Just listened to Citadel for the first time for a while and thought what a superb underplayed track! Pity it will never surface live...

if I recall, it has a really cool sounding gituar hook.

finally someone else gets this track on this forum!

the citadel...

Took the words rite out off my mouf, neilly!
Still dreamin' of a live rendition!
That songs is totally timeless.
Chuckie can re-form it, like he did with 2,000 LYFH..

Maybe if there is enough call for it Baboon then we can get it like She Was Hot was suddenly introduced - ever the optimist!

As we got SSC & Sway.

Best riff this side JJF.

Lets Go For It then all together "We Want Citadel"!! We want Citadel!!

love it, it represents a period in the stones career when they were meant to be not so good.

i dont believe it, they were brilliant in 1967 and had some classsic songs.

stoens had so much variety about thier music in the 60,s and citadel was a part of it.

Know Candy is fine but here's hoping Cathy is well....



ROCKMAN

This is sofar the longest thread about Citadel or Majesties
where noone sofar has tried to crush it.

We will be strong. I'd better stay off this thread,
before someone bites.

Et tu, my Brutus....

Don't GO Bro we need to stick together!!

I love Satanic Majesties & most of all Citadel.
I also love some more songs on it.
No, I do not love Gomper.

And free acid for the Love Child Generation.
NB: Irony, joke.

One of the "heaviest" songs of it's time.
Still sounds good today. Beats me how Satanic Majesties can be compared to Sgt Pepper?

slay me if you like, but i think that Citadel kicks the crap out of some of the weaker stuff on Banquet and LIB

There is some weaker stuff on Banquet and Let It Bleed???? WTF!!!

TSMR was one of my first Stones albums, and Citadel was one of my favorites on it. Don't love it as much now, but it's still great. Could've been even better had The Stones opted for a more clear and detailed production on it, like the rest of TSMR.

The Stones Wrote:
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> There is some weaker stuff on Banquet and Let It
> Bleed???? WTF!!!


I dont mean "weak" per se, i would rather - given the choice - listen to Citadel over say "Dear Doctor" or "Country Honk"...thats all

don't miss HM's brilliant index to the Satanic Threads: [www.iorr.org]
someone very smart on one of those threads notes that the Great Change in the Stones' sound
that's usually associated with JJF *really* started in the Satanic Sessions - Citadel being one of the prime examples
stunningly strong stuff - that fierce wild riff roaming through the glorious dark spaciousness ... ohhh yes



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Brilliant song, one of my top ten Stones songs. Love the tremelo guitar riff, the Glockenspiel thing by Jagger, Brian's uke Mellotron, Charlie's brushes, Bill's pumping bass, it's encredible.

If you like Satanic for even the slightest part you MUST listen to the 8 CD set of Satanic outtakes. It shows the band working on a classic album, with Nicky Hopkins the main piano man and Brian on mellotron. If the Stones wouldn't have let themselves carried away too much with that Indian jamming on the final released album, it would have been considered a classic allong the lines of BB and LIB.

Mathijs

In the new "Summer of Love" issue of Rolling Stone, the 40 essential albums of 1967 are named. Both Between the Buttons and Flowers are included, but not Their Satanic Majesties Request.

I know that placing previously released singles on an album was strange in the '60s (neither Jumpin' Jack Flash/Child of the Moon or Honky Tonk Women made it to Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed), but if We Love You and Dandelion had been added to TSMR, I think the album would be more highly regarded.

The long jam at the end of Side One could have been an interesting B-side, and Gomper could have been given a more dignified title, like "The Lake."

i still don't know why "In Another Land" needed to be released as a solo Bill Wyman single if "Happy" was a regular Rolling Stones single.