The Rolling Stones

Brian Jones' death and the entry of Mick Taylor cast a shadow over this LP, making it as haunting as it is inspired. The wavering opening notes of "Gimme Shelter" and Keith's vocal on "You Got The Silver" are some of rock's finest moments. Part backwoods blues, part gospel epic, this is a dirty, life-saving record.

Let It Bleed is the last album by the Stones we'll see before the Sixties, already gone really,
become the Seventies; it has the crummiest cover art since Flowers, with a credit sheet
that looks like it was designed by the United States Government Printing Office (all courtesy
of the inflated Robert Brownjohn), and the best production since, well, "Honky Tonk
Women." The music has tones that are at once dark and perfectly clear, while t... More >