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SuperC
I've tried. After GS, and maybe Sliver, I usually move on to BB, EOMS, a Bootleg, GHS, B&B, or pre - 69 stuff, etc. I have a long drive next week and determined to listen from start to finish in transit. Ill consider it a mission.......
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LeonidP
...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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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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SuperC
I've tried. After GS, and maybe Sliver, I usually move on to BB, EOMS, a Bootleg, GHS, B&B, or pre - 69 stuff, etc. I have a long drive next week and determined to listen from start to finish in transit. Ill consider it a mission.......
Are you sure you read the instruction manual? It's very explicit. THIS RECORD SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD
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LongBeachArena72
I have such a weird relationship to this album. I think I've always thought of it more as a greatest hits compilation than as the next record after BEGGARS BANQUET.
The first Stones record I bought the day it came out was EOMS. A few months earlier, I'd gotten into HOT ROCKS, and so knew most of what we refer to today as warhorses. Over the next year or two, I built up my Stones vinyl collection, starting with STICKY FINGERS and working backwards ... but for reasons never entirely clear to me I never owned a copy of the LET IT BLEED vinyl until years later.
Although it contained my all-time favorite Stones studio cut--"Gimme Shelter"--I somehow never regarded it as a cohesive album, in the same way I saw BB, EOMS, and SF. It seemed more ... I don't know ... constructed rather than an organic whole. Its pieces were arguably the best tracks The Stones ever cut but it didn't hang together for me like the other three as long playing records meant to be listened to in order at one sitting.
I don't know if this is making any real sense, or if anyone else has had an experience remotely similar with LET IT BLEED. It's one of the best rock albums of all time ... and yet I'm still not sure I would rank it higher than 4th in my pantheon of personal favorites among The Stones' discography.
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Moonshine
Where to start with this monster. Iconic sleeve, thanks for the cake Delia. Assume the knocked over figure refers to Brian.
The perfect stones album, until Sticky pipped it.
GS. Brutal, tense, apocalyptic, lots more. Merry Clayton takes it even higher.
LIV. Beautiful come down after GS, a lovely thing.
CH. leave off a monster no 1 hit and put out this instead, love the ere we go.
LWM. Welcome Bobby, prefer it live.
LIB. Decadence, filthy metaphors. One of their all time best.
MR. The opus. Studio version only hints at what it would become live over the next few years.
YGTS. Brilliant track, there is a version of MJ on lead vocals but it impossible to top this for feeling.
MM. Wonderful Nicky Hopkins, only thing that slightly let's it down are the throwaway lyrics.
YCAGWYW. All time anthem, this full length version the best. Let it flood over you
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LongBeachArena72
I have such a weird relationship to this album. I think I've always thought of it more as a greatest hits compilation than as the next record after BEGGARS BANQUET.
The first Stones record I bought the day it came out was EOMS. A few months earlier, I'd gotten into HOT ROCKS, and so knew most of what we refer to today as warhorses. Over the next year or two, I built up my Stones vinyl collection, starting with STICKY FINGERS and working backwards ... but for reasons never entirely clear to me I never owned a copy of the LET IT BLEED vinyl until years later.
Although it contained my all-time favorite Stones studio cut--"Gimme Shelter"--I somehow never regarded it as a cohesive album, in the same way I saw BB, EOMS, and SF. It seemed more ... I don't know ... constructed rather than an organic whole. Its pieces were arguably the best tracks The Stones ever cut but it didn't hang together for me like the other three as long playing records meant to be listened to in order at one sitting.
I don't know if this is making any real sense, or if anyone else has had an experience remotely similar with LET IT BLEED. It's one of the best rock albums of all time ... and yet I'm still not sure I would rank it higher than 4th in my pantheon of personal favorites among The Stones' discography.
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nightskyman
I still think Beggar's Banquet is a better album (then LIB album), but for me LIB is more like icing on the cake.
Some great ones that I'm sure Stones fans list as their greatest (Gimme Shelter, Midnight Rambler, Can't Always Get What You Want and the light version of Honky Tonk Woman).
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LongBeachArena72
I have such a weird relationship to this album. I think I've always thought of it more as a greatest hits compilation than as the next record after BEGGARS BANQUET.
The first Stones record I bought the day it came out was EOMS. A few months earlier, I'd gotten into HOT ROCKS, and so knew most of what we refer to today as warhorses. Over the next year or two, I built up my Stones vinyl collection, starting with STICKY FINGERS and working backwards ... but for reasons never entirely clear to me I never owned a copy of the LET IT BLEED vinyl until years later.
Although it contained my all-time favorite Stones studio cut--"Gimme Shelter"--I somehow never regarded it as a cohesive album, in the same way I saw BB, EOMS, and SF. It seemed more ... I don't know ... constructed rather than an organic whole. Its pieces were arguably the best tracks The Stones ever cut but it didn't hang together for me like the other three as long playing records meant to be listened to in order at one sitting.
I don't know if this is making any real sense, or if anyone else has had an experience remotely similar with LET IT BLEED. It's one of the best rock albums of all time ... and yet I'm still not sure I would rank it higher than 4th in my pantheon of personal favorites among The Stones' discography.
That's interesting, as half of SF is from different sessions in 1969, and a large part of Exile is from 1969/70 + from Los Angeles. Only 8 songs were recorded in that basement...
Let It Bleed should really be the cohesive album sound-wise out of these three albums. It's an album dominated by Keith, as he mainly was the only guitar player. The sound is imo cohesive (apart from Country Honk and Let It Bleed. The latter, for some reason, was recorded much like the mid-60s recordings, with the drums in one channel).
I hear you, and I even tried to see if it was the collection of songs that didn't go well together, but I can't hear what you're talking about when I listen to the album.
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Moonshine
Where to start with this monster. Iconic sleeve, thanks for the cake Delia. Assume the knocked over figure refers to Brian.
The perfect stones album, until Sticky pipped it.
GS. Brutal, tense, apocalyptic, lots more. Merry Clayton takes it even higher.
LIV. Beautiful come down after GS, a lovely thing.
CH. leave off a monster no 1 hit and put out this instead, love the ere we go.
LWM. Welcome Bobby, prefer it live.
LIB. Decadence, filthy metaphors. One of their all time best.
MR. The opus. Studio version only hints at what it would become live over the next few years.
YGTS. Brilliant track, there is a version of MJ on lead vocals but it impossible to top this for feeling.
MM. Wonderful Nicky Hopkins, only thing that slightly let's it down are the throwaway lyrics.
YCAGWYW. All time anthem, this full length version the best. Let it flood over you
Regarding MM: Didn't you forget the main cool thing about this track? The fantastic guitar playing!
Its my favorite Stones album, for many reasons, but for this alone its worth it. Its the Keith Richards show on every single guitar lick and to me that means a lot. THIS is Mick and Keith at their absolute best.Quote
LuxuryStones
A classic, excellent. Keith had to do it on his own as a guitarist here, and he showed it..
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Moonshine
Where to start with this monster. Iconic sleeve, thanks for the cake Delia. Assume the knocked over figure refers to Brian.
The perfect stones album, until Sticky pipped it.
GS. Brutal, tense, apocalyptic, lots more. Merry Clayton takes it even higher.
LIV. Beautiful come down after GS, a lovely thing.
CH. leave off a monster no 1 hit and put out this instead, love the ere we go.
LWM. Welcome Bobby, prefer it live.
LIB. Decadence, filthy metaphors. One of their all time best.
MR. The opus. Studio version only hints at what it would become live over the next few years.
YGTS. Brilliant track, there is a version of MJ on lead vocals but it impossible to top this for feeling.
MM. Wonderful Nicky Hopkins, only thing that slightly let's it down are the throwaway lyrics.
YCAGWYW. All time anthem, this full length version the best. Let it flood over you
Regarding MM: Didn't you forget the main cool thing about this track? The fantastic guitar playing!
Just love that delicate intro.
The guitars are top notch on all of Bleed, could be a peak before the heavy substances.
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RollingFreakIts my favorite Stones album, for many reasons, but for this alone its worth it. Its the Keith Richards show on every single guitar lick and to me that means a lot. THIS is Mick and Keith at their absolute best.Quote
LuxuryStones
A classic, excellent. Keith had to do it on his own as a guitarist here, and he showed it..
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RollingFreakIts my favorite Stones album, for many reasons, but for this alone its worth it. Its the Keith Richards show on every single guitar lick and to me that means a lot. THIS is Mick and Keith at their absolute best.Quote
LuxuryStones
A classic, excellent. Keith had to do it on his own as a guitarist here, and he showed it..
This is their best album. Period. I'm not even gonna debate this. Let it bleed from Gimme to You can't: these are facts. Those are hard cold proof. If we're gonna fight about this on iorr, if someone says Sticky (overrated) or Exile (great) or Beggars or Aftermath or the debut I say, sure, they are all great (except for Sticky - their most overrated album). Ill even go with Black n blue or Tattoo or Some or iorr (a favourite) or GHS (noot bad at all, great even). But this is the shit. Let it bleed. No contest. Thank you.
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kristian
Somehow, after all these years, I´m going to realize, how great KR was from 1968 thru 1969. That was his heyday and peak and everyhting - not to say that everything or even anything since then is worthless or absolutely less great.
He almost played all the guitar parts in Beggars´Banquet AND Let it Bleed, an achievement that will stand the time. Then again, he never wanted to be the only guitarist in the band - two-guitar-thing, that was and is his thing.
Then, unevitably, the next guitar arrived and, sadly, the drugs crept in and we know what it´s been like since.
IMHO, Let it Bleed is the high point of the Decade and epitomizes also the end of the 60´s, with all that was left behind and so brutally changed for worse in the coming 70´s.
I´m getting sentimental, I´m almost a fool to cry so it´s full stop now.