Beggars Banquet
A pivot from psychedelia back to the mud and blood of the blues. Acoustic textures meet a sneering, revolutionary spirit in a room thick with tape hiss.
December 6, 1968 · Decca
A pivot from psychedelia back to the mud and blood of the blues. Acoustic textures meet a sneering, revolutionary spirit in a room thick with tape hiss.
December 6, 1968 · Decca
A dry, wooden rattle of acoustic guitars and hand percussion replaces the drug-hazed studio experiments of the past year. The air feels thick with a humid, dangerous tension, capturing a band that has traded pop polish for a cynical, dirt-caked roots music that sounds as if it were recorded on a cheap cassette machine in a backroom. It is a menacing, stripped-back return to form, where the acoustic instruments are played with such rhythmic violence that they buzz and distort like electric amplifiers.
How does Beggars Banquet sound next to the rest of The Rolling Stones's catalogue?
The instrumentation foregrounds acoustic guitar far more than the catalogue usually does.
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