10 Perfect Hard Rock & Metal Albums That Bands HATE

10. Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones

It was pretty much a law that every band that survived the '60s had to go through a psychedelic phase sooner or later.

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Even if you were your own unique entity and had nothing to do with the psychedelic scene of San Francisco, chances are your label would push you into donning the psychedelic colors and going on for prolonged jams in the studio. It happened to The Monkees, it happened to garage rock acts, and it also happened to the World's Most Enduring Rock and Roll Band.

Then again, this was the period where the Rolling Stones were trying out new ideas left and right, so Their Satanic Majesties Request should have just been another new venture for them.

Coming off of the proper pop sound of Between the Buttons, songs like She's A Rainbow put them in good graces with the acid rock scene...and pissed off their leader to no end.

When looking back on this period, Mick Jagger hasn't minced words about how he thinks that this was a low point creatively, thinking that they were just riding trends and even copying the Beatles a little bit on the album cover.

Even legendary session player and future Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones wasn't fond of working on this record either, considering the whole project to be a work job. Though the Stones remain staples of '60s rock, maybe it's best to keep them away from the raga rock genre.

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