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Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

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Album Review

Mostly recorded without Brian Jones — who died several months before its release (although he does play on two tracks) and was replaced by Mick Taylor (who also plays on just two songs) — this extends the rock and blues feel of Beggars Banquet into slightly harder-rocking, more demonically sexual territory. The Stones were never as consistent on album as their main rivals, the Beatles, and Let It Bleed suffers from some rather perfunctory tracks, like "Monkey Man" and a countrified remake of the classic "Honky Tonk Woman" (here titled "Country Honk"). Yet some of the songs are among their very best, especially "Gimme Shelter," with its shimmering guitar lines and apocalyptic lyrics; the harmonica-driven "Midnight Rambler"; the druggy party ambience of the title track; and the stunning "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which was the Stones' "Hey Jude" of sorts, with its epic structure, horns, philosophical lyrics, and swelling choral vocals. "You Got the Silver" (Keith Richards' first lead vocal) and Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," by contrast, were as close to the roots of acoustic down-home blues as the Stones ever got.

Customer Reviews

Let it Bleed

Probably the best cake ever made by Deliah Smith. The music speeks for itself. Gimme Shelter is perhaps the best ever Stones intro to a song. Magical and timeless. GAZ

let it bleed

magical is right.....icing on cake being the divine mr richards on you got the silver.

The Stones At Their Very Best

Let It Bleed is the Rolling Stones' greatest album. Jagger and Richards were at the height of their songwriting powers in 1969 and this album captures some of their finest ever songs - from the dark and menacing Gimme Shelter right through to the majestic You Can't Always Get What You Want. Many critics say that Exile On Main St. was the Stones' masterpiece but, in my humble opinion, even Exile cannot match this magnificent album. It's an absolute must for anybody's record collection.

Biography

Formed: April, 1962 in London, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock. With his preening machismo and latent maliciousness, Mick Jagger became the prototypical rock frontman,...
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