Let It Bleed [Original recording remastered]

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One of the Stones' most beloved albums, 1969's Let It Bleed was a benchmark for several reasons. First, founding guitarist Brian Jones died during the recording process. Second, the Stones take their last significant look at pure blues (Robert Johnson's spooky "Love in Vain") and country ("Country Honk," the two-stepping alter ego of "Honky-Tonk Women") before folding both styles into a cohesive rock & roll vision. Third, it contains some of the band's most eerie hits, such as the flame-enveloped "Gimme Shelter," the drug-reality anthem "Monkey Man," the epic "You Can't Always Get What You Want," and Mick Jagger's menacing "Midnight Rambler." --Steve Knopper

Album Description
Remastered reissue of 1969 album, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Digipak.

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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One of the Stones' most beloved albums, 1969's Let It Bleed was a benchmark for several reasons. First, founding guitarist Brian Jones died during the recording process. Second, the Stones take their last significant look at pure blues (Robert Johnson's spooky "Love in Vain") and country ("Country Honk," the two-stepping alter ego of "Honky-Tonk Women") before folding both styles into a cohesive rock & roll vision. Third, it contains some of the band's most eerie hits, such as the flame-enveloped "Gimme Shelter," the drug-reality anthem "Monkey Man," the epic "You Can't Always Get What You Want," and Mick Jagger's menacing "Midnight Rambler." --Steve Knopper

Customer Reviews:

OH MY GOD! MAYBE THIS IS THERE BEST ALBUM? ANOTHER MASTERPIECE!.......2007-07-11

Wow! What a line up! As soon as you hear the opening guitar of Gimme Shelter you know your in for something special! I love "Country Honk" How many groups have that kind of balls to not include a classic hit like "Honky Tonk Woman" and do a country version of that song for the album? Most groups could only dream of having enough great material to do something like that! The Stones were at the top of the game between "Beggar's" & "Exile". They managed to put out four of the greatest albums of all time, a fantastic live album(Ya Ya's) and an incredible hits set with Hot Rocks! This is an album that should be in every music lovers collection!

Stones And Guests make a classic........2007-07-05

The Rolling Stones and their guests made a great one with Let it Bleed. Keith is at his best, His song Silver is one of the best. Nicky Hopkins piano at the start of Monkey man is creative.Byron Berlines fiddle makes Country Honk better. Al Kooper plays Frech horn, Piano and Organ on Cant always get what you want. Bobby Keys has a good solo on Live With Me. Ry Cooders mandolin is good on Love In Vain. Mick is great on here his vocals are great and good harmonica on Midnight Rambler.

A another Stones classic.......2007-05-24

Led It Bleed is the follow up to Beggers Banquet and its just as good if not better than Beggers Banquest with its country, blues, and rock music.

Worth it?.......2007-04-29

The album has been reviewed for content excellently on these pages. I will only comment on this New Edition.
I have listened to this album since 1973, and have LP and CD.

Was it worth to buy this Remastered version?

Absolutely. I hear things in the mix that I'd never heard before (even with my older and well-abused ears!).

Same for Aftermath, and Beggars Banquet. There's a new freshness on these re-editions that is simply staggering.
Of course, only if you have listening equipment that can capture these details... But even on my old Quad and Heresy's the difference is amazing.

50/50 Classic Stone's Lulabyes...................2007-04-28

Keith is perfect in his 'You Got The Silver'. Other great and arresting songs are 'Gimme Shelter','Monkey Man".

The other half of the songs are pretty Sluggish for their usual fast pace.

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One of the Stones' finest!
My Favorite Stones
Love in Vain
Knocked Out Abbey Road
The Stones' Best

Let It Bleed
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Manufacturer: Abkco
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Release Date: 1990-10-25

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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Customer Reviews:

One of the Stones' finest!.......2007-07-04

A bit of rock, a bit of blues, a bit of soul, a bit of raunch... just what you need to make a classic Rolling Stones album! Some will say this is the group's best, and if it weren't for Country Honk (a fiddle-driven parody of the contemporary #1 Honky Tonk Woman, which is infinitely better), it would be. Now it'll have to settle for being prime Stones. I'm sure it won't mind.
Is Gimme Shelter the best opener the Stones or anyone else ever recorded? Possibly. It's a terrifying song, in a positive way: the best fade-in known to man, wailing harp, one of the best guitar solos known to man, and Mary Clayton's chilling vocal. Cool! And that guitar solo... Keith Richards is better known for his rhythm guitar, but his leads all over the record are excellent. You can hear more of that great playing on the hilarious, sleazy title, country-blues title track (Stu really gets down and boogies!), the creepy classic "blues opera" Midnight Rambler, where Charlie plays the drums of a lifetime; the sneering Live With Me, which is also pretty funny (and Bobby Keys plays a cool sax!), and the underrated blues Monkey Man, which is again quite funny (listen to Mick's monkey impression in the fade! And the guitar/drum tradeoff thing they do in the instrumental break! And Bill's vibes! What a SONG!) While we're talking about Keef Riffhard, alias the King of Cool, we must mention You Got the Silver. This was the first Stones song he sang lead on, and he sings it well - not a bad little country-folk tune either!
The Stones do the soft as well as the loud (an acoustic take on Robert Johnson's classic Love in Vain - love it!) and the philosphical as well as the sleazy (the multipart classic You Can't Always Get What You Want, my favorite Stones song ever - just listen to all the stuff they managed to layer into this one! Their best lyrics, too). What's not to like? Oh yeah, Country Honk. We'll just pretend that it's Honky Tonk Woman, shall we?
Oh, and a little message to anyone who thinks this is a rip-off of the Beatles' Let It Be. That's just proving you know nothing about either group. Let It Bleed was released before either the album or the single Let It Be. Besides, listen to both albums side-by-side. Pretty different, no?

My Favorite Stones.......2006-07-14

Let it Bleed should be near the top of any rock cd list. Sticky Fingers is close behind.

Monkey Man is so crazy cool
Midnight Rambler
Gimme Shelter
Can't Always Get What You Want
Live With Me is also crazy cool

Amazing! Something else that is amazing is how fast they went down hill in the late 70's. There were a few good songs here and there after the mid 70's, but nothing compared to the era of late 60's and very early 70's.

By the way, I think Exile is a solid album with a cool vibe, but it's not in the same ballpark as Let It Bleed. How Exile gets put on the top 10 list ever is a joke. It's good, but not that good.

Anyway, LET IT BLEED rocks & should be in the top 10 ever.

Love in Vain.......2006-06-11

The Stones turned out a masterpiece with "Let it Bleed." There is not a bad song in the bunch, in fact the fact that every song on this album is a treasure makes it hard to pick a favorite, but for me, I have to go with the band's cover version of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain." The soulful acoustic guitar work, Mick's pleading voice, the sad, unrelenting song, it's almost all too much. I cry every time I hear it. I've loved in vain, who has not. Then there is the dangerous sounding song, "Midnight Rambler." Boy that one will shake you. I also really love the way Mary Clayton's voice blends with Mick's in "Gimme Shelter. "And how could I not mention "You Can't Always Get What You Want." What a message in that song. Still, like I said, "Love in Vain," it's a heartbreaker, yes it is.

Knocked Out Abbey Road.......2006-06-11

Because of the problems the band was having with Brian Jones, Keith did most of the guitar work on "Beggar's Banquet," and what a job he did. One almost wonders why they needed another guitarist at all, however the boys is the band felt they did and hired Mick Taylor, who is great. Keith's work on "Gimme Shelter" is just chilling and his first solo vocal effort on "You've Got the Silver" is terrific. Dare I say it, this guy could have had a pretty good career all on his own, but if you've got to play in a band, he picked a pretty good one. Mick Jaggar is in top form rocking his socks off in "Midnight Rambler." That song is just scary, scary good, not scary bad. In fact the whole bloody record is scary good. It's easy to see why "Let it Bleed" dethroned the Beatles" "Abbey Road" as the number one record in England way back in Nineteen Sixty-Nine.

The Stones' Best.......2006-06-11

In some ways "Let it Bleed" could be called sort of a transition record. When the band started the recording sessions, Brian Jones was a member of the Greatest Group on Earth, when they finished he was out, soon to be dead and Mick Taylor had taken his place. Brian is only on two of the songs, but Mick Taylor is only on two songs as well. This is also the first record where Keith takes over the lead vocals on a song (You've Got the Silver). And this record picks up where "Sympathy for the Devil" left off. It's a rocker and it propelled the Stones into the stratosphere. No more are they living in the shadows of the Beatles. They are the number one band in the world now. It happened because of this record. "Let it Bleed" is to the Stones as "Blood on the Tracks" is to Dylan, an outstanding work that one simply cannot ignore.

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Love in Vain
Knocked Out Abbey Road
The Stones' Best
Doggone Good, this Record is
Not Their Best and Highly Overrated! But Great Sound and MLPS Design!

Let It Bleed
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Manufacturer: Universal Japan
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Release Date: 2006-04-18

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Gimmie Shelter
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Country Honk
Live With Me
Let Is Bleed
Midnight Rambler
You Got the Silver
Monkey Man
You Can't Always Get What You Want

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Dsd Mastered Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

Love in Vain.......2006-06-11

Knocked Out Abbey Road.......2006-06-11

The Stones' Best.......2006-06-11

Doggone Good, this Record is.......2006-06-10

The first time I heard "Let it Bleed" I was completely blown away by "Country Honk." I was actually expecting the single version of "Honky Tonk Woman," so when I heard the guitar intro and the horn honk I was immediately on alert. Something was going on and I wasn't quite sure what it was. Then from that honking horn and into the song and I got it. The Stones had radically altered their number one hit record, a record that went number one on both sides of the Atlantic, and put it on the follow up album. And they made it better, if you can believe that. I could be wrong, but I don't think that had ever happened before. Then, of course, there is the rest of the record which is just out of sight, dynamite rock and roll. This is the second of the five records produced by Jimmy Miller, which are, in my opinion, the five best records recorded by the band. Every song here is a winner.

Not Their Best and Highly Overrated! But Great Sound and MLPS Design!.......2006-04-05

This remastered version is excellent as the sound quality is brilliant and the mlps design is a work of art,however, granted that there are a couple of great tracks on this album, the album in itself as a complete package isn't that great and doesn't come close to their other albums like "Exile On Main Street", "Sticky Fingers" or even "Beggar's Banquet" in terms of overall quality of the tracks but I guess for something released in '69, this would have stood out at the time.

"Gimme Shelter" is a great track which opens the album and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is another great track which closes the album while the others are a little better than filler material or really inferior covers in between. "Country Honk" is an amusing cover of their own material while "Love In Vain" is a poor attempt at covering the clearly superior Robert Johnson classic.

Overall, the album sounded like they were recording while stoned. Released the same year as "Abbey Road" by the Beatles although not even in the same league quality-wise. At least the Beatles explored new ground and had tonnes of originality but with the Stones and the endless 5-string Open-G tuning riffs and the constant attempts at trying to sound like the old-time blues greats of the 30's and 40's and constantly never coming close is downright irritating. Even the Allman Brothers' Band took slide guitar playing to another level but the Stones constantly rips of the work of the great old blues masters but never takes the work to an original level.

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Let It Bleed
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ASIN: B00006RT52
Release Date: 2006-08-22

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 - Madeline Bell, London Bach Choir, Nanette Newman, The Rolling Stones, Doris Troy

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ASIN: B000A28OWY
Release Date: 2002-08-27

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Pay attention to the instructions and play this album LOUD

Let It Bleed
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Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram
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ASIN: B00005FHTX

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 - Madeline Bell, London Bach Choir, Nanette Newman, The Rolling Stones, Doris Troy

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Pay attention to the instructions and play this album LOUD.......2004-09-16

For my money this is the best Rolling Stones album ever, even if it is really not a typical example of their work. I do not think you can find a better opening to a Stones album than "Gimme Shelter" with Mary Clayton providing awesome guest vocals to some apocalyptic lyrics. The catchy guitar lead suggests bad things are coming this way, a sentiment amplified by the high pitched, wordless vocals and the complimentary piano before the rest of the band crashes in and Mick Jagger starts singing. I also know you can not top "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as the big finale, what with the London Bach Choir lending their voices (not to mention Al Kooper providing the most memorable French Horn work on a sixties rock 'n' roll album). I understand the idea that this is the Stones' response to "Hey Jude," but it certainly stands on its own as a classic pop tune, which makes it a most atypical Stones song on that grounds alone. Then there is the philosophical sentiments of the chorus, which again has you double-checking to make sure this is the same Stones who did "Sympathy for the Devil" and were the acknowledged bad boys of rock 'n' roll.

"Midnight Rambler," which originally began Side 2 in those days of vinyl, is another one of those most rare long Stones songs and featured Mick Jagger wailing on his harp. "Monkey Man" is my all time favorite non-Stones hit song with Jagger pointing out " I hope we're not too messianic or a trifle too satanic" (I used it for a class assignment once as the music background for a Pat Paulsen speech) and "Country Honk" is a countrified version of their hit "Honky Tonk Woman." You also have a couple of acoustic blues tracks with "You Got the Silver," which offers up the first lead vocals by Keith Richards, and a cover of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain." "Live With Me" is a solid Stone rocker and the title song is okay, but what is important is that title: it fostered an inherent comparison with "Let It Be," but since that was the Beatles' weakest album, the Stones came out ahead on this one. Those were fun days in rock and roll, boys and girls, let me tell you.

Special mention to the efforts of Nicky Hopkins on this album, who plays piano on most of the key tracks as well as the late Brian Jones, who appears on two of the tracks, as does his replacement, Mick Taylor. On top of all that, I love the way the back of the album deconstructs the front. "Beggar's Banquet" might be the more traditional Rolling Stones album, but "Let It Bleed" still holds the top spot for me and the last time I put together my Top 10 albums of all time list for my Pop Culture class "Let It Bleed" was on it. Finally, as it says at the bottom of the liner notes: THIS RECORD SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD. It should also be played often.

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Let It Bleed

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Release Date: 2007-01-30

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Love in Vain
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The Stones' Best
Doggone Good, this Record is

Let It Bleed
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Release Date: 2006-04-17

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Album Description

European paper sleeve pressing. Part of Abkco's `Rolling Stones Remastered Series'. Includes an `Inaugural Edition' Certificate! Universal. 2006.

Album Details

This Strictly Limited Edition Series Exactly Replicates the Original 1960s Vinyl Sleeves. The CDs Feature the Acclaimed Dsd-mastered Audio - Remastered from the Original Master Tapes for the First Time.

Customer Reviews:

Love in Vain.......2006-06-11

Knocked Out Abbey Road.......2006-06-11

The Stones' Best.......2006-06-11

Doggone Good, this Record is.......2006-06-10

[3 CD PACK] the Beatles in their own words A ROCKUMENTARY "Paul McCartney - Beyond The Myth / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [DELUXE EDITION] / Yellow Submarine (Songtrack) [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered] {{{see details below}}}

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[3 CD PACK] the Beatles in their own words A ROCKUMENTARY "Paul McCartney - Beyond The Myth / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [DELUXE EDITION] / Yellow Submarine (Songtrack) [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered] {{{see details below}}}
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TRACK LISTINGS: A Rockumentary - Beyond the Myth... 1. Introduction By The Author 2. Paul's Younger Brother, Mike McCartney 3. Mike McCartney 4. Paul McCartney 5. Cavern Club compere, Bob Wooler 6. Beatles personal assistant, Alistair Taylor 7. Early Beatles Compere, 'Father' Tom McKenzie 8. Mike McCartney 9. Cavern Club Doorman, Paddy Delaney 10. Paul McCartney 11. Paul McCartney 12. Apple Executive Peter Brown 13. Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Member, Roger Ruskin Spear 14. Bonzo Dog Man Neil Innes 15. Roger Ruskin Spear 16. Neil Innes 17. Bonzo Dog Drummer, 'Legs' Larry Smith 18. Paul McCartney 19. Mike McCartney 20. Denny Laine 21. Denny Laine 22. Steve Holly 23. Mike McCartney 24. Denny Laine 25. Paul McCartney 26. George Harrison 27. Paul McCartney 28. Paul McCartney 29. BONUS TRACK: MORE EXCLUSIVE REMINISCENCES FROM PAUL MCCARTNEY AND JULIA BAIRD / Yellow Submarine ... 1. Yellow Submarine 2. Hey Bulldog 3. Eleanor Rigby 4. Love You To 5. All Together Now 6. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds 7. Think for Yourself 8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 9. With a Little Help from My Friends 10. Baby You're a Rich Man 11. Only a Northern Song 12. All You Need Is Love 13. When I'm Sixty-Four 14. Nowhere Man 15. It's All Too Much / Sgt. Pepper's ... 1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 2. With A Little Help From My Friends 3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 4. Getting Better 5. Fixing A Hole 6. She's Leaving Home 7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! 8. Within You Without You 9. When I'm Sixty-Four 10. Lovely Rita 11. Good Morning Good Morning 12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 13. A Day In The Life

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Let It Bleed + 7 Bonus Tracks
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ASIN: B000KDBOKC

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This is a special edition Russian import cd. It has all 9 tracks from the original album plus an additional 7 bonus tracks (16 songs total). Please see the above photo of the back cover for a list of songs. There is also a mini-poster included with this cd.

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