The rule I had to give myself was I had to follow up The Spice Girls with something from a band I like, I argued amongst myself settling on something 60's - it came down to the Stones or the Kinks - the Stones after much deliberation got chosen.
I've got to say I've always been more of Beatles fan myself (more of a Kinks fan even among others) but there is plenty of their songs I've loved, but along these bands and many 60's band (for the purpose of this, those whose career started in that decade) I've never heard a full Stones album from top to bottom (bad I know). This is their 6th album and is from 1967 and came out not long after Sgt. Pepper's, which I only mention because the cover is somewhat worth comparing to that.
Sing This All Together (track 1) is a catchy opener that I imagine if I had heard this earlier in my lifetime it would have had plenty of play before now, it's the sort of Stones song I prefer to Citadel (track 2), which is them being more blues, I did like it just not too strongly. In Another Land (track 3) the opening almost lost me with the muffled sound and this is song is awesome in the none muffled moments, I think that sentence made sense if not nobody reads this so it doesn't matter.
2000 Man (track 4) is again another song that gets better after it's opening, their is good music in the first bit just not sure what there going for, and the second half is actually pretty awesome this is a 4* track, Sing This All Together (See What Happens) (Track 5) is the album's longest track, I was waiting to get awesome after the intro because that was the rule of the previous few songs about and 2 minutes in it almost did, it turns out it was loads of music to be fair wasn't so bad on their own but is not what I wanted at this point in the album.
She's A Rainbow (Track 6) is F**KING AWESOME, I adore this song, this had an intro I haven't actually heard before it's always gone straight into the piano, this should be a theme TV for a female led TV show in my opinion. With great bias this is a 5* song and the best track of the album so far (this could potentially be my favourite of theirs full stop). The Lantern (track 7) for me as a tough act to follow and does an admirable job what for me the biggest problem is that it's almost about to build up to something then it doesn't (like a tease).
The very least with Gomper (track 8) I know going in was we at least get an interesting title is something that could have been half the length, possibly the weakest track so far for me. 2000 Light Years From Home (track 9) - 2000 is used twice on this album - is a cool song, doesn't quite match some of the musical heights as the rest of the album but it almost does, the final track, On With The Show (track 10) is a great ending to the album, one of them goofy sort the rock bands only in the 60's could get away with.
Overall, a solid album for me, that every song as at least something good to great going on musically, there are plenty of solid tracks and a bonafide classic (in my opinion) in here, it's well worth a recommendation for fans of 60's music particularly with the psychedelic bent.
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