This album was published the 5 of December of 1969, and was recognized by the most important music critics as the most successful album of the Stones, this album got the first place in the United Kingdom music lists and a third place at the United States lists.
If you want to make a successful song, you should write about a current and controversial topic, and if you want to make a successful album, you should put that song as the opening (first song of the album). That is exactly what the Stones did with this album. The Stones used a strong song that has embedded in it a social aspect that touches almost everybody as their first song of the “Let it bleed” album. Back in the 60s there was a war in Vietnam, a war that everybody heard about every single day in the news, so it was “the perfect excuse” to write a song with a social content. The song was "Gimme Shelter", with lyrics that express the fear that anyone could feel: the need for peace or at least a please to feel safe. It also presented a sense of end of the humanity. All the topics included in “Gimme Shelter” made every one identify with the song.
The rest of the album has “normal lyrics”, they are about love, relationships, about feeling sad, get drunk and drugged; all of these also influenced by the Hippie movement at US and Europe.
The Rolling Stones are from England, and for me it is weird to find so much country sound in their songs like “Country Honk” and “You got the Silver”. Also, the song that gives the name to the album should be the most important and “Let it Bleed” is not that strong, it is about not being alone and having a person to support you. So I think that the name of the album should be “Gimme Shelter”. A song that touches the dugs topic is “Monkey Man” which expresses the need for being restless, to be in movement like a monkey.
Going back to the sound rather than the lyrics: I expected to hear ROCK – strong sounds of the instruments and strong voices, because of their name “The Rolling Stones”. A stone is something strong, rude, tough, hard, but these guys do not sound too much like stones.
I can say that this album was a good one, but not a masterpiece; personally, I do not like The Rolling Stones, but this feeling could be because this band is not from my era, neither from my region, although I like bands that are not from my era like AC/DC.
If you want to make a successful song, you should write about a current and controversial topic, and if you want to make a successful album, you should put that song as the opening (first song of the album). That is exactly what the Stones did with this album. The Stones used a strong song that has embedded in it a social aspect that touches almost everybody as their first song of the “Let it bleed” album. Back in the 60s there was a war in Vietnam, a war that everybody heard about every single day in the news, so it was “the perfect excuse” to write a song with a social content. The song was "Gimme Shelter", with lyrics that express the fear that anyone could feel: the need for peace or at least a please to feel safe. It also presented a sense of end of the humanity. All the topics included in “Gimme Shelter” made every one identify with the song.
The rest of the album has “normal lyrics”, they are about love, relationships, about feeling sad, get drunk and drugged; all of these also influenced by the Hippie movement at US and Europe.
The Rolling Stones are from England, and for me it is weird to find so much country sound in their songs like “Country Honk” and “You got the Silver”. Also, the song that gives the name to the album should be the most important and “Let it Bleed” is not that strong, it is about not being alone and having a person to support you. So I think that the name of the album should be “Gimme Shelter”. A song that touches the dugs topic is “Monkey Man” which expresses the need for being restless, to be in movement like a monkey.
Going back to the sound rather than the lyrics: I expected to hear ROCK – strong sounds of the instruments and strong voices, because of their name “The Rolling Stones”. A stone is something strong, rude, tough, hard, but these guys do not sound too much like stones.
I can say that this album was a good one, but not a masterpiece; personally, I do not like The Rolling Stones, but this feeling could be because this band is not from my era, neither from my region, although I like bands that are not from my era like AC/DC.
By Jenny Patricia Marulanda
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