THE ROLLING STONES

THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST.

DECCA UK UNBOXED TXL 103

Year : 1967

the rarest UK issue 

Side 1 Matrix ARL-8126-IP

Side 2 Matrix ARL-8126-PI

very rare 1st pressing matrices NOT CORRECTED

please check the images with matrices.

The MOST important feature of this beautiful Stones classic is, that it has the hugely scarce, uncorrected matrix endings !!!!! The first pressings of this record had 1P/P1 matrix endings. This was an error that was almost immediately resolved, by adding a tiny diagonal numeric 1 ,after the side matrix ending of 1P .Virtually all 1st pressings have this matrix correction on side one. It is impossible to locate one such as this, that does NOT have this correction. I have never seen one myself and there must only be a handful in existence today. To have found a vinyl with this rare ,uncorrected matrix ,is very exciting for collectors worldwide 

The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl. The Cat. No is TXL 103 on the ORIGINAL !! All the tracks are pure quality Rolling Stones at their best!!!! Any fan of The Rolling Stones, or 60s music in general, will want to have this in their collection!!!

Inner: original red Cloud inner Sleeve 

Labels: Both labels are clear no writing and very few spindle marks.

 

Details of the specific copy: Complete Super very first pressing copy.

condition: (VISUAL GRADING most of times)

Sleeve:  3D sleeve

EXCELLENT PLUS :1ST PRESS MONO 'ROBERT STACE' LAMINATED GATEFOLD '3D' COVER!!!!

 

The Sleeve : NEAR MINT

•   Front Side  : Only very light creasing at the cornersOtherise perfect, not any other creasing,

                               not any yellowing sign, not any writing. 3D plastic undamaged , clear and beautiful.

•   Back Side : Just perfect, not any writing, not any wear, or yelowing or creasing.

•   Inners Side: Just perfect, not any writing, not any wear, or yelowing or creasing.

•   Spine: perfect, no edgewear, no bends , fully readbale.

•   Edges; No any edgewear or bend. perfect

The Labels: All labels are perfectly clear with very few  spindle marks no writing or creasing.

The Vinyls : Both vinyls looks like have been played alot but carfully EXCELLENT .

Quite a few light  papers scuffs and even fewwer  thin line scratches per side. Sounds nicely, plays smoothly without skips or pops with HUGE MONO SOUND and very few light clicks on the more quite passes, light noise here and there.  I have tested the record in two different decks a Luxman and a Technics (1.5 gramms 0 antiskating) On Both decks play fine without skip or pops. Better than any other mixing ever listen , but you should expect some ligt clicps here and there and light noise in between songs. 

 IT IS NOT MINT OR EXCELLENT PLUS.

         A side: EX+: Quite a few paper scuffs no hard scrathes, clean and shinny. Plays smooth with warm sound.    

         B Side: EX: Quite a few paper scuffs no hard scrathes, clean and shinny. Plays smooth with warm sound. 

The inner sleeves: Original RED Cloudy perfect

THIS is THE VERY VERY RARE version  it came out in very few hundreds  of copies and later substituted by the second stereo pressing with the boxed DECCA.

 

The record is pressed on THICK, quality vinyl. The Cat. No is TXL 103 on the ORIGINAL !! All the tracks are pure quality Rolling Stones at their best!!!! Any fan of The Rolling Stones, or 60s music in general, will want to have this in their collection!!!

Their Satanic Majesties Request Studio album by The Rolling Stones Released 8 December 1967 Recorded 9 February – October 23 1967,Olympic Studios, London Genre Psychedelic rock, rock Length 44:06 Language English Label Decca Producer The Rolling Stones Professional reviews

• Allmusic  link
• Allmusic [Mono Version]  link
• Robert Christgau (B+) link

The Rolling Stones chronology Between the Buttons
(1967) Their Satanic Majesties Request
(1967) Beggars Banquet
(1968) Singles from Their Satanic Majesties Request

1. "In Another Land"/"The Lantern"
   Released: 2 December 1967
2. "She's a Rainbow"/"2000 Light Years from Home"
   Released: 23 December 1967

Their Satanic Majesties Request is the sixth studio album by The Rolling Stones and was released on 8 December 1967 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States by London Records. Its title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires..." text that appears inside a British passport.

Richie Unterberger of Allmusic wrote:[1]

Without a doubt, no Rolling Stones album — and, indeed, very few rock albums from any era — split critical opinion as much as the Rolling Stones' psychedelic outing. Many dismiss the record as sub-Sgt. Pepper posturing; others confess, if only in private, to a fascination with the album's inventive arrangements, which incorporated some African rhythms, Mellotrons, and full orchestration. Never before or since did the Stones take so many chances in the studio. In 1968, the Stones would go back to the basics, and never wander down these paths again, making this all the more of a fascinating anomaly in the group's discography.

 

[edit]History

 

Begun just after Between the Buttons had been released, the recording of Their Satanic Majesties Request was long and sporadic, broken up by court appearances and jail terms. Starting with this release, non-compilation albums from the band would be released in uniform editions across international markets.

Released in December 1967, Their Satanic Majesties Request reached #3 in the UK and #2 in the US (easily going gold), but its commercial performance declined rapidly. It was soon viewed as a pretentious, poorly conceived attempt to outdo The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (released June 1967), often explained by drug trials and excesses in contemporary musical fashion, although McCartney and Lennon did provide backing vocals on "Sing This All Together." At this point, the album was the first (and only) album produced by the Stones themselves. The production, in particular, came in for harsh criticism from Jon Landau in the fifth edition of Rolling Stone Magazine[2], and the Stones turned to Jimmy Miller to produce their subsequent albums. The response of the audience and the growing rejection of the flower powerscene by Jagger and Richards would mean a turning point for the Stones: in 1968 the Stones would return to the hard driving blues that earned them fame early in their career.

Indeed, admiration and love of the album has grown over the years as a kind of punk rockers' own ragged flipside to the Beatles more cheerful masterpieces from the same period. Songs such as "Citadel" have been covered by a number of young rock bands.

Initial releases of the album featured a three-dimensional picture of the band on the cover by photographer Michael Cooper. When viewed in a certain way, the lenticular image shows the band members' faces turning towards each other with the exception of Jagger, whose hands appear crossed in front of him. Looking closely on its cover, one can see the faces of each of the four Beatles. Later editions replaced the glued-on 3-dimensional image with a standard photo, due to high production costs. A limited edition LP version in the 1980s re-printed the original 3D cover design. Immediately following the re-issue, the master materials for re-printing the 3D cover were intentionally destroyed.

It was the first of four Stones albums to feature a novelty cover (the others were the zipper on Sticky Fingers, the cut-out faces on Some Girls, and the stickers on Undercover).

The maze on the inside cover of the UK and US releases cannot be completed. It has a wall at about a half radius in from the lower left corner. One can never arrive at the "It's Here" in the centre of the maze.

The working title of the album was Cosmic Christmas. In the hidden coda titled "Cosmic Christmas", Wyman tells (it's slowed-down: "We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, and a happyNew Year!")

The album was released in South Africa as The Stones are Rolling because of the word "Satanic" in the title.[3]

The Bill Wyman-composed "In Another Land" was released as a single, with the artist credit listed as Bill Wyman, rather than the Rolling Stones. (The B-Side, "The Lantern" was credited to The Rolling Stones.)

There are only two songs from the album which The Rolling Stones performed live, "2000 Light Years from Home" (1989 U.S. Tour and 1990 Tour of Europe), and "She's a Rainbow" (1997-98 Bridges to Babylon Tour).

In August 2002, Their Satanic Majesties Request was reissued in a new remastered CD, LP and DSD by ABKCO Records.

The song "2,000 Man" has been reworked and covered by Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley for the band's 1979 album, Dynasty.

American neo-psychedelic band The Brian Jonestown Massacre paid tribute to the album with their second album Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request.

In 1998, a bootleg box set of eight CDs with outtakes of the Satanic sessions was released on the market. The box set shows the band developing the songs, and striking is the cooperation between Brian Jones,Keith Richards and session pianist Nicky Hopkins. Richards is leading the sessions and most songs seem to be written by him, and both Hopkins and Jones indulge in creating elaborate soundscapes.

[edit]Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

[edit]Side one

1. "Sing This All Together" – 3:46
2. "Citadel"  – 2:50
3. "In Another Land" (Bill Wyman) – 3:15
4. "2000 Man" – 3:07
5. "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)" – 7:58

[edit]Side two

1. "She's a Rainbow" – 4:35
2. "The Lantern" – 4:24
3. "Gomper" – 5:08
4. "2000 Light Years from Home" – 4:45
5. "On with the Show" – 3:40

[edit]Personnel

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger- lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion
• Brian Jones - percussion, flute, mellotron, organ, electric dulcimer, saxophone, recorder, guitar
• Keith Richards - guitars, bass guitar, mellotron, backing vocals
• Charlie Watts - drums, percussion, tablas
• Bill Wyman — bass, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "In Another Land"

Additional personnel

• Nicky Hopkins - piano, harpsichord, organ, mellotron
• John Paul Jones — string arrangement on "She's a Rainbow"
• Eddie Kramer — percussion
• Ronnie Lane — backing vocals on "In Another Land"
• Steve Marriott — backing vocals and acoustic guitar on "In Another Land"
• John Lennon — vocals on "Sing This All Together"
• Paul McCartney — vocals on "Sing This All Together"
• Anita Pallenberg — vocals
• Ian Stewart — organ
• Uncredited musicians — strings and brass

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