The Rolling Stones on CD part II

This week we resume the music posts that go back to November 21 2016 no less where I did discuss my collection of Rolling Stones cds.
 As explained at the time in as far as their recordings before 1971 go, they are the property of Abkco Records who have released them as they felt fit and whose last re-issue series goes back to 2002 although in 2006 that series was reissued on standard cd in jewel cases.
Why did I say Standard cd?
Simply because in Europe, Japan and North America they all were issued that year on Super Audio cd with a layer playable on regular cd players too so that on those Super Audio cd players you would get a sound much closer to the original analogue recordings.
I bought a good many of them at the time but apart from missing the odd US only title that had little to offer over the UK one I didn't get around to picking up this one.

It is the least understood album of theirs of that era entitled Their Majesties Satanic Request and issued originally in December 1967 in mono which came on cd in the Rolling Stones in Mono box set and stereo.
The original sleeve used a 3D art insert of the band in the centre but this was dropped several years later as it was way too expensive to make and assemble.

 The whole theme of the album is so "The Summer of Love" it was almost dated on release but while it does contains a number of great songs it's biggest downfall was the the combination of the group using the recording sessions to just drop in the studio, goofing about without a producer to say "enough of that" and turbulent events around the including arrests and group founder Brian Jones increasing drug addiction with all the issues from it.
They had to pull bits up to make a album very quickly from very little that could be regarded as releasable.
Throw in experimenting widely with a psychedelic sound in the studio, incorporating unconventional instruments, sound effects, string arrangements, and African rhythms and what you had was an album far removed from the rock sound they had only created the previous year on their groundbreaking Aftermath album, Paint It, Black and Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows? singles.
It took me a while to get into this album mainly on the back of hearing free form jazz and even then some touches like the snoring segment before 2,000 Man which was covered by Kiss, still don't make any sense.
It's a interesting album to listen to especially in SACD but the group clearly learned from their experiences making this album bring in producer Jimmy Miller and a more disciplined approach to recording for their next album Beggars Banquet.

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