10 Perfect Posthumous Rock Albums
8. Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Over the past half a century, there hasn't been too much slowing down in the world of the Rolling Stones. If anything, the ability for Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to tour until they drop may have given them the mantle as the one immortal rock band still going. Though the real classics were still rolling in the '70s, it would come at the expense of one of the greatest collaborators.
In the grand tale of the Stones, Brian Jones doesn't get brought up nearly as often as he should, considering he named the band and brought in Jagger and Richards in the early days. When they got to the end of the '60s though, Brian was in shambles, being artistically stifled and not wanting to even play music anymore. After he was found dead in his swimming pool, Let It Bleed became the last salvo of Brian's genius playing.
By this point, Mick Taylor had pretty much taken over Brian's spot in the band, but you can still hear different bits and pieces of his talent on songs like Midnight Rambler and You Got the Silver. Seeing how he's playing stuff like autoharp and congas, it just shows you the kind of artist we were working with. Brian Jones could have probably contributed a couple more classics for the Stones, but the light inside him tended to burn out way too quickly.