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Music CD - The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed
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Music CD: Let It Bleed
Artist: The Rolling Stones
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Manufacturer: Abkco
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1. Gimme Shelter
2. Love in Vain
3. Country Honk
4. Live With Me
5. Let It Bleed
6. Midnight Rambler
7. You Got the Silver
8. Monkey Man
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want - Madeline Bell, London Bach Choir, Nanette Newman, The Rolling Stones, Doris Troy
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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0018771800415
Label: Abkco
Manufacturer: Abkco
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Tracks: 9
Publisher: Abkco
Release Date: 1990-05-22
Studio: Abkco
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Summary: Plainly said, one of the best rock and roll albums ever
Comment: Wow!
There are a lot of terrific rock and roll albums; this ranks among the best. There is great poignancy with this work. For one thing, some of the songs are poignant--"Love in Vain," "You Can't Always Get What You Want." For another, we see Brian Jones on only two cuts, and playing a minor role (autoharp on "You Got the Silver" and percussion on "Midnight Rambler"), with Mick Taylor (his successor) playing guitar ("Live with Me").
As a salad dressing apothegm has it, though: "'Tis the taste that tells the tale." And what a work!
It starts off with a great little rocker, "Gimme Shelter." There is a foreboding note at the outset (ironic given that this song, if memory serves, was being played when the Hell's Angels began their havoc at Altamont). Nice choral singing in the background. Key lines:
"A storm is threatening'
. . . .
If I don't get some shelter
I'm gonna fade away."
The rhythm section (Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman) plays well, and Keith Richards spews forth chunky guitar notes. Mick Jagger does a nice job on harmonica.
"Love in Vain": I risk the wrath of blues fans. . . . I like this version better than either of the multiple ones on Robert Johnson's 2 CD work. Keith's spare guitar work and Mick's vocals simply work extremely well. The Stones have done an estimable job over time covering blues classics--and even recording some of their own original blues-y works. Here, they show that they can do a credible job as compared with the originals.
"Country Honk": Interesting in its country sound, but listen to "Honky Tonk Women" for the real deal. This is a nice experiment, but. . . .
"Midnight Rambler": The album version is terrific, but after you listen to the live version on "Get Your Ya-Yas Out," this recedes into the background. And that's a compliment to the live version, since this is a great, haunting, disturbing rock and roll song. A song about Albert DiSalvo can only be described as "creepy." Still, the recorded version works well and is compelling rock theater. Mick's harmonica work is quite well done here. The presto close out is fabulous.
"You Can't always Get What You Want": Some of the most poignant lines in rock and roll:
"You can't always get what you want,
But if you try, sometime you just might find
You get what you need."
This song features the London Bach Choir in support! This is an interesting and intelligent (and poignant) song. Noteworthy: Al Kooper joins the Stones with some nice turns on French horn (kind of weird for rock and roll!), piano, and organ.
Simply, one of the classic rock and roll albums. . . .
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Summary: "...YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED !" (Let It Bleed is one of The Rolling Stones' greatest albums)
Comment: The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed (1969) is a great rock n' roll classic, easily one of the band's best albums. Rock, blues, and country, you get what you need. It opens with my favorite Rolling Stones' song, the provocative forewarning of war, Gimme Shelter. The song is a total rock classic, full of gutsy electric guitar, bluesy harmonica, and exciting vocal performances from Mick Jagger and female vocalist Merry Clayton. The country blues raunch of the title song is a favorite of mine, too. With Keith Richards laying down some top-notch slide guitar, and Mick Jagger belting out lewd appeals of lasciviousness, the song's a raucous blast of depravity and swagger. The country blues are visited again with Love In Vain and You Got The Silver (Keith sings), and they both sound great, too. The acoustic guitar, mandolin, and fiddle drenched Country Honk is Honky Tonk Women's sloppy drunk country cousin, and the menacing rowdy rocker Midnight Rambler shows off the talents of everybody in the band, as they rock the song for all that it's worth. Monkey Man is a rhythm guitar powered metaphoric and low-rent romp through the ghetto jungle. The album's last song is You Can't Always Get What You Want, a folk-rock symphony that features acoustic and electric guitars along with the London Bach Choir. The lyrics examine both the naivete and the dark side of the 1960s love and peace counterculture. Definitely a Rolling Stones classic. It doesn't get much better than Let It Bleed as far as albums by The Rolling Stones go, and it's one of their three greatest (the other two are Exile On Main Street and Sticky Fingers).
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Summary: The best Rock N Roll band in the world
Comment: With this album the Stones grabbed that title and effortlessly held the title until sometime after the release of Exile On Main Street. A supreme mix of of blues influenced rock music with a bit of country and the frankly really oddball, but magically catchy "You Can't Alway get What You Want".
The album starts with one of the Stones best ever tracks "Gimme Shelter", which is nearly four and a half minutes long. The influence of Chuck Berry can still be heard on this track but the Stones have moved the goal posts and although Chuck invented some of the greatest Rock N Roll guitar licks, on Gimme Shelter Keith Richards raises the bar.
Following the slow Robert Johnson blues "Love in Vain" (superb) and the country rewrite of "Honky Tonk Woman" that is "Country Honk" (probably the weakest track) we get to "Live With Me". Heres a track that could easily have been on Exile on Main Street. A supreme piece of Rock Music, Jagger snarls the lyrics, a barnstorming Sax solo by Bobby Keys, the twin Pianos of Nicky Hopkins and Leon Russell pounding in the background. Its probably my favourite track on the album.
Having said the title track "Let It Bleed" is quite something as well. Charlie Watts who is frequently forgotten when the Stones are discussed, as always propels the track along with indecent drive, theres some lovely slide guitar from Keith Richards and Ian Stewart (the Stones equivlent to Billy Preston) adds the funky Piano licks.
As a previous reviewer has stated, and as I indicated at the start of my review, if you have this album, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street you have the Stones at the very height of their powers. There are many other worthy albums they made which are worth getting but none touch these three.
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Summary: One of the Stones' finest!
Comment: A bit of rock, a bit of blues, a bit of soul, a bit of raunch... just what you need to make a classic Rolling Stones album! Some will say this is the group's best, and if it weren't for Country Honk (a fiddle-driven parody of the contemporary #1 Honky Tonk Woman, which is infinitely better), it would be. Now it'll have to settle for being prime Stones. I'm sure it won't mind.
Is Gimme Shelter the best opener the Stones or anyone else ever recorded? Possibly. It's a terrifying song, in a positive way: the best fade-in known to man, wailing harp, one of the best guitar solos known to man, and Mary Clayton's chilling vocal. Cool! And that guitar solo... Keith Richards is better known for his rhythm guitar, but his leads all over the record are excellent. You can hear more of that great playing on the hilarious, sleazy title, country-blues title track (Stu really gets down and boogies!), the creepy classic "blues opera" Midnight Rambler, where Charlie plays the drums of a lifetime; the sneering Live With Me, which is also pretty funny (and Bobby Keys plays a cool sax!), and the underrated blues Monkey Man, which is again quite funny (listen to Mick's monkey impression in the fade! And the guitar/drum tradeoff thing they do in the instrumental break! And Bill's vibes! What a SONG!) While we're talking about Keef Riffhard, alias the King of Cool, we must mention You Got the Silver. This was the first Stones song he sang lead on, and he sings it well - not a bad little country-folk tune either!
The Stones do the soft as well as the loud (an acoustic take on Robert Johnson's classic Love in Vain - love it!) and the philosphical as well as the sleazy (the multipart classic You Can't Always Get What You Want, my favorite Stones song ever - just listen to all the stuff they managed to layer into this one! Their best lyrics, too). What's not to like? Oh yeah, Country Honk. We'll just pretend that it's Honky Tonk Woman, shall we?
Oh, and a little message to anyone who thinks this is a rip-off of the Beatles' Let It Be. That's just proving you know nothing about either group. Let It Bleed was released before either the album or the single Let It Be. Besides, listen to both albums side-by-side. Pretty different, no?
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Summary: My Favorite Stones
Comment: Let it Bleed should be near the top of any rock cd list. Sticky Fingers is close behind.
Monkey Man is so crazy cool
Midnight Rambler
Gimme Shelter
Can't Always Get What You Want
Live With Me is also crazy cool
Amazing! Something else that is amazing is how fast they went down hill in the late 70's. There were a few good songs here and there after the mid 70's, but nothing compared to the era of late 60's and very early 70's.
By the way, I think Exile is a solid album with a cool vibe, but it's not in the same ballpark as Let It Bleed. How Exile gets put on the top 10 list ever is a joke. It's good, but not that good.
Anyway, LET IT BLEED rocks & should be in the top 10 ever.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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