Most people consider the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the best rock'n'roll album of all time. At the same time, the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request is seem as a lame copycat, and likely the Stones' worst album.
I think history has it wrong.
Both albums turned 50 this year, so I've relistened and found at least ONE way that the Stones' maligned album is better: at psychedelic rock. The Beatles, or at least Paul, hit the quarter tones right on time AND sang about geriatric love, dating cops and how things are getting so much better -- hardly in tune with the spirit of '67. The Stones were bleaker, trippier, more daring.
Watch my episode of ROBERT'S RECORD CORNER, shot in the desert of the United Arab Emirates, to find out why: