Greeted with decidedly mixed reviews upon its original release, Exile on Main St. has become generally regarded as the Rolling Stones' finest album. Part of the reason why the record was initially greeted with hesitant reviews is that it takes a while to assimilate. A sprawling, weary double album encompassing ock & roll, lues, soul, and country, Exile doesn't try anything new on the surface, but the substance is new. Taking the bleakness that underpinned Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers to an extreme, Exile is a weary record, and not just lyrically. Jagger's vocals are buried in the mix, and the music is a series of dark, dense jams, with Keith Richards and Mick Taylor spinning off incredible riffs and solos. And the songs continue the breakthroughs of their three previous albums. No longer does their country sound forced or kitschy -- it's lived-in and complex, just like the group's forays into soul and gospel. While the songs, including the masterpieces "Rocks Off," "Tumbling Dice," "Torn and Frayed," "Happy," "Let It Loose," and "Shine a Light," are all terrific, they blend together, with only certain lyrics and guitar lines emerging from the murk. It's the kind of record that's gripping on the very first listen, but each subsequent listen reveals something new. Few other albums, let alone double albums, have been so rich and masterful as Exile on Main St., and it stands not only as one of the Stones' best records, but sets a remarkably high standard for all of hard rock.
You hear so many stories of the Stones (and, of course, you know it's MICK only....) mis-reprsenting the publishing credits on their songs. Here are some of the more flagrant violations:Love In Vain (Let It Bleed) - Robert Johnson (it's correct on Get Yer Ya Ya's Out I think)Live With Me - music almost all by Bill WymanStop Breaking Down - Robert JohnsonCan't You Here Me Knocking - major contr...
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I don't recall much discussion of the Stones here, and I am not a huge fan myself, but "The Aquarium Drunkard":http://aquariumdrunk.blogspot.com/2006/11/rolling-stones-exile-outtakes.html has some Exile outtakes which may be of interest. Besides, it's one of my favorite music blog titles, and music blogs period.
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The Rolling Stones' soundtrack Shine A Light for the Martin Scorsese rockumentary of the same name will be available in two version: a two-disc, 22-track live album and a 16-track soundtrack. Both albums, recorded at New York's Beacon Theatre on October 29 and November 1, 2006, contain Stones classics and not one track from the band's most recent studio album, A Bigger Bang, which the Stones we...
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Yeah I am talking about smack, junk, horse, china white, chiva, H, tar, black, fix, speed-balling, dope, brown, dog, food, negra, nod, white horse, and stuff of which Dionysus' dreams are made. The little white angel that sits on your shoulder and rocks you to sleep, returning you to the soft, pillowed encasement of the womb, warm, satiated, arms jelly, thoughts fluttering, creative synapses tr...
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i cannot wait. i LOVED the dylan biography "no direction home" - this should be a winner.
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The original hand-painted, black and white Rolling Stones lips logo, was recently sold to London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The artwork was painted in 1970 by then art student John Pasche, who got the idea from his first meeting with the Stone's frontman Mick Jagger."Face to face with him," Pasche told the Gaurdian, "the first thing you were aware of was the size of his lips and his mouth."S...
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I think we all use music as aural wallpaper from time to time. At work, around the house, in the car. We create a pleasant ambience for ourselves as we do what we must.But occasionally we are able to give our whole selves to the music. Able to subsume ourselves into the music, hanging suspended with only the forward momentum of the music to measure the timelessness.These are the best of times. ...
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A deluxe box set of Exile on Main St. is in the works. It will be first ever archival release from the Rolling Stones vaults:Keith Richards shed some light on the upcoming box set edition of the Rolling Stones 1972 double-album masterpiece Exile On Main Street. The collection -- which has no release date yet -- is the first time the Stones have officially sanctioned an archival release from the...
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My best buddy Greg and his wife Julie in Eugene, Oregon just had a baby girl, Virginia. I've been spinning The Rolling Stones Sweet Virginia in the baby's honor. Congratulations buddy!
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So it's reported to be a classic, and I have never listened to it from start to finish, I have never listened to all of the songs in order in one sitting, so why not give it a shot....I will report back when it's done.
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This is just too perfect of a rock song.
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1. The Rolling Stones, "Rip This Joint." Holy shit. The last Stones album of their greatest period, and it's so good they can take this song, a barn-burning album-opener if there ever was one, and stick it at #2 on Side One. As propulsively rock-and-rolling as anything they ever recorded, with typical Exile lyrics, as in "why did they mix it like that, I can't understand a word Mick is saying."...
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You hear so many stories of the Stones (and, of course, you know it's MICK only....) mis-reprsenting the publishing credits on their songs. Here are some of the more flagrant violations:Love In Vain (Let It Bleed) - Robert Johnson (it's correct on Get Yer Ya Ya's Out I think)Live With Me - music almost all by Bill WymanStop Breaking Down - Robert JohnsonCan't You Here Me Knocking - major contr...
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so, yeah, i'm now listening to this rock i "acquired," and it is fucking great. gracias to all the moggers who made this possible (anna, thebutcher, eshep, anti-amy, halfman/halfmog, and stevesimon), and now I must buy some of these albums and study them...but yeah, thanks again. really
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I don't recall much discussion of the Stones here, and I am not a huge fan myself, but "The Aquarium Drunkard":http://aquariumdrunk.blogspot.com/2006/11/rolling-stones-exile-outtakes.html has some Exile outtakes which may be of interest. Besides, it's one of my favorite music blog titles, and music blogs period.
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been in the studio reviewing outtakes and unreleased material from the Rolling Stones' 1972 album Exile on Mainstreet. It's all leading up to the first archival/deluxe release of the band's career.Richards told Rolling Stone, "There's new songs on there, stuff we've forgotten about. Mick and I were looking at each other like, 'Ah, did we do that?'"The Beach ...
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Some artists are more than merely great. There are some artists that for a period of years, a period that is finite, consistently produced music that, it can be argued, far exceeded the work of their peers. For that brief period of time they were definitely Masters of the Form.It sounds murky; swampy. It sounds as though the guitars are being played through your next door neighbor's speakers ...
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| 1 Rocks Off |
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| 2 Rip This Joint |
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| 3 Shake Your Hips |
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| 4 Casino Boogie |
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| 5 Tumbling Dice |
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| 6 Sweet Virginia |
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| 7 Torn and Frayed |
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| 8 Sweet Black Angel |
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| 9 Loving Cup |
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| 10 Happy |
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| 11 Turd on the Run |
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| 12 Ventilator Blues |
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| 13 I Just Want to See His Face |
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| 14 Let It Loose |
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| 15 All Down the Line |
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| 16 Stop Breaking Down |
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| 17 Shine a Light |
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| 18 Soul Survivor |
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