
Released 1967
London Records (originally)
ABKCO Records (remastered)Track Listing:
Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
She's A Rainbow
The Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years From Home
On With The Show
Review:- 2 (out of five)
For "Their Satanic Majesties Request," the Stones were heavily into LSd and other mind-altering drugs, and it REALLY shows in the music and songwriting. "Gomper," "In Another Land," "The Lantern" and "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)" are truly failed experiments in psychodelia. In certain places is works, like the orchestral "She's A Rainbow" and the sound effects-laden but cool "2,000 Light Years From Home." They strayed from their blues roots and the album flopped. This is an album many completists don't even have.
It's believed that they made this difficult album to get longtime producer Andrew Loog Oldham off their backs. It worked, and this album was produced entirely by the Stones. The cover is modeled after The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" cover. The original LP cover was holographic, and consequently, very trippy. "TSMR" contains "In Another Land," the only Bill Wyman-penned song ever to make it to a Stones album. If you listen to it, you'll understand why.