Part druggy experiment, part musical rivalry with the Fab Four, and a total anomaly in the Rolling Stones’ catalogue, THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST contains at least three trippy classics in “Citadel,” “She’s a Rainbow,” and “2000 Light Years From Home.” That it also contains an extensive sample of Bill Wyman snoring and an eight-minute stoned jam that begins …
Not just every single, but both sides of every single the Stones released during the ’60s, 58 of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll songs ever waxed! Starts with their version of Chuck Berry’s Come On , ends with Sympathy for the Devil , and in between lie one classic after another. …
When you’re anthologizing the Rolling Stones, one of the first things you must accept is that you’re doomed to failure. No one album can possibly tell the story of the band that’s explored so many different musical avenues and recorded so many memorable songs. Still, the double-disc best of HOT ROCKS, and this, its sequel, come perilously close. …
Returning to the American concert scene after a three-year layoff, the Rolling Stones recorded GET YER YA-YA’S OUT! during a triumphant two-date stand at Madison Square Garden in late November 1969 that found B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner opening for them. Having amassed an impressive recorded output during their three years away from touring, the …
This album represents a turning point for the Stones. Though they had not yet fully integrated the baroque aspirations of pop into their music, the flower-power influence had nonetheless begun to take root. While all the earlier elements of their sound are still firmly in place, in the folky “Backstreet Girl” and the relentlessly rocking “Let’s Spend The …
The Alchemist (Alejandro Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent planets in the solar system. The occult adept s intention is to put the recruits though strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island where they ascend The Holy Mountain to …
Classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and comic mystic EL TOPO (played by writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky) must defeat his four sharp shooting rivals on an ever increasing bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection. Released in 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo was the landmark film that began …
The greatest single-disc Sam Cooke collection ever, 30 tracks in SACD sound! Includes You Send Me; Chain Gang; Twistin’ the Night Away; Shake; Little Red Rooster; Good Times; (What a) Wonderful World; Another Saturday Night; Cupid; Only Sixteen; A Change Is Gonna Come; Having a Party , and more career highlights. Indispensable! …
ABKCO Records Presents Rolling Stones Classic Gems: This incredible 16-track compilation features some of the band s most memorable hits spanning the years 1964-1971. The Very Best Of The Rolling Stones 1964-1971 is jam-packed with all the essentials that were the soundtrack to an entire generation. No true Stones fan will want to be without this collection of …
