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Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. We ring the Hell's Bells to see what songs and rockers are sincere in their Satanism, and how much of it is an act. Village People lead singer Victor Willis, who co-wrote "Y.M.C.A.," insists it isn't a gay song - it's about hanging out with your buddies. At the time Beatles and Stones fans were constantly at war with each other over who was the more important band.
Jagger reportedly wrote the lyrics in Brixton prison following his conviction on drug charges in June 1967. The working title of the instrumental backing was “Toffee Apple”. The prominent string part is played by Brian Jones on mellotron. The sound effects at the beginning of the song before the melody starts was played by him on a piano.
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Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. For the first time in 23 years, The Rolling Stones played “2000 Light Years from Home" on 29 June 2013 at The Glastonbury Festival. The song has occasionally been revived on stage, notably on the Steel Wheels tour of 1989. It has also inspired a number of covers, including one by German band the Lovers in 1968, an instrumental version by Los Straitjackets in 2015, and the most recent interpretation by Kyle Richards & the TM Collective in 2021. The video for “2000 Light Years From Home” opens on close-ups of all five members of the band at the time, and includes a staged performance of the Jagger-Richards song on color-treated film. The motif of Mick Jagger’s painted face was to be reprised for the “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” video the following year, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
He played two tracks of several dissonant and unorthodox chords, then one track was reversed. Delivery time is estimated using our proprietary method which is based on the buyer's proximity to the item location, the shipping service selected, the seller's shipping history, and other factors. The song was recorded by the band at Olympic Studios during July and September 1967. The working title of the instrumental backing was "Toffee Apple". Brian Jones performs prominent accompaniment on Mellotron. "2000 Light Years from Home" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request.
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Beatles fans accused the Stones of constantly ripping off the Fab 4. Thus 'Satanic' was considsered a rip-off of 'Pepper' and 'Beggar's Banquet', with its off-white sleeve, was considered a rip-off of the 'White Album'. I would like to hear more of this album, though. All artists need to experiment, and the Rolling Stones are no exception. But I couldn't believe it was them when I heard this song just now. I wish that NASA would have beamed this through space instead of the Beatle's Across the Universe.
It was released as the B-side of “She’s A Rainbow,” itself not a UK single but a major hit in some European countries, with a No.25 peak in the US. This original version of 2000' is interesting to hear to remember 1968 psychedelic period. The live version is really more interesting today. The title is a takeoff on the inside of the Brisith passport that says "Her Brittanic Majesties Request". Yes the mix is a bit muddy but the mellotron and arrangement more than compensate in their brilliance. This album also featured She's A Rainbow, Citadel and 2000 Man, all as good as anything on their masterpieces Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers .
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Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it also appeared as the B-side to the American single "She's a Rainbow", and charted as a single in Germany. The track, written by Mick andKeith Richards,was the B-side to the single “She’s A Rainbow.” It is believed Mick wrote the lyrics in prison during an incarceration from a drug bust. The Rolling Stonesare sharing a newly restored version of the music video for “2000 Light Years From Home,” from their 1967 experimental/psychedelic album,Their Satanic Majesties Request. The clip, filmed and produced in 1967, has now been restored in 4K resolution and released digitally for the first time.
This song wasnt even considered for the album until Brian put his Mellotron touch to it. Margotin and Guesdon suggest the claves were played by Eddie Kramer, the session's assistant sound engineer.
The rest of the songs are excellent as well but take multiple listens to really appreciate. This tune featured the Moog that was purchased by Mick Jagger. That synthesizer was featured on several songs on this album. Yes, the Mellotron plays the haunting string sounds, but it's the Moog playing the spacey AM radio sounds. There's lots of information surrounding the Mellotron out there, and plenty more surrounding the Moog. A restored and colorized 4K version of this music video was released by ABCKO in November 2022.
Jagger apparently wrote the lyrics in jail, the same time he wrote "We Love You," after being arrested in an infamous drug bust at Keith Richards' estate, a fact that would certainly play into the lonely feel of the lyric. The Stones realized, though, the record's good moments, and on tours in the mid- to late '90s resurrected "2000 Light Years From Home" in a powerful rendition. The band Sky Cries Mary gave the song an ambient, spooky take on their 1998 Fresh Fruits for the Revolution. Estimated delivery dates - opens in a new window or tab include seller's dispatch time, origin postcode, destination postcode and time of acceptance, and will depend on the postage service selected and receipt of cleared payment.
In the summer of 1990, you could get arrested for selling a 2 Live Crew album or performing their songs in Southern Florida. The mellotron was an analog sampling instrument, in which a short tape reel was played back at various speeds depending on which key the player pressed. Most of the tapes contained samples of orchestras. They were notoriously unreliable instruments, frequently breaking and difficult to tour with. The one Stones song I have always wanted to remix - get rid of the muddiness and play with the stereo FX - it is a pretty lame recording that could use a good shake up.
Sure, it's a nod to the psychedelic trends of the era, but really, "2000 Light Years From Home" is just a minor-key variation on the 12-bar blues that the Rolling Stones had been practicing since the beginning of their career. Their Satanic Majesty's Request does not come anywhere close to the heights attained by the Beatles' record, and it also reaches some pretty low depths. Nevertheless, the record has some excellent moments. Beginning with a strum and bang of a piano's strings, creating a dissonant crash, Charlie Watts kicks "2000 Light Years From Home" into high gear after a wicked Latin-tinged/suspense film guitar lick introduction by Keith Richards. But Brian Jones layers on prominent Mellotron strings and effects, giving the song a surreal and cinematically epic sweep, and creating the desired soaring effect that drives Mick Jagger's vocals. The lyrics are, on the surface, about space travel, but ultimately about distance and loneliness -- perhaps a metaphor for drug use and the increasing gulfs between youth culture and their elders, the "home" in the song.
Cleared payment cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab. "2000 Light Years from Home" is a song from The Rolling Stones's album Their Satanic Majesties Request. "2000 Light Years from Home" appears to be the B-Side of She's a Rainbow in the US, and it was charted as a single in Germany. It was composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
But is tremendously fine a piece of music and nothing like it was done before and nothing like it happened after. It was also kind of swansong of Brian Jones, Stones' Syd Barrett or Peter Gabriel . TSMR is one of the most underrated albums; even the Rolling Stones disregard it.
