Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

Almost forty years to the day since its release, the Rolling Stones' eighth album, Let It Bleed, is still a work that routinely surfaces when music obsessives (mostly of a journalistic persuasion) gather to compile their arbitrary and utterly meaningless lists of 'best evers' (number 30 in the 'Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time' list, in case you're interested). The question is whether this forty-year-old album deserves its 'classic' tag or should instead be left as a brief footnote in the annals of popular music. Who are we kidding here? Let It Bleed is undoubtedly a classic album, much deserving of the accolades that have been heaped upon it over ...  Read the complete review

There are good albums which sell well in their time and their bad albums which the singles from always seem to get played on Top of the Pops.Then there are the timeless classics,the ones that stand the test of time,the ones you can be sure will still be listened to decades from now.True,a lot of them seem to come from the sixties and seventies but regardless of release date they're the sort of work that must be classed as pieces of true art in a world where a used condom seems to be art if you paint it green. The follow-up album to Beggars Banquet was a masterpiece first released at,aptly enough for the Stones,the midnight hour of the 1960's - ...  Read the complete review

Remind me to thank my parents for having decent taste in music. If it wasn’t for them I might be stuck listening to endless clones of popular bands or the new ‘cutting edge, marketed to the masses, extreme nu-metal/’punk’. Lucky for me, eh? And without going in to all the stories about the band, and all that stuff – let me get straight to the nitty gritty – the music. When the first track – ‘Gimmie Shelter’ - gets going it sends a real shiver up your spine: ‘Oh a storm is threat'ning my very life today If I don't get some shelter Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away War, ...  Read the complete review

This is my fav rolling stones record ever and is worth every penny.Mick Taylor makes his album debut and shines throughout with his blues rock guitar licks.The album serves as a fitting tribute to Brian Jones who died in the Summer of 1969.Gimme Shelter is my favourite track on the album from a guitarists point of view and Jagger also gives one of his best vocal performances in this song.Ry Cooder comes into the studio to record on Suster Morphine adding some emotive slide guitar playing to this acoustic ballad.Dead Flowers is a nice up tempo country ballad and continues to appear in the rolling stones live sets.This album is unsurpassed as a musical statement. ...  Read the complete review