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Their Satanic Majesties Request

Certain Songs #2038: The Rolling Stones – “She’s A Rainbow”

February 19, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Their Satanic Majesties Request
Year: 1967

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Somehow, 50 years later, Their Satanic Majesties Request — the culmination / death of the Rolling Stones experimental period — remains the most controversial album in their entire canon.

Made while the Stones were going through an incredibly tumultuous period in their personal lives — Mick, Keith and Brian all were dealing with drug busts, Anita Pallenberg dumped Brian for Keith, Andrew Loog Oldham up and quit — it’s not so much terrible, but disjointed, full of extraneous sound effects (excusable) and extraneous jamming (inexcusable).

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Certain Songs #2037: The Rolling Stones – “2000 Light Years From Home”

February 18, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Their Satanic Majesties Request
Year: 1967

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As you know, here at Certain Songs, we have a weakness for songs about OUTER SPACE! And “2000 Light Years From Home” is a good one, describing a lonely astronaut who is traveling further and further away–what? Oh, right. Turns out that it’s a metaphor, he really didn’t get the jump on David Bowie and Elton John after all. BOOO!

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