Beggars Banquet

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Product Details

Artist : The Rolling Stones
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0042288233022
Label : Decca - Pop
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2006-08-14
Running Time : 40minutes
UPC : 042288233022

ASIN : B00006RT50

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Sympathy For The Devil
2. No Expectations
3. Dear Doctor
4. Parachute Woman
5. Jig-Saw Puzzle
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Prodigal Son
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Factory Girl
10. Salt Of The Earth

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Customer Reviews

An embarrassment of riches... (2008-03-17)

The first time I ever heard "Sympathy For The Devil" I was 15 and it absolutely blew me away. It was all too much - the slyly witty lyrics, the strident bark of Jagger's delivery, the creepy ambience...and when the indecently distorted guitar solo kicked in it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard. It more than deserves its reputation as one of the Stones' finest hours, and repeated listening does nothing to dull the magic. And that's just the first track.The rest of the album is stuffed with tremendous songs, from the beautifully wistful "No Expectations" to the yearning lyricism of "Jigsaw Puzzle" to the strutting classic "Street Fighting Man" to the seamy celebration of the joys of jailbait that is "Stray Cat Blues" (these were more innocent times), the Stones could do no wrong on this record. It's that rare thing, an album that sounds so damned amazing on a first listen that you know you've just found a new friend for life. Along with "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile..." this is one of my all-time Stones favourites, and if you've never experienced its seedy pleasures then you're in for a treat. Enjoy!!

Have A Feast (2007-11-22)

The best known songs here are "Sympathy For The Devil" and "Street Fighting Man" which I guess most people know already. You also get the country tinged "No Expectations", "Jig-Saw Puzzle" with its Dylanesque lyrics and "Prodigal Son" which is the story from the Bible. "Parachute Woman" is a vaguely pornographic trip round the USA, "Dear Doctor" is a gentle micky take of country music in general, and "Stray Cat Blues" is the Stones at their best, the kind of song they are most associated with. Controversial lyrics (in their day) and screaming guitars in the background. "Factory Girl" and "Salt of The Earth" with Keith singing the first verse are both nods to the working people.

Not the best, not the worst of this Stones 'golden' period (2007-04-28)

Back to raw, earthy Stones R&B after their dabblings in dark psychedelia with "Their Satanic Majesties". Jimmy Miller installed to produce that traditional Stones sound. Effectively Brian's last album. He did get credits on a coupla tracks on "Let it Bleed" but here he's involved in the whole deal. And that's where this album sits, neatly in that transition niche, re-establishing the gutsy, edgy noise they were after and achieving a good solid typical Stones album - but pretty safe. I think it no better than either of the two aforementioned albums that neatly straddle it. Perhaps the rift with Brian plays it's part in keeping things on line. There's not the beauty of the experimentation of "Sticky Fingers" where they start ploughing new furrows and take Mick Taylor's impact fully on board. That said, it's far better than the predictable (and over long) "Exile on Main Street". It does bring some outstanding tracks to their back catalogue "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man" (obviously), "Salt of the Earth" and the often overlooked "Stray Cat Blues". Good stuff but not outstanding.

The big change (2007-02-06)

This was the album where The Rolling Stones really changed their whole approach. Recorded in 1968 against a background of student demonstrations and the like, the quasi-hippiness of "On Her Satanic Majesties' Request" had gone. Dressing in flower-power gear never really sat well with The Stones and here they were, clad in darker, edgier garb. Hedonism was the name of the game - a non-album single, "Jumping Jack Flash" had set the tone - and nowhere was this better exemplified than in the stunning opener, "Sympathy For The Devil", of which so much has already been written. The album's single was the contemporaneously relevant "Street Fighting Man" in which we are treated to the "acoustic lead riff" as used also on "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Brown Sugar" to such great effect. These two great rock tracks excepted, the rest of the album is a strange but interesting mix of blues rock, bluesy country and experimentations in different (at the time) approaches to instrumentation - piano, acoustic and electric guitar pairings, bottleneck guitar and very contrived vocals from Jagger, more so than ever before. It was here that his almost ludicrous cod-American accent really became the norm."Factory Girl" is an appealing country romp, while "No Expectations" drips with slow blues menace, as does the insistent "Prodigal Son". Strangely enough (or maybe not depending on your point of view) both the towering and somewhat vulgar "Stray Cat Blues" and the anthemic "Salt Of The Earth" both finish off with very "Strawberry Fields"-esque drums, and the album's other truly great cut, "Jigsaw Puzzle" is marked by "Blonde On Blonde" piano, Dylanesque lyrics and phraseology. So, maybe they were influenced by their contemporaries, but with this album, The Stones showed their ability to change and also their desire, at the time, to experiment with non-commercial, non-formulaic material.

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