point me in the direction of the really good rolling stones album that's not 'exile on main street'

i vote sticky fingers. but even then, just like all the other albums in their purple patch, you have to put up with the mawkish/sentimental/somewhat unlistenable fillerish ballads and downhome country-blues tributes that arent as good as the rock tracks next to them. exile is good in that its so consistent but its highpoints dont stick out immediately like with the others. but then i dont really think the stones are an albums band either, for the most part. hot rocks 1 is my fave album of theirs.

Of the earliest albums, Now! is great. Their version of "Mona" kills.

I like Goat's Head Soup better than Exile.