Let It Bleed

These DSD remasters are brilliant and at a great price too for the vinyl set. Listening the stones on LP is truly a different experience & I have a really inexpensive rig (none of those fancy tables and fancier amps and speakers). Amazon India do offer these at a lower price now and then so keep a lookout for these.

My favorite album of The Stones. And that too on vinyl makes it very special. As it has the sticker 'The way they were meant to be heard'.

This is the best Rolling Stones album of all - where they make the fullest expression of their raison d'etre contra The Beatles: this is not The Summer of Love, but survival in a dangerous world; the dangers are expressed, and the means for dealing with them unflinchingly prosecuted - if you want to survive get real and get tough. This is no place for Mr. Jitters. Jagger and Co join Frank Zappa ("We're Only In It For The Money") in pointing out that Peace and Love won't work in this cynical rip-off world. The biggest threat is presented in "Midnight Rambler". Avoidance is recommended! Snatch your kisses where you can in "Gimme Shelter". Death is just a shot away. Love can be in vain. Back street existence is no bed of roses. To be someone you can lean on also means being someone you can bleed one. Strip civilization away and you are left with monkeymen and monkeywomen; and it's not all bad being them either. Such relationships can be silver and gold. You can't always get what you want but you might find you get what you need. Keith Richards is on fire on this album and Mick Taylor rises to the challenge. Bobby Keys is ace on sax and Jimmy Miller plays drums brilliantly on the last track, and handles the production with superb assurance. Mary Clayton steals the lyric in "Gimme Shelter". Jagger's harp on "Midnight Rambler" is even better than his brilliance on "Aftermath". This is the Stones as nature intended.

brilliant remastering .. I have the LP and an old CD of the same album, and whereas the vinyl sounds very good, the old CD sounds crap, but the new remastered CD beats both ... wonderful depth of detail to an already brilliant album ... probably my favourite album from the Stones. Heartily recommended to everybody who loves good audio and excellent rock.

The Rolling Stones said goodbye to the decade that spawned them, the sixties, with another of their "big four" albums that straddled the turn of the decade that had begun so successfully with the previous year's blues rock masterpiece that was the magnificent "Beggars' Banquet". With the emphasis a bit more towards "rock" than "blues" on this album, it is pretty much the equal of "BB" in many ways.TRACK LISTING1. Gimme Shelter2. Love In Vain3. Country Honk4. Live With Me5. Let It Bleed6. Midnight Rambler7. You Got The Silver8. Monkey Man9. You Can't Always Get What You WantThe Stones were now firmly established a the masters of riff-domniated rock with a bluesy touch and this is exemplified magnificently in the iconic opener, "Gimme Shelter". With a mesmeric opening guitar part and some typically drawled vocals from Mick Jagger it is a true tour de force. Certainly one of their best ever intros. A candidate for The Stones' best ever track. "Love In Vain" is a convincing return to the Delta blues style of the previous album, all acoustic and wailing, twanging bottleneck guitars and laid back bluesy vocals - "All your love's in voin". One of The Stones' best ever blues. If not the best. Keith Richards' blues from later in the album, "You Got The Silver" is from the same mould. "Country Honk" sees a re-adoption of the country rock, Americana-influenced style used on the previous album's "Factory Girl". Here is produces a backwoods fiddle-dominated version the non-album hit single, "Honky Tonk Woman". Nowhere near as good as the single, but it somehow fits the album and, to be honest I prefer it used here to using the single version.The album's big blues rock anthem is the sprawling menacing "Midnight Rambler" with Jagger and guitarist Mick Taylor on superb form. Just check out that insistent, rumbling drum/guitar/harmonica intro. Just before this mighty track are two wonderful rockers - the leery "Live With Me" with its thumping drum sound and the acoustic/piano/drums of the the lazily lusty "Let It Bleed". Again, Jagger's odd phrasing is to the fore as on "BB" - "we all need somewoh-an to lean o-wan". His sometimes quite ludicrous voice is perfect though, it wouldn't be the same with anyone else, or indeed anywoh-an else. Similarly "Monn-kayy My-een" it just as it should be on another of the album's copper-bottomed Stones down 'n' dirty rockers. That sort of sums this album up - it certainly is down 'n' dirty, axle-grease caked blues rock. Indeed, Jagger refers to "my dirty, filthy basement" in "Let It Bleed". It sounds like the whole album was recorded in that basement.Then there is one more genuine Stones anthem to end proceedings, the even mightier "You Can't Always Get ("git") What You Want" an extended rock anthem with build-up shades of Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" and an invigorating gospel choir massive, dramatic ending.The Rolling Stones at their absolute best.Finally, there is a mono edition of this album in "The Rolling Stones In Mono" box. Don't even think about it. Stereo every time for this one.

The second of four consecutive killer stones albums. Let it Bleed (1969) with top tunes like 'Monkey Man' and 'Midnight Rambler' matched the standard set by the previous years 'Beggars Banquet'. It was with 'Gimme Shelter' that the band were now operating on a whole new level. Apocalyptically distorted multi tracked guitars, and Mick Jagger jostling with Mary Clayton to bring us the bad news, tis a thing of beauty. In an age of regurgitated melody's and pop overload, Let it Bleed might just make you feel better.

Felt the sound could be better, has more get up and go on digital. Think it is a digital version remastered onto vinyl and the vinyl has a strange sheen, which you can see when the record spins, like there is something on the vinyl, yet it's not visible when it's not spinning. It's not bad and I'm happy enough, as I paid a tenner , but do wonder if it was a funny batch sold off cheap, as it could have more sparkle and energy, on an otherwise cleaned up recording. The album music is great though, but wonder if there is a better pressing or recording out there.