Let It Bleed

I'm a simple man. I love the Rolling Stones

Two big songs with a whole lot of generic blues rock sandwiched in between. That's the Stones' way.

Another mess from the Rotting Stones. I can't believe these guys are supposed to be legends with songs like these.

This is outstandingly generic (and even bad) blues rock, no creativity involved at all. It would have made a perfect 7inches record with Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want.

Probably my favorite Stones record.

Certainly one of the better Stones albums on this list, and certainly a favorite of mine. Though having done a full listen for the first time in a long time, I will say the middle of this record drags just a bit too much.

Come for the opening and closing tracks you’ve heard too many times, stay for the penultimate track you’ve heard too few.

Love the blues influence, some songs drag on to long and get a bit samey. End of the album bored me

Pretty edgy for 1969. I liked it, several songs I would come back to including Gimme Shelter, Let It Bleed, and Can't Always Get What You Want

Absolute Classic bookended by to absolute bangers and the stuff in the middle isn't bad either, this is probably my favourite of the Stones prime era although Sticky Fingers runs it close. Midnight Rambler is great, Monkey Mam, You Got The Silver, Love In Vain & The title track are all fantastic. You Can't Always Get What You Want is epic stones but Gimme Shelter stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Classic amazing stones, no notes

last track is iconic the rest of it sadly not that interesting

Just for the major hits, this gets a 4. Without those, its a 3.

This album has one of the best starting and concluding songs written. The rest of the music is fine. Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5

This album has their best tracks. So many hits at such an early time. Certainly foundational to rock an roll

Pretty good Stones record. Sounds very much like a "gateway to the 70's" album; the songs Gimme Shelter, Live With Me and Midnight Rambler all have such a cool sound that's easy to place in time. The title track is great; super dirty! 3.5/5

Honestly don't remember this, after having just listened to it. 2.5/5

About ad good as rock n roll can get. A

Awesome classics

A classic rock album. Didn’t really stand out to me besides the two singles which are fantastic

Nice bluesy rock, old school Stones. Not their best, but there are a few truly great tracks on this album.

Honestly, this band is really overrated. Favourite Songs: Gimme Shelter, Let It Bleed, Midnight Rambler, You Can't Always Get What You Want. Least Favourite Songs: Country Honk, Live with Me.

Utána Paint it Blacket dobott a Spoti, az jó volt. Ez nem.

Ezt az albumot szeretem a legkevésbé ebből a korszakukból, az az elméletem hogy ennek koncertalbumnak kellene lennie, mert majdnem mindegyik számot sokkalsokkal játsszák élőben. Amik miatt mégsem tudok nem ötöst adni: -ahogyan vegyül a country meg a blues meg a gospel meg néha a proto-punk 🥹 -apropó protopunk, helló Live With Me, helló fiatal David Bowie) - a két gitár a Love in Vain-ben - Keith background vocal-jaiba örökre szerelmes vagyok - Mick a szájharmonikán = 🔥🔥 - Keith doing Keith things a You Got the Silverben - "SHE BLEW MY NOSE AND THEN SHE BLEW MY MIND" 🤣🫣 Köszönömennyivoltam.

Another album with a single great song on it, Save yourself some time and just listen to "You can't always get what you want". Also whoever let the rolling stones call their blues album "Let it Bleed" should be shot

Does not age.

Duh

Feel like I have to give this a 5 even though I can't bear 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'

yoooooou caaaaan't aaalways geet whaaat yooouu waaaahhhnnnnntttt.... buuut iff youuu triiiisometimes....

Great music and tunes. The hits are masterpieces. I can't get past jaggers voice on half the songs though. It's sacrelig, but a lot of stones songs would be better with another vocalist

One of the best albums and the best inspiration period of the band

Eh. Gimmie Shelter, Midnight Rambler, and Monkey Man were my favorites; everything else was pretty humdrum. Cool harmonica lines throughout though. 3/5

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

I genuinely can't believe people actually think Rolling Stones were better than The Beatles. I mean really? Really? They couldn't even make a good album. Gimme Shelter, Love In Vain, and Midnight Marauder are great though

Solid

Cracking. Classic rock ballads mixed with a bit if country feel

Merry Clayton, Gimme Shelter - it’s all there

An album that starts with Gimme Shelter is always going to be pretty damn good. Love in Vain continues well. Some decent but somewhat forgetable songs until we get to the last part of the album, with Monkey Man and You Can't Always Get What You Want finishing it off strongly. 4.25*

The middle of the album starts to blend together but honestly a solid album and an absolute classic

Uninspiring rock and roll.

one of the best stones albums, so many hits

Good opening and then it kinda went down from there, but it's the Stones so it's good, right? Right?

not my cup of tea

My father was a Beatles fan first and a Rolling Stone fan second. It’s a close relationship (I think he loves both equally), but as a child, I was mostly most exposed to the Beatles and as such, have a preference to them. With that being said, I think this list is going to have a good chunk of Rolling Stones albums. So I’ll make up for my lack of Rolling Stones experience down the road on this journey. I will say that this album was a perfect start for me personally. The amount of blues and country influences in this album surprised me, but it helped really make this album flow. I couldn’t help but to just get lost in it, even if the lyrical content was more humbler than some other Rolling Stones songs I heard. From the jumping start of Gimme Shelter to the smooth title track to the angelic and bopping You Can’t Always Get What You Want, this was a very pleasant 42 minutes. Favorite track: You Can’t Always Get What You Want Other hits: Gimme Shelter, Let It Bleed, Love in Vain, Country Honk, Live With Me

Not my favourite Stones album by a stretch... Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers are well clear. Gimme Shelter and You can't always get... Are obvious standouts - two of the band's best songs which certainly raise the project as a whole... Country stuff doesn't convince me really, never got into blue and lonesome more recently... Maybe that's an age or patience thing. For those two songs - 3.37.

Rolling Stones always sound like a sort of embarrassing impression of American blues to me. No change here, very very boring. A very generous 2 stars.

To this day, it must be up there as one of the best beginning and ending to an album of all time.

I go back-and-forth between this and exile and Main Street as their best. The former is more of a complete wide record, this one is just more straight hits. I know I’ve said it about a bunch of list so far, but I think I have to land on Gimme Shelter is the greatest rock song of all time

Can't say it really moved me, perhaps I am not a fan of the Stones

The bookend songs are very strong, but I can't say the same for everything inbetween. A decent album, but feels like it could do more.

I love this too. It may be better than exile on Main Street. I slept on the stones for too long. Another 5.

2 Stones albums in a row, lucky me. This is even better than the previous one. It starts with “Gimme Shelter” and ends with “You can’t always get what you want” which is pretty spectacular. The songs in between are all really great as well. Curious to see how the others that are in this list compare, but this set quite a high bar.

Just a well-qualified classic. Never gets worse.

Maybe it's because I've been conditioned by Martin Scorsese to associate Gimme Shelter with some of my favorite movies but I *love* that song. I *love* this recording of that song. This is one of the very few songs from the era that I like which I don't prefer some cover that had slicker production or a harder style performance. The Hellacopters made a valiant effort but the original stands tall. So this album starts off strong, for sure. I've frequently said that The Rolling Stones have recorded a near perfect LP of songs that I absolutely adore. It just took them a few decades and several albums to do it. This is the first time I've listened a Stones album top to bottom and... I haven't really changed my stance. It's not that the rest of the songs on this album are bad. They're certainly not. But they're also not really that memorable either. I found the rest of the album a bit boring, TBH. Now, some of the songs do have that swagger about them that I most associate with the band. There is definitely a dick swinging confidence to the groove of several of the tunes that I'm not sure really existed in the mid to late 60s when all the other bands were wearing tie dye and singing about hippy bullshit. This was the band that stepped in with tight pants and borrowed your girlfriend for the night. Like so many bands and albums from before my time, I'm sure I would've been a fan had I been of a certain age when this was released. This band especially, I think would've been more or less my fav if I'd been a teen in the late 60s. But I was a teen in the 90s and so it just doesn't stick very well for me.

Quite enjoyed this one, some familiar favourites on the album and a few weaker tracks but you can always get what you want!

I don’t know that I have ever listened to an entire Stones album. It was okay. I appreciated it more reading others’ comments—definitely a progression to their music.

Good week with two Rolling Stones albums. Killer band. I like them more and more the more I listen. I’m familiar with the greatest hits, but their entire catalog is worth a listen. Hard to pick which album I liked better. Solid either way.

What a good album!! Its so Rolling Stoney

An album which is more even than its predecessor and has better production. Where BB had 2-3 excellent songs, this one has 1 okay song, the opener Gimme Shelter. The rest are mid to bad.

I skipped almost every other song.

Seriously, how do you argue with the most rock and roll verse ever committed to vinyl: "She said my breasts they will always be open Baby, you can rest your weary head right on me And there will always be a space in my parking lot When you need a little coke and sympathy" Just fucking fantastic. Sure, you want to nitpick this album? Country Honk is an unfinished piece, obviously. Love in Vain and Live with Me can't live up to the fire that is everything from track 5 on. But goddamn. When you're starting an album with Gimme Shelter, there's bound to be a dropoff. It's a brilliant album. Don't fight it.

Didn’t like it at first but it’s pretty decent on a couple relistens Like gimme shelter and you can’t get what you want

To be honest, I recall this album being better than this. Midnight Rambler and You Can't Always Get... are elite rock'n'roll and obvious standouts. I also quite like Gimme Shelter but there's a lot more forgettable in there than I'd remembered, which I guess makes sense somehow. 3 stars feels a bit low; it's consistently solid even if it's only fleetingly outstanding. Let's say a light 4, definitely would be a 3.5 if it were possible.

The first song on this album is one that I have known my entire life but have never been able to name the title or the artist. I am digging both the sound and the album cover.

liked it, Love in Vain was awesome

Not their best album but still a great album. Just goes to show how good they are that this isnt their best album and its great.

Production has aged beautifully. Mick jagger rocks and so does Charlie watts. Some of the songs were a hair long.

Big win. Like this much better than the other Rolling Stones album we heard, and that one was p good too! Awesome stuff though.

Stones

i expected this album to be a direct repeat of “beggars banquet”, but i was pleasantly surprised upon hearing it. i really enjoyed this album, an eclectic mix of slower songs and more upbeat ones, creating a fine balance. i also found jagger’s vocals more agreeable on this album, and much less forced than previous ones. i think their return to their original, more bluesy sound was a good choice, resulting in a more interesting album than what they had previously released. overall, i enjoyed it immensely.

This is probably one of my favourite Stones albums - extremely characteristic sound, with their 'bad boy' attitude complete contrasting with The Beatles. Masterpiece

Hard carried by a couple songs, pretty much forgettable otherwise

"Opening and closing tracks are objectively great but man, the Stones (much like Queen) just don't do it for me beyond their singles. For such a deep discography, i have yet to find an album that really makes me ""get"" them. "

A return to form with their 8th studio album, much more bluesy and country rock than the harder or more mainstream stuff I’m used to. Really enjoyed it

There are better rolling stones albums

Please don't let the Stones make another R&B record. I can't stand it. Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want bookend a pile of R&B songs that I almost couldn't stand. I'm not sure what my deal is with that genre of music but it really isn't for me.

Unplugged, rolled back American blues. This album takes them right back to their roots. Not bad from the boys from Dartford. Captures the laid back American vibes with the slow harmonica on some of the tracks. I could be in some dusty old American Town because this is where the album took me. Brilliant 👍

Good but not as good as Stinky Fingers. Low to mid 4 stars.

First and last songs are good, the decent bread on a shit sandwich

Let it bleed? More like Make Me Bleed

Álbum de rock bem clássico, mas com muita instrumentação de country. Até gostei de algumas músicas mas não do trabalho como um todo.

I did not expect to be returning to the Stones so soon, but you can never have expectations for what you might get each day. As I mentioned previously, Exile on Main St. made me considerably more excited to hear what else this band had to offer. For today, I went back a few years to 1969 to dive into Let It Bleed. The aforementioned album really seems to be the best of everything the band was capable of. But this record focuses far more on the country and blues side of things. It’s something they hadn’t explored since Aftermath, and the albums that preceded it. Which, as shown by my reviews, I was not a fan of. But I figured this was going to be a little more enjoyable at the least, considering their abilities as musicians had definitely improved. Thankfully this album is good. Not Exile good. But still a worthwhile experience. It’s considerably more stripped back in comparison, and I think that’s what makes this less interesting to me. I was REALLY a fan of that party-like atmosphere that made Exile such a fun listen. This takes its time a little more, and isn’t as diverse from song to song. It’s starts insanely strong though. And ends decently strong as well. I sort of fail to see what is so amazing about that closing track. It’s good, not great. Gimme Shelter, on the other hand, is fantastic, and another one of their songs I recognize from my childhood. Seems like my dad played The Rolling Stones a lot more than I thought. It might be a bit too strong of a start. Because that song simply overshadows everything that comes after it. And only a few other tracks really get close to being as good. I may have expected too much from this album. I’ll just have to keep that in mind for their future albums. This is supposedly a follow-up to Beggars Banquet, so I’m intrigued to see if I like that any more or less. Rating: 7/10

This gets a 4 if only because of Gimme Shelter. Best Stones song...hands down. One of the best songs ever...period. The rest of the album is really great (albeit to a large extent played out).

A true classic with truly great songs

What a great listen! 5/5

I always find the Stones albums very variable. A real inconsistency in songs backed up by some of the greatest of all time. This is no exception. A curious band.

Pretty rad album. The Stones have high expectations and sometimes the B-sides get forgotten, but each one of these songs is a banger by other standards. Will replay.

Exceptional. Their best.

Again, it's THE Stones. Yet I don't get all the hype. They have their moments. 3.5/5.

Good.

“Let It Bleed” is bookended with two of The Rolling Stones’ biggest hits. The opener is the dramatic and cinematic (featured in 3 different Scorsese movies) “Gimme Shelter.” Incredible style. There’s nothing quite like it. And the closer is the classic “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” The bulk of the album is a loose set of countrified, country-fried tunes, the highlight of which is probably the title track. I’m also a big fan of “Monkey Man.” It’s one of my favorite Stones deep cuts and I like to put it on BBQ playlists. 4.5

Despite growing up in a classic rock house and having bands like Zeppelin and The Stones be incredibly overplayed, I never really get sick of hearing these sounds. It's always welcome. It's always enjoyable. What a great record starter with "Gimme Shelter". The warbly tremolo electric guitar that drones and pushes the song along, the soulful backup vocals, the güiro, the harmonica, the vibe. "Love in Vain" is a beautiful second track and great contrast to the opener. Solid acoustic ballad that is packed with layers that keep the song fresh and elevated from a basic harmony and melody. If there was a list of the best albums that contain amazing starting and finishing tracks, this would be pretty high up on the list. The Stones have many songs that I adore, but I really love "Gimme Shelter", and "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and it's pretty special that this record starts and ends with those two. I want to give this a really high 4, but I forgot about how great "Country Honk" is as well. This has to be a 5 for my tastes. Three really timeless classic rock anthems bring it there.

These British white boys sure can play the blues!

So good. The production on the remaster of this album is perfection. All of the individual pieces come together into something so much more than the sum of its parts.

Best Stones's album, imo. Through years of gaslighting due to societal conformities (and because I own a Japanese pressing on CD), I actually don't mind, and even enjoy, listening to "Let It Bleed."

Honestly this feels like a half-assed album by a band I’m already sort of ambivalent about. There are a couple of great tracks, but the rest sound more like demos than finished tracks, which might be cool if I were more of a Stones fan, but I’m not.

Let IT bleed ist ein hervorragendes Album von den Rolling Stones. Es ist sehr vielfältig von Blues bis bombastischen Rock und verspielter Ballade: Gimme shelter, Love in vain, midnight Rambler, you can't Always geht what you want. Das sagt schon alles. Ein Meilenstein

Great Stones album. One of the best

This is a light on the darkness at the end of the '60s, the end of the hippie dream, and the Stones' embrace of Americana. This is where they make the turn that'll lead them to Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Oh, and Merry Friggin Clayton.

Lidt country agtigt

Is Let It Bleed my favorite Stones album? Nah. Is it still a great record. Yep. I dig the country aspects of this and their previous album, Beggar’s Banquet. In my opinion their best work comes soon after this. But compare this with the more saccharine songs the Beatles put out this same year and I’ll take this.

It happened. It finally happened. I finally got a Rolling Stones album without an offensive song in it! I didn't think it was possible! That must automatically make Let It Bleed the best Rolling Stones album I've listened to yet, right? Well, I don't want to say that it's because of that, but I think this is the Rolling Stones album I've heard so far. Let It Bleed is amazing. I've seen some people complain that it has a really good opener (Gimme Shelter) and a really good closer (You Can't Always Get What You Want) with 7 songs of filler in between. While I agree that those are the two best songs on the album, I wouldn't call the rest filler or even bad. The rest of the album is still quite good. Everything just works well in this album specifically. The sound still has elements of their early work and yet it still feels like they were doing something special here. The writing is the best it's been, at least as far as I'm aware. Mick Jagger's singing is still fun, but the addition of some extra singing in the songs I mentioned earlier as well as the song "You Got the Silver" adds some variety to the album. The pacing is practically perfect. I'm at a loss for words. I actually loved a Rolling Stones album. Sticky Fingers was really good, but I think Let It Bleed has become my new favorite (though that could just be recency bias as I haven't heard Sticky Fingers in a while). This thing is great. Light 5/5.

Excellent

Honestly, not that impressed. It sounds good, but it's carried pretty heavily by Gimme Shelter, and You Can't Always Get What You Want closes it out, and that's really all that's notable about it. Other than those two songs, though, the rest of the album feels really forgettable.

Arguably the Stones best

Classic.

To me, this is the platonic ideal of a Rolling Stones album. It has a couple bangers, some forgettable b-sides that are pretty non-confrontational, and it is a tight 42 minutes.

Another album that was more country-influenced than I realized: Standouts are Let It Bleed, You Can't Always Get What You Want, Monkey Man, and Gimme Shelter

I've never heard the Stones beyond what's on the radio. I was surprised at the almost Southern American sound present here, and the almost goofiness of some of the songs. A solid album, and I'm glad I listened to it.

Good one

It's the Stones. There are some fine ideas, a couple of good singles, but overall lackluster execution.

On being questioned if I prefer The Stones or The Beatles, I always want to say Stones. They wrote some of the most iconic songs of the sixties, and I would say they were more daring than their british counter part. However, that's due to their hits — Gimme Shelter, Satisfaction, Sympathy for the Devil and Paint it Black. Beyon that, they are just a meh bluesy rock band. I just wish that they put as much effort into every single song, as they did in their singles.

Thoughts before listening: One of the Stones' classic albums from their best era. Off the top of my head I can't remember what's on this one, but the band put out nothing but heat in the late 60s/early 70s. I believe this one came out before Exile and Sticky Fingers, and while I believe those are their 2 best albums, I know that this one if great as well. Review: The Stones playing bluesy, sloppy honk tonk with pianos and horns throughout this album. I really enjoy it although there are a few songs that drag the album down a bit. Still though, "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" are absolute classics, and I also really like the song "Let It Bleed". All in all this is a 4-star album that doesn't quite match the Stones' high water marks from that era.

I agree with the other users here. The first and last tracks are spectacular, but the middle part has mixed quality with highs and lows. I like that the album isn't excessively long. 3.5

Thought this was pretty good! The Stones have always alluded me as such a significant figure in classic rock but for some reason I never really got into them, think this was a great starting point though. Really great balance of some calmer, folkier songs with some heavier tracks, standouts for me were Gimme Shelter, the title track, Midnight Rambler, and You Can't Always Get What You Want. Definitely gonna give this another listen sometimes, tons of fun. 8/10

Gimme Shelter gets a star of it's own.

It’s a classic for a reason

Perfection!

Como diriam os britânicos: Not my cup of tea.

If this was released today, nobody would batter an eyelid. But it wasn't, it wasn't even released in the 70s. Extremely futuristic.

Got close to giving this a four but the songs I liked didn't push it over the edge. "Gimme Shelter" is a top shelf song and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is up there too.

Some great tracks on here but also a lot of filler

Classic

Always great listening to a Stones album. Great tunes start to finish. Probably not my favorite album of theirs, but that's not a knock on it.

Another classic.

The hits are good. The rest are... meh. Deep cut tolling stones is nit worth listening to.

Quite liked this one compared to some of their other albums on this list. Is this their best album in my humble opinion?

Pretty pretty pretty good

Pretty good album, couple big hits and decent supporting cast.

No notes

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, but you can Let It Bleed.

Not a Stones fan. You can't always get what you want is the best song and even that is just barely tolerable. Don't care for or about this album.

8/10

Hot damn this was good. Love this era of the Stones.

Classic

The Stones are in the running for most frequent artist on this 1001 journey, and every time I get surprised by the variety on each album. It's not often the different styles are better than what made the radio, but I respect what they are doing. I'll keep to the hits for my playlists, but their body of work over such a long time is getting more and more impressive. Favorite track "Gimme Shelter" 3/5

You can't always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes you get what you need

#274. Following the trend of all the other Stones albums I've listened to for this. A few truly great songs, accompanied by some truly forgettable filler. 3/5: acceptable. Song added to playlist: Gimme Shelter I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link

Bookended by two classic 5's and enough in the middle to push it past a 3.5.

Bluesy

I'm ashamed to admit that until today, I have actually never listened to a full album by The Stones, and based on this, I really like it. Raw, punchy, and to be honest, for the standards of the 60s, the lyrics on this thing are outrageous. It's definitely clear how album like this really did go on to influence the more political and open minded eras of music, most notably punk rock in the 1970s. I will now absolutely be listening to more Rolling Stones in the coming weeks, having had an excuse to finally get round to them, I now want to listen to more.

This album is 60's as fuck. White English dudes using blues, soul and country music to make songs about love, sex, drugs and serial killers. Good times.

Absolute classic record from The Stones. So many great hits on this one and the band really lets themselves loose on this project. So many good vibes and tunes that emanate from this piece. Forever a timeless album.

Any album with both "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" has to be at least a 4.

Listened to before, but not for a while. Great album. A few small things don't work for me, but overall pretty amazing. Richards' guitar work is great throughout. Jaggers vocals are great on some songs and a bad fit on others. If the single version of Honky Tonk Women was included, of give it a 5. "When the train left the station It had two lights on behind The blue light was my baby and the red light was my mind."

Strong three

It's pretty whatever outside of the opener and closer which are both incredible, bringing the rating up here. Monkey Man is also cool. The rest are kinda weird honky tonk british, I think I'm just not a huge fan of the stones in general. Still a good album though

A couple of great songs in here and some middle range. Not sure about the Honky Tonk stuff.

Let It Bleed” von The Rolling Stones ist ein Album, das die Zuhörer auf eine Reise durch die Höhen und Tiefen der späten 60er Jahre mitnimmt. Mit einer Mischung aus Blues, Country und Rock präsentiert die Band eine Platte, die sowohl zeitlos als auch ein Produkt ihrer Zeit ist. “Midnight Rambler” sticht als ein Highlight des Albums hervor. Dieses Stück ist ein episches Blues-Rock-Opus, das mit seinem rohen Energieausbruch und der intensiven Mundharmonika von Mick Jagger die Zuhörer fesselt. Es ist ein Song, der zeigt, was die Stones am besten können: kraftvollen, mitreißenden Rock ‘n’ Roll. Trotz der Stärken von Tracks wie “Midnight Rambler” und dem ikonischen “Gimme Shelter” fehlt es dem Album insgesamt an der rohen Power und dem ungestümen Rock, den man von den Stones erwarten könnte. Einige Stücke neigen dazu, sich in langsameren, nachdenklicheren Melodien zu verlieren, was Fans des härteren Rock-Stils enttäuschen könnte. In diesen Momenten wirkt das Album fast zurückhaltend, als ob die Band ihre wilde Seite zügelt. Für diejenigen, die die Rolling Stones für ihre energiegeladenen Performances und ihre Fähigkeit, das Publikum mitzureißen, lieben, könnte “Let It Bleed” stellenweise zu bedächtig erscheinen. Es ist verständlich, wenn manche Hörer das Album als etwas langweilig empfinden, da es nicht durchgehend die elektrisierende Spannung liefert, die man von einem der größten Rock-Acts der Geschichte erwartet. Zusammenfassend ist das Album solide, da es zwar Qualität zeigt, aber nicht konsequent die rockige Kraft entfaltet, die es zu einem wahren Meisterwerk machen würde.

Whenever you listen to the Rolling Stones, you feel like you’re partying right alongside them. This album gets a little slow towards the end but overall is an excellent feel good album!

Not a problem listening to The Stones 2 days in a row.

Not the best of theirs but really good.

lethargic singh

From the late 60s to the early 70s, The Rolling Stones were on a roll 😉

Meh

Ein paar sehr gute Songs, sonst Durchschnitt 4/5

good

3.5 - A couple of standout hits surrounded by filler, as usual from one of the best "greatest hits" bands ever

First and last tracks are classics. Rest is middling...

whatever . I don’t know any stones songs that well and this didn’t push me to learn more

S-Tier for sure. A perfect blend of rock, blues, country, and gospel, bookended by two of the greatest songs ever written.

Boring

Opening and Closing Tracks carried the album. Let It Happen and Monkey Man were decent the rest of the tracks it didn't really care for. Not bad though, I'll definitely be coming back to Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want. Best - Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want Worse - Country Honk and Love In Vain 3.25/5

Was für ein Opener, was für ein Abschluss.

Twang filled rock n roll Highlighting each instrument With skill and good times

Never a huge fan of the Stones but I felt a lot of nostalgia listening to this album. Good for my classic rock camping playlist.

Day 18 - June 19th, 2024 The only good thing about this album was Gimme Shelter. 1/5

Really solid record, if these young men keep this up they'll go places

Any album opening with "Gimme Shelter" is an automatic 4 stars and up. Love in vain. Midnight Rambler. and You can't always get what you want bump this album up to 5 stars. I would get it in vinyl.

Gimme Shelter slaps - probably my favourite Stones track. I'm less of a fan of all the blues-y stuff in the middle, but the album finishes strong with You Can't Always Get What You Want.

мех, 3?

Nice

Classics.

Best of the three Stones records so far.

If anyone wants to hear how much The Rolling Stones were “influenced” by American soul and blues, they can give this album a listen. That being said, it’s a great album. From the beginning wails heard from Merry Clayton in Gimmie Shelter to the end harmony of the childrens choir in You Can’t Always Get What You Want - it’s a great ride. Classic Rolling Stones.

Wonderfully Bluesy

Intro: Pra mim, músicas são a forma de arte mais subjetiva de todas. Eu já vi fãs de tudo quanto é gênero criticar outros como "a pior coisa que eu já ouvi na vida". Tudo que eu escrever aqui tem a subjetividade já inclusa. Conhecia Gimme Shelter desse álbum. Uma música excelente. O resto não é ruim, mas não são do tipo de se ouvir repetidamente em uma playlist. Não me incomodaria ouvir elas no ambiente. Mas não escutaria elas em privado.

Awful band

Has some real bangers but drags in the middle

Too country for me at times

Tied with Beggars Banquet as my favorite Stones album. Not a weak song and a whole bunch of absolute classics.

Even there are a couple of good - great songs, I just can't get into most of them and don't like the Rolling Stones.

111/1001 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Maybe not the most highly regarded Stones album, this really is a fun listen. Very much continuing their return to rhythm and blues that characterized early Stones material, this album is full of surprises. Harmonica, solo violin, saxophone, bongos... there's a lot packed into this. It helps that it's bookended by two incredibly solid tracks in Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want. Seriously, what a great way to start a week.

This must be the bluesiest of the Stones albums, that I'm aware of. Country Honk (aka Honky Tonk Woman) is delightfully underproduced complete with bluegrass fiddle making it feel like you've stumbled into a small town bar and caught the local band's last set before the PBR tap runs dry. I literally felt a shiver of joy hearing the opening chords of Monkey Man. You Can't Always Get What You Want is truly the cherry on top.

Some goods

title track makes me uncomfortable

Live with Me. Best underrated Stones song.

inmejorable principio y final apoteósico. los Rolling a tope.

it’s okay never been a stones guy

A lot of uninspired Country Blues.

Apparently the Stones asked M. C. Escher to design the cover for Let It Bleed but he declined. That would have pushed this to a 5. This album is in the sweet spot of The Rolling Stones’ best era of recording 1968-1972.

A 1 musica é sensacional e a última tbem é muito interessante, mas no meio do álbum fica um country que não me agradou.

So much fun.

I knew the classics Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want. They still sound as good as they ever have. The more I listen to these old albums, the more I'm noticing how heavily influenced they are by blues. Personally I like the faster songs with less crooning and weeping. I was pleasantly surprised by Live With Me and You Got The Silver. Unexpectedly romantic songs from a band I associate with just loud and in your face rock.

Gimme shelter is such a great song- it really sets high standard for the album. I generally enjoyed it but wish all would have been to the same caliber but I guess You can’t always get what you want.

i can see why its popular back in the day

It's a classic for a reason. It sounds great, the songs are memorable (and not too long), and it just has a ton of verve.

Arguably the best of their catalog.

Nicky Hopkins on "Monkey Man". It doesn't get any better.

The middle section is not as bad as everyone says. Monkey Man is pretty awesome instrumentally. Closer goes hard of course, but I don’t particularly care for the opener.

Fun yet unremarkable. Gimmie Shelter was good tho

Vero good

At least one of these stars is just for Gimme Shelter, but still enjoyed the whole album.

I was surprised by the heavy bluesy honky-tonk influence within so much of this album. It gave me a new perspective of The Stones music.

A little more hits focused than expected, but the hits ARE amazing…

An all-timer. One of the Rolling Stones finest!

I have a fondness for this era of Stones albums--they're nasty, dirty, and finally living up to their reputations. This isn't Beggar's Banquet or Goat's Head Soup or even Sticky Fingers, but still a damn good album. "Midnight Rambler" is probably my favorite, but there's really not a bad song on the set.

Første gennemhøring var kontoret, hvor den var lidt småkedelig, og lidt for deepsouth i lyden. Anden gang blev i haven, godt tilbagelænet i stolen med solens varme. Der ramte den spot on, i sindsstemningen. Så den kræver nok sol, ro og øl.

Gimme Shelter... En af mine ynglings numre nogensinde. Jeg har så svært ved at sætte pris på noget som helst andet fra Rolling Stonens. Efter godt 15 lytninger lykkedes det at komme forbi albummets åbner, og resten var nok som forventet... Undervældende.. Men hvad kan man snart også gøre hvis man er så forud indtaget. 🤷 Jeg napper lige en omgang Gimme shelter igen for at rense luften...

Måske vejer jeg Stones på en forkert vægt, men for et af verdens største bands nogensinde, og Beatles nærmeste “rivaler”, så syntes jeg dette album er dybt skuffende. Det meste lyder som blues og country som kunne være spillet af så mange andre. Det fanger mig ikke ind. Det er ikke dårligt, men det gør ikke noget for mig. Derudover er der et eller andet off med måden Stones’ (tidlige?) plader er mixet på. Det bliver mudder i mine øre. En klistret masse af lyd hvor vokalen og de forskellige instrumenter flyder sammen.

Book-ended by two solid songs, one of which is one of their best. The rest of the album is pretty mediocre IMO, but I really don't like country or gospel that was influencing this album.

Awesome

I recognize the stellar quality of this album and gladly assign 4 stars!!!

Let It Bleed is yet another let down of an album from a legendary band. I’ve heard a lot about The Rolling Stones and was down to listen to an album of them. However, I really don’t like their style. I prefer the synths and cadence of an Electric Ladyland or the drippiness of In The Court Of The Crimson King. If someone made a bland rock album for people to enjoy, I unfortunately would think of this. That being said, I’m admittedly being a bit harsh. It wasn’t bad; I would only call one song on this album mid-range (Monkey Man was REALLY unorthodox). I like Gimme Shelter and Midnight Rambler for their uniqueness and guitars. Yeah so, a letdown for sure, but not bad. All in all, Let It Bleed is an okay album. Best Song: Midnight Rambler Worst Song: Monkey Man

First & final tracks were the best imo. Could leave the rest, but wasn’t awful to listen to.

oldheads really thought this was fire 💀💀💀

too country, hitearia en los años 70

Pretty good overall. A few classic songs, even if they’ve been played to death. It took hearing my mom sing Gimme Shelter while playing that Rock Band video game to realize the words “rape” and “murder” are said over and over again in that song.

This is more like it! I forget this album sometimes when revisiting my favorite Stones records, but it’s pretty high up there. It’s maybe to me a tad better than Beggars Banquet and not as good as Sticky Fingers or Exile. I found myself enjoying more of the songs than I thought I did, though. The classics are classic obviously but You Got the Silver and Country Honk are really good as well. Top shelf!

The Stones can be hit or miss for me and I never got the hype. The notion that they could be as good as The Beatles is ludicrous. I liked this album alright, but for a lot of it, there was something off about it. The first and last songs are 5 star, though.

The best white guy blues record ever made. Fight me.

I remember seeing this album in a value village for only a dollar and for whatever reason I didn’t buy it. I’ve always regretted not grabbing it when I had the chance (and it was in good condition too!) I’d have it in my collection at this moment if it I had just bought it that fateful day. The Rolling Stones always had a knack for sounding smooth and cool and I think Let It Bleed showcases that suave coolness that they had on display so easily in those days. Not my favourite but always had a lot of respect for it!

I like The Rolling Stones but had never listened to an entire album by them. I thought this one was okay. I only knew the last song, which was my favorite. Overall, the album left something to be desired. Hope other albums will be more enjoyable. Standouts: Gimme Shelter, Love In Vain, and You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

Outstanding

Classic Rolling Stones

At first I thought these guys were just a bunch of himbos incapable of writing a song of any substance - and that’s still the case. But they aren’t trying to present themselves as anything other than the rock n roll fuckboys that they are and this was a fun album to get dumb to.

Staggering number of reviews here saying 'Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want = 5 stars!' without considering the mid-quality insipid whiteboyblues between those two admittedly great tracks. They even have to resort to covering one of their own tracks, for fuck's sake! The Rolling Stones are the second most over-hyped band on the planet. The only reason they are so highly regarded is down to first-mover advantage.

Way better album than Beggars Banquet

I really enjoyed this album. A lot of the other reviews say the best songs are the first and last. I disagree, I preferred all the ones in the middle; gotta love a bit of twangy 60s blues cover-age !

own

Day 267, and finally some Stones! And a really good one to start with. Listened on vinyl, and quite a crackly vinyl at that, which really helped. Gimme Shelter is, of course, a clear highlight, but really the whole thing is such a mood, and such an iconic piece of music that it feels unfair to single songs out in a way.

Wtf? Is dit The Rolling Stones go country? Wie vroeg hier om? Wie vond dit nodig? Het is soms country, soms blues, soms weer old school rock 'n roll Het is vooral een zooitje. Nee, dit is echt een voorbeeld van blijf alsjeblieft bij je leest. De persoon die ooit bedacht dat de wereld dit nodig had..? Eerste nummer is wel lekker, dat geef ik meteen toe. Midnight Rambler is ook echt een leuk nummer, maar verder vind ik te veel matig uitgevoerd. Ben ook niet de grootste fan van Micks stem op deze nummers, binnen de rock past die toch een stuk beter FAVO: Gimme Shelter, Midnight Rambler

Not crazy about this one. Standout Track: Gimme Shelter

A fine classic rock album. It's essentially Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want with some filler songs in between. Still, not a bad time. 2.5/5 -> 3/5.

Best RS

Aprobado por el primer y último tema.

The Stones

Good

Classic album with multiple hit tunes

Not always the biggest fan of the Rolling Stones but this is a good one. The prominent harmonica throughout is a big plus and a legendary opener in Gimme Shelter. 7.5/10 (3.75/5)

I do not like this album! 2/5

Fabulous

As with most Rolling Stones albums: there are a handful of all-time great rock songs, and then a lot of blues-adjacent meandering. 'Let It Bleed' justifies its existence to me by having "Gimme Shelter" on it; I'll begrudgingly admit that it's one of my favorite rock songs ever. It always gives me chills. 'Let It Bleed' is a more consistent listen than, say, 'Beggars Banquet', but it's no 'Exile' (which I hope to get more with each passing Rolling Stones album.) Highlights: Gimme Shelter, Country Honk, Midnight Rambler, You Got The Silver

already tried to listen to it before and it was so bad that i couldn't get through the whole thing

You can't always get what you waaaant

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones Gimme shelter is Such a banger to open on. This song has been everywhere. Every soundtrack, every movie, every sporting event. It’s very Americana. Speaking of, Country Tonk song is good as well. You can hear their influences growing up and being inspired to make this sorta feel good bluegrass music. This went all over and it was a wild ride to hear the rest. I liked it but didn’t love it. You Can’t Always Get What You Want is sorta a meme cause of that House TV show haha but otherwise it feels like a culmination of all their ideas picked from each song of the album at the end Pretty solid record

Brilliant. Top 3 Stones album.

Not bad need a few more listens to feel it

The best Stones album

Decent album. Really enjoyed gimme shelter, however the rest was mediocre.

Reiterating that the Stones are a singles band. Gimme Shelter and You Can’t Always Get What You Want are great. The rest is middling.

I’m not the biggest Rolling Stones fan, but this is a very fine album

Great start. Knew most of these songs already obviously since I’ve been a fan for a long time.

So much slide guitar

I enjoyed this album. It felt quite bluesy and sometimes like Bob Dylan, who I like!

verryyy good i love rolling stones :)

Of the four or so Rolling Stones albums I’ve listened to in this project, this has been the best, although I’m still not totally sold. The first and last tracks were the only ones I had heard before, and they were my favorites. “Gimme Shelter” in particular is just an undeniably great classic rock song. 3.5 rounded up (with the .5 pretty much entirely carried by the bookend tracks) Favorite tracks: Gimme Shelter; You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Between my distaste for Beggars Banquet and my mild amusement with Sticky Fingers sits Let It Bleed, a record where all I have to say is, “Yup, that’s The Rolling Stones, all right, American blues pastiche with a couple cool hard rock guitar licks and fun vocal work by Mick Jagger.” My apathy suggests that I may be officially off The Rolling Stones hype train, despite never actually being on to begin with. Unlike Beggars Banquet, I don’t find it grating, but unlike Sticky Fingers, it’s not a tolerated listen, either. Honestly? I think they’d be better if they were American, but they aren’t, so, oh well, meh.

Erinomainen jenkkisoundialbumi, pidän kovasti. Tai siis aika jenkkiähän Rollarit aina on. Country puree.

Bändin yliarvostetuin levy on myös muodollisessa täydellisyydessään yksi sen parhaista. Gimme Shelter keskittyy liiaksi tunnelmointiin huippuriffien tai -melodioiden kustannuksella, mutta se on uskomattomaton tehokkaasti tuotettu. Nimibiisi ja You Can't Always Get What You Want ovat vähän turhan letkeitä, mutta silti ilmiselviä onnistumisia. Pidän Beggarsin "deep cuteista" enemmän, ja Exilella on runsaammin löydettävää. Silti jokainen Let It Bleedin raidoista on kuulemisen arvoinen - ja Keithin You Got the Silver ansaitsee erityismaininnan, eikö?

Es curioso que algo tan clásico no lo haya escuchado entero hasta hoy. No están siendo días fáciles, ayer me enteré de que la abuela está mal. Apenas tengo un duro en el banco. Pero puede que empiecen a pasar cosas buenas, no sé, tiene que tocar en algún momento. ¿Será buena idea usar esta web como diario? Quién sabe, nos vemos mañana.

Finally - some good music here! One great song after another. And if you ever see them, you will hear a couple from this album. Such a good band, live - even better!

classic album

Warm, robust, and charming collection of some of the best Rolling Stones recordings known to man. Including the greatest song ever written; Gimme Shelter. Production value is high, and with exceptional teachnicality. Especially the Country Honk recording which literally took place in the street. Instrumentation choice and styling remain high caliber too. Phenomenal album, anything less than 4 stars is criminal.

Yeah overall it’s a pretty decent album. During this time era, they were doing some Psychedelic music, and than the completely switched up with this album, but any ways this album as a lot of different styles of music that they Incorporated in to making this record.

On my 6th Rolling Stones album of this challenge, I'm running out of things to say about them. My constant complaint is that they produce very strong singles on mediocre albums. 'Let It Bleed' is a bit better in that respect. 'Gimme Shelter', 'Let It Bleed', and 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' are all fantastic. The rest is ok, if a bit forgettable. Despite that, I enjoyed this album more most of their others. They demonstrate a lot of skill and the album has some character. I can't really see this album being more significant any of the others though and there's not enough to keep it in regular rotation for me personally, except maybe those standout songs.

Starts great and ends great

Gimme shelter är ju häftig. Övriga låtar är inte lika häftiga.

Really solid album. Bit bluesy!

Really just a great album. Stones in top form.

Always preferred The Beatles to the Stones, but still enjoyed many of the Stone's songs. This album seems like a compilation of those songs I liked. The Stones, correctly so, didn't try to copy the Beatles sound. This independence, and their longevity, has given them the recognition the deserve as one of rock's most influential and recognized bands. 4/5

Gimme Shelter is an all time Stones rocker. Next two tracks are very bluesy and for me the low point. Live With Me much better with groovy bass and a bit more drive to it. Nice backing piano and sax. The title track is another good one with the guitars and piano intertwining. On side two, Midnight Rambler is a 7 minute blues rock epic, You Got The Silver is shorter but in the same country vein. Monkey Man goes in a different direction with focus on vibraphone (?) and I like it a lot. You Can't Always Get What You Want is a classic closer, long but with lots going on. Played the 50th anniversary edition and it sounds like it's ready for another 50 years. Pay attention and listen in good headphones and this will reward you.

Rolling Stones are tough to listen to by the album. I’ve given them too many chances at this stage and think I’ll only do the singles going forward.

This is the first time I’ve listened to full Stones albums and I get it now

Very good album for The Rolling Stones. Gimme Shelter is such a great rock song

Fun British honky Tonky bluesey country rock bookended by two great songs (gimme shelter and you can’t always get what you want)

Great!

Nice album but kinda what nothing that really suprises me

Good but uneventful

Nice

For me personally, The Stones have always been a bit of a hit or miss band. Mick Jagger, while as charismatic and instantly recognisable as they come, has never really been one of my favourite frontmen. So as this appeared as album 1/1001 in the journey, I was actually sort of glad as I've never actually listened to it in full. 'Let It Bleed' came after the largely praised and successful 'Beggars Banquet' a year prior, so the stakes were pretty high alongside controversy surrounding founder and guitarist Brian Jones being let go, replaced by Mick Taylor. So, is it a suitable follow up? But before listening, there is one thing that stands out to me… that album art. A multi-layered 'cake' consisting of a plate, film canister, clock face, pizza, and tire topped, amid white frosting with jewelled candies, with miniature figurines of the Stones themselves. Below it is a copy of the record being spun. I've always found it a very fascinating cover despite never actually giving the album my attention prior to this. When reading up on why the cover art is this 'cake', the album was originally to be named 'Automatic Changer', the feature on turntables that would allow you to stack records and have one drop and play after the previous had finished. Makes a little more sense. It's not an essential but it always helps an album when the art supporting it is iconic in itself and this checks that box. Good start. Next, you inevitably look at the track listing and see if there's anything you recognise. What gave me some confidence in enjoying this was seeing 'Gimme Shelter' as the opener. I know that song, I enjoy that song… actually I fucking love that song. But apart from that, I was going in blind. Now, where do you even start with 'Gimme Shelter'? Arguably The Stones' magnum opus, it surrounds the reality of war, apt given the time period of the Vietnam War. The intro is absolutely brilliant, with Keith Richard opening up with the iconic main riff, but what struck me immediately is the underlying Güiro that is performed by guest performer Jimmy Miller. The strokes of it run throughout and I think are a fantastic touch and adds texture. Jimmy also plays the maracas on this, further filling out the mix and adding to the texture of the track. Mick then comes in and gives a fantastic vocal performance for the first verse, the song writing while not directly pointing to war is an easy metaphor to understand. It's what comes next that really makes this song probably one of the greatest songs of all time and that is guest vocalist Merry Clayton's performance on the choruses. Belting her ass off to the confronting lyrics "War, children, it's just a shot away" and "Rape, murder, it's just a shot away" is just chilling. Her voice cracks, shrills and passionate performance really is one of the best vocal performances ever. Also within this track is an absolutely badass harmonica solo from Mick and ever present guitar solo from Keith. How do you even top a song like that, is it even possible? It's a song that is still sadly very relevant with war and genocide ever present in todays society. The rest won't be described as in depth but I will pick out things of note in certain tracks. 'Love In Vain' is a rework of the Robert Johnson classic. When you already have a strong base in the songwriting, it'll be hard for them to completely botch it. Luckily, the Stones' build upon it. Mick really shows his bluesy side here on the vocal performance, emotive, powerful and effective. Mixed in is some lovely slide guitar work from Keith and proficient mandolin plucks and strums from guest performer Ry Cooder. It's a really nice sounding track, retaining the poignancy of the original. Now for the first miss here, 'Country Honk', it's not necessarily a bad song perse but I cannot get behind how this one has been mixed. The fiddle is loud as all fuck, you can barely hear the vocals through the verses and other than that it's just a rather repetitive that becomes tiresome given how short it is. 'Live With Me' has an absolutely lethal bassline from Keith, some horns that punch through nicely in the transition from chorus to their own solo which is performed by guest performers Leon Russell and Bobby Keys and almost all ruined by Mick Jagger's horniness. Good song though, just a very average sex-centric 60s piece of songwriting. The title track 'Let It Bleed' opens with a cheeky little piece of signature Keith slide guitar, more to come. Ian Stewart plays the piano on here which is a sorely needed element and something to focus on when Mick is busy yelling in your ear "Yeah, we all need someone we can cream on, Yeah, and if you want to, well, you can cream on me". Bloody horny bastard. Keith continues to slide his ass off on here and the solo is awesome. Again, musically this is fantastic but there are quite a few lines on here (and also probably on the woman's chest Micks ranting on about here) that just make me eye roll. Great song nonetheless. "Midnight Rambler" kicks off with a nice bluesy riff, some more harmonica from Mick which is all contained in a rather dark and gloomy sounding mix. I like how this one sounds a lot. The songwriting is loosely based around The Boston Strangler which makes the sound of it all very appropriate. It has some nice tempo changes, tension and release moments, fantastic instrumentation and honestly warrants the 7 minute runtime. This track offers an interesting approach to kick off the B side of the album. "You Got The Silver" is a bit of an awkward one. Keith takes over on vocals here, not to say it's a bad performance but his songwriting is rather cliched and cheesy here. Instrumentally still solid, just not a huge fan of this one. Did you know these fellas loved drugs and sex??? Well, "Monkey Man" spells it out to you in a rather humorous way. This song has a fantastic intro, bright vibraphone hits from member Bill Wyman (who sadly hasn't gotten much recognition from me over the course of this, welcome to the life of a bass player) and Jimmy Miller comes back into the fold on Tambourine. Instead of the stupid direct sex-centric lyrics, Mick lays down the metaphors surrounding the rock'n'roll lifestyle of the late 60's. Saving the best part for last, the general instrumentation here. My word does this song sound timeless. Keith goes down the slide once again to great effect and the underlying piano playing from guest performer Nicky Hopkins helps fill out the song nicely. Brilliant track To close this album out is "You Can't Always Get What You Want", which is also the longest on the album by a fair margin clocking in at 7:28. A song of desire vs need. It opens with an intro provided by the London Bach Choir and sounds absolutely lovely. Next, a beautiful pairing of French horn played by guest performer Al Kooper and Keith on the acoustic guitar. Al Kooper also plays the organ, which is audibly recognisable at the start of the 2nd verse. So much goes on in this track, more maracas, more slides, more tambourine and Mick throwing in a fantastic vocal performance on top of it all. The outro is so grand and maximalist which feels like the right way to end an album like this. It's progressive, from a very mellow and beautiful intro to an absolute stormer of an outro. What a closer. So, what are my final thoughts on this? I think it is great, I think it is probably worthy of being in a book like this but I also think there are some issues within. The instrumentation over the course of the whole album is pinpoint, no one feels out of their depth, the guest performers have been pulled in for a reason, they're proficient at what they do. The few issues I have are with Mick's songwriting at times being way too on the nose (and Keith's effort just being a bit bleh) and the really odd mixing on country honk. It's an average length for an album of the time. A 40 odd minute run that fits onto a single LP. 9 tracks that most of which are worth your attention. Pretty good stuff. My Track Ratings Gimme Shelter: 5/5 Love In Vain: 4.5/5 Country Honk: 3/5 Live With Me: 4/5 Let It Bleed: 4.5/5 Midnight Rambler: 4.5/5 You Got The Silver: 3.5/5 Monkey Man: 5/5 You Can't Always Get What You Want: 5/5 AVERAGE TRACK RATING = 38.5/45 x 10 = 8.6/10 'ALBUM' RATING = 9/10 TOTAL RATING = 8.8/10

One of the best albums....ever! Every song, even the "throw aways" are so awesome.

Alright like.

i went through a decently big stones phase and i really like this album. it's not my favorite of the stones' 'classic period' but i think it's a really interesting showcase of their transition into roots-focused rock. of course, the two big songs on here are stone-cold classics for a reason, but i've always loved the more country stuff on here - especially 'love in vain' and 'country honk' if i have any complaint at all, it's that this crop of songs is not as strong as other albums they released in this general time period - but to say this album is not good because it's not 'sticky fingers' or 'exile' seems unfair. those albums are extraordinary in their discography, and although that technically means this album is more ordinary, i still think it's a great album.

Yeah, gotta confess I quite liked this one.

#2 in what is arguably one of the greatest 4-album runs in music history. This is one of the greats; every song on here slaps, even the deep cuts. 5/5

the stones are okay but they dont do much for me, this album felt like background music but with more character. monkey man.

Great album

"Gimme Shelter" is an all time hit and the same goes for "You Can't Always Get What You Want". I don't even love classic rock all that much. The middle of the record was a mid honky tonk blend, and also a bit too horny for me.

Fantastic album. A couple of classics on there I recognized and the rest of the songs captured an awesome country rock/bluesy sound that I absolutely loved. Didn't know the Rolling Stones were chill like that.

Mowed the lawn with this album going. 10/10 would recommend. Not a bad song in the bunch. They mastered the classic rock and roll sound while mixing in blues and country in unique and memorable ways. Every song has a life of it's own. This is probably in my top 10 albums that I can listen to straight through.

Rockin'. Excellent Rolling Stones vibes. I'll listen to this one again. The record is just about perfect for what it's trying to do, but it's so straight forward that it doesn't really excite me. Four stars.

You all suck. Unlike this album, which is amazing.

The album starts off on a really high note with Gimme Shelter which is an all timer for me. Unfortunately, it quickly loses most of its momentum and never really builds it back until You Can't Always Get What You Want on the very last track. I sincerely hated the country songs and a lot of their bluesy ones seem inauthentic and boring. The Stones are legendary, but I’m just not really a huge fan of most of their work. 3.4 stars leaning heavily on their two massive hits.

5 enough said!!

Not bad, but the only 2 amazing songs were “Gimme Shelter” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” - the rest were ok but weren’t super interesting.

So good! Better than beef heart and crack

Some tracks were enjoyable but I kinda expected more from such a notoriously prestigous band.

Gimme Shelter is a goat. Great rest of the album too.