Beggars Banquet (Rolling Stones)

A great HOF rock album. . .great songs, great feel to the whole project.  To see the Stones now as the epitome of corporate sell-out rock it's hard to imagine just how edgy they seemed at the height of their artistic powers.

Grungy, nasty, and raw. The Stones returned to their Blues roots for a fine album. Close to the end of the line for their best work. There are flashes of brilliance on their later albums but in the glory days of the Stones the whole album was good. Later maybe one or two good songs per album.

Couldn't agree more with Oscargamblesfro's review. In their prime, the Stones were absolutely magnificent. "Stray Cat Blues" remains one of my favorite Stones songs of all time-- it's a furiously rollicking, rhythmically decadent classic that only the Stones in their glory could create. "Sticky Fingers" still remains my personal favorite Stones album, but there's objectively speaking a great deal more of diversity and differing musical styles represented here. "Salt of the Earth" is a crusty but lovely song, with the vocals of Jagger and Richards complimenting and contrasting with each other exquisitely. "Factory Girl" is as authentically bluesy as anything the Stones ever did, and it could legitimately come out of either the Gulf Coast area of Biloxi, Mississippi or a dark and industrial English city like Birmingham. Works either way. Even a "throw-away" song like "Dear Doctor" surges with more joyful energy and vibrancy than 90% of the "best-of" work by other bands. Wherever Robert J... Read more

While I realize that music is one of those things that is subjective, I'm really rather surprised that this album is fourth from the bottom on this particular list, this is one of the best records from what I feel may be the very best single year in the genre's history. In my opinion, there isn't a bad track on the record.There's a LOT more to this record than just the well known "Sympathy for the Devil" and " Street Fighting Man." "Jigsaw Puzzle," "Factory Girl," "Salt of the Earth," 'Dear Doctor," and "Stray Cat Blues" alone would be enough to show its status as a classic. It may, or may not, be their greatest album,but it's a definite contender. Albums this great don't come out anymore in my view, or barely ever. If the Stones in their prime and the pathetic, watered down post grunge popular outfits of today existed at the same time.. people laugh at the Stones today because they're decrepit and call them dinosaurs, which... admittedly they are, but when they attempt to extend that... Read more

The Stones finest.

Featuring "Salt Of The Earth", "Dear Doctor", "Factory Girl", "Sympathy For The Devil" & my personal favorite "Jigsaw Puzzle", this is among the top 3 Stones platters(with Sticky Fingers & Exile). Very sloppy & bluesy.