Product Description
Rare Actual 1970 Japanese Pressing ~ Still In Beautiful Condition For A Record That Is Over 53 Years Old! Top Quality Vinyl, Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English, Labels Are Clean. Essential Rolling Stones LP In 100% Pure Analogue Sound On Vinyl ~ Just As It Was Always Intended To Be Heard. Totally Recommended!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sound quality is SUPERB!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Minimal signs of handling over the decades, small split on bottom edge.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their beautiful packaging and premium sound quality (which explains why American audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab chose to have their highly regarded pressings manufactured in Japan). Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
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 “Gimmie Shelter”, the drug-reality anthem “Monkey Man”, the epic “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, and Mick Jagger’s menacing “Midnight Rambler”. Keith’s “You Got the Silver” is yet another gem on this essential, vintage Rolling Stones LP.
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
AMG –
Some of their very best songs, especially "Gimme Shelter"; the harmonica-driven "Midnight Rambler"; the druggy party ambience of the title track; and the stunning "You Can't Always Get What You Want”. 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. 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.