Let It Bleed (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition: Standalone LP-Stereo)＜限定盤＞

1960年代デッカ/ロンドン期の最後を飾るスタジオ作にして、ストーンズ最高傑作の1枚に数えられる名盤が、1969年12月5日のオリジナル発売から50年を迎える2019年、ボブ・ラドウィックが新たにリマスターした＜50周年記念1LPエディション(180g重量盤)＞として登場!

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. ~ Richie Unterberger

オリジナル アルバムとしてはロンドン／デッカ時代最後となった69年の作品。ブライアン脱退、ミック・ジョーンズ初参加etcのゴタゴタをものともせず、ライクーダーらのゲストを迎え、腰のすわったルーツロックを聴かせる。同名映画を象徴するような(1)、カントリータッチの(3)etc。 (C)DaKaRa