"Let It Bleed" is like the rude awakening the next morning: The head hurts, as if continuously beaten with a hammer on it, as one might also lie down or sit, everything revolves, the stomach rebelled as soon as you even to eat thinking or trying to remember how much of the cursed alcohol or other it has led to heart yesterday. In any case you can not remember much of the night before, trying to reconstruct what happened based somewhat confused flashbacks and stories. At the end you know a few things: The party was good (or better), it has probably a little misbehaved and vows to be more reasonable next time. Until the next time comes. So is "Let It Bleed". If one believes the accounts of people who have the 60 live witnessed, and this time transfigured in their memory with age, more and more, so the Sixties were a never-ending party in which you burst the boundaries of narrow social corsets, against the war in Vietnam and otherwise against everything and everyone that had the odor of stuffy in itself, demonstrated and was pestered by overtaxed police with water cannons and truncheons, to a joint on the other infected, went to expansion of consciousness journey through psychedelic drugs and the joys of so vacated suddenly love savored. All this may have its accuracy, but also the medal has a downside: The war in Vietnam was simply no end (actually was the nightmare until 1975 to finally end), some of the once peaceful hippies founded terrorist groups, there were race riots shortly before the great Woodstock - murdered by Charles Manson's followers fanatical Party "Family" brutal rich people in their homes (among them the actress Sharon Tate) to trigger the "race war" prophesied by Manson. End the year 1969, finally gave the "Woodstock of the West Coast", a management from the Rolling Stones fabulously ill-organized festival at the Altamont Speedway in totally unsuitable for Live More, California. The dedicated folder as Hells Angels knew the runaway crowd only to resist with senseless brawl, eventually the audience Meredith Hunter was, while the Stones played their set, stabbed by a Angel, because he had pulled a revolver. The hippie dream of a peaceful world under the rainbow was a catastrophe to an end. Although the Stones themselves had little interest in the disaster, although by some weird people the "diabolical energy" her music has been held responsible for it but never really fit to the ideals of the movement. Her only attempt to swim along in the stream, was the album "Their Satanic Majesties Request", which came along with some pretty strange experiments and a few quite useful songs and was panned by critics unanimously. The Stones pondered for a then again on their strengths and the roots of the blues, took the excellent album "Beggars Banquet" and got rid of not very subtle way of increasingly sinking into drug fog and personal problems former bandleader Brian Jones (on "Let It Bleed "is he represented only in two songs). Jagger and Richards took over the helm definitively, with Mick Taylor, a new, excellent guitarist was brought on board, which should help to shape the next phase in the long band history. "Let It Bleed" now illuminates the dark side of life, incurred under chaotic conditions, influenced by the increasingly militant and violent unrest around the world and the wild state in the band itself, which was located on Jones' expulsion to self-search and the Blues rediscovered as a lifeline. The whole album is an inventory that looks like a gear through a devastated battlefield sounds, however, ends with a light frost on the horizon. "Gimme Shelter" opened the ride in the dark, ominous rises the song about Storm and War, backed by dramatic drums and piano - thunder, driven by Keith's guitar and Jaggers panic song which is still taken excessive by the soul singer Merry Clayton. The goosebumps moment equal to the start of the album, and for quite a few of the best song of the Stones par. It continues with "Love in Vain", borrowed from the blues - godfather Robert Johnson. A depressed Lover accompanied his girl to the train station and looks with resignation the lights of the departing train afterwards. One of the best covers that have ever made the Stones, which was the interest in the legendary blues musician from the 20s skyrocket. "Country Honk" is a mocked version of the hit single "Honky Tonk Women", in which the Stones sound like a run-down street Combo, which is enhanced by the well-established traffic noise. The next highlight is the title track. "Let It Bleed" is a dirty, sexually charged R & B - song with however comforting message. "We all need someone we can lean on." One of the softer numbers on "Let It Bleed" after the brutal "Midnight Rambler" is "You Got The Silver", the last song on the Brian Jones even starred. Because Mick Jagger's vocal track has been deleted by mistake, Keith Richards was allowed to try on the mike and he did his job superbly. Although the numerous non - be heard singers in rock business, refined gentle, timid singing this beautiful song even more. The album closes with "You Can not Always Get What You Want", an excessive Kracher Oversized which raises chaste and angelic with the London Bach Choir and ever-increasing with increasing duration to a shrill finale, where it nothing more to add are. "Let It Bleed" is even after more than 40 years, is still very high up, if there is to list the best albums of all time. It marks a radical change both in the Zeitgeist as well as in the musical style of the band and one of the plates, which the passage of time can not harm in the least. You can not always get what you want But if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need
