Product Description: No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: ROLLING STONES Title: LET IT BLEED Street Release Date: 08/27/2002 Domestic Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com essential recording: One of the Stones' most beloved albums, 1969's Let It Bleed was a benchmark for several reasons. First, founding guitarist Brian Jones died during the recording process. Second, the Stones take their last significant look at pure blues (Robert Johnson's spooky "Love in Vain") and country ("Country Honk," the two-stepping alter ego of "Honky-Tonk Women") before folding both styles into a cohesive rock & roll vision. Third, it contains some of the band's most eerie hits, such as the flame-enveloped "Gimme Shelter," the drug-reality anthem "Monkey Man," the epic "You Can't Always Get What You Want," and Mick Jagger's menacing "Midnight Rambler." --Steve Knopper
My Personal Favorite - And Perhaps Best Stones Album I am the Stones Authority. This is my personal favorite. Everything from the album artwork, the inner sleeve that came with the vinyl that admonishes the listener to play the record loud, to the opening track, which in my opinion is not only the best Rolling Stones song, period, but the best representation of what a rock song should be in general - the incomparable "Gimme Shelter". If you could only pick one song as the best in the genre then in my mind "Gimme Shelter" is it. Again, there are others who make the case for the album and the individual tracks - and they do a fine job. So I have nothing to add - be sure to read their reviews for the history and critiques, as most of them are quite good and insightful.
And I will not debate which is the better album, Sticky Fingers or Let It Bleed - I will leave that debate to others. My position is stated above. It is subjective. The two albums are very different from one another, but there is little doubt that these are the two best Stones albums. People can have their personal favorites, but no serious fan or critic of the Stones can be taken seriously if the say that the best Stones album is not one of these two albums. Period.
However, what I must address here, as I did with my review of Sticky Fingers, is what kind of rope are the 13 reviewers who rated this album as 1 Star smoking? What sort of scarey and abysmal music collection adorns their rooms and iPods? What, pray tell, rates a 5 Star album in their world? Is there any endeavor in their lives in which they engage in that others actually take them seriously? Are they allowed to influence others? These are the important questions that must be asked. Again, if this album is not in your collectin or you are not at least familiar with this work then you have no business discussing music as a serious subject with others. Period.
Bloodrock I got nasty habits. Small town boy, hung up on the only decent girl around. Eyes so blue they shoot me dead, the sky is grey with jealousy. Queue up for the bathroom 'round about 7:35, every Tuesday's early but her bad mood just makes me smile. Vain, private, recondite. Stylish! Why can't I resist this creature? Got class, cool, history. I actually cook for her. Think about her all the time. Sang to her once but she didn't hear. What's wrong with me? I should say it, I should blow it: "Don't you wanna live with me?" Yes is pop; no is rock ~ and bad news always travels faster than good.
Goodbye to the love crowd Released just before the infamous Altamont debacle of December, 1969, "Let It Bleed" signals farewell to the peace-and-love Sixties in no uncertain terms. Once again, following "Beggars Banquet", an entire year went by until the release of the next Rolling Stones album. That year was 1969, and it had seen the death of Brian Jones, under suspicious circumstances, earlier that summer. Jones is present, posthumously, on "Bleed", participating in both the vicious "Midnight Rambler" (percussion), and "You Got The Silver" (autoharp), the latter track featuring Keith Richards' first solo lead vocal. Jones' replacement, the young Mick Taylor, was firmly in place, playing on "Live With Me" and "Country Honk"; though his relatively-unsullied image did not fit in with the rest of the group, he was probably the best guitarist the band ever had. In Jimmy Miller, who would work with them through 1973, the group also found its finest producer, a man who knew how to get the most out of their once-again-blues-based material. (With a cover of Robert Johnson's "Love In Vain", featuring Ry Cooder on mandolin, the band went straight to the motherlode.) "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is NOT blues, but, recorded with the London Bach Choir, it resonates, mournfully, as an end-of-an-era anthem. The Seventies lay ahead; the Stones, always bad boys and outlaws, were ready.
Great Sound - Great Classic If you're wondering which CD of this Stones classic to get, get this one. The digitalized remastering process here sounds almost as good as pristine heavyweight vinyl. And for younger listeners, if you've never heard "Let It Bleed", you're in for a ride. From the first quiet haunting notes of "Gimme Shelter" to the tongue in cheek choral intro and outro of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" - with plenty of hard rockin' in between - it's the Stones at one of their all-time peaks.
very good album I am a music lover period and The Stones one of the great groups of all time.Had some 45 rmps by them in the sixties and seventys but this is my first album.No complaints here.
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