The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic majesties Request + 2 {Orig. US Mono}
24bit/96kHz (Hi-Rez Audio)
01. Sing This All Together
02. Citadel
03. In Another Land
04. 2000 Man
05. Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
06. Cosmic Christmas
07. She's A Rainbow
08. The Lantern
09. Gomper
10. 2000 Light Years From Home
11. On With The Show
Bonus:
12. Street Fighting Man (45 version)
13. Sympathy For The Devil
All tracks Mono
All of these mixes are officially unavailable on CD except Tr. 03, 07, 09, 10 & 12.
Produced: Rolling Stones, Jimmy Miller (Tr. 12-13)
Engineer: Glyn Johns, Eddie Kramer (co-engineering Tr. 12 at Sunset Sound)
Recorded: 01-11: February & May-October 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, Barnes, London
12: March, May-July 1968 at Olympic Sound Studios & Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles
13: June 1968 at Olympic Sound Studios, Barnes, London
Mastered: Bell Sound Studio, New York, Nov. 1967 / Tr. 13: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London.
Hardware:
- Technics 1210mk2
- Jelco SA-750D Tonearm (w/ JAC 501 cable)
- Audio Technica AT33PTG MC
- Audio technica AT33Mono MC (Tr. 12-13)
- Pro-Ject Tube Box SE-2
- Yamaha CA-1010
- RME ADI-2 A/D Interface
Software:
- Audition 3.0 used for adjusting DC bias, editing, (incl. manual removal of clicks
and pops), adding gain and making the cue points.
- Click Repair 3.4.1 used with setting Cl: 15, Cr: 0
- CueListTool v1.7 & Mediaval CueSplitter used for generating the .cue's & .m3u's.
Transfer & Restoration by Prof. Stoned
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Prof. sez:
Due to popular demand; another one in the series "essential Stones in mono but not available on cd".
I have released this one before in 2007 but this new rip is much cleaner than the old one and
has better fidelity, due to a more sophisticated system and better sources.
Satanic Majesties is the true oddball album amongst the Stones 60's catalogue and one that has divided
both critics and fans ever since its release day. Its experimental nature sets it apart from any of their
other albums. While Jagger and Richards have always denied it to be an imitation of the Sgt. Pepper album,
its conceptual similarities are striking. This does not make it any less of an interesting product of its
time, and it definitely has its moments.
1968 was just around the corner, and it wouldn't be long before the Stones re-invented themselves with
Jumping Jack Flash & Beggar's Banquet. But here, they allowed themselves to be whimsical, pretentious
and a bit long-winded. In retrospect, one can't help but think what it could have been if Jimmy Miller
had been around to direct the sessions. With the addition of other tracks from this era such as
"We Love You" and "Child of the moon", the end result might have been a bit more substantial and a bit less
silly. But lest not forget that it was 1967, and everything was still groooooovy. Man.
By the time this album came out in December 1967, the stereo format reigned supreme in the States and was
slowing taking over in the UK as well. As a result, mono copies are somewhat difficult to locate. Most US
copies ended up being dumped with a cut-out hole. In the UK, quite a bit more mono copies were sold at
the time but only one of the three different pressing variations contained the true one channel mix,
while the other two were sourced from a folddown of the stereo. Regardless, the US pressings should be
considered the true originals, because the album was first mastered at Bell Sound, New York, and save from
Canada, all other pressings were cut from copy tapes.
Much effort on my behalf went into the production of this collection, because I wanted to make sure
to get it exactly right this second time around. Therefore, I invested in various different pressings
(three from the USA, and the one correct pressing from the UK with 1P/P1 on the deadwax). There were
notable sonic differences between all four of them, with the UK copy clearly having inferior soundquality.
While the recording is already somewhat hot and gritty sounding, the UK mono misses definition, has
smeared sounding transients and is more hissy. Among the US pressings I compared (with sets of 1C, 1D &
1H matrices), the 1H came out as the cleanest and most dynamic sounding, so that one was used for the
majority of this recording. Still, one thing all USA copies had in common were the quite noisy surfaces,
and thus I had to fly in some small fragments from the 1C (which was pressed in the 70's).
As a bonus, I have added the only two Beggars Banquet songs which exist in true mono. Street Fighting Man
was taken from the original US 45rpm (there was no UK single of this) and contains at least one different
vocal line that is missing on the well-known stereo version. It may very well be that this mix was prepared
before final vocal overdubs were added. Despite its lo-fi sound, the transfer used here is far superior to
the needledrop that appears on the two official remastered Singles Collection CD sets.
Sympathy for the Devil is the only track on the UK mono album of Beggar's Banquet that is actually a true
one channel mix. The rest of the album is just a straight folddown of the off-speed stereo production master.
When folding the stereo version of this song to one channel, the piano all but disappears due to being
out-of-phase within the stereo image and therefore cancelling itself out. For this reason alone, the song
was remixed to mono.
Enjoy!