Let It Bleed

The Rolling Stones

the record opens with the terrifying “Gimme Shelter,” a song that came to symbolize the death of the 1960s utopian spirit. And the whole album burns with apocalyptic cohesion: the murderous blues of “Midnight Rambler”;

Keith Richards’ lethal guitar on “Monkey Man”; and the epic moralism of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” which Mick Jagger wrote on an acoustic guitar in his bedroom.