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Let It Bleed |  | Artist: The Rolling Stones
Label: Decca - Pop
Category: Music
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 975
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 43 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 042288233220
EAN: 0042288233220
ASIN: B00006RT52
Release Date: August 10, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Gimme Shelter | | • | Love In Vain | | • | Country Honk | | • | Live With Me | | • | Let It Bleed | | • | Midnight Rambler | | • | You Got The Silver | | • | Monkey Man | | • | You Can't Always Get What You Want |
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 Classic Stones January 2, 2004
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
It took me many years to pick up on this album but it is my all time favourite. Superb from start to finish. Terrific drumming from Charlie especially on the opening track - Gimme Shelter. Keef at his best and great (in a sixtiesish sort of way) to hear You Can't Always Get what You Want with the choral opening! Midnight Rambler - very questionable sentiments but fantastic musicianship especially the guitars.pMy view is it is better than Exile - more coherent and better songs. A real classic.
Pure Class May 23, 2004
Daragh Hayes (Dublin)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
It opens with Gimme Shelter.. closes with You Cant Always Get What You Want. Thats just two reasons for you to buy this album. Gimme Shelter is possibly one of the greatest rock n roll songs off all time. It gives out this raw energy that you only really get from live performances and with the brilliant yet haunting backing vocals from Merry Clayton, a rock n roll song doesn't get much better. Love in Vain is another brilliant tune. Originally a Robert Johnson number from 1936, the Stones make this their own little bluesy number with a great result.. Country Honk is a basically a country version of Honkey Tonk Women. It comes complete with fiddle and a little variation on the lyrics as well. The title tune is a brilliant country/rock number. Its timing in the album is perfect as its just around the middle and leads the way for the amazing Midnight Rambler. Keith gets his first lead vocal with You Got The Silver, a slow acoustic number. Its an excellent slow ghostly country/rock number. Monkey Man is a forgotten classic. This song is decades ahead of its time. This is a really funky cool track. It should have been on the Forty Licks in my opinion. You may have heard it in Goodfellas or Casino. Live with Me is good song and lthough its my least favorite on the album its still a very strong track that the boys performed live at many of their Forty Licks gigs. Last but by no means least, is the brilliant You Cant Always Get What You Want. Theres nothing I can say about this song that hasn't already been said a thousand times by before. Its an absolute masterpiece. If there is one thing I would say against this album its that its too short. Only nine songs. And to think that Honky Tonk Women was recorded druing the same sessions yet wasnt included! My favorite Stones album is Exile but this runs it a very very close second.
One of the three best Stones albums. November 11, 2002
Jason Parkes (Worcester, UK)
25 out of 32 found this review helpful
Following great albums like Aftermath, Satanic Majesties Request Beggars Banquet, the Stones went to another place with Let it Bleed. This album ranks along with Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St as one of their best albums- that time when they were dangerous, had Mick Taylor Ry Cooder on hand and there was all that Altamont business. pEach track is great, some will be familiar to those who've seen Goodfellas (Monkey Man is used along with Memo from Turner from Performance in the helicopter scene), while Gimme Shelter turned up in Casino. Country Honk demonstrates the influence of Gram Parsons (and bizarrely has Nanette Newman singing on it!)- though the epic Midnight Rambler and the Burrito-inflected Let it Bleed are my fave tracks (sorry, but I'm allergic to the last track...). pLet it Bleed is a great, great album and it is nice to see the Stones back catlogue getting a decent reissue- this album sounds fabulous; a must have!
The best Rolling Stones album April 20, 2006
Mr. Stephen Carter (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Six classics out of nine tracks make this the best Stones album. Keith and Charlie on brilliant form - the only drawback being the lack of Charlie on "You can't always get...". Probably Bill's best album too - even if he didn't play the best bass line (on "Live with me")! Even the three duffers aren't that bad - "Love in vain" is too slow and suffers in comparison to the original; "Country Honk" is approaching abysmal but the thought of Nanette Newman doing backing vocals perks it up a bit! "You got the silver" misses Mick and could have done without Brian (his only appearance on this album). But the classics - the flawless "Gimme Shelter" especially - and various excellent contributions - especially Nicky Hopkins piano work - makes it THE classic Rolling Stones album. I'm still listening to this album regularly after nearly 40 years while the rest of my Stones albums gather dust. That says it all really.
A Stones Release From Their Classic Period August 5, 2006
Jervis
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
While it's quite true that Let It Bleed contains some of the Stones most beautiful music (and most frightening) it is perhaps the least consistent of their classic period albums although in comparison with many albums around it's still worthy of the title.
br /'Gimmie Shelter', 'Love In Vain', 'Midnight Rambler' and 'You Got The Silver' are the Stones at the very peak of their powers and while 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' is also wonderful it is perhaps a little overlong. The other tracks (for example 'Let It Bleed', 'Live With Me', and 'Monkey Man') are also good but they aren't quite up to the standard set by many of their songs from the late sixties/early seventies period. There's also a fun alternate version of 'Honky Tonk Women' called 'Country Honk' which is a great deal of fun (but hardly essential).
br /'Let It Bleed' follows the blueprint set by 'Beggars Banquet' in the way the songs are sequenced yet it does come off sounding considerably more uneven. It is also similar in terms of musical direction (county/blues) although it has a slightly more electric feel.
br /A classic album overall that's for sure although there are a number of albums available that are more worthy of the title.
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