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bitusa2012
Staggering how far they'd come from Aftermath and Between the Buttons to Beggars and Bleed.
Let it Bleed opens with, to this day, the greatest ever opening track to an album. Shelter. Foreboding, dark, primal, piercing. The greatest EVER Charlie Watts drum captured on tape, just pure magnificence.
A hugely diverse album that should not be, but totally IS, unimaginably cohesive.
My favorite track though, completely unexpected when I first heard it, is Monkey Man. I just find the sound of it, from the opening beautifully melodic notes, to the end, an amazing and quantum shifting of the ground for The Stones. Beautiful AND punchy. A colossal song. The piano opening was once used by Channel 9 in Perth to open up their 6.00pm News broadcasts....
Jimmy Miller captures both the sound of The Stones and the sound of the era with such purity. He deserves huge kudos for the overall feel of this record. On vinyl, just amazingly GREAT.
No weak link, no real standouts, apart from Shelter and Monkey. Overall, a stunning, staggering swagger of a record.
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GasLightStreet
The drum sound on Let It Bleed is fantastic, one of the best. Monkey Man too. That sound survive through GOATS HEAD SOUP and then changed, oddly enough, to a more muddled sound.
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DandelionPowderman
The drum sound changed drastically on GHS. Then again, Jimmy was wasted out of his mind while they made the record, according to the reports.
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DandelionPowderman
The drum sound changed drastically on GHS. Then again, Jimmy was wasted out of his mind while they made the record, according to the reports.
It's not that far from how it sounded on the previous 4 albums.
My point was, as I didn't point out enough, that considering the technology advancing the sound got worse, only to rebound and cut through in a new way on EMOTIONAL RESCUE and perhaps UNDERCOVER. After those two, whatever. They sound pretty good on BRIDGES.
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DandelionPowderman
The drum sound changed drastically on GHS. Then again, Jimmy was wasted out of his mind while they made the record, according to the reports.
It's not that far from how it sounded on the previous 4 albums.
My point was, as I didn't point out enough, that considering the technology advancing the sound got worse, only to rebound and cut through in a new way on EMOTIONAL RESCUE and perhaps UNDERCOVER. After those two, whatever. They sound pretty good on BRIDGES.
To my ears, GHS is where the sound took a big step back in quality, and the rebound happened with Some Girls. Both the guitar and drum sounds on Some Girls are unlike anything they had done before, and very cool. But you know more about sound than I do.
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LeonidP
It is truly an amazing album from start to finish ... almost.
I admit it is hard listening to Midnight Rambler after you've heard the live versions. For me, I owned Hot Rocks first, which has the great YaYa version of Midnight Rambler ... then I got Let It Bleed later and the studio version just doesn't have that power and energy. It is a bit of a letdown.
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Rockman
Ya shoulda just said they all go up to 11
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GIMME SHELTER
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YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
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24FPS
Midnight Rambler, studio version, is a masterpiece of menace, and time changes. There is nothing else like it. It is the Stones at their peak. That it still stands out as the only number they really jam on live is testament to its genius.
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24FPS
Midnight Rambler, studio version, is a masterpiece of menace, and time changes. There is nothing else like it. It is the Stones at their peak. That it still stands out as the only number they really jam on live is testament to its genius.
This a song only the stones could have written...
Some of the live versions over the years have been amazing. It’s almost always great.