(Printed below are the ‘'official" CREEM reviews of the Rolling Stones' albums. Since Boy Howdy! was born shortly before the release of Let It Bleed, the reviews begin with that LP and continue through our recent review of Emotional Rescue. Of the band's many greatest hits compilations, only More Hot Rocks— which contains an abundance of previously unissued material—is reviewed here. Both Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out and Metamorphosis were actually missed back then, and here they’re reviewed by current CREEM staffers Bill Holdship and J. Kordosh; otherwise, the original CREEM review is reprinted below, with running date duly noted. Time. uh. certainly flies. — Ed.)

ROLLING STONES Let It Bleed

(London)

There’s nothing mysterious about the new Stones album and that’s as it should be. Like the Stones themselves, it’s all right there, readily accessible to all of Us (if not Them). And, exactly because it’s so accessible, it doesn’t tell us anything new about the Stones; it merely reaffirms our knowledge and suspicions about what is probably the best rock 'n' roll band in the world. If the Beatles are the master brain-surgeons of rock, the Stones are its genius general practictioners.