They dropped Let It Bleed in the final days of a decade that didn’t turn out the way they or anyone else hoped. Their darkest album, yet also their funniest - not to mention their greatest. Amid all the chaos, the Stones made a masterpiece that holds up as the ultimate rock & roll album for bleak times, which is why it feels like the most 2019 album of 1969. Pillage and burning.”įifty years after it came out, Let It Bleed sounds timelier than ever. Wenner in his 1995 Rolling Stone interview. It’s apocalypse the whole record’s like that,” Mick Jagger told Jann S. Right from the start, it’s an album full of bad news, from the opening guitar shivers of “Gimme Shelter.” “That’s a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. The songs ooze doom, death, darkness, and destruction. The inherent contradiction and tension that lies at the heart of the blues – groovy, feel-good music about painful experiences – is never better expressed than on this wonderful record.December 1969: The Rolling Stones are capping off their decade of triumph with a new album. The Rolling Stones got their mojo back with Beggars Banquet, and on Let It Bleed, guided by an irrepressible Jimmy Miller who was also coming into his full power as producer, they give themselves the time, the space and the tunes to give it full expression. (There's an exception, of course: Brian Jones contributed nothing meaningful to Let It Bleed, was too out of it to play his instruments anymore, even when he did try to turn up to sessions, and died long before the album was released. This is the blues, black and white, shaded with mellow country tones, shot through with blood-red and night-dark horror stories, lifted and lit with silver linings and powered at all times by an inherent good humour that comes from the confidence of a band of hard-living, hard-playing, hard-rocking, hard-working musicians who are back on top of their game and aware of the fact.
From the first haunting guitar riffs of Gimme Shelter to the angelic gospel fade out of You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Let It Bleed is a stone solid rock classic.
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