Their Satanic Majesties Request

 

 Well, I'm not a "progger," but an avid MUSIC fan, and I download a LOT of songs.

 

 

 I sample lots of artists & albums that way, buy individual tracks from albums I wouldn't otherwise buy, and ready access & affordability are also major plus factors.

 

 

 

Back to my question, can anyone please be more helpful with other essential tracks on the album?

I hope it was worth the price.

Well, as much as Sgt. Pepper's is, or In The Wake Of Poseidon... sort of a... er... "semi-concept album". 

There's a theme that returns several times, an overall flow of unity to the album, but it (the concept) stays discreet and is not as clear or far-reaching as, say, Tales From Topographic Oceans. 

Is the time when Brian Jones became a hippy prince ( as seen in Monterrey) and they were tripping wildly.

Sometimes i feel that for a short time they believed in the artistical, political statementes of psychedelia.

They wanted to be a free artistic group.

The problem was in the time nobody liked it, mainly because they have another interesting acts to follow, and because for the whole scene the usual stones were a revered act. So like Dylan when picked the electric guitar they get a sound :"BUUUU" from the scene ( what i think is very unffair).

So basically they decided if they want the bad evil stones and loads of poropaganda thats whats your going to get. And they keep on with making a career of evil  (B.O.C. of course), and profits for greats blues plus image.

As a multi-talented musician he was naturally able to master a melodic tone quality on all instruments he played. In the early days he played a nice clean slide guitar style. On harmonica he was quite impeccable. The difference between Jagger and Jones on harp is very obvious to the ear. Jones is plainly all over the place with fancy phrasing. The strange thing about Jones was the fact that even though he wanted the Rolling Stones to remain a blues band, he efforts to a style of music in which he may not have preferred was the most outstanding aspect to anything remaining to be progressive about the Stones.

If he had stayed clean and not fooled about with drugs and depression, I could see him blending all of those instruments he played on a solo effort......maybe like a Mike Oldfield approach. Since he was the only member of the Stones to be that diverse in reality. Because he fooled himself into believing that his personal life was a tragic set of events, his physical and mental state was destroyed. He destroyed himself and the rest of the band had reasons to boot him. Time to listen to "The Lantern" and "2000 Light Years From Home."