Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones
This is probably one of the best Stones songs ever.
Image via WikipediaRecorded at the peak of the 60s rampage of sex, drugs and anti-war protesting, it encapsulates a lot of the elements of that time; it plucks a cord that draws you in, as if in listening you are somehow actually experiencing 1969 for a few minutes. The energy, the manic frenzy of youth, the anti-establishment theme and tone...everything in the song is working in tandem with our perceptions of what the times must have been like.
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