Beggars Banquet

Not my style of music. It really does bore me.

Crazy to read this was already their 8th album? Many bands would be hopeful to even manage 8 albums across their discography. Let alone the career they had past this. Overall pretty forgettable. Sympathy For The Devil is sweet but the rest of the tracks kinda pale in comparison.

Kan i grunn setta pris på Jagger og co, men trur albumet trenge et par gjennomlyttinga til før da sette seg

I dunno what it is but the Stones haven't ever excited me all that much, I find them very samey. There are undeniably some great tunes and interesting arrangements on this, but lots of it felt like generic country rock. 2.5/5 Fav Track: Street Fighting Man

Allright-ish

I listened to this while doing some email admin tasks at the end of my work day. I thought the first song was fun, then at some point I was a bit bored of the vibe. Thems my thoughts. ty. x

Not a lot happened 2

It's rolling stones Better than most of their stuff but still, mick jagger is gross and boring

two rolling stones albums being generated SO CLOSE to each other kinda made me not want to listen to this but i kept going fr 🙏 this album is kinda just there. my favorite, and like objectively the best song, is “Sympathy For The Devil.” everything else kinda just blends together. from the two rolling stones albums i’ve listened to start to finish it seems as if they made great singles and then just gave up for the rest of the album

yeah this really is a rolling stones album and that's about it. not offensively boring but nothing special. best track: sympathy for the devil

There is one good song on this album

Good background noise, but I did not finish bc it got annoying. Very repetitive.

meh

I like some songs from The Rolling Stones. Preferred the Beatles over them tho.

OK. Some nice songs but some not a fan of

Second listen. I think this might be my last Rolling Stones album? I ranked it the highest of them but it still gets a 2.

Nothing special at all

Not as good as the other stones album I rated a 3, so I had to take a star off.

Well. Honestly, after Sympathy for the Devil, rest of the album was kind of a letdown.

Not a rolling stones fan - here's 2 stars for Sympathy For The Devil

Middle of the road Stones. Is this not an album band? A couple giant hits and some meddling blues rock numbers.

OK, to be honest I'm not a stones fan, but the first track Sympathy for the devil is in itself a standalone track. The rest of this album, although good for its time, does lack ingenuity, a lot of it has a deep south USA sound, although I do like the prevelance of acoustic guitar on most of the tracks. It's a fair album, but neither this album or the group ever warranted the hype, in My humble opinion.

Wouldn’t be their best bored me a bit

Meh

Sympathy for the devil gets this a five star rating in the bag. Anything after this can only detract. And bugger me, the rest of the album detracts. "No expectation" is a blues/rock chore. "Dear Doctor" is a blues/country chore. "Parachute woman" is Mick Jagger straight up doing a bad cosplay of John Lee Hooker. White boys can't blues. It doesn't open out to rock and roll again until track 6, "Street fighting man", and even that seems kinda repetitive and whiny somehow. Prodigal Son is an excellent track, but also a cover version of some actual blues. Stray Cat Blues comes around, and like the titular cat is has no home - neither with rock or blues. I feel as if I've heard enough at about the time the drums start to get interesting and am compelled to not skip just to find out where Charlie Watts goes with it. Factory Girl comes up interesting, with some genuinely very good percussion and the fiddles work incredibly well with Jagger's un-Jaggery vocals. Salt of the Earth sounds like the third act opener of a rock opera, rather than the final track of a Stones album. Overall, this album starts with one of the best tracks of the twentieth century and then immediatly falls to shit. It does get better, but other than a straight up cover version and a couple of passable Stones tracks, this album fails to live up to its opener.

sounds like a cliche country album it’s decent just not my taste and i’d understand if country fans like this record just not my cup of tea although there were good songs and favs were dear doctor, parachute woman, street fighting man and prodigal son 2/5 not the best just the kind of album you want to just finish up already

The song selection sounds like its a B-Sides compilation instead of a proper album. We get one inventive, artistic song in Sympathy for the Devil and then some odds n sods blues/country rock tunes. I guess at the time of its release, this album would stand out because of its straight-forward acoustic guitar and piano sounds. I kind of like Jigsaw Puzzle but Salt of the Earth is truly shit.

Not keen on this. It was more country - blues than I was prepared for. I don’t like slide guitar or harmonica. I expected much more.

Weer een stones plaatje waarvan ik te lui ben om er wat van te vinden.

Op Sympathy for the Devil en Street Fighting Man na vond ik het maar een suffe plaat. Veel te bluesy.

Honestly was so excited to get them because I thought it would finally be rock and roll but boy was I disappointed. This was very country in my opinion other than maybe two songs and I was so upset because I just want a rock and roll album. The first song wasn’t bad of course but that’s it.

Is nobody safe from the '60s folksy, country, bluesy sound? I get that this was a popular sound at the time, but I’m surprised that The Rolling Stones went from a song like Paint It, Black to this record in just two years. Don’t get me wrong, it sounds significantly better than some of the albums that came out around this time, but I can only take so much of this music on this list. Obviously, Sympathy for the Devil was great but that’s about it. After the record finished, Spotify decided to play Under My Thumb from one of their previous albums, Aftermath. The 10-second, Crash Bandicoot-esque marimba in the intro was already more interesting than anything on Beggars Banquet.

Ég á erfitt samband við hina rúllandi steina. Inn á milli þess sem fer inn um annað og út um hitt eru gimsteinar. Einn þannig á þessari plötu. Hann hífir hana ekkert rosalega hátt í einkunnagjöfinni samt.

I reviewed Eagles eponymous yesterday on my other thread, and this is just a perfect comp to it. Perfect in that they're so similar - I gave Eagles a 3, and this is discernably worse on every dimension. The key similarities are (a) super-famous band (b) with one of their early releases (c) containing exactly two of the hits that made them famous (d) and basically no other noteworthy or really even enjoyable songs (we will discuss "Salt of the Earth") (e) mostly because all of the balance of the CD is super-basic working-class 70s blues rock. "Sympathy for the Devil" is great, and "Street Fighting Man" is iconic (listening to it again for the first time in a decade, it's really kind of a crummy song), but until we get to "Salt of the Earth", basically the entire rest of the CD sucks. Songs like "Factory Girl" and "Dear Doctor" are not just unpleasant to listen to, in the modern context they're really pretty offensive. And the rest of the CD is just a bunch of stale, by-the-books blues rock. Relative the Eagles version of the same, the Stones (a) have much less vocal talent - the Eagles have at least two singers with stronger voices than Jagger's, and also get way more out of their vocal harmonies - and (b) have dramatically worse sound quality, I mean in the sense of how well the sound is recorded. Many 60s CDs have fairly crude recording quality, but typically from earlier in the decade or from less famous bands - I'm surprised at just how poor the recording quality for a world-class band in 1968, I mean if you compare this to contemporary Beatles / Band / Motown is just sounds sloppy and amateurish. "Salt of the Earth" is joyous and fun, and in trying to understand why I liked it so much, when I did not enjoy the rest of the CD, the clear thing it has that the rest of the CD (outside of "Sympathy") is missing is a voice other than Jagger's - it's the female backing vocals that make the song. And while Richards' very by-the-books blues licks and somewhat crude tone works at times (like on "Sympathy", where it provides a real burst of color with a distinctively different sound from the rest of the song), it's kind of a flop relative to how full the Stones' two-guitar attack works on the Mick Taylor-era CDs. All of which is to say - most of what listening to this CD made me wonder is - are the Stones mostly considered good because, shortly after recording this CD and continuing into the early 70s, they recruited as members basically an entirely different band centered around Mick Taylor and a rotating cast of strong female vocalists?

If you didn't know this was the Stones and take out Sympathy for the Devil and street fighting man, tell me your first thought wasn't country music. Sympathy for devil is all time classic. Street fighting man is good, Rage against the machine made it the song great. Those are the 2 songs I enjoyed. All others sounded like country music, which was not what I expected or particularly enjoyed. I'll give 2.5

2 Never been huge on The Rolling Stones. They have some hits that I absolutely love but I consider them that: a hits band. I’ve heard a few of their full albums and there are occasionally some deep cuts that I kind of like but as a whole they rarely impress me. This is no different. I adore Sympathy for the Devil and outside of that I found a few on here that I kind of enjoy but nothing too crazy. I kind of like some of the harmonica musings but as a whole it just didn’t have the same energy as Sympathy for the Devil Favorites: Sympathy for the Devil, Parachute Woman, Jigsaw Puzzle

Didn't expect such a country/blues infused album. Didn't seem remarkable to me except for the classic opener... Oh, and another thing that left a (negative) mark were the disgusting lyrics in Stray Cat Blues... Seriously? Creepy now, creepy then. Foul! .

Pleased to say my uninformed dislike of The Rolling Stones is now a slightly more informed dislike. Although "Sympathy for the Devil" is pretty good.

People say it’s the start of their “Greatest Band” period but I think they hadn’t really grasped the blues sound yet. It would go on to define their next decade, but here it sounds like waffling between blues and pastoral English folk without doing anything interesting with either.

Best Song: Sympathy For The Devil. By far the most adventurous and unique song on the album. Worst Song: Parachute Woman. Jagger can't sing the blues. That's all there is to say. Overall: It's mostly just kind of dull. The Stones seem to have occasional songs that stick out as unique, but the brunt of the album is just cheap, generic rock. Maybe it hits better live, where Mick Jagger's charisma can elevate the performance, but on recording it just falls flat.

First song is decent (Sympathy for Devil). Last one Salt of the Earth is ok. The rest are completely forgettable. I don't understand appeal of this album. Shmeh.

Some highly questionable lyrics. Some catchy songs.

Symphony for the devil and that’s it

Meh.

Heard before: yes The Rolling Stones are tedious and overrated. Especially Sympathy for the Devil. Tiresomely repetitious. And when they rip blues tunes I’d rather hear the originals.

kinda boring not a big stones fan

meh

Really couldnt enioy this one aside from the hits. Just not for me but didnt need to turn it off

I liked a couple songs but otherwise it's too bluesy for me to really enjoy. Favorite: Sympathy For The Devil

Solid album, first time properly listening to The Rolling Stones. Little different to what I knew of them. Is a little more country than what im used to. Favourite song is Stray Cat Blues.

Sympathy for the Devil is a great song. 50+ years does not dim its charms. The rest of the album doesn't even manage to achieve mediocrity, except maybe Street Fighting Man.

Brits doing blues rock. I prefer disco Stones.

A bit too bluesy/folksy for me on some tracks.

really confuses me how one of the most popular rock bands ever sounds like this it’s kinda disappointing didn’t like a lot of it

hat schon ein paar coole ideen in der ersten hälfte wird aber immer schlimmer im verlauf, konnte das im endeffekt nicht fertig anhören

Not great

Hadn't listened to this album before, Sympathy for the Devil is a classic - great opener - then it went down hill from there, next few songs were so lackluster, derailed the rest of the album. Beggars Belief would have been a better title.

Eh, most of it goes over me.

02/24/2022 Charges out of the gate with "Sympathy For The Devil" but then looses steam with (still good) blues rock. Once classic song doesn't make an album a classic.

first song is the only good one

Eh. The bluesy style was nice but the songs themselves were meh

Never will i understand the appeal of this band . . . i tried hard with this one. Parachute Women and No Expectations r p gud Why constantly compared to the beatles ? i dont know

Da la sensación de que este álbum es famoso y reconocido por el simple hecho de que es de los Rolling Stones y que, si no lo fuese, pasaría desapercibido. Parece como si la motivación que tenían a la hora de grabarlo fuese la de intentar ver cómo sonarían si llevasen viviendo toda la vida en Arizona; quizá sea para hacer las delicias de los granjeros estadounidenses o quizá por pura diversión, pero es precisamente eso lo que falta a la hora de escucharlo: diversión. “Parachute Woman” se sale un poco de esta tónica y se agradece. “Sympathy For The Devil” seguro que ha servido de apoyo para alguna que otra canción de Primal Scream. “Street Fighting Man” es pobre en comparación con la versión de Rage Against The Machine. El resto de canciones me invitan a sentarme en la mecedora del porche con mi mono vaquero de tirantes, el palillo en la boca y la escopeta en el regazo. No estamos ante un gran disco de sus satánicas majestades.

Contains some of my favorite Stones tracks (the multi-layered 'Sympathy for the Devil' and rollicking 'Street Fighting Man'), but the good here is greatly outweighed by the gratuitous honky-tonk of the remaining tracks.

Would not recommend, 2/10

Boomer rock just isn’t my thing all that much

3/10

Rolling Stones? More like Rolling Jones. Brian Jones’ influence (and slide guitar) definitely drive this album. That’s not a horrible thing - the country/western/blues sound is cool and definitely drives the rest of what the Stones would go on to do - it’s just clear they (or, at least most of them) were starting to break away from that sound in this album and it seems a little chaotic at times. Plus - I would have thought the production value on a stones album in 1968 would have been a bit better.

Stones can be better

I didn’t know there would be stones songs I actively disliked. I disliked dear doctor. Jigsaw puzzle went on way too long. Factory girl was out of place. The intro to sympathy for the devil is iconic and got me all pumped but the rest of the album was a let down.

the rolling stones never seem to live up to their reputation. this album is no exception, it just feels like an album full of rock n roll that never really reaches the heights of any of its competition

Was looking forward to listening to this, as I haven't really listened to much of The Rolling Stones. Unfortunately, this was rather underwhelming.

Too much of the same thing

I'll say this much, I love Sympathy for the Devil. I had this album on while I was working and breezed through it but don't remember any of the songs. I skipped a few too that bored me but this did not fee like the stadium rock I know from these stones which makes sense since this was one of their earlier albums. And I'll skip out on that bathroom in the cover.

One great song, the rest - meh.

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Meh

I'm being perhaps a little provocative but...

Meh. Not gonna listen to this actively ever again.

Not their best

Meh

Катящиеся камни из говна

Meh, but rolling stones never were my thing. 2. Still not my thing.

I had one song saved already (sympathy for the devil) I kind of liked street fighting man too, the rest I either didn’t listen to or listened passively.

2

Not my style

Give me a break. This was the 58th album on my journey, and the third Stones album I got, which is 5%. They don't make up 5% of all good music in the world. Not even 0.0001% actually... Beggards Banquet was bland, uninspiring and boring. The songs really don't go anywhere. To prove my point, I encourage you to do the following experiment: take any song off the album and skip to 1/3, 1/2 and 3/4 of it. It's funny how it's the exact same thing. I've never really been into Mick Jagger, but it took me 3 Stones albums and the song Factory Girl to find out why. The guy actually can't sing. He can't. Listen to how he's trying to struggle his way through that song. 'Hair', 'Anywhere', are waaay off pitch and sound all tensed up. He just does not have the proficiency to pull these lines off, because he can't sing high without tensing up and being off pitch as a result. If this album were from some underground project, I'd give it a 2. However, the Rolling Stones are hailed as one of the best rock bands in the world. When measured against this standard, I gotta round that 2 down to a 1.

Boring ol' blues. 1/5

I wish these fuckers would grow some moss

1968 Really struggled getting through this album. I find Jagger’s voice SO annoying and performative. Not sure if the style of music is my thing, but I’m struggling to listen past the voice to find out. Actually the further I listen, the more it sounds like some rich white guy and his band have heard blues music/annerican rock and roll and have been like “I could do that”. It even feels like an American accent at times. I can see it’s got loads of awards and was something really special at the time… but I don’t get it. Maybe I need to listen more but I don’t want to.

The rolling stones just aren't for me ... I don't get why anyone wants to listen to some British guys doing American rock n roll.. it's like a bad cover band. No thx.

Just a very hard, slow listen for me. I can’t even embellish this review a little. I just couldn’t jam to this..

I don't want to listen to grotty toilet music 😭 Never particularly liked Sympathy for the Devil, so this album had no chance

Very bluesy guitar, reminds me of SRV or Johnny Cash. The slide is wonderful I love the tone of the guitar and how you can hear the slide on the strings in certain pieces of the album. The guitar tone is awful and I love it, it’s so fuzzy and crunchy and sounds like it’s been dragged through 500 feet of mud and hit by a semi-truck. The piano reminds me of the later blues shuffle rock and roll came from and over all it’s a great album. 5/5

holy shit this sucks

Anyone putting the Stones over the Beatles is someone I wouldn’t trust making a bowl of cereal. Should have called this Sympathy for the devil and 33 mins of blue’s filler.

FAVS (top 3): no expectations, dear doctor, prodigal son mençoes honrosas: - pqp nao gente nota final: 1/5

Album started well but with ‘sympathy for the devil’ then moved onto second track ‘no expectations’ unfortunately I did have expectations and this album did not live up to them, by track 3 I was wanting to call a doctor as my ears had heard enough, however I persevered and was rewarded with a nice piano section in ‘jigsaw puzzle’ however by the song ‘stray cat blues’ i was ready to give up completely so I was more than glad when it ended and I hope my 1001 album commitment gets better than this first listen. 1/10 for 1 decent song.

did not listen. oops, maybe i shouldve have signed u for weekend albums.

not for me

i hate the stones, couldn't make it to the second song bro

ngl this only has one song i like and its syympathy for the devil there are other songs that are just alright but nothing worthy of adding to my playlists

fucking insufferable.

favs: sympathy for the devil rating 0.5/5

Definitivamente The Rolling Stones no son para mí xd

Quedó viejo

Drivel. Utter drivel.

To be honest, I didn’t really like the sound of this album. I wasn’t finding myself engaged. The instrumentals were fun, but I was bored. These are not songs that I would want to listen to again.

Harmonica and American country sound were jarring for me. Experimentation is one thing but this felt like dressing up?

хуета и неслушабельный кал. "боже, как же они круты, орут в микрофоны своим скрипучим блядским голосом и на фоне какофонии из звуков прямиком из ссаных и богом забытых ковбойских фильмов." не трогай говно, пока не воняет. трогать эту парашу я, естественно, больше не планирую.

this style of rock music isn’t my cup of tea. i liked one or two songs. the rest aren’t memorable.

קאובוי לא כזהה נורא פשוט פחות התחברתי

country rock huh,,, i dont like it,,,,

kind of astounded by how much I disliked this clatter . I can appreciate a blues-whatever-this-is once in a while but….wow. A grating listen. Namaste

Nej tack, det är bra. Jag klarar mig gott med att aldrig höra det här albumet som helhet igen.

saved 2/10 songs

Shite

I hate the Rolling Stones

Not my thing.

I enjoy certain Rolling Stone songs, but this was not quite my hitting those notes. I don’t really resonate with this album.

Didn't make it all the way through. Dreadful.

Despite its reputation as a turning point for the band, Beggars Banquet falls flat when judged on its own merits. The production feels uneven, the songwriting meanders, and the mix of blues and folk influences often drags more than it excites. Even the standout tracks struggle to carry the weight of weaker material, leaving the album feeling more like a rough sketch than a finished statement.

nem sympathy for the devil vai salvar esse álbum de ser um completo lixo graças a deus eu só vou ouvir falar de rolling stones de novo quando algum membro for de lost midia. RUIM

Glad The Stones improved over time:)

Just didn't enjoy this at all.

These guys are pedophiles

Sympathy for the Devil - Creative beat, I don't really like the backing vocals. No Expectations - Good slower song, bass pulls it together. Dear Doctor - Harmonica is a good addition, backing vocals helps. Parachute Woman - Lyrics are basic and easy to follow, loud bass is good. Jigsaw Puzzle - Drum beat is simple but perfect for this song, country vibes. Street Fighting Man - Weird message, I like the vocals though. Prodigal Son - Brush sticks on drums, cowboy feel. Stray Cat Blues - Blues but a disco beat?, Lars ahh drumming. Factory Girl - These songs sound so similar. Salt of the Earth - Best vocals on this album, Piano is great.

Couple of good songs, but filled with nothing special besides. a bit folky, blues and country, outside the established singles overall a bit of nothing. Not terrible but I won't be listening again

This is so ridiculously dull, and stupid, it baffles the mind why it would be on this list. Next Rolling Stones record that comes by I'll skip. Absolute shit.

Sympathy for the Devil is an all-time great song and I was excited to hear the rest of the album led off with that! Unfortunately, the entire rest of the album sucks, with little to no redeeming qualities on any of the songs. Why was Sympathy for the Devil even on this album? It was nothing like any of the other songs on it.

Whole album was not for me. 1/5

Seems alright but I got bored after 3 songs

I don't think anyone can hear this in 2025 and actually think it's something great. Except the opener that is obviously the best one, this album is just outdate blues rock . Honestly I can't wrap my head around the fact that beatles were even compared with this band. I really wanted to make that statement. If the album has anything else in it's favor is the amazing production but that's not enough to make this good. A star for the opener and a star for the production so about a 2/10.

Not listening to another Rolling Stones album

Forgettable. Why is Sympathy for the Devil on multiple Stones album in this very list??

0.05

So they had one song on this album that was remotely good. That song itself I was questioning why it wasn’t ending when it should have. It just lingered annoyingly. The rest of the album was boring, and uninspired.

Ftrs

Started strong with sympathy for the devil. Did not enjoy a single song afterwards, most were just meh and parachute woman was truly woeful

Boring.

This was horrific. Genuinely hated every single song. Sympathy for the devil is one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life. It was so bad it gave me chills and I had to rush to my "Angelic Mix" on Spotify to cleanse my ears.

I hate the Rolling Stones

This is one of the least accessible mainstream rock albums I have heard, this is like accidentally avant-garde. Just percussion and talking vocals with guitar twangs once every thirty seconds. I have no idea why they made this, most of the songs sound like bizarre parodies of Bob Dylan and I cannot identify why it's supposed to be enjoyable, terrible production that buries the instruments as well. F

DNF. Das ist jetzt das dritte Stones Album und mir hat noch keins gefallen. Der erste Song wär nice aber die Gitarre? kreischt so in meinen Ohren, war sehr unschön

holy shit this first song is fucking infuriating just boring shit NNN

Stones suck

Was so bored from the outset and throughout

Not my thing

Mai piaciuti i RS e Mick è un miracolato

Not a fan

Not for me

So tired of these glam rock albums

I don’t like the stones

Would I listen to this album again? No. Were there any songs I skipped? Jigsaw Puzzle Comments? I was surprisingly not interested in this album. Sounds like a drunk guy singing some songs. Favourite Songs? Sympathy For The Devil (Maybe cause I've heard it so much)

Geeuw

meh

Only 1 song worth listening to

Timeless sound. I respect it. That being said, it’s a no for me.

God I hate the Stones.

I didn't like this one. Not a fan of the Stones, but this was definitely not my thing.

Not my favorite. Not my genre /:

Need a relisten

Not my kind on music

diese boomermusik nervt echt so hart

Never understood the appeal of The Rolling Stones. This album is just boring to me.

Вообще не мое. коунтри какой то

OMG It's So BORING