggars Banquet finds the Stones at their most raw and irreverant. From Sympathy for the Devil to Street Fighting Man and the hillbilly mimicry of Dear Doctor in between, this album is a gem.
Have A Feast November 22, 2007
HGDave (Hazel Grove, Engand)
The best known songs here are "Sympathy For The Devil" and "Street Fighting Man" which I guess most people know already. You also get the country tinged "No Expectations", "Jig-Saw Puzzle" with its Dylanesque lyrics and "Prodigal Son" which is the story from the Bible. "Parachute Woman" is a vaguely pornographic trip round the USA, "Dear Doctor" is a gentle micky take of country music in general, and "Stray Cat Blues" is the Stones at their best, the kind of song they are most associated with. Controversial lyrics (in their day) and screaming guitars in the background. "Factory Girl" and "Salt of The Earth" with Keith singing the first verse are both nods to the working people.
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