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''Their Satanic Majesties Request'' is the sixth British and eighth American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released on 8 December 1967 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States by London Records. Its title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires ..." text that appears inside a British passport. It was also the first Stones album where the track listings were the same for the UK and US versions. Upon its release, the album "drew mixed reviews from the critics as well as some mixed reactions within the group itself."〔 In recent years, however, it has gained a cult following since it was The Rolling Stones' most overt outing into the psychedelic realm, and because of its lenticular cover (which critics still compare to that of the Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'').〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.feelnumb.com/2010/01/29/the-rolling-stones-returned-the-sgt-pepper-album-cover-tribute-to-the-beatles/ )〕 ==History== Begun just after ''Between the Buttons'' had been released on 20 January 1967, the recording of ''Their Satanic Majesties Request'' was long and sporadic, broken up by court appearances〔 via the Digital Library of the University of North Texas. 〕 and jail terms. For the same reasons, the entire band was seldom present in the studio at one time. Further slowing productivity was the presence of the multiple guests that the band members had brought along. One of the more level-headed members of the band during this time, Bill Wyman, wary of psychedelic drugs, wrote the song "In Another Land" to parody the Stones' current goings-on. In his 2002 book ''Rolling with the Stones'', Wyman describes the situations in the studio: Their producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham, already fed up with the band's lack of focus, distanced himself from them following their drug bust and finally quit, leaving them without a producer. As a result, ''Their Satanic Majesties Request'' was the Stones' only self-produced album, which Mick Jagger later opined was not for the best: According to Brian Jones, a month before the album's planned release date the group "hadn't got anything put together": Keith Richards himself has been critical of the album in later years. While he likes some of the songs ("2000 Light Years from Home", "Citadel" and "She's a Rainbow"), he stated, "the album was a load of crap". The Stones experimented with many new instruments and sound effects during the sessions, including Mellotron, short wave radio static, and string arrangements by John Paul Jones.〔 In 1998, a bootleg box set of eight CDs with outtakes from the ''Satanic'' sessions was released, and it shows the band developing the songs over multiple takes as well as the experimentation that went into the recording of the album. The working title of the album was ''Cosmic Christmas''. In the hidden coda titled "Cosmic Christmas" (following "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)"), Wyman tells "it's slowed-down: 'We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!'" Some of the album's songs were also recorded under various working titles, some appearing rather non sequitur and radically different from the final titles. These working titles include: "Acid in the Grass" ("In Another Land"), "I Want People to Know" ("2000 Man"), "Flowers in Your Bonnet" ("She's a Rainbow"), "Fly My Kite" ("The Lantern"), "Toffee Apple" ("2000 Light Years from Home"), and "Surprise Me" ("On with the Show").〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Their Satanic Majesties Request」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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