Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home

Some of you think Satanic Majesties is a great album. Sorry, but it isn't, and the Stones admit it. The two "2000" songs are good, but anyone who knows Stones history should know they were STONED out of their minds during the making of this album. There's even that one song where Mick asks, "Where's that joint?" And most of them were distracted by drug charges at the time (weed mostly). The album proves great albums aren't often made when stoned (with the exception of the Beatles and Dr. Dre!)

Still the Stones did this one in one of their 90's shows. It really gave me a thrill to sit and listen in that large football stadium and suddenly recognized what the intro was leading to. Lightyears!! We cried out, screamed for joy. Great opportunity to hear that song from the original. And suddenly we realized that this group can play a full 24 hours without ever to play one song twice.

I saw them perform "Light Years" on the 1989 tour, and it sounded great. You're right, they've got such a catalog of songs, although on the last tour they stuck to the big hits, and that was a bit disappointing.

the stones were so badly produced.The 60s records have not stood the test of time im afraid.

I don't agree. First I don't think they were trying to "cash in". It was Zeitgeist. they happened to be into the same kind of psychedelia as everybody else, incl. the Beatles. In deatil the Stones' take on this is quite diffeent from Sgt. Pepper, although I wouldn't say, it surpasses it. It's simply different. It's remarkable that SMR was not only the only album the Stones produced themselves, but also that it was a huge flop with their dumb fans.

I guess all legends about who's better, the Beatles or the Stones can be traced back to this incident. The Stones fans simply didn't want interesting complex music, they wanted the Stones to be a grassroot rock band and Mick Jagger play the monkey for them on stage. If you lived in that time, you could grasp these differences with your hands. Beatles fans were always those who were interested in music in general, not just rock, like Stones fans, who were just looking for their party soundtrack.

No it wasn't a flop at all for their fans AT THAT TIME. Only later on when they started to make this guitar rock stuff with Taylors sharp guitarsolos, the than new Stones fans turned against Their Satanic. But at the time it cashed over the 2mil. dollar in the first ten days by US sales alone, (that was more than the Beatles Magical Mystery tour), and turned gold on the very first day of release. In Holland, for example, the related We Love You was a big nr 1 hit (J. J. Flash didn't make that)

People voted at start of 68 (when this was in the charts) for the Stones as one of the best bands of 67 for the NME. And also in their US 69 tour it played a big role, for the Stones did not release Bleed untill at the end of that tour, but they did release Through tthe Past Darkly with half the songs from 1967 on it and that was high on the charts when their 69 tour started, hence the hippy atmosphere surounding that tour (audience). Quite different from the audience of their 1972 US tour.

It all changed AFTER that 1969 tour with Bleed and Sticky Fingers (not yet with Beggars for all those last albums from 66, 67 and 68 were different in style), but with Bleed and the US 69 tour it became clear what the Stones were becoming. And as people indetify themselves with their heroes, those young 1970's guitar rock lovers hated to be identified with Satanic. But since the Stones guitar rock period is over the new Rolling Stones fans start re-appreciating this brilliant album again