Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request - Brian Jonestown Massacre (2008)
This is another band I know because of TV.
The bandname is a sort of pun, a mashup of Jonestown–the cult mass suicide event that seems too strange to be true–and Brian Jones, the most interesting and shortest-lived Rolling Stone.
Jones’ time with the Stones didn’t lead to any songwriting credits that I know of, but he was highly innovative in getting interesting textures and arrangements into the band’s studio recordings. This was at its pinnacle on the 1967 oddball psych masterpiece (or disaster, depending on whom you ask) called Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Oh right, under the several layers of references and allusions there’s a band to talk about. I don’t know. When the Stones made an album of pretty, ambitious, and slightly wanky psych rock, it was divisive. But then again people cared about the Stones. This is a nicely done homage, but it feels like something between a guy building model airplanes and a civil war reenactment. Anachronistic but maybe nostaligic for the wrong things.
Anyway, if you want to celebrate nihilistic 60s drug culture (and you for some reason can’t just listen to a Stones album), this is your huckleberry I guess.
