The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, 55 Years Later｜Vinyl Monday

[@abigaildevoe]

what’s your favorite stones song? any era’s up for grabs - comment below!

[@crapmalls]

The piano bit in monkey man. Its how I buy hifi gear. If I don't get a physical involuntary shudder I don't buy the bit of gear.

[@davidellis5141]

Lady Jane

[@AdvenuringTime]

The early 70’s live tour. Truly were all at the height of the skills and Taylor showed off a lot. The ladies and gentlemen live album is my favorite recently.

[@daledavidson8242]

2000 Light Years from Home

[@stevengornall934]

Paint it black

[@thermionic1234567]

I love Keith Richards’ comment on drugs: “I’ve never had problems with drugs, only the police.”

[@josephliptak]

Love the Stone's albums, especially Metamorphosis & Sucking in the 70s. It takes guts to review albums when you weren't even born yet. Keep up the great work. You definitely have insight into an era gone by. So glad I was there not only to listen to the music but also to experience a place in time never to return.

[@mikemorrisonmusic]

“The Rolling Stones were PROBABLY a little high.” A greater understatement has never been made. 😂

[@senatorjimdracula1603]

Looks like Clapton was higher than anyone that night, he's got that cocaine 'jibberjaw' going throughout the Dirty Mac's performance.

[@iwanbottos5128]

But boy they age rather well .I'm younger then them and not half as alive,

[@ArmandoMPR]

The line “I was trembling as I put on my jacket, it had creases as sharp as a knife” from “Dear Doctor” is so damn good. It foreshadows that the bride had ran off with his cousin. Fantastic songwriting there from Mick.

[@disintegrationnation9352]

She runoft.

[@mikelcory4065]

Jumping Jack Flash is such a powerful track- it has an unmatched force that very little music is ever able to achieve.

[@nvm9040]

Don't forget the B-Side Child of the Moon 🌙

[@williamburkholder769]

This was a great review of a pivotal Stones album. Damn! Nailed it! How you, a kid my twins' age, have the musical knowledge, historical knowledge, and fashion insight to so accurately describe the time I lived through, I'll never know, but you take me back to my youth and open my eyes to things I missed. I've become a huge fan, with a lot of catching up to do. Carry on and don't stop! We love it.

[@itsmewildbill2296]

Fun fact - in the Rock 'N Roll Circus movie, Tony Iommi of Sabbath 'played' (mimed) guitar for Jethro Tull!

[@JanNichols-iw5pi]

Beggars Banquet is my favorite Stones album. Your commentary is spot on in terms of how relevant this soundtrack of the times was!

[@ronlight7013]

Abby's song reviews just get better and better. Descriptive finesse much indebted to art history in the tradition of art historians interpreting and analyzing fine and popular arts.

[@williamlangan5902]

Great review! You got dressed up appropriately and seemed to know what you’re talking about. Beggars Banquet was a breath of fresh air. The World’s Greatest Rock And Roll Band proved they were not exactly the world’s greatest psychedelic band a year before, as you recall. The scene in Almost Famous was appropriate! At the end of the Beggars Banquet promotion parties, the Stones took turns throwing custard pies in each others’ faces. Rock And Roll Circus was fun in a debauchery way. You hit the nail right on the head when you said the Who stole the show! One person summed it up “The Stones inviting the Who to the Rock And Roll Circus was like a guy introducing his girlfriend to his best friend who happens to be handsomer!” LOL I had reviewed this album on Facebook. I said Brian’s Jack of all trades role wasn’t as called for. Though he wasn’t reliable in the studio, he did manage to play on most of the tracks.

[@AlterMann57]

On Beggar's Banquet the song "Stray Cat Blues" is so bloody good from beginning to end. I love when the first riff is played and you can hear Mick's reaction to it. You can imagine his grin when you hear his reaction. That's a bloody good song.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

To paraphrase Tom Waits, Satan is just God when he’s drunk. Thanks for another great video, Abby! ❤

[@blakesadler]

That explains a lot when you consider that Tom also said the angels get no sleep when the devil leaves his porch light on. He's probably passed out on the couch.

[@FlipSideCT]

glad to see anyone present the STONES. Nice to see. After 9 years in the VC, I am always raising my eyebrows to any doubters. I take it you may have not seen my 3 Part 4.5 hours documentary on this album.

[@baronoflivonia.3512]

Get Yer Ya Ya's Out has the best version of SFtD ever played. And I have a VIP Pass to 68 Dem convention in Chicago that year. Saw it today so was fresh in mind. MC-5 was greatest. Great Video. Subscribed.

[@thomaspervanje]

Not Robert Johnson; but Rev Robert Wilkins. Prodigal Son a RS cover of Wilkin's rework of his That's No Way to Get Along from the 1930s.

[@jpranguinranguin]

Thanks For that information! The sources OF the STONES music are very important and nobody seem to care about! The Best song OF the album is maybe PRODIGAL SON. Long live the BLUES!

[@terencestephenmoss2159]

Yer Blues on the White Album is a masterpiece 👌 🙌 Yer Blues on the Rock and Roll Circus 🎪 is just alot darker. Super Group of all super groups of all time The Dirty Mac are on fire 🔥 live. Just wish 🤞 that Revolution was captured on film.

[@johnlorinc2081]

Ahhhhh Beggars Banquet. When Brian started to fade and Jimmy Miller helped the Stones come out of the psychedelic era. It's a great album by any yardstick.....but it suffers (by default) from Sticky Fingers, Exile.....and to some extent......by Get Yer Yayas Out. But come on....when an album starts with the still-sounds-demonic "Sympathy for the Devil" and closing with the symphonic-for-the-Devil "Salt of the Earth" Beggars easily still lives up to its legend. Fave deep cuts: "Jigsaw Puzzle"; "Stray Cat Blues" and "Factory Girl." If the Beatles made a single-disc version of the harder/darker songs from the White Album it would have been Beggars Banquet. It's a top five Stones album.....and among the greatest rock albums of all time. Great video once again

[@thoranderson9958]

Loved your review. This was the 1st stones record I bought when I was16. I had heard them on the radio, this was an interesting example of what they could do. Well done, thanks.

[@ralphbolton4865]

Hi Abigail, Here's some of my favorites lately: Monkey Man Winter Ruby Tuesday Memory Motel Time Waits For No One Fingerprint File Sweet Sounds Of Heaven Jigsaw puzzle Thank you so much for all your time and work on these videos. Much appreciated!

[@davidspinney2023]

Great job Abbi I have always loved this record but after you describe it, I love it even more.

[@whyguoren]

Great review. Gonna re-listen to Beggars Banquet later this morning. Love that your reviews include references to related albums, films (1+1--never heard of it before!) etc. . . . I ought to make a list of Abby-recommended items to check out.

[@dennismason3740]

In 1975 Donald Cammell, the English producer of Performance (movie with Anita and Mick), sat in my comfy chair and waved off cheap wine and skunkweed. He was a rich English dude and what-the-heck was he doing in my apartment? I had some incomprehensible visitors, including Angela Bowie, Iggy Pop, Keith Relf and others. I had charisma and looks and zero musical focus and I could play guitar pretty well. I was too damaged to write songs that I could articulate. Donald realized that I didn't "have the goods". At 70, 106 pounds I have the goods and the looks are in my heart. Well I can see that you're 47 years old, I know you're no tear-eyed honey...(Stray Cat Blues rewrite). My guitar playing has progressed throughout the decades as well as songwriting and singing and I do a wicked good Mick impersonation. There are about a hundred Stones songs in my repertoire and my fave changes from hour to hour.

[@JukeboxHistory]

This is so in depth!! Beggar’s Banquet has always been one of my favorite records and this video taught me so much I didn’t know. Love the channel

[@stevenorman612]

I am blown away by how much you know about this album and The Rolling Stones. I have been listing To The Rolling Stones way before you have been born and I still can't rattle off all those facts about the band and this album. Great review.

[@jameswatson5370]

Oh, I'm so excited to see the your episode with Hang Fire has finally dropped, I've been waiting for it. I'm going to watch it ASAP.

[@lathedauphinot6820]

Thank you for doing this. I bought mine when I was 15, took it to college, have played it thousands of times, and somehow, over 40 years later, it still plays with very few pops, let alone scratches. When people talk about great Stones records, they leave this one out a lot, but to me their greatest records obviously start here. It’s a modern record: could be released today and be current. Pure psychedelia was an end to itself, ‘60s Pop died off, but this echoes to this day.

[@daverooneyca]

I think I was 15 when I bought my copy as well. Sadly, it was lost when someone broke into my car and stole a milk crate (remember those) of albums that I was taking to my sister so she could record them.

[@lathedauphinot6820]

@@daverooneyca I’m sorry to hear that. I had a lot stolen from my dorm room at college. ‘Sticky Fingers’ with the zipper, ‘Some Girls’ with the ladies, Beatles ‘Revolver’… I remember milk crates. In fact, I still have a couple. They’re the perfect size.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

Who leaves this out a lot? I know no one who does. Everyone considers this a masterpiece.

[@jackpot_the_donkey]

For those who don't know, Keith recorded those antique (and small) drums on Street Fighting Man with a handheld cassette recorder. It was the days before limiting so the sound is big

[@kevindeforest6489]

Thanks for another thoughtful, well-researched review. Your videos are such a labour of love. Art history and rock history working together!

[@markybgoode]

Your review provides a fantastic overview of one of the finest works by The Stones. Your articulate expression of opinions on the album is amazing. I concur that the inclusion of "Jumping Jack" and "Child of the Moon" could have enhanced its brilliance, reminiscent of how "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane" would have fit well on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. The adept touch of Jimmy Miller in blending blues, folk, R&B, and contemporary trends is noteworthy. Your well-researched information, drawn from magazine interviews circa the album's release, adds depth to your discussion. Big up!

[@dabhidhm4093]

I first heard "Stray Cat Blues" on Get Your Ya Ya's Out, and I think it's actually more subversive in that it sounds all pretty. The BB version sounds more sinister. Mick Taylor sweetens it up and you could almost miss the 13 years old part.

[@James-hd4ms]

I was there: 18 yo. We all read stuff. We knew big stuff was happening. The biggest was women’s voices existed. You seem to get that time. Nobody listened to the compromise solution line but yeah, there it was. Jon Landau was good.

[@johnr1348]

My favorite song always changes... Love your channel and it was great to see you on the Hangfire Podcast!

[@MortimerSnerdVideos]

Love these vinyl Mondays. Just started watching and I love them.

[@jeffbrett7849]

Wow what a sweet deep dive!

[@RabbiSteve1]

Another great video essay. Really renews my love for this album. It’s close to my favorite, which is STICKY FINGERS, for purely personal history reasons. Thanks so much for all the passion and work you put into these. All very rewatchable.

[@zsatsfm]

I always go back and forth between about 5 Stones records as to which is my favourite. This was my number one for a long time as it includes Prodigal Son, Factory Girl, No Expectations and Dear Doctor, in fact every track is a 10/10 for me it's a masterpiece! Thanks Abby, great review.

[@mikelcory4065]

Factory Girl always hits me when I listen to BB and I always decide it’s my favorite,

[@larrykay7670]

I think it may have been Lester Bangs who said the guitar solo on Iggy & The Stooges' I'm Sick Of You was "the most neurologically damaging guitar solo of all time," but Keith's turn in Sympathy runs a very close second. As an 11 year-old kid away at overnight camp for the first time in the summer of 1974, when my bunk counselor put on Sympathy (he brought his stereo with him to camp because that was.. yunno... what you did back then), it was the first life-altering rock and roll moment I ever experienced. After that, nothing was the same. My parents let me go - alone! - to see them the next year when the played in Philly because their thought was, hey, it's just a concert, what's the worst that could happen? The soundtrack to my adolescence and beyond.

[@abigaildevoe]

your parents let you go to a stones concert alone after how altamont went down?? that’s a brave choice very cool on their part but very brave!!

[@larrykay7670]

Just saw this now and had to respond. My parents were a hair older, and both musicians (dad was a union violinist and mom and ex-opera singer) but if you asked my dad if he'd ever heard of Altamont he'd probably say, 'Al Tamont? Never heard of him? Horn player?' @@abigaildevoe

[@RabbiSteve1]

What a great video on one of my favorite albums of all time, and easily my favorite solo album by a Beatle. I found this video and your observations and personal feelings quite moving. I am so grateful for all the work you do, but maybe most especially this video. Music is one of my main medicines. And ALL THINGS MUST PASS, is one of best music medicines.

[@hussain6469]

These videos are literally the only good thing about mondays

[@flannigan7956]

Well somethin might come in the mail and I might be in carb safety for Beef Nugget. At least a lotta other American towns are every bit as bad as mine

[@danmayberry1185]

Well shit Abigail, me and Beggar's have been BFFs for 55 years, and you mapped its DNA. A perfect analysis.

[@HangFireStonesPodcast]

Excellent stuff---nicely one! Woo woo! (Sympathy woos! :) )

[@garybrowser6885]

would happily sit through a Get Back length series of all the studio footage of the making of this album - there can never be too many woo-woos 😆

[@abigaildevoe]

you're brave. i think i'd lose what little sanity i've managed to cling onto

[@davidellis5141]

@@abigaildevoe 😁

[@TheStrongBoyz19]

One of my top 3 Rolling Stones albums. It does define the band at one of their most political best and progression of their song writing. The acoustic and electric tracks are strong, consistent materials and some of them are underrated. Excellent stuff Abby for a classic. Exile on Main St. is my favourite, but this album is one of my most favourites. Also, it came out on my birthday.

[@jnagarya519]

"exile On Main Street" is bloated, overrated, and the mix is turgid.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

​@@jnagarya519Mick himself has always been quoted saying how much he hates that album's mix. Yeah, it is pretty bad in spots. I used to not like that album at all, but admittedly it has grown on me.

[@jnagarya519]

@@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 The first problem with the mix is that the lyrics are buried. I bought it on first release -- it was a slog getting through it.

[@markzutkoff1800]

Thank you for acknowledging that The Who's version of "A Quick One" from Rock & Roll Circus is their best version of the song; it's a masterpiece in that form. (Although I can't really see how The Who could have overshadowed the Stones THAT much, since they only performed ONE song and the Stones performed a handful.) I loved your "from 1 to Bob Dylan" scale on characters in a song; I'm going to have to borrow that occasionally. I also loved your "earthy, EARTHLY delight", since both terms apply to Beggars' Banquet. A tiny English lesson: "exasperated" would apply more to the other band members' frustration with Brian Jones' behavior, whereas "exacerbated" is what the drugs did to Brian's bad behavior. I only mention this because I believe you've switched the terms in a previous video (don't remember which). "Salt of the Earth" really comes alive at the end when Charlie hits the tom-toms, the slide goes up, the piano really kicks in, and the song coasts beautifully to the end. (It's at 3:30 on the "Rock & Roll Circus" version of the song, which probably means 3:20 or so on the album.) You're right that Jimmy Miller is the MVP here. Interesting that he produced Traffic, Spooky Tooth (didn't know he did that group, though I should have), and the Stones superbly, but couldn't really bring that magic to Blind Faith's one and only album (though I still enjoy the record). I didn't know that The Mamas & The Papas went through a similar issue with a controversial album cover! I almost always learn at least one thing I didn't know before by watching your videos. Thanks!

[@johnwilding4664]

About a week ago, I saw a documentary I highly recommend to yourself: Brian Jones and the Stones. Traces his life from childhood to untimely demise July 3, 1969. Some archival interviews with the band and Bill Wyman is both historian and present-day interviewe. The guy was prodigiously talented and monumentally insecure. Great album, my favorite cut is Prodigal Son. Excelent analysis.

[@tyesmith9661]

Hard to get a full appreciation for "Sympathy" without a nod to Bulgakov's "Master And Margarita". IMHO, the greatest love story ever written.

[@almar2410]

I like that girl! Just saw your Rubber Soul and Donovan's video and here you are again! Cool 🎉

[@alansmith1989]

Got both Mono & Stereo copies of this, on UK `Decca` label . It had delayed release coming out December 68 in the UK and only reached No 3. Holding it at bay were `The Beatles` (Double Album) and `The Best of the Seekers`.

[@deeg8849]

Make no mistake, warts and all, Brian Jones is the true Rolling Stone. Keith may have become that around the time of this album, but Brian’s swagger, style, musical taste, musical range, excess, ego and self destruction set the tempo that still cooks to this day. Sad he died, but nobody can take away his core value to the Stones and rock n roll. Long love the Brian Jones Blues Band

[@abigaildevoe]

there may be a stones without jones, but there would simply be no stones without jones

[@deeg8849]

@@abigaildevoe you got that right, and you got a lot of records

[@SteveR-w1q]

Jones couldn’t write a song to save his life, the talent in the band has always been Keith, Anita knew that and dumped jones as soon as she could to hook up with the main man

[@deeg8849]

I admire and respect both Keith and Mick. Great songwriters, performers and rock n roll stars. This narrative of Brian having no talent to write songs is a silly one. There are plenty of great artists who didn’t write songs but their contribution to the band and music was vital. And I would argue that while Brian didn’t write “lyrics”, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that he created the musical arrangements for several songs. Why do I think that? 1- especially between 66-67, the Stones moved into a baroque, works, psychedelic space that only thrived on Jones breadth of instruments and musical theory. I have no doubt that as Jagger came with some lyrics to a song and they sat around, Jones would take the lead in putting the accompanying musical arrangement together. See Ruby Tuesday for example where several say Brian wrote the music 2- Andrew despised Brian and did everything possible to make mick and Keith the core of the band, including songwriting. With a manager that set, it’s very easy from him to take the music created and then publish everything as Jagger Richards. It’s an old truck by managers and labels. Think about all those great r&b songs being written by guys like Hesh in the sopranos. Oldham was a shark and his key contribution to the stones was passing that quality onto mick and Keith. 3- Jones never protested (that we knew of) because of a combination I believe of not giving a crap as an artist, being naive and maybe to facked up. Maybe he was also dissapointed that the mates he started with were doing the dirty on him like that when they knew full well the value he brought to the songs. 4- mick and Keith did this a few years later to mick Taylor as well on many songs. Some of which Keith had nothing to do with. 5- all three of the Jones/Taylor and wood eras see none of them getting any song writer credit in the Stones. Why is that? You think mick and Keith have anything to do with it? Remember Brian wrote an entire musical film score. Mick Taylor has wrote several songs and Ron Wood has done the same on his own solo records plus for the Faces and with Rod Stewart 6- then we have artists like gene Clark of the Byrds saying he wrote eight mikes high with Brian jones. But when he told Brian about getting a co credit he said don’t worry bout it My point, it’s a silly narrative because the evidence doesn’t support it and he isn’t here to defend himself against such slander kzbin.infoP-Xn0cbP1Bk?si=hQ7NCPdit3nH5wBd​@@SteveR-w1q

[@NoOne-sn2si]

The Porche dealership was on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood (@ Ivar?)... Maybe it was Cherokee... Anyway, that bathroom was pretty much the same as it was on the cover (except somewhat cleaner) until 10 years ago... It might still be there as was, but I left LA 10 years ago so I can't confirm...

[@hecklongtree]

Good review, though you made one notable omission : you didn't mention the dispute between Mick and Keith and Robert Wilkins, the writer of That's No way to get Along, retitled by the Stones as "Prodigal Son." In the early pressings Mick and Keith were given full credit for writing the song. Mick and Keith claimed it was an inadvertent omission that occurred during the switchover from the original "toilet" album cover. In the end , Wilkins got the royalties he was owed.

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

Their best album imo

[@thirdbase6870]

A well researched review. You even had me reminiscing (daydreaming) back to those days.

[@MarsHottentot]

Wonderful as always. My gf just said that you have become her favorite reviewer! I like BB, but Let It Bleed is my fave Stones and 70s Stones is, overall, my fave era. Hot Take - Undercover ain't that bad😂

[@lynnpehrson8826]

Nicky hopkins is a member in my mind

[@BlueSky...]

During this period, in mine too.

[@DirectorsGarage]

Love this. I think of Beggars as the beginning of the greatest run of 4 albums by any group, ever. Beggars, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile. I love how your channel is growing. Consider trying a teleprompter at some point. You can control it with a game controller using an iPad, and it will keep you from looking off camera to check notes.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Idk, I think looking off camera adds to the charm of her playful style.

[@georgemathie8123]

This is the start of a golden run of albums for the mighty Stones and beggar's banquet is still a raw, down and dirty rocking album 55 years later

[@jasonnewby]

From TSMR to Let It Bleed, this is my favorite era of the Stones. I am a psych head so TSMR has a special place but Beggars is the beginning of that classic Stones sound.

[@falcon5467]

"Salt Of The Earth" - the best lyrics of all the Stones songs. "No Expectations" - Brian Jones' last hurrah on slide guitar.

[@DirectorsGarage]

I ran across a terrific stupid fact from this album. Street Fighting Man-- Keith used an acoustic guitar on the lead-in, recorded on a small cassette recorder set to over-modulate and distort, then played the cassette tape back so it had a warble. Everything was done analog in '68.

[@calvinguile1315]

I LOVE BEGGARS ❤, I love all of the 60s albums. They had to experiment and dabble in other styles to get to Beggars…and actually Brian is all over this album, one of my favorite Brian moments is in Jigsaw Puzzle, where he plays the creepy mellotron part, which gives it the otherworldly feel. I actually thought it was a sustained, high pitched guitar, until I learned years later that it was Brian on mellotron ❤

[@Skycladatdusk78]

I agree about Jumpin' Jack Flash belonging on this record, I also thought Honky Tonk Women would have fit perfect on Let It Bleed.

[@ThomasSmethers]

GREAT JOB!! I always thought it was"Time is right for a Palace Revolution"...Loved your Delivery, Personality! ThankYou!!

[@davidspinney2023]

They had a lot of great ones one that comes to mind Fingerprint File. I like the toilet cover better than the white one.

[@fernandoluzuriagaacosta5338]

What an album. The start of the Rolling Stones reign, an acoustic tinged masterpiece. Full of gritty blues, and Keith Richards at his best, taking almost all the guitar duties.

[@alanclayton9277]

I was listening to it yesterday and that's what I got, the acoustic thing.

[@jessewolf7649]

The reign began no later than Satisfaction.

[@jagmark10]

Paul bringing that fresh Hey Jude acetate disc to the Beggars listening party...wouldn't be surprised if it was Ringos idea😃

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

I advise all to take a KZbin detour later today to review the 1969 Stones in Hyde Park concert performance of "Stray Cat Blues".. A 26 year old Keith playing this live on a " Flying V" is the nastiest ass indulgence you will get today without having to crack open a warm beer and a dogeared copy of a 1970's Hustler magazine. Aside from Mick's awkward and bizarre Brian Jones "tribute" and butterflies send off.

[@kenjohnston1257]

The Hyde Park version of Sympathy is my favorite ever

[@RGRG3232]

So very much stoked for the next album you'll be reviewing. My absolute favorite DB album. EVERY track has something to like/love about it. I don’t know how many times I can say it but you just keep getting better with every album review. Love your deep dives into all of them. You've finally made me want to take out and play my Rock and Roll circus CD (I don’t think I've heard it since the day I bought it). Not sure if it has ever emerged on vinyl.

[@abigaildevoe]

bowie is the next vinyl monday, but not the next album i’ll be covering…

[@RGRG3232]

@@abigaildevoe OK, I'm all for that. I guess I missed a clue in there somewhere.

[@ponzo1967]

Under rated channel, Ive been binge watching these

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

Sweet...Beggars Banquet is a classic. This is definitely one of my Top 5 favorite The Stones album of all time along with Some Girls, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Tattoo You.

[@allenf.5907]

Agree with you on these AND leaving that other always highly touted one off.

[@lathedauphinot6820]

Not me. Switch ‘Tattoo You’ with the highly-touted one and I’m with you. ‘Exile’ has a place in my heart.

[@allenf.5907]

@@lathedauphinot6820 Hearing you as many do. BIG songs on the "touted one" are truly big but the album gets too sloppy - which is what many love about it. TY became a #1 album, their last, so this should be in the BIG five.

[@MortimerSnerdVideos]

Abby I’ve started watching your vinyl Mondays and I love them. I noticed in one of your videos you mentioned Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home album. I hope you review and give your thoughts on that album someday. Love your outfit choices to match the albums

[@raulsolis1688]

Congratulations. Great work. Thank you.

[@DetroitRockCitizen]

Hello Satan. You had a great week by me, this is my # 8 album of all time. i recited Sympathy for the Devil as a poem in 11th grade.

[@caseynova1]

I have listened though to every Abby Devoe video, every week, for oh so long now, and I think that the rocker at 18:23 is the soulmate of every rocker who ever lived. Geez, what a treasure she is. Thanks for this. I'm a guy who has played Beatles onstage (although my band does original rock) gazillions of times, but who considers myself a Jones-era Stones guy. So yeah, Beggar's Banquet. Also shout-out to Between The Buttons.

[@gene1278]

Good Review. Jimmy was also at the top of his game for this lo. And your correct about Brian Jones, he was going downhill fast. I like this album and would rank it near the top of the Stones Cannon.

[@evanpimental9581]

i think beggars banquet is the best stones album, maybe second to between the buttons (Uk version) bc i’m weird like that. The songs are just straight blues all the way through with minimal production, and that’s where they shine. Also nice to hear Brian Jones on “No Expectations”, even though he was faded 24/7 at that point. GOATED band.

[@barryandreev8333]

Growing up in the '60s in a Family of 10, the basement was my refuge, which was also where the stereo console was located. I'd go down there with the few albums that I owned. Beggars Banquet was the album that I opened and closed my listening session with. That album I would listen to very intently trying to figure out the lyrics. It wasn't untill recently with the release of official videos with lyrics that I figured out for the first time what was actually sung. Don't matter though, I'll still sing it as the kid I was over 50 years ago.

[@JohnCarroll-f9s]

I absolutely love the way you present the very interesting facts regarding our popular music history. Thanks Abbie!

[@SteveJones379]

I thought Rock n Roll Circus and the Stones were excellent! 🤘😈 EXCELLENT review Abi !!

[@troubadour723]

Landau's review is analysis. Wenner's review is a rant. So Wenner has at least been consistent all these years. Yes, that version of Quick One at the Circus is MONUMENTAL. ("Ladies and gentlemen -- dig The Who.")

[@johngibson3743]

For me, this started the Stones' greatest run of albums: Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main St. My only quibbles with Beggar's: the guitar "solo" in Parachute Woman and Jigsaw Puzzle's overly "Dylanesque" approach.

[@johnrush4571]

Isn't the line "palace revolution"? According to Keith's book, this was around the time he started using five-string open G tuning, with the strings in the GBGBD sequence.

[@BlueSky...]

Crazy theory: Brian's exceptional slide playing is what is on No Expectations because he sees himself and Anita in those lyrics. Ditto for his autoharp playing on You Got the Silver.

[@michaelshiflett4835]

I think it’s a tie with Let It Bleed

[@gamezharks]

Always look forward to the stones episode, for the fits if nothing else.

[@djinnmagik6867]

I love "Jigsaw Puzzle!" 😁💖🎶

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Your love of Rock and Roll is infectious. I enjoyed this video so very much. Brilliant outfit and all the extra stuff with great editing. Thank you.

[@LiGht-Youtube-0309]

Damn that's a good outfit. Okay now I thought an AC/DC Vinyl Monday omg

[@abigaildevoe]

haha not quite schoolboy enough to be ACDC

[@myradioon]

Everything Jimmy Miller touched is GOLD!

[@speedbrknek]

Crunchy! Crunchy is the job you did here Abigail! A review a history lesson a great fashion sense your musical knowledge some rare footage plus plus all done with a pleasing exuberant style of delivery. All that and young and beautiful if I dare say so out loud.

[@shelleylyme6402]

22:28 Ms Devoe makes a point of uncompromisingly designating Brian Jones as (quote) "a deeply flawed man" and thereby implying that he was the principal cause of his own misfortune in The Rolling Stones. Not so. Jones' heavy-duty drug abuse was an exacerbating consequence of his torment and not a cause. Several of Jones' contemporaries - including Pete Townshend and even Bob Dylan - have spoken of him as having been a valued friend. In particular, it's my understanding that the insightful and compassionate George Harrison had a special respect and affection for Jones; whilst by all accounts Marianne Faithfull too was deeply upset - well, disturbed - by his death. So I trust the personal experience of these people at the time rather than the sly, insidious rewriting of history and the drip drip drip of poisonous character assassination orchestrated by Jagger and Richard(s) over the last fifty years. Here in the UK even Bill Wyman had to step in a while ago to forcefully correct the public record. I'm an English male and I attended an all-male school throughout my formative years. Consequently, as a grown-up I can easily recognize a bastard from fifty paces - they might just as well have it stamped on their forehead in purple ink. So yes, there was (and is) at least one notably "flawed" bastard in The Rolling Stones, and it certainly wasn't Brian Jones.

[@micksbiggestfan4006]

I have a copy of BB on the DECCA label that features the invitation cover with gold letters on ivory background. Was labeled a import here in the states.

[@foursail100]

I always thought that Beggar's Banquet was their best album, and I've been listening to the Rolling Stone's since 1964. Every track sounds great!

[@denniseldridge2936]

Hi, much to say here, but first I have to compliment you on your research and knowledge. Not to mention taste in music hehe. I'm old enough to have had record albums as my first source of recorded music, from about 1970 until the mid-1980s. I picked up records again in the mid-1990s as I came to realize that analog was the best way to hear all of the music. In any case, I was lucky to have had much older step siblings who passed down their record collects to me, and at the tender age of six I had acquired a small collection of Stones, Beatles, Hendrix and a number of other greats of the time, all played unto death on a GE all-in-one record player. So I did want to comment here. You've edumacated me on a lot of details I'd either not known or forgotten, which is very cool. As for the Beggars Banquet album itself, I consider it just about the pinnacle of the Stones output. They did have many other great albums to be sure, but BB was where the drugs, internal conflicts and all the rest came together to create something that is almost punk in it's attitude. The Stones' insouciance and "F-you" come through in all the performances here. I did want to comment on post-Loog albums. The two 1967 offerings, Between the Buttons and Satanic Majesties, were not great, and as you say, lacked focus. Satanic Majesties was put out to try to get with the whole psychedelic craze of the time, but that just wasn't the Stones bag, man. They had some flashes of good songwriting of course, but not enough to make a full album of greatness. However BB is a towering achievement and every selection is a classic. I'll just conclude by encouraging you to look on the t*rrent sites for the Stones rocumentary C*cksucker Blues. It was commissioned by the Stones as a documentary of their 1971 US tour, but was never officially release due to copyrights or some such nonsense. But it remains as a record of utter debauchery (some staged, to be sure), and occasionally great live music. Occasionally. You'll see when you watch lol. They basically spend their days consuming downers of various sorts (alcohol mainly), and then, when it's time to hit the stage, they jack themselves up with white, powdery substances. And it shows lol.

[@leomuzzy6554]

I got that album for my 14th birthday (born in January. You're really good.

[@shemanic1]

Thanks Abi, another brilliant review of a brilliant album. At a eco-festival this year in the U.K. called The Green Gathering I DJ between bands each evening & just before a folk band a young guy came over to say he loved the tunes I played on vinyl 45's but did I have any Rolling Stones, I knew "Jumping Jack Flash" (which he preferred) would be too much so gave him "You Can't always get what you want" as an alternative & message.

[@jake105]

You’ve got that Brian Jones vibe big time. I love it. You just need the red eyes

[@LeighWilliams-lg7by]

Would have to say.....'Can't you hear me knocking'. The closing jam is magic.

[@abigaildevoe]

that's in my top 5 for sure. an all-time great opening riff!

[@AnnetteMay1221]

Oh yeah, the 55th anniversary of the release of Beggars Banquet. I was watching another channel last month. FlipSide CT. He was telling the stories and the archives. I ended up listening to the album for 3 weeks. I like your stories and style. My fave song on this album is Jigsaw Puzzle. The way Brian Jones played on that song was out of this world. Thank you for your cool reviews!