The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request I Vinyl Monday 

if you have any ideas on how i can address the 38-episode backlog of vinyl mondays i made before bringing the series here, please let me know! and thanks to everyone in my comments section last video who told me i needed a haircut. i listened 😂

I was thrilled when they revived 2000 light years from home on their Steel Wheels tour. Over hated indeed.

I too am perplexed by the fact that so many critics hate this album. It remains my favorite by the Stones. Songs like Citadel, The Lantern, In Another Land, 2000 Light Years From Home, She's A Rainbow...magnificent! Sure there are a few misses in the proceedings but still it's so excellent. Thanks fer the heartfelt review!

In my opinion, Their Satanic Majesties’ Request is the Stones most creative album, interior and exterior!

My dad still has all of his vinyls that he had from back in the 60’s and 70’s and this is the one I remember the most from the cover. I love Citadel. This is my favorite Stones album

I would like if they made it longer with “Dandelion-We Love You added on it✨ Yep, this is Brian Jones inspired for sure

always loved this album

Every song on this LP is good....2000 man...2000 light years from home...shes a rainbow..sing this all together and citadel are outstanding

combing colors in the air, ahh everywhere, she comes in colors...I have loved Satanic Majesty's since 1967. It's so very lonely when you're a thousand light years from home...

One of my favorite stones records, Brian Jones is a legend!!! Btw love your style!

Hi Abigail! Thank you so much for bringing this brilliant, masterful work of art out into the light... back in the'60's, my friends and I in Iselin, NJ truly believed that we were the most devout Stone's fans on the planet 🤷🏻‍♂️? When the album came out and we first laid eyes on it, we were intensely blown away. When we gave it the first spin, we were totally confused and thought they had lost their minds. After dropping acid a few weeks later, we completely realized that this album is the epitome of psychedelic rock, far superior to anything else we've EVER heard. If I can figure out how to bring one album with me to the other side of deaths door as a conversation piece, it would be this album... God Bless you, Brian Jones & The Rolling Stones! ✌️💜🙋🏻‍♂️🎸

Pretty solid album - She's Like A Rainbow 🌈 & 2,000 Lights Years From Home my favorite track. Lots of stuff going on internally which makes for a at times chatioc affair. Bill even takes a lead vocal !

'2000 man' is one of the best songs to me. It's quite uncanny lyrically, the Stones looking forward rather than backwards.

Believe it or not, KISS does a killer cover of "2000 Man." Ace Frehley sings it. It's on Dynasty.

Wow. As a teen, in the late ‘80s, I frequented this vinyl shop called 2nd-Hand Tunes, a scant four blocks from my home, where I picked up _so many_ lightly-used first-press albums from their $0.99 bin … which, at the time would’ve just been some slightly old albums. So it blows my mind that my then 20-year-old near-perfect copy of _Their Satanic Majesties Request_ with the original lenticular cover purchased for 99¢ … is now a 55-year-old antique fetching over $50 on eBay. I wouldn’t part with it for anything, but it’s still crazy. Makes me rue the sh*tty roommates and friends I’ve had over the years who idly made off with many of my other albums, posters, amps, guitars, books, and oddities I’d picked up or inherited from the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. At least I still have my mom’s transistor radio she wore around Paris in 1962, and her many Beatles 45s in French! 🤗

While I got each of the Beatles’ albums in sequence as they were released, my first Stones album was Satanic Majesties. I still regard it’s totality as a complete journey. I love it, plain and simple.

There's a single that was recorded around that time called 'We Love You' which was produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, and it featured Paul McCartney & John Lennon on backing vocals.

Unique album in the Stones catalogue but love it, along with so many of their other albums! A top 5 band for me! Great vid Abby!

I love this album, it's my second favorite Rolling Stones album, very close behind Aftermath. I think you're wonderful. Love your taste and attitude. Wish I knew a young lady like you back when I was your age, you really have it together. Don't ever change, stay supercool! All the best!

You are a treasure, and your posts are a welcome and needed addition to the existing history of classic rock music. It’s so nice to know that the spark and the torch have been passed to a worthy recipient. 🙏

JPJ is also arr strings on " 2000 Light Years From Home". Some of the SMALL FACES Lane and Marriot are on " In Another Land". The Stones usually showed up late ( or not at all.)The cover was shot in Mt Vernon NY( about 30 miles away from NYC. I love this album!!! How about the slowed down " We Wish You a Merry Christmas " at the end of side 1. Great show - Thanx!!!!! Lol- I have the sheet music for one of those songs- I will have to look for it...

For me, the Lantern is the dark gem on Satanic Majesties. The bell tolling followed by Brian's shimmering organ note draw you right into the song

Abigail, nice review. I like that you gave a little background on what the band was going through in 1967. I definitely think the sporadic recording sessions was in part due to all the upheavals the band was going through at the time. Looking back at the album so many years later, it is probably more popular, and more respected today then it was in 1967. There are some great tracks on this album. It’s an underrated gem to me. Keep up the good work.

Very well done. Thanks for all the backstory. I actually enjoy the album. Old enough to have purchased it when it came out while I was in high school. Mine has the lenticular cover and my favorite track is Citadel.

✌❤😊 Your presentation is interesting, informative and really good. The Beatles are pictured in the flowers on the cover. Another reason for comparison to Sgt. Peppers. Keep this groove going.

Nice review! Thanks for choosing this album to discuss. It’s sadly an often overlooked and dismissed work in the Stones catalog. There are some really cool and creative arrangements on the record. “Citadel” has always been my favorite - featuring that great guitar riff. I really like the creepy spacey atmosphere of “2000 Light Years From Home” too. I remember saving allowance money to buy a copy (reprint from 80’s) and spending hours getting lost in that beautiful album cover and packaging while listening. I’ve also always dug KISS’ take on ‘2000 Man’ off of their Dynasty LP. Great review!

I absolutely adore this album. Yep. My favorite Stones record. But I can't help think if they would've gotten rid of "Gomper", shortened "Why Don't We" and added "Dandelion" and "We Love You". It would've made the album even better and probably better liked. But, of course they didn't issue singles on albums then so it was a missed opportunity. And dare I say it, but "Their Satanic Majesties " > "Pet Sounds" imo.

I feel like this one needs a redux. It's truly the most stunning non-Beatles psyche album experience and deserves your treatment with the skills and experience you've amassed these past two years. Cheers Abbey!

This is my favorite Stones album. I bought it at this department store, which seems weird, but they used to have record departments there. That was in 1970 or 71. At first I didn't get it but soon I was asking my guitar teacher to teach me how to play The Citadel. He was amazing and figured out the chords after listening to it a couple of times then taught me how to play it. It's one of the few Stones albums I still listen to.

Just found this channel... now I can't help but do a marathon of Vinylmondays.

Make no mistake, "Satanic Majesties" *is* the Stones' magnum opus - the culmination of the great trilogy of albums that began with "Aftermath" and continued with "Between The Buttons" (both in their authentic, UK versions, of course).

Nice review, beautifully presented. May I remind you that the amazing piano on this record was played by Nicky Hopkins, who also features on stuff by The Who, The Kinks, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane (at Woodstock) and Revolution by the Beatles!

I absolutely LOVE this album. The hidden track is a psyche version of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" which makes sense given the album was to be called "Cosmic Christmas" which is an image I wish tyey had stayed with

Hey Abby. This is a great, informed review. Citadel is actually one of my favourite Stones songs. I'll look forward to your Vinyl Mondays - 60s and 70s Pop Culture has a fascination and influence over me, even though I was only a kid in the 70s. 1970s Britain was some kind of law all unto to itself! 😂 Anyway - keep up the good work. 😀

Abby, very informative and insightful essay! Thank You!

I appreciate the use of the beginning of “Our Prayer” to block out your curse words 🤣🤣

If anyone reading this comment hasn't listened to the album yet, I urge you not to sleep on it. Some of the Rolling Stones' best songs are here - "Citadel" (amazing, echoey guitar riff), "She's a Rainbow" (one of the most beautiful songs of 1967, and there's some heavy competition), "The Lantern" (seems to me like a prototype for "Moonlight Mile" and "Shine a Light"), "2,000 Light Years From Home" (spooky space rock a la Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd). Rootsy, traditional rock 'n' roll wasn't the only thing the Stones could do. "Between the Buttons" is well worth checking out too - if "Satanic Majesties" is the Stones' Sgt. Pepper, "Buttons" is their Revolver. P.S. - the mellotron that opens "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)" sounds cheekily similar to the one that opens "Strawberry Fields Forever"

Thank you for one of the best reviews ever on this album💫✨💫✨💫✨

I don't know anything about video editing. You do a great job at it. It makes these videos alot of fun to watch.

Nicky Hopkins played the stunning piano on she's a rainbow

Love your style and videos

One of my favorite albums from The Rolling Stones. The stereo affect is awesome on headphones.

My favourite Stones album. I still have my original copy from the day it was released. "She's a Rainbow" is just beautiful, we had it playing as people came to a good friends funeral, she was a rainbow person, everyone came in colourful clothing in her memory.

Loved the video! I adore vinyl monday so even more info on these albums is great!!

The Rolling Stones ALWAYS shadowed the Beatles during the ENTIRE 1960's. And this was their version of SGT. PEPPER'S! Look back on almost every record they made from 1964-69 and its un canny .The album covers really show how they mimic the Fabs! AND I LOVE THE STONES!! P.S.--I really LOVE this album, from start to finish!

I actually have always loved "TSMR" from first listen as a youth. I have assembled a great CDr and playlist that includes the "We Love You"/ "Dandelion" single, and a few 'edits' (pesky "Gomper") that I play constantly. Thank you for getting the review out there for folks to re-evaluate.

Your Patti Boyd poses crack me up everytime.

What a wonderful way to start your reviews, so colourful and fun.

It is sure worth listening to this album a few times to appreciate how much better things got 🙂

Hello again Abby, Brian Jones contributes mightily on Satanic Majesties! My favourite tracks are ~ Citadel ~ Brian plays some Psychedelic Tenor Saxophone! She's A Rainbow ~ Nicky Hopkins plays that nice Baroque Acoustic Piano. 2000 Light Years From Home ~ Brian plays some Eastern Psychedelic "Mellotron", àla The Pink Floyd's Rick Wright playing his Farfisa Organ, which is a highlight of the album. You know, I've always felt that The Rolling Stones "Child Of The Moon", on which Brian plays Soprano Saxophone, was their farewell to Psychedelia.

I'm gonna catch up on all of your videos! I haven't heard this LP in a LONG time. Great review! I'm going to listen to it.

Just stumbled upon your channel and really dug your knowledge and presentation here. Please make more videos. You’re doing great at this.

Well done, Abby! So glad you've brought Vinyl Monday to RU-vid. I love the chance for an expanded, less hurried look at your album choices. Hope you keep it up!

Your a breath of fresh air ... A Job well done will definitely tune in when you showcase LPs... Thanx Abby👍😎

Also note - THAT is the best pressing of Pet Sounds - still mono, better tape deck transferred, and quieter vinyl.

Love that you took all that cool vinyl formats onto YT now as well! Really enjoying seeing this kind of content, it's so uplifting & inspiring too ♡ Besides, while watching the video, my attention also got off a little bit towards the little book part of your shelf....maybe a 60s/70s-book recommendation video would be a nice addition to your wonderful music series! Would love to get some good recommendations from you! :)

Very entertaining and informative! You're a natural at this and provide insights I hadn't realized before. That 2018 reissue you have looks *fantastic* with the lenticular art. I really like parts of the album (Sing this All Together, The Lantern), and others I can do without (Gomper, On With the Show).

great video, your a natural, i think its a great album, looking forward to see what else you bring to the table

I bought this record on vinyl in the early 1970s while at school. I have always enjoyed it. I love Nicky Hopkins' piano on She's a Rainbow. Marianne had a screw loose. She abandoned her young son, Nicholas Dunbar, to be with Jagger. I read one of Nicholas's excellent books on finance. He has degrees from Cambridge and Harvard and became an investment banker. I managed to work out who he was, but he wasn't disclosing he was Marianne's only child to the financial community.

Jumping Jack Flash was the Stones’ antidote to their Satanic Majesties hangover.

I'm so proud of you, I can't wait to see more of this series and more of you 😊🧡✌

Wow! I just watched this older review video of yours. You really have developed this concept into an art form all ypur own. Jumping from your recent review of FZ Apostrophe back to your 1st RU-vid was an interesting and unplanned experiment. Keep up the great work. BTW what is the closing audio track you use on all your YT videos?

I just found your page, and I really like it! Your descriptions of the music is unique and spot on! I look forward to seeing more. I wish they had placed their song “Dandeliom” on this album

Hi Abigail, Love your style,the clothes and jewelry bring back memories of my old wardrobe. I love this album and find it very magical, and mystical. I don't love every song...but, there are few albums that I do love every song. As far as Brian Jones..he was so talented that I felt there was a real rivalry between the guys,a shame how things ended up. Glad you're making more videos ! Happiness, Cindy

Great job 👏..!! I’m impressed. I like to hear videos like this. Very nicely done. 😁🎷🎸🎼

It's a masterpiece from their early period, which i consider the best. But I'm old and I'm happy. ☮

This has always been one of my favorites in the Stones' catalog. Very underrated! I was primed to hear it back in the day after reading the (excellent) book Outlaw Blues by Paul Williams, one of the few critics who had something positive and insightful to say about the album. Thanks for featuring this one!

Damn girl...you look awesome. Wow. This album is good. My Mom had a copy she bought in 1968. When I was little she played her records all the time. I remember this album because it sounded different. When I got old enough I listened to this record and the CD I bought and it is something to lay back and put your headphones on. There is so much instrumentation to hear. "Sing this song all together see what happens" is interesting. Just a jam sounding like an acid trip. Cosmic Christmas is a bit spooky. But the album is a statement of the times. Psychedelia and swirling colors.

The end of Sing This All Together (see what happens) plays ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’ if you speed it up. It is played by Bill Wyman.

I absolutely love this album,thank you

Psychedelic! You Go Abigail DeVoe! I love that Stones record!

Abigail I love you!!!

You're just the cutest. Keep up the great videos !!

I love your review of this album very cool!

A great and under appreciated album. The Stones one and only experiment into psychedelia and it was far better than most .

Citadel is the best song but always thought it was too short. Love the crazy guitar ring modulator reverb sound.

I just saw the Stones outside Boston. It was my 7th time. I'm going to see them again a week from tomorrow. I just got this album off my front step, on vinyl. I was thinking about giving it to a girl I like who likes the She's a 🌈, but I might keep it for myself. I already gave her Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Bob Marley's Kaya. I don't think she cares very much. It's still shrink wrapped, but it's tempting to open it cuz I know there's that funky maze inside. It's almost like a cereal box with games on the back. You didn't comment on the Beatles faces on the cover, and the lenticular cover changes the Beatles' faces into Stones' faces.

It blows my mind that a girl your age likes the music I listened to when I was in my teens and 20's I'm 67 now and still listen to the music you like I'm also a audiophile vinyl is the best way to listen to music I love listening to it with my 400 dollar Sennheiser headphones bless you keep listening to classic Rock 🎧

I agree re: Citadel. Great riff.

I love this record! It's one of my favorites.

A very good review. informative and researched , I Love the album I thought it was great!

Hey Abby, You know they hid two Beatle pictures on the front cover: one of John, one of George. Can you spot them? It was a nod back to The Beatles who had put the "Welcome The Rolling Stones" on the cover of "Pepper". You can definitely see George below Charlie. I believe at least some of the band was on acid for the cover shoot, lol. I LOVE this album and so did my entire family; it has always had it's champions! I like it ten thousand times more than "Between The Buttons"! (but not "Aftermath"! That's a great one.) I LOVE the cover (which was relentlessly maligned!). So many great similar covers, where you open up and there's some psychedelic art. Moody Blues "In Search Of The Lost Chord" from '68, great album, great cover. "The James Gang Rides Again", do you have THAT album? Or "Yer Album", their first one? You will LOVE those albums, especially "Rides Again"! The James Gang (when Joe Walsh was in them: their first three albums), great frickin' band. / Major omission on guest players! Nicky Hopkins is the piano player, especially on "She's A Rainbow", which is virtually a Nicky Hopkins showcase. The guy does this, next thing you know he's playing the solo on Beatles "Revolution" (single version), he's all over Who and Kinks albums before and after, and all over The Stones albums.....unsung hero of British rock: Nicky Hopkins!

Brian plays mellotron, soprano sax, and flute. He plays organ on ‘The Lantern’ electric dulcimer and recorder on ‘Gomper’ and maybe some guitar somewhere. Keith probably plays almost all the guitars. Brian probably does not play the other brass instruments. Nicky Hopkins plays piano and harpsichord.

Funnily enough… I was introduced to this album as a boy via a cover of Citadel by the UK band The Damned. Released in 1981. Worth a listen. They did a few 60s covers including ‘I had too much to dream last night’ by the 13th floor elevators’….. wonderful how music takes us to different places. Gomper is awful, but she’s a rainbow is a joy. Sums you up 😂👍I don’t have instagram but love your full reviews - and the hair looks great. Image wise you dress perfect.

I LOVE THE ROLLING STONES! My personal favorite Rolling Stones album is "Tattoo You!" But I LOVE ALL MUZIK especially the 50s to 70s with the 60s British Invasion being my tops. I LOVE "PRODUCTION VALUE" IN MUZIK WITH A LOT OF FEELING & SUBSTANCE. I REALLY ENJOY YOUR RECORD ANALYSIS'S! I'M A MUZIK JUNKIE 😁💖🎶 I make my own muzik 💖🎨🎶 LoVe2P∆int$ound! Looking forward to more of your videos.

This album kind of gets derided but listening to it today it is classic, lots of cool stuff going on. Love the dress Abigail.

Their Satanic Magesties Request is my favorite Stones album, regardless of what anyone else thinks. She's A Rainbow & 2000 Light Years From Home are the highlights. I really liked this era, when the Stones ventured away from their bluesy roots towards other styles, from olde English to psychedelia.

R.I.P. Brian 🙏

I love this album and I'm glad you do too😘

Love Citadel and 2000 Light Years.

Looking forward to the new episode! Hope you are doing great ☺️!

Interesting perspective. Well done. From South Australia.

If you look at it like "The Beach Boys Party" what's wrong with it? We never took a trip without it! "Citadel" is an AMAZING critique of modern society! I always add to the mix, "Dandelion", "We Love You" and "Child of the Moon". Imagine if you throw out the "duds" and add those songs! If it had come out like THAT, it would have been the greatest psych album of the sixties! Anyway, that's how I listen to it now. "Rainbow" still begins it of course!

Not my favorite Stones record, but when I want to hear the standout tracks from this I play side 3 of More Hot Rocks, which has Rainbow and 2000 light years, but then Child of the Moon (which apparently was a B side but could have fit on TSMR) No Expectations and Let it Bleed. That's a great side of music.

I never knew the snoring story! Ha! Like a lot of this album (and other albums of the period), i was haunted by that when I was a kid! I was also haunted by Brian on the front cover; he was the first rock star I knew who had died, might even have been how I learned about death! Ha! / I used to feel down on the long Sing This All Together but I love it now, you're right, great psychedelic track. It's a little like the fourth side of "Freak Out"! And we KNOW they loved Zappa! / The reason "Satanic" was so maligned was EVERYONE was doing "Sgt. Pepper" knock-offs by the end of '67, which is when this came out. Everyone suddenly had colorful, psychedelic covers (The White Album put the brakes on that!) and were doing long jams and using flange and all that. Plus you had all the NEW psychedelic bands: Hendrix, Airplane, Grateful Dead, The Pink Floyd, The Doors, Moby Grape, et al. So they were being accused of jumping on the bandwagon - not for the last time in their career! "Pet Sounds" by then had run it's course, that had been the year before......which in the 60s might as well have been five years! lol. The Beach Boys had some kind of small controversy regarding not playing Monterey Pop and were looked on as a bit unhip by December '67 (Hendrix saying "You'll never hear surf music again" in "Third Stone" didn't help!). Damn, I've written you TWO gigantic comments, so sorry!!! I'm recording actually, and I keep your blog and videos up.....they're fantastic for hitting when I start getting burnt out! You really are a muse! :D

Love your vids! Question: Would you ever consider playing little snippets of the songs you discuss? It helps me to hear the music. Thanks!

when it came out, the cover and psychedelic sound made me feel like they were trying a bit too hard to 'compete' with sgt pepper. but i was 17 and a bit too sure of myself. now, as an old fart, i love the album; they did a very credible job and several of the songs have come to haunt me a half century later. and, yes, you do in fact look like you stepped right out of my favorite time period.

This album has always been a favorite of mine. It's "Satanic" and it was released on the day of my birth.

Oh! Citadel is a great deep cut from the Rolling Stones. I have the 50th anniversary set from 2017. It has both the mono and stereo versions.

The Gomper is one on highlights of this wonderful album. It is one of the most consistent because is not a song properly, but a jam, a fantastic jam though, that allowed the Stones to dig inside and out of their stone rock cannon. Jamming is an essential of psicodelic music of this time, so is a staple here, indispensable in this only psicodelic experience of this talented group.