Rolling Stones Let It Bleed + poster Stereo SKL5025

	£		51
	$		68

Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed"

Original UK Press, Stereo, 1969 Decca Records: cat no. SKL 5025 Matrix: XZAL-9363-P4W, XZAL-9364-P4W.

Includes Original Poster in superb condition.

Not many bands in the history of rock and roll can follow an album like "beggars banquet" with one that matches it or even betters it. 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".

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Sleeve Condition: EXCELLENT-MINT.

The laminate non-flipback sleeve is in fantastic shape front, spines are mint. Original sticker on sleeve. Includes original poster in mint condition, comes in original blue/white stereo inner sleeve with lyric sheet. The inner sleeve is the original version without the London Bach Choir credit blanked out. Although providing the astonishing and apparently impromptu introduction to 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' they later took exception to their inclusion after hearing some of the other lyrics on the album. Only the very earliest copies of the inner sleeve carry the unblanked credit. The outer sleeve is the original version without the manufacturer credit and with the 1968 Patents Application No below the M/S hole on the rear.

Vinyl Condition, Visual: EXCELLENT.

A nice shiny copy with some hairline surface marks that generally don't affect play.

Vinyl Condition, Audible: EXCELLENT.

Plays very well with some light surface noise generally only noticeable between tracks, the first track on side 1 and the first track on side 2 have a very light click for approx. 2 min each. There are also a very few other minor clicks but nothing serious.

Label Condition: MINT.

Original boxed Decca label. No spindle marks, no ring wear, totally clean.

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Review:

Mostly recorded without Brian Jones — who died several months before its release (although he does play on two tracks) and was replaced by Mick Taylor (who also plays on just two songs) — this extends the rock and blues feel of Beggars Banquet into slightly harder-rocking, more demonically sexual territory. The Stones were never as consistent on album as their main rivals, the Beatles, and Let It Bleed suffers from some rather perfunctory tracks, like "Monkey Man" and a countrified remake of the classic "Honky Tonk Woman" (here titled "Country Honk"). Yet some of the songs are among their very best, especially "Gimme Shelter," with its shimmering guitar lines and apocalyptic lyrics; the harmonica-driven "Midnight Rambler"; the druggy party ambience of the title track; and the stunning "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which was the Stones' "Hey Jude" of sorts, with its epic structure, horns, philosophical lyrics, and swelling choral vocals. "You Got the Silver" (Keith Richards' first lead vocal) and Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," by contrast, were as close to the roots of acoustic down-home blues as the Stones ever got.

Track Listing:

SIDE 1
Gimmie Shelter
Love in Vain
Country Honk
Live with me
Let it bleed

SIDE 2
Midnight Rambler
You got the Silver
Monkey Man
You can't always get what you want

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