They got together one time at Jagger’s and at the other time at Richards’ place to be able to start the recordings in March 1968 at the Olympic Studio in London.
During this they had the potential to release Jumpin’ Jack Flash as a forerunner which was a real blast everywhere. ‘68 was a weird year. It had a hole in it’ – said Richards, the Bishop of Rock about the constellation of the stars.
The starting piece of the Beggars Banquet is Sympathy for the Devil. A song that’s a dawn can be traced back minute by minute since Jean-Luc Goddard filmed two days of the recording and made One Plus One a never fully appreciated rock classic.
Brian Jones is not any more able to play music these days so practically all the guitars (and songs of course) are from Richards including the bass line of Sympathy for the Devil.
The studio-work – as it is usual now - takes place in Los Angeles with the assistance of Jimmy Miller. Next month in the US the first song of the second side Street Fighting Man appears as a single which gets shortly after that banned so advertising is not a problem any more.

Decca crosses the sleeve designed on which the inner wall of a public toilet can be seen with the line God rolls his own. Both sides are persistent so Beggars Banquet is finally released in December 1968 in the well-known white sleeve that looks like an invitation card. But it has no effect on the sales, people want the content, not the wrap. They want the invasion to start and want the barbarians appear at the gates of Rome.
In case you would like to know how is it like when a stone is rolling up a mountain, a stone on which moss never grows then spare not your loudspeakers, dive into Beggars Banquet!

“Black holes and revelations — they’re the two areas of songwriting for me that make up the majority of this album. A revelation about yourself, something personal, something genuine of an everyday nature that maybe people can relate to. Then the black holes are these songs that are from the more… unknown regions of the imagination.” Matthew Bellamy

1. “Take a Bow” - 4:35
2. “Starlight” - 3:59
3. “Supermassive Black Hole” - 3:29
4. “Map of the Problematique” - 4:18
5. “Soldier’s Poem” - 2:03
6. “Invincible” - 5:00
7. “Assassin” - 3:31
8. “Exo-Politics” - 3:53
9. “City of Delusion” - 4:48
10. “Hoodoo” - 3:43
11. “Knights of Cydonia” - 6:06
12. “Glorious” (bonus track) - 4:38

personally: i remember that a former girlfriend showed me the muse first and i found it totally ridiculous. the overdistorted guitars, and a singer who is short of breath… later my opinion changed..

all those muddy sounds. those catching grooves. that very unique sound made muse one of my favourite bands

all the videos are pretty artworks but these are my favourites:

reviews i liked: allmusic, rolling stone, the observer and reviews i didn’t: A.V. club, now magazine, pitchfork

real raw power and a vintage sound but in a way you have never heard before. when listening to it for the first time you proably ask ‘what the bloddy hell that crap is?’ but as you keep listening you get more and more involved in their game…

the white stripes - get behind me satan LYRICS

1. “Blue Orchid” - 2:37
2. “The Nurse” - 3:47
3. “My Doorbell” - 4:01
4. “Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)” - 3:15
5. “Little Ghost” - 2:18
6. “The Denial Twist” - 2:35
7. “White Moon” - 4:01
8. “Instinct Blues” - 4:16
9. “Passive Manipulation” - 0:35
10. “Take, Take, Take” - 4:22
11. “As Ugly as I Seem” - 4:10
12. “Red Rain” - 3:52
13. “I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet)” - 4:19

personally: my first encounter with white stripes was their video hit seven nation army. a video that won’t let your eyes off the screen. in each second a new image appears and vanishes and the colors send a breeze down your spine:

later i saw their live show on mtv which really was a total failure.. no sync between drums riffs and singing. a total chaos

there are bands that are good in the studio. the white stripes is one of them

reviews i liked: stylus, rolling stone, allmusic and reviews i didn’t: the austin chronicle, prefixmag, paste magazine