Whiteout75
Active Member
While I get your point ( and agree that they’re way better at blues rock) I actually listen to SMR and GHS more these days than the classic ”masterpieces”, which is why I extended the run to include them. Goats Head Soup might even be my favourite Stones-album. Satanic is their Sgt Pepper-rip off, and probably done with all the wrong intentions. But it’s fun and I do think it is also a natural starting point to their classic albums phase, as you can hear the first outlines to stuff like Sympathy for the Devil and Can’t You Hear Me Knocking on this album. And if they hadn’t experimented with textures and rythms on SMR, I doubt the classics that followed would have sounded as rich.While I think that SMR is a very solid and often overlooked album I would still prefer both Aftermath and Between The Buttons to SMR. They seem much more comfortable making Blues Rock than Psychedelic Rock. SMR is much better than I think it’s given credit for but it’s never hit as hard as those two (at least for me) and they all pale when compared to their run from Beggars to Exile.
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