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magnificent sleazy rock and roll, a huge step forward for the band
I have listened to the Rolling Stones but as much as I like some of their songs I found this album so boring. Just couldn’t get into it.
What a record. Great Songs that became hits ❤️
Very good
Sympathy for the devil is without doubt one of my absolute favorit songs !!! Gotta love Rolling Stones ;D
Classic Rolling Stones. Got some of their best tracks on it. Sympathy for the Devil is such a good song, I remember first hearing it as a kid and being blown away.
4.5
Brilliant album
Awesome, forgot how good this was!
That’s a plain awesome record.
This is a certified banger through and through. The Rolling Stones unwittingly invented punk and metal
I couldn't think of a single reason to not give this a five.
Great. Rolling Stones again. Two of my favorite songs are on the album. Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man. I really enjoyed listening to the album. 5/5
Woo woo Woo woo Woo woo Woo woo Woo woo
Owned this on cassette in my teens. One of their and the best
Difficult for me to objectively review an album like this. For me The Rolling Stones are one of if not the most influential bands in rock and roll and anything they’ve done carries some kind of superior weight. So. Damn. Good.
They’ve found the sound. Well nearly. Street fighting man, with its air of distant curiosity and regret hammers hard. Brian Jones’s slide guitar is exquisite. The acoustic songs show just how good these guys get, once they move away from pop and back to country and blues. Sympathy for the devil has incredible imagery - I drive a tank with a general’s rank, where the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank. Underrated lyricists those jagger Richards boys. I think mick wrote that one. Not that the rest of the album is worse. Probably the best thing about this album was they were to get better. Any other band, just about, would have had this as their peak. 5 stars.
The album that preceded this, Satanic Majesties Request, had convinced many that The Stones had lost the plot. Well they certainly found it with this album. It’s regarded by mist critics as the beginning of their golden period, & quite rightly. Sympathy For The Devil, with its relentless samba beat, is one of rock’s great album openers. It was the 2nd single released off the album, after Street Fighting Man, which I always thought was a weak follow-up to the previous single, Jumpin’ Jack Flash. (I only realised when I got an extended cd of B.B. which included bonus tracks that Jumpin’ Jack Flash came from the same sessions but was left off the album). The song I could not stop singing when I got the album was No Expectations - still a favourite, as much for Brian Jones’s beautiful slide guitar - one of the last great contributions he made to the band’s output. There’s nothing I don’t like here - Dear Doctor is a hoot; Stray Cat Blues soon became a concert standard for the band; & Salt Of The Earth is a fitting way to finish. I love this album.
Last Stones album with Brian Jones (who had become almost useless by this stage), and the beginning of their imperial period. The mix of blues, country and rock was really what made the Stones of this period what they were at their best. Some great songs (and, of course, Sympathy for the Devil). Generally, the recording has enough grit in it to catch my attention, the arrangements are becoming more ambitious (choir on Salt of the Earth, exotic percussion all around), without sounding too much like they are just trying hard to be the Beatles. There was better yet to come, but this really is a classic album, and the first of the Stones' records I really love.
Stones at their finest. As strangely placed as Dear Doctor is, I realized that it is core to their albums to have at least one whimsical, folksy, and funny track showcasing their versatility. Many of the songs are straight-up Blues and others, like Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man are more in line with late 60's/early 70's rock and roll.
Got enough really great songs to warrant a five.
Very good. Sympathy For The Devil has always been a favourite.
Gutes grooviges Album mit einfachen aber starken Songs, kein Wunder gilt es als eines ihrer besten
Great album
top, mehr nicht zu sagen
Hard hitting and concise. Forgotten/First time favorites: Stray Cat Blues Street Fighting Man
Oh this is fucking fire. I've heard Sympathy For the Devil. Those howls, those woo-woos. Mick's vocals. Soooo good Parachute Woman has a kinda cool swing to it. Street Fighting Man is a nice upbeat song.
Always nice
This has been, and may be, the best Stones album shown to me in this app. Every song is a great song. I listened to the album many times and had to pause new suggestions. 6/5
Any album from this era of The Rolling Stones is gonna get five stars from me. Brian Jones may have been a genius, but my favorite Stones albums were made without him (or, in this case, in spite of him.) Not a bad track on this thing.
One of my favoritest albums. Grew up listening to a lot of these songs. This album has a healthy amount of range, experimentation, creative and innovative writing, and several classics. There’s obvious quality in the instrumentation, production, and vocals, but, in addition, the energy is just what this album needs to make it unforgettable. It just ticks every box for me and I have not a one complaint. 5/5
One of their best
I was not familiar with this album, other than the first track. I like it quite a bit, and it seems like one that would grow on me.
I picked up a bunch of Rolling Stones CDs several years ago and this was one of my favorites. I like it very very much.
I like The Rolling Stones and this is one of the Rolling Stonier selections. Maybe not entirely my favorite, but Sympathy For The Devil gets a round up.
Stones - what else ;-)
classic!
Obviously a classic!
In that jar over there Harmonica is rolling stones flute and flute is horslips harmonica, brother
I mean, when you're starting out with Sympathy for the Devil, you've got to have a great collection of songs to follow -- and the Stones certainly didn't miss here. Almost no skips -- just Dear Doctor, really. But otherwise a stone classic. "Unexpected" bangers -- Factory Girl, Jig-Saw Puzzle.
Awesome!!!
Great album
Great
Every Rolling Stones album: come for the hits, stay for some of the most addicting treatment of the blues you'll ever hear. Favorite track: Stray Cat Blues
I knew this album and had it pegged for a 4 star review ahead of time. But the. I realized that I legitimately like every song on this album. Just a great album. 5/5. One thing I am doing in this project is reading along with the lyrics when I can on Spotify. So, today I learned that Stray Cat Blues is creepy as hell.
Preskočio
I've been listening to The Rolling Stones for 40 years. I liked them, but never loved them... until this year. Go figure. Somehow, this is the album that did it for me. I recall reading a review written by a Vietnam MD, and then I listened, and it clicked. good album. But not epic.
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name. The album that began their shift to blues and an incredible streak of amazing records.
It's the rolling stones that's the rating
I loved it. The stones have a reputation as one of the best bands of all time and you can almost see where it comes from
It’s the Stones - duh!
Discazo
The start of a run of great albums that all proved that Exile should have been a single album. There's s great merge of blues, country and they've kept some of the psychedelic touches in songs like Sympathy. The last two songs on side 1 are a bit meh, but then they launch into Street Fighting Man. Side 2 is peak Stones.
Classic, awesome, among the best ever
"Beggar's Banquet" is a bit of a roller coaster of an album. It's blues, it's rock, it's got some country.. it's kinda all over the place but everywhere it goes is good. It's a raw sound in all the best ways.
The Stones’ best album. Heard it 100 times.
Fantastic listen. Have never heard this album in one sitting. This is that bluesy rock they are known for. This is legend making music.
Utterly brilliant.
This is a nice Stones album. Still feels real and raw, unlike some of their later work.
Excellent stones album another of my favs
Another banger by the Stones. The opener is a classic. The closer is a classic. Everything in between us a classic. Keith will outlive us all.
My 4th favorites Stones album, after Let it Bleed, Exile on Main St., and Between the Buttons. This was the first of 4 studio albums in a row that define the group at its peak (LIB, Sticky Fingers, and EOMS are the other 3). Founding member Brian Jones was pretty much gone from the group (and as it turned out, life) during the making of this album, so Keith took over most of the guitar work, rhythm and lead (as he did on LIB), which is always a treat as he is more of a rhythm guitarist than lead on most of their recordings. Two monster hits (Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man) plus other gems throughout. The closing track is lovely and starts out with Keith’s lovely on the first verse before Mick takes over, then rollicking piano from session player extraordinaire Nicky Hopkins. A staple of our card playing days in high school. A great album.
Beggars Banquet es probablemente uno de los mejores discos de los Stones. Si bien, sus trabajos anteriores tenían una gran cantidad de pistas que revolucionaron los tabloides (y con justa razón), este LP definió la identidad sonora de Jagger y compañía. Curiosamente, creo que a pesar de que el disco parte con "Sympathy for the Devil", la segunda mitad del trabajo es mucho más interesante que la primera. Un esencial del rock que cualquier fan de la música mainstream debería escuchar al menos una vez.
After trying and failing to out-Beatle the Beatles on “Their Satanic Majesties…”, this is the album where they just tried to be the best Stones they could be. This is a great album start to finish, and is a great leadoff to their classic 1968-72 period. What can a poor boy do?
Me encanta este disco!!
Album 329 of 1001 The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet Rating : 5 / 5 Favorite Track : Sympathy for the Devil Though it is short on the hits, the ones it does have are some of the best. Great overall album. Nice bluesy Stones.
This is a great album, is it country, is it rock, doesn't matter its good. Sympathy for the devil, street fighting man, are both great tracks. Classic Rolling Stones album
I have heard so much about this album but i never listen to it completely and its always a pleasure to discover or redisover some Rollings stone stuff. This album is globably consider to be a shift from their psychedelic ear and a return to their root as a blues rock band, after an album (Their satanist majesties request) that is also globaly consider, but as a faillure. And its the beggenign of the golden era for the stones they used a more "americanized" sound and music styles, and a more sucesfull period commercialy and criticaly. The first song is arguably the best Stones song ever, and one of the best song ever: Sympathy for the devil wich is simply a masterpiece in every way possible, a response to the Beatles All You Need is love and to the hippie mouvement in general. Lyricaly is a song by devil sopken at the first person, and he tell he was there druing some of history most significative events (The cruxifiction, the russian revolution, WW2, The Kennedys assasination ect.) and tell us the listener to pay him sympathy. He also tell us that we all have a bit of the devil inside us ("I shouted who killed the kennedys, when in after all, it was you and me"). The song was accualy reccord during a boilling period, a year of strong manifestion and revendication around the west especcially in france (mai 68) and in the USA (with the vietnam war), and Robert kennedy was killed during the reccording of the song, that why Mick add an "S" to Kennedy. For all its complexity and inteligence in the lyrics, and what he represend for the younth of the time, that song is simply perfect, one of my all time favorite, just the intro give me chills and all the instrumentals is majestic (the song is driven by the piano riff and the bass not the guitar). And of course the famous "woo woo" The other song that i know from this album is Street Fighting Man, this song is also a response to the Beatles song revolution, that the Stones consider as soft. The song is a perfect encapsulation of what the youth was feeling at the time, in London. The chorus is just magic for me and is on of my favorite Song from the Stones (with sympathy and Honky Tonk Woman). The music perflecty fit the lyrics wich perflecly fit the time wich make it a perfect song. For the rest of the album we have: No expectations that is traditional blues song, a tribute to Robert Johnson and Brian Jones last major contribution (he play so well the guitare slide), its a good classic blues song, whta we expect from the Stones. Dear Doctor, Parachute woman, Jigsaw Puzzle, Prodigal song are other traditional country blues song, good but not so special. Stray Cat Blues is a bit more special, first its inspired by Velvet underground's Heroin, and its about a man (Mick) who want to sleep with a 15 years old girl saying its no capital crime. Facory Girl do not look like a Rolling stone song at all, just a traditional folk song from the 50's about a man who wait for her girlfriend who work at a facory. But its really them who wrote it and sing it. Salt of the earth is a tribute to all the hard working people in the world and its a beautiful song, Keith sing the first verse. Beggars Banquet is a black sheep in the late 1960's, completely against the tide, but kinda like a taste of what will happen in ther next decade, and it give us all that. Way more claimant, radical, bluesy and dark that all of their contemporary (a bit less radical but kinda like the velvet) with all that a very cool artwork make it a timeless reccord.
The Stones revel in the sounds that make up their roots on this album. All of the songs mesh together with similar chord progressions and arrangements, but somehow manage to paint a darkly dreary, but anachronistic painting of the small town, industrial England of the time.
Essential Stones. Every song is special.
"Beggars Banquet," is a testament to the band's evolution. Departing from their previous psychedelic sound, this goes into more rootsy territory with blues-infused rock that captures the essence of the late 1960s. With tracks like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man," the album has a raw and gritty energy. The stripped-down production and Mick Jagger's charismatic vocals contribute to the album's timeless appeal, making "Beggars Banquet" a pivotal moment in The Rolling Stones' career and a classic in the rock genre.
I love old Rolling Stones!
Everywhere I hear the sound of marchin', chargin' feet, boy 'Cause summer's here and the time is right For fighting in the street, boy Well now, what can a poor boy do? 'Cept to sing for a rock-n-roll band 'Cause in sleepy London Town There's just no place for street fighting man Hey, think the time is right for a violence revolution But where I live, the game to play is compromise solution Well now, what can a poor boy do? 'Cept to sing for a rock-n-roll band 'Cause in sleepy London Town There's just no place for street fighting man This is in my top 10 albums of all time. The stones made 2 great albums, this and exile on main street, and of the two this one has a more consistent, reliable feel to it. 5/5
Great as the Stones ever were
Outstanding.
LOVE IT
You cannot go wrong with sympathy for the devil
Classic. Street Fighting Man & Stray Cat Blues absolute standouts.
Great!
Absolute classic and one of my favourite Rolling Stones albums - even the lesser songs are great. Have on vinyl.
Now we're talking! I don't need to say much about the Stones but this record is the first in one of the most incredible 4-album runs of any band in the rock'n'roll era (Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers & Exile On Main Street are the others). Almost every tune here is fantastic, Sympathy For The Devil and Street Fighting Man are all time great rock anthems, Stray Cat Blues is as raunchy and funky as any song in their catalog, and No Expectations and Factory Girl explore the country vibe that suits Jagger's voice so well. A triumph of mixing different styles and rhythms with their signature blues sound to create a masterpiece that still stands up more than 50 years later.
Som of the Stones’ best work.
A solid blues rock classic. I was between 4 and 5 and decided to round up.
stones at their best.
The first of the four great Stones albums, this is really great stuff. Favourite track - Sympathy for the Devil, but really the Stones are on form throughout.
Great record. Still holds up. This and the three succeeding Stones records are, for me (and, I know, many others,) GOAT stuff.
One of my favorite songs, Sympathy for the Devil. never really listened to the rest of the album before. Great tracks. Glad I listened to all of it.
Perhaps the greatest opening song of any album ever.
I realise since Woolworths shut their root to market has disappeared. But I feel like they should stick to what they do best and make really great unlicensed best of’s and collections. 4.7
Haven't been a fan of any of their albums so far but this was really enjoyable pretty much all the way through. Loved the Bob Dylan-esque song without the annoying voice of Bob Dylan Was gonna start with a 3 but I think I'll need to give a 4 to a Stones album when I'm done with all six and it's probably gonna be this one so
This might be my favorite Stones album? It's weird because they're supposed to be rock gods and then this album is 80% acoustic country and blues music. Five coke-addicted art students from London shouldn't be able to pull off this type of music this well, but if you ask me they got a serious handle on it. And the classics are, of course, classic: the opener alone demands you to listen to the rest. Best song: Sympathy for the Devil
Wooo woo woo woowoowooo
Fire albums
the devil doesn’t have the best songs, but these might be the best he can do, so look but don’t touch
easily my favorite Stones album now! Sympathy for the devil has already always been one of my favorite songs by them and I’m happy to find the rest of the album is just as bluesy and interesting.
She cooles Album, wechselt angenehm zwischen Rock und Ballade
Classic, banger front to back
Really liked the piano version of Sympathy. Bluesy Stones
Banger of a Stones album. The Blues/Rock vibes this sends out are some of the best. I normally listen to the Stones on a greatest hits album, so this was a welcome surprise.
Pra mim é tudo fenomenal do começo ao fim.
This is first of 4 great albums released where they define there new sound, more druggy, greasy, low down and dirty rock blues, they'd reach the zenith of that on Exile but this is the start. Great stuff, lesser known songs like Stray Cat Blues Jigsaw Puzzle and Salt of the Earth are so damn good. Dear Doctor and Prodigal Son are fine but they haven't gotten the roots rock songs nailed yet.
love the stones! Cousin Keif eh?!
Great great album.
Timeless classic
Classic rolling stones. Great album.
2 of my favourite songs ever. 5 stars.
One thing I love about this album a day challenge is that I rediscover deep cuts from some of my favorite bands. I love The Rolling Stones, but most of the time just end up defaulting to their hits. But on this album, the hits aren't even close to some of the best songs. "Jigsaw Puzzle," "Dear Doctor," and "Salt of the Earth" are the standouts for me, but honestly everything here is good. I definitely have some new favorite Stones songs, though, thanks to this album.
Absolutely an amazing album from start to finish.
I don't know much about the Rolling Stones prior to sometime in the 70s, this album surprised me with how bluesy it is. Much more relaxing listen than I was expecting. I love finding out about the legends and learning about their depth.
Probably about 90% of the music I love owes something to this period Stones. This is just a front to back great album.
Love the dark subject matter in the lyrics and the raw and roots-y instrumentation also brings an almost apocalyptic atmosphere to the Stones’ sound that had not been heard up to this point in their career Also one of my personal favourites from this band Favourite tracks: Sympathy for the Devil, No Expectations, Jigsaw Puzzle, Street Fighting Man, Factory Girl
This is probably the first Stones record that, throughout, you'll recognize as quintessentially them. A couple country tunes (Dear Doctor) that are a bit on-the-nose, some straight but totally respectable blues numbers (Parachute Woman and the excellent Prodigal Son, especially), an acoustic ballad about the working class that builds smoothly up to a choir (Salt of the Earth) and two of their utter classics: Street Fighting Man and my personal pick for best Stones song of all, Sympathy For The Devil (Gimme Shelter is second, but won't come till their next album). Jagger wails and pouts and pleads on the vocals. He even shows himself capable of literary artifice and metaphor on Sympathy. He's dynamic, rangy and powerful -- yet gentle in places where it suits. Richards plays basically all of the guitar parts on this -- Brian Jones was famously unreliable and scattered during recording -- and his work is competent and varied throughout. For a guitar icon, Keith Richards plays few solos. His work is often severe and terribly effective, spare and to the point. Rarely ornamented, but his gifts for melody, for hooks and for arranging chord structures are all evident here. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts are inimitable here. Watts is so tasteful that when he does go for something elaborate, it's often so smooth that you miss it. Wyman plays the bass both rhythmically and melodically; his work on this album is prototypical of what great bass playing brings to the table. It reinforces the beat while driving the feeling of motion by adding additional rhythmic elements -- swing, syncopation, just a little interest. It's said that the band brought some Cuban and African influences to the fore in this record and so much the better -- rock and roll music has always included those in the mix, but feels dry and stilted when they are forgotten. Wyman and Watts deserve credit for holding into that legacy. Last, Nicky Hopkins plays piano for them on Beggars Banquet and his work deserves its own mention. It's not everywhere, but even just his work backing up Sympathy in place of a rhythm guitar is inspired. If you are curious about the Rolling Stones, start here. And when you've listened to a bunch of other rock music and you're not sure what it even means anymore, come back. This is the level set for the whole genre.
The beginning of the high point of one of the iconic bands of the 20th century. Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exhile on Main Street are musical nirvana.
I listened to this once years ago and remember liking it a lot. I still do. They do better country music than most country artists. And then there's Sympathy for the Devil which is an iconic song.
Classic classic rock from one of the most influential bands of all time.
Decent, classic rock.
The psychedelic fad (a fad for them, at least) didn't suit the Rolling Stones very well. *Between The Buttons* and *Their Satanic Majesties Request* respectively had couples of nice tracks, but those records were half-baked endeavors nonetheless. It was time for the band to return to their roots. Hence *Beggars Banquet*. Three highlights in this classic LP. Let's start with the closer, "Salt Of The Earth", which is a genre into its own. That elegiac ode to paupers, misfits and freaks is a sardonic ballad for sure--and sardonic or not, carnivalesque or not, it's one of the most beautiful ones ever written. File next to "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "Moonlight Mile" and "Angie". Then, there are "Sympathy For The Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", among the top-5 most iconic Rolling Stones songs (and never forget that Jagger and Richards have written far more than five iconic tunes overall). Competing that top 5 list, I would probably add "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Jumping Jack Flash", "Paint It Black" or "Brown Sugar"--yeah, I know, that's six songs in total, but don't complain: I could have added " Brown Sugar" and "Under My Thumb" as well... The thing is, when a single album gathers *two* of these iconic tunes, you just can't dismiss it that easily. Under that light, it doesn't really matter of the rest of this album is mostly made of amiable blues fillers--they have their charm too anyway, and make the whole collection an immensely pleasurable collection once you get to know them. The Rolling Stones would get better at crafting more cohesive LPs right after this one (first with *Let It Bleed*, but mostly with *Sticky Fingers*, before returning to topsy-turvy aesthetics with double-feature *Exile On Main Streets*). But it's with *Beggars Banquet* that this lucky streak of classic Rolling Stones albums started. 5/5, what else? Number of albums left to review: 440 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 263 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 133 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 168
Classic
Brilliant - still my favorite Stones album. Stands up as well today as the day it was released.
Bluesy and assertive, this album struts.
Great album. Opening song is a classic
In a lot of ways, this might be the quintessential Stones album. It’s lean, stripped down, and full of menace and snarl. Great album.
Escucha
"Beggars Banquet" is the seventh album in the UK and ninth in the US by English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was back to roots rock and blues, a departure from the more pyschedelic pop of their previous two albums. It was also more instrumentally experimental incorporating claves, tanpura, tabla, congas, Latin beats and African music. The album was the last with Brian Jones due to drug issues and the first with producer Jimmy Miller who would be a big part in their music over the next four years; this album marks the start of the Stones' "Golden Era." Due to Jones' issues, Keith Richards played most of the guitar parts. Commerially, it hit #3 in the UK and #5 in the US. The hypnotic African rhythms open "Symphony for the Devil." Jagger yelling. Keith Richards' guitar and Nicky Hopkin's piano are highlights on this and throughout the album. All band members on backing vocals; the most famous "woo-hoo"s in music? Jagger said the lyrics were inspired by French poet Baudelaire as they describe atrocities of mankind from the view point of satan. Richards' slide guitar, Hopkins' piano and bassist Bill Wyman bring it on "Jigsaw Puzzle." Some say this was the Stones' attempt at Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside of Moblie with the Memphis Blues Again." Don't know about that but a song describing life difficulties for everyone. "Street Fighting Man" has a great goove, raga rock. Jagger forceful vocals as he describes the growing violence in the US and France of political events. The Stones take a more aggressive blues approach with a faster pace on "Stray Cat Blues." A searing guitar solo. Charles Watts' drumming. The closest thing to the the Stones jamming on the album. The album closes with "Salt of the Earth." Richards on lead vocals. Acoustic guitar. Piano. Jagger comes in on backing vocals. The Watts Street Gospel Choir also come in on backing vocals. Fantastic. A favorite Stones' song of mine. It's funny; the two big songs on this album "Symphony for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man" are pretty much outliers compared to the rest of the album. They are great in their own right but the other songs are all blues-based with little wrinkles, whether it's instruments or rhythms, which separates them from other blues songs and other songs on the album. Richards' guitars and Hopkins' piano are exceptional. A great album and the first in a string of great albums.
I'm not quite sure how I've managed to avoid listening to so many classic albums, but The Rolling Stones always seemed a band cemented in a time before mine. Ultimately you can't really beat a bit of good old rock n roll, and The Stones have always excelled at that. This album feels to me like you're in the studio with the band getting loaded and just enjoying some jams. The type of album this list was made for, imo.
It still sounds fresh and urgent, and that might have a lot to do with the fact that it's the one Stones album Scorsese hasn't raped and pillaged. Everyone else has overused Sympathy For The Devil while missing the point. But there are rewards having it kickoff the album, allowing you to listen with fresh ears. This is where Mick and Keith really found their chemistry, with possibly Mick's best lyrics. I've long argued that Salt Of The Earth is the best track here, and have it in my Stones All Time Top 10. And I'm a sucker for the country song about the fella having to marry a rotund woman only to have her jilt him near the altar. What's insane is that as great as this album is, I have it as their 3rd or 4th best.
This is the best Stones I've heard thus far.
Rock de los Stones. Sympathy for the devil. Vinilo.
Epic.
Great album, turning point in the stones catalogue
I really like the Rolling Stones, especially the late 60s - early 70s albums and this album in particular feels like when they finally started to come into their own and not just follow the trends. This kicked off a solid string of records that are my favorites of theirs. Standout Tracks: Sympathy for the Devil, No Expectations, Jigsaw Puzzle, Street Fighting Man, Prodigal Son, Factory Girl, Salt of the Earth
Fantastic album
This is so amazing. 5 Stars. The Stones at their finest.
Needless to say: a classic is a classic for a reason.
I can not objectively review an album when it contains Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man. It could be Mick banging bin lids together for the rest of the run time and it would still get 5*s
Good stuff
Superb
So torn between a 4 and a 5 here. It's like a 4.5 for me but I'll round up.
Getting back to their roots after psychedelic experiments, this was the Stones first album with producer & drummer Jimmy Miller, and their first of a golden streak through to Exile On Main St. I cannot understand anyone giving this album less than 4 stars, and it was an absolute pleasure to be give an excuse to listen to it again.
It’s a great album!!
What happens when you hand out the Satanic Majesties' Request? You get written off as poseurs, trendhoppers, anything but authentic. 1967 was a trying year for the Rolling Stones and it was a time where they were finding things out the hard way: arrests, potential jail time and a moment where an allegiance with psychedelia produced less than stellar results. What can a poor boy do except sing in a rock and roll band? Well, anything that requires going back to basics. And that's how we got Beggars Banquet. Their last album with Brian Jones fully in the fold, Beggars Banquet is part back to basics/part expansion of newer musical sounds as the Stones explore roughly hewn, down on their luck blues with outward expressions of mysterious intent and thinly veiled rage that was prevalent in the year 1968, bringing about their most memorable and epochal songs in their catalog. Yet it is those ragged blues numbers (No Expectations, Dear Doctor, Jigsaw Puzzle, Stray Cat Blues) that keep the album from being a two song show with lots of filler dressing and allows the band to showcase their increasingly adaptable depth before they swim deep into predictable waters. But that was many years away... From decrepit toilet seats to pristine invitations, Beggars Banquet marked the beginning of a brand new chapter in the career of the Stones; a chapter that, while bringing about tragedy and bumpy roads, still keeps listeners gratified to this day.
Classic, listened to it 3 times
Ein af mínum gömlu uppáhaldsplötum. Finnst hún ennþá æði. Keith er samt lúði.
This is great, exactly the kind of thing I'd listen to
I was prepared to be disappointed, expecting a couple of bangers and a medley of mediocrity. But what an absolute gem!
Lo escuché como tipo country en algunas canciones, la primera canción fue la que más me gustó pq tiene como un ritmo más rápido y de rock
Fantastic
14th February 2023 Listened on the drive in to the office in the new car. Home for valentines enchiladas. I mean it’s perfection.
There isn’t a dull moment in album. i’m too sleepy to right a good review but i liked it a lot.
No debating, it's a classic. That is all.
The Stones at the beginning of a great run Sympathy for the Devil starts out menacingly low and burns Keith starts showing his skills on this lp
In my Exile on Main St. review I said that one was probably my favorite RS album. That was wrong. It's this one. Best track: Sympathy for the Devil
What can I say about this album? It’s the Rolling Stones. It’s amazing You can play it from front to back without any problems at all. From 1967 to 1971, they went on a streak and didn’t miss a beat on any of those albums.
great album, adding to Discogs
Daaaymn this is good x2
No need for notes here…
One of the best three albums by The Stones and an incredible masterpiece.
This was the first Stones album proper that I got into. Love it. My favourite for a long time until I fell into Exile....
This is probably my favourite Stones album up there with Exile. Street Fighting Man and Sympathy for the Devil are the standouts, but it's a great record even on the songs where they're being goofy.
One of my favorites during high school.
Oh yes, this is def one of THE stones albums!!!
Outstanding. One of my favorite Stones albums. Beyond Sympathy and street fighting man, Stray Cat Blues, Jigsaw Puzzle, salt of the earth. Just Mick, Keith, Charlie And Bill for the most part. Stones at the peak.
This is the best drinking album of all time in my experience. An emotional rollercoaster of anthems and sing alongs. The beginning of the Jimmy Miller era, where The Stones settled into the sound that would define them for the rest of their career. Man, if you wanna see the magic of them creating a song in the studio, watch Jean Luc Godard's "Sympathy for the Devil." That song began as a folky acoustic country campfire thing and just kept building and building like a drizzle into a thunderstorm. So many songs on this album seem to capture what I can only imagine was what it really felt like to be alive at that time. Especially a song like "Street Fighting Man." It's like the antithesis of "All you need is love." I'm glad they ditched the psychedelia and came back down to earth.
Classic rock is classic, but I keep dipping my cup in this well and coming up with new stuff. How is this so fresh sounding and 55yrs old?
Probably the best example of the Stones – far from the twee pop they flirted with just a couple years beforehand – doing what the Stones do better than anybody else, recorded at their absolute prime no less. An album so influential to musicians and songwriters and producers of rock and country (and even blues) genres and beyond, that you can't go anywhere without either hearing a song from it or a song inspired by/ripping off one from this album. Just because you don't recognize some of the song titles doesn't mean they're filler, because while this record may be sprawling, it's entirely full of perfect gems.
Mon album préféré des Stones... La brillante Gibson de Mick Taylor arrive, et Brian Jones joue ses dernières notes pour "son" groupe.... C'est le début de la plus belle période des Stones, elle durera jusqu'au depart de Mick Taylor en 1973... Le live ( longtemps bootleg) du concert a Bruxelles (Brussels Affairs) est le meilleur temoignage live de cette période où les splendides interventions de Taylor enrichissent et bonifié le son des Stones, comme cela n'arrivera jamais plus ensuite... Mais Ronnie Wood sera un plus gentil camarade qui ne remettra jamais en cause, lui, le copyright Jagger/Richards obligatoire sur tous les titres... Mais quel appauvrissement mélodique... En même temps, Taylor lui non plus ne retrouvera jamais un gang où briller aussi magistralement... Toute monde, y compris nous, y aura perdu... Sauf le Jagg pour ses royalties et Richards pour l'ego... Notons que cette pochette fut refusée en UK et aux USA, pour cause de vulgarité, et remplacée par le fameux carton d'invitation "rsvp" noir et blanc... On y perdit aussi la photo intérieure avec tous les Stones participants à un plantureux repas digne de "La Grande Bouffe" !
Class from front to back
First time I've ever listened to a Stones album. I've been missing out. Looking forward to hearing more. This album, every song was enjoyable. And the mix was top notch
9/10/2022
Classic Stones album. 5 stars
Essential Classic Rock
Best stones album imho. Stray cat blues the high point.
Enjoyable the entire way thru. Should make an effort to listen to the entire discography
stone cold classic
Just for the one opening song this album gets 5 stars from me. Even now it's shocking and addictive. The rest is a odd collection of bluesy, rocky and honky-tonk delivered with skill and swagger. This is a major game player and I'm suprised it's not near the top in this chart?
Any record that opens with “Sympathy” has a huge headstart, but it builds from there; just the transition to “No Expectations” points to the mostly mellow and sometimes lovely journey ahead. “Parachute Woman,” “Jigsaw Puzzle” and “Factory Girl” are all underappreciated gems. The playing feels loose, almost tossed-off at times, but it’s actually quite crisp and controlled – what the Stones did best, not exactly making it look easy but looking cool and insouciant while doing it well (and sometimes wild). All that plus “Street Fighting Man,” the awesomeness of which is easy to forget somehow and a truly great closer ("Salt of the Earth"), a fitting and graceful crescendo. The straightforward approach and seemingly narrower ambition paid out an incredible yield – the best-ever Stones record (no mean feat, that). 4.8 / 5
Pour mon gout perso, fait partie de la sainte trinite de rolling atones avec sticky fingers et let it bleed. 5
I really enjoyed this album. Classic Rolling Stones and makes me understand why they’re so popular.
This album is the namesake of my favorite cocktail. Give it a try and thank me later. || https://www.liquor.com/recipes/beggars-banquet
Ovaj album cover je puno bolji nego original, nema sumnje. Ne znam, ovo mi je tako blizu petice da to nisu istine. Vjerujem da ću mu dati toliko, iako je 4.5 sasvim odlično isto. Ovo mi je njihova najbolja era (priznajem, nisam preslušao više od 5 njihovih albuma, ali gle, ova tri Beggers Banquet - Let It Bleed - Sticky Fingers je odlična trilogija bluza).
Together with Exile on Main Street (and Let It Bleed), my favourite two Rolling Stones albums - a clear top 10-ever album. And they even left out songs like Jumpin' Jack Flash..
Excellent. More and more I'm starting to realise how important the drumming is on these Stones albums.
Duh
The Rolling Stones... Well... They just rock em roll
Such an amazing album! I could listen to this bluesy Stones album from start to finish everyday!
Some classic stones songs, very bluesy and filled with great guitar riffs from the ever present Keith’s Richards my favourites were sympathy of the devil and the last track :)
Rock de los Stones. Sympathy for the devil. Vinilo.
Stones going back to their bluesy roots. Loved the obvious singles and Jigsaw is fantastic.
Return of the real Stones some super songwriting and arrangements on this their final Album with the original line up just before Brian Jones died. Favourite tracks "Sympathy For The Devil" (Whooo Whooos by Anita Pallenberg & Marian Faithfull.) and "Street Fighting Man". Great album well produced by Glyn Johns and the band.
CLVSSIC. Not my favorite stones album but probably top 3
Any record that opens with “Sympathy” has a huge headstart, but it builds from there; just the transition to “No Expectations” points to the mostly mellow and sometimes lovely journey ahead. “Parachute Woman,” “Jigsaw Puzzle” and “Factory Girl” are all underappreciated gems. The playing feels loose, almost tossed-off at times, but it’s actually quite crisp and controlled – what the Stones did best, not exactly making it look easy but looking cool and insouciant while doing it well (and sometimes wild). All that plus “Street Fighting Man,” the awesomeness of which is easy to forget somehow and a truly great closer (\"Salt of the Earth\"), a fitting and graceful crescendo. The straightforward approach and seemingly narrower ambition paid out an incredible yield – the best-ever Stones record (no mean feat, that). 4.8 / 5
Real excitement, fun rebellion. Stones on fire
The last album to feature a significant contribution from Brian Jones, it's also one of their best. It has the classic stones sound mixed with some interesting experiments, some memorable songs and a great production. Everyone knows tracks like 'Sympathy For The Devil' and 'Street Fighting Man' but I equally love genre experiments like the lengthy Dylan-ish 'Jigsaw Puzzle' and folky 'Factory Girl' (featuring an unusual fiddle and mandolin arrangement). Some of the lyrics are a bit, ahem, risque ("parachute woman land on me tonight"). The Stones became a lot less experimental and a lot more generic after this album, which is a shame.
Some classics here and if anyone says otherwise they’re wrong
My first full stones album. Loved the variety in style, which somehow came together well as a whole.
So much blues
Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long years Stole million man's soul an faith - Sympathy for the devil
This is the start of the peak period of creativity for the Rolling Stones. A great rock album that explores the roots of the genre, with blues rhythms, and also some early examples of hard rock. "Sympathy for the Devil" is a anthem, a masterpiece that embodies everything that rock could be, and "Street Fighting Man" has such beautiful layers of acoustic guitar and sitar, and a very unique riff.
My first purchase, this album holds a special place in my musical heart. Terrific Stones from start to finish.
Marvelous, geniuses....Personally I prefer other Stones album but the blues on this is great
Rolling Stones oder Beatles - ich war immer eher Beatles Fan, aber diese Lieder sind unsterblich, vor allem Sympathy For The Devil
Classic
Classic
Love the Stones. Sympathy for the Devil is one of my faves
Proper album, they don't make them like this anymore
Whole album flowed really well.
Most of the tracks were amazing. And I’ve put several of them on playlists to listen to over again.
I enjoyed this album through and through. Two recognized songs
A great album from a great band
Interesting to see the different play counts on this album. Classic.
Great!
One of the Stones best albums, it was the last time Brian Jones had some real input for the songs and it shows.
Sympathy for the Devil is such a damn good song, but I don't think I've listened to this whole album before so I'm excited. I do love the Rolling Stones a lot.
One of the best Stones albums. Easy 5.
No soy muy fan de Los Stones pero este se me hizo un excelente disco
Excellent!!!
A solid album from the band's strongest period. I've listened before but not in full for maybe 15 years. I seem to be in a minority but the only song I really didn't like was Jig-Saw Puzzle. The rest was consistently good to excellent roots rocks and blues rock. The stand outs have to be Sympathy For The Devil and Street Fighting Man and years of rock radio exposure has reinforced that but Parachute Woman and Salt Of The Earth the other highlights for me.
I saw The Rolling Stones live a week ago and was hoping for an album of theirs. I had never seen them in concert before and I had a whole new appreciation for their music and their energy (especially for a bunch of really old dudes). Thus, I've been going through their albums and this one was really the beginning of when they cemented themselves into history as the greatest rock and roll band ever and went back to more of a blues rock based sound. This isn't my favorite Rolling Stones album, but I have to give it a 5 to lift it above other albums I've given 4's to. Woo hoo, woo hoo, wooo hoo!
More toned down, real acoustic greatness. Awesome songs and a great album
Un dels discos de rock més creatius i inspirats dels '60. No hi ha tema que no sigui excel.lent, però és que a més hi són puntals del génere com 'Street Fighting Man', 'Sympathy for the Devil', 'No Expectations'... Una joia a disfrutar sovint
Obviously a great album, but I don't think it quite hits the heights of later Stones records. It's the beginning of their golden era though. This through maybe Goat's Head Soup are all just great records.
Great album one The Stones best. 5 stars as far as I'm concerned but I'm a fan. Favorite songs... Sympathy for the Devil No Expectations Jigsaw Puzzle (love this song) Street Fighting Man Prodigal Son 5-star album
Very good
Loved it. More bluesy/“country” than I imagined but awesome to listen to.
No Expectations and the final track automatically make this a 5 star album.
[Sympathy For The Devil] Н: "Срочно, найдите дешёвый способ сделать нашего злодея обаятельным!"
yes and hell, yes.
Great album. Stones at the best
The beginning of the most fertile period for the Stones. ‘68-‘72
I have to buy this
Happy buzz, Jigsaw Puzzle is a tune
I love a good period drama so WitchCraft was the best song for me
a bluesy album, epic storytelling, tongue in cheek at times as per the Stones, a rootsy comedown from mind altering styles of the times. Like they sat in a room and went right back to their own influences alongside experiences gained from fame so far.Love it.
Classic.
Very good
Niceeee
Smithers, have The Rolling Stones killed.
Been a long time since I've listened to this record, it's just not one of my go-tos for the Stones. But it's a great one, kind of a sleeper even though only a couple of their bigger songs.
Enjoyed listening to the Rolling Stones. Would listen to more of them.
Really great album; some hits, mixed with great lesser-known tracks. Most tracks I had never heard before. Highlights: -Sympathy for the Devil -Jig-Saw Puzzle -Street Fighting Man -Prodigal Son
I really like the kind of blues influence that was present throughout this whole album. Also this is the first time I listened to a whole Rolling Stones album, I liked it!
Incredible album. It makes me wonder how I never heard much of the Rolling Stones before this. Loved the storytelling on Dear Doctor. Favorite song is Jigsaw Puzzle, no least favorite?
Love this
pretty good album. it is the rolling stones after all
Excellent.
Great Album! Classic Stones!
maneiro
Not my favourite Rolling Stones but definitely a good one I didn't really know. Deserves my 5 stars!
So bluesy
Best rolling stones album
I was surprised by how much of this album was full blues, not just blues inspired. Has two of the all time great Stones songs in Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man as well. Great example of late 60s rock.
A good solid rolling stones album. An interesting showcase of their roots up to where they were at the time. Its not an album that I would listen to without any skips but still a good one.
Favourite Stones album so far. Maybe they're not just a greatest hits band after all
Pretty good, I liked this. 4/5
I dont know why but rolling stones have some magic in them… I feel really drawn to them for some reason! Great album!
I'm a simple woman. I like it when Mick Jagger pretends to be from Texas.
Strong start, shame about the rest of it.
4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-rolling-stones/beggars-banquet/ Third Stones album of my challenge, and the first one I like from start to end! Of course, it starts with one of their finest song, and sure, the final one is a right banger too. Short one, so there's no time for me to get bored with all their tangents. Am I finally gonna get into the Rolling Stones??
Liked this more than the other Rolling Stones albums we’ve already had on here 3.5
Many fun songs, I liked fighting men
I have listened to this album before. I went through a rolling stones "phase". Not my favourite of their albums, but Sympathy for the devil is an amazing track.
You know your dad’s friend that owns at least 3 motorcycles and has vintage 60s posters all over the walls, has fuzzy dice in their 1970s Impala, has 12 neon light-up clocks on their wall, one for each hour of the day, hosts the town super bowl party every year, and always has nothing but beer in the fridge? This is the type of music he listens to. I mean, it’s not bad, but I don’t see myself ever listening to this again.
Brilliant album, knew some songs but hadn't heard a lot of them. This is easily my new favorite stones stuff.
Classic Stones
Meu álbum favorito dos Rolling Stones, talvez por ser o que menos traz referências dos Estados Unidos. Ótimo disco!
Sympathy for the Devil is an all-timer, but this also includes some traditional blues-y Stones stuff. Really good.
Great album, classic rock and roll that influenced artists that came after.
legendary
09/08/2026 I've never really given the The Stones a chance before and this is my first album of theirs I think. I didn't mind this. Spotify listeners: 30.1 million
Woo woo. Woo woo. (Let me please introduce myself.) I remember watching a reaction to this song from a Christian YouTuber who was extremely outraged by the title of the song, never stopping to consider how it was a commentary on the pure evil nestled within earthly humans. By the end of the song, the guy conceded that maybe it was an okay song, saying, "Okay, they're just listing a bunch of historical events, I guess they aren't telling us to agree with Satan." Which, while true, is still a gross oversimplification of one of the greatest rock songs of all time – certainly a strong candidate for the best Stones track. I digress. Sympathy For The Devil is a damn groove. Great piano, hand percussion, lead vocal delivery, electric guitar tone, backing vocals... goddamn, that bass. Absolutely incredible. So much so that the rest of the album, while great, just can't compare. Songs like No Expectations, Dear Doctor, and Parachute Woman have hilariously lighthearted vocal parts, making use of close harmonies that pass comfortably for country music. The latter two use a harmonica, for goodness' sake. The Wikipedia description mentions roots rock, blues rock, Latin and South Asian sounds... but nowhere does it mention country, which sits front and centre from track 2 onwards and just about slaps you in the face with its confidence. As if to say, "yeah, bet you didn't know we could do this genre too." (Their next three records arguably continue and complete the Stones' "country arc".) The band pulls off the sound decently, but noticeably worse than on Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, or Exile. No Expectations and Factory Girl, while good fun, don't really go anywhere in terms of sound or experimentation or any kind of audience engagement. Jigsaw Puzzle ends side 1 with a piano-drenched, slightly forgettable rock texture. Then we get the semi-hit Street Fighting Man – kind of a stupid song, with kind of a stupid melody. But, weirdly, it works. Especially with that writing: "Well, what can a poor boy do / 'Cept to sing for a rock'n'roll band? / 'Cause in sleepy London town / There's just no place for a street fighting man". Though to be fair, Jagger, I can think of a few good options other than a likely bad-paying career in music. Like a doctor. (You know, the guy the Stones addressed in track #3.) The award for "best of the remaining songs" has to go to either Stray Cat Blues – a spirited vocal performance and a very full-sounding instrumental section – or Salt Of The Earth, essentially a more engaging version of the earlier Jigsaw Puzzle. 4/5 Key tracks: Sympathy For The Devil, Street Fighting Man
These guys are going somewhere.
Always enjoy early Stones It gives perspective to their journey and development from raw to refined.
Would be a good album to clean to.
One of the best Rolling Stones albums. You know I gotta go with the obvious pick for favorite track on this one... Favorite track: Sympathy for the Devil
Prefer this one over Sticky Fingers, it seems that the songs are more memorable with great lyrics. No expectiations : )
The 4th best of the Stones incredible 4 album run. The least consistent of those records, but the high moments are incredible
Pas mal mais trop ressemblant
It's good but not jaw dropping. It never takes me by surprise the way a great album would. That being said, most of the songs are pretty good. Sympathy for the devil is a master and margarita reference, btw B^) W: Sympathy for the devil, Prodigal Son, Salt of the Earth L: none? 3.5/5
One of their best. mostly mellow chill blues, but "Sympathy for the Devil" is one of my all time favorite songs.
The Rolling Stones are so impressive to me with how every album is an amazing mix of rock, blues, and country. And the kicker... They make GREAT country songs, GREAT blues songs, and GREAT rock songs. This album is no exception. And that's why in my opinion, pound for pound, the stones are better than the Beatles. The Beatles pretty much had one style of music, pop, and only once they became effectively solo artists under the name "Beatles" did the music vary. But the stones did everything as a band, impressive. Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man are definitely highlights, but their country stuff on here is solid.
Classic rock alblum. Throughly enjoyed the "popular" songs. The unfamilar tracks were just as good. A solid 4.
I like the Stones & I like Beggers Banquet. I listened to them a lot in college and I forgot about how obsessed I was with ‘Factory Girl’ until just now revisiting this album. As a whole this record is pretty okay, but whoever said that the stones mostly produce a couple hits per album that they’re known for was spot on. All records except exile on main st which is banger after banger in cohesive banger flow. That album better be on this list :/
Listened
creo que es un buen álbum que califica para poner de fondo mientras se trabaja.
Good
Heard before; 4; Not sure what else there is I could say about this album that hasn't been said before. At a minimum, between Sympathy for the Devil and Street Fighting Man, this album has two incredible sounding songs. And the rest of the album is filled out with great driving blues/country twang. Favorite Track: Sympathy For The Devil
Solid start but some waste 3,5/5
Excellent album, back to their bluesy sound.
zitten klassiekers in en ik waardeer dat t limieten opzoekt als kunst maar ik vind het persoonlijk niet leuk om naar te luisteren. zit muzikaal goed in elkaar
Still absolutely wonderful
Second second-pass album. I guess it's not as groundbreaking as I felt it was on my first go round, but it's still very good blues rock. Sympathy for the Devil (obviously), Dear Doctor, and Factory Girl are tops for me.
Beggars Banquet oli ikään kuin Rolling Stonesin paluu ruotuun muutaman epätyydyttävän psykedeelisen levyn jälkeen. Tällä levyllä yhtye hylkäsi "flower powerin" ja biisien aiheet olivat synkempiä ja väkivaltaisempia. Vaikka Beggars kärsii hieman epätasaisuudesta, kuuluu se silti kiistatta bändin parhaimmistoon ja se myös käynnisti bändin suurten klassikkolevyjen sarjan, joka jatkui 70-luvun alkuun asti.
Heat.
Yeah this is a good album
At last some good music.
This was a really good album! I didn’t realize that I’d recognize so many tracks from it, but more than that, I found it joyful to listen to. It’s such a good rock ‘n’ roll bop.
Apart from Sympathy for the Devil and a few other songs, I didn’t know what to expect out of this album. From what it sounds like, it appears to be an early version of The Rolling Stones legend as we know it today. To my surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed this album. I’ve always thought of them as a singles band, but that slowly seems to be changing.
Doesn't quite reach the consistency of Sticky Fingers or Exile, but is a serviceable Stones record through and through. Solid. 7/10
pretty nice, but It’s not my type of music.
It was alright probably better than the newer albums