gypsymofo60
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Can't agree with that list. What's new? Gimme Shelter should always be number one. Here's why. The opening notes creep up on you like a bad trip. The hairs on the back of your neck start to rise. BOOM! The Beatles have just been put to bed mate, This Is Let It Bleed! And bleed you (my little darlings), shall. The swinging sixties my arse! Hippies are dead! If they listened, if they got their deluded heads out of their Sgt. (bloody) Pepper's dream for just the intro to Let It Bleed; they would be turning over their bells, beads and bollocks, for a few PROPER STONES LPs. Shelter was the clincher for me. It literally, rocked me out of a semi-comatose nine months. It woke me up good! And that...was 1977 plebs. Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned, Jam; loved it all! But it was just a momentary nihilistic illusion. Oh! I'll buy this! Holds up cover. Bizzare man! Cakes and bike tyres? Gets record home, I'm 17, BANG! I become a Stoner proper. SHELTER, did me proper. It still has that affect on me today, 'The one remains; many come and pass....' Gimme Shelter isn't just the greatest Stones song, it's the greatest, scariest muther fucker of a song ever put to vinyl, CD, whatever.
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