This song makes itself known right away: the shaky, shimmering guitar leads, whose catchiness is imbued with a feeling of impending doom. The eerie, high, wordless vocals and dramatic piano that preface the verse add to the feeling that something dreadful is approaching just over the horizon.
Let It Bleed for me is the band's first genuine classic album. It was the album that lived up to their billing as the greatest rock and roll band on earth in the late sixties. By this time the Stones had released the great Beggars Banquet album, which is a great album, albeit not a classic but a pivotal record in the band's career, where country rock was added to their usual rock/blues and a few classic rock singles such as "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honkey Tonk Woman".
Let It Bleed kicks off with one of my favourite Stones songs, the harrowing classic "Gimme Shelter". There could not have been a better song to have opened this album. The album closes with the epic "You Cant Always Get What You Want" which is the Stone's "Hey Jude". Addition of the horn was fantastic but the choir is a little overbearing towards its closure. Underneath its epicness lies perhaps one of the best songs from the Jagger/Richards team.
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