10 Rock Albums That Artists Want You To Forget About
4. Their Satanic Majesties Request - Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones could be considered the first truly great rock and roll band for some people. For as much as the Beatles may have excited fans left and right at the start of the '60s, the wild experimentation and inherent dangerousness of these guys put them just a bit above their Liverpudlian contemporaries. On the other hand, Their Satanic Majesties Request is where things started to reach a breaking point.
Looking to venture out of their bluesy comfort, this record is yet another installment where the Stones try to take on another sonic costume. As if you couldn't already guess from the cover, much of this album is coated in a psychedelic haze, as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards try to carve out a sound for themselves that could fit nicely amid records like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
With the benefit of hindsight though, Jagger in particular has a lot of distaste for this period of the band, going so far as to dismiss most of the material as a load of rubbish from front to back. He's not alone either, with string arranger and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones calling these arrangement sessions some of the most boring jobs of his entire career. While She's a Rainbow might get the seal of approval nowadays, this is the moment where the druggy atmosphere got to be too much to bear.