Exile on Main St.

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I'm not sure I ever have read any of their interviews. Care to recommend something?

hey tyler how does one find the 5th track on that boot from BigO you linked to above?

The best Jagger one ever.

That one's my favourite xp. Clicking the link took me through to another page with a big blue 'download now' button, which led in turn to another page with the actual link appearing after 15 seconds.

Thanking you, Colin Firth.

Next year Tom Cruise will blow himself up on top of Oprah when he receives his Thalberg.

ha -- wrong thread

yeah, that long "Hillside Blues" is pretty nasty! even more exile-y than exile! minor key, blues lurch.

That interview looks the business, thanks. I wouldn't normally have thought of Jagger as the withholding type, but a friend of mine recently went for an early dinner in some unfamous restaurant up by King's Cross, and when they got there Mick and lady friend were the only customers in the restaurant, leaving not long after my pal sat down, and for some reason it makes sense.

I just scanned it and saw a reference to a difficult, paranoid Brian Jones, which reminded me of a story from Paul McCartney's book:

I remember being in Hyde Park, coming back from John's house in his big chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. John had a microphone he could use with the speakers mounted underneath the car. We were driving through the park, and ahead of us was Brian's Austin Princess ... We could see his big floppy hat and blond hair and we could see him nervously smoking a ciggy in the back of the car. So John got on the mike and said, 'Pull over now! Brian Jones! You are under arrest! Pull over now!' Brian jumped up. 'Fucking hell!' He really thought he had been busted. He was shitting himself! Then he saw it was us. And we were going 'Yi, yi, yi. Fuck off!' giving V-signs out of the car window.

Seems unnecessarily cruel, really.

I wouldn't normally have thought of Jagger as the withholding type

Most of the best Jagger interviews require the reporter to mediate between Jagger's disdain for interviewing itself and penchant for airy generalities, and his exhibtionism.

I would like to second Ismael's request for suggestions about good Jagger interviews, anybody?

Tell you what..

Get the Rutles DVD, and check out Jagger's full interview there.

He's talking about the rutles, but he's really transposing his opinions (and tales) of the Beatles there.

(any other interview, he's always been supportive/matey regarding them. He's not exactly cutting, but he does let slip a few)

Hillside Blues = rattlesnake of a song.
Can't wait for the reissue.

I've fallen in love with 'Hillside Blues' - recommend me some more tunes like it please (not necessarily by the Stones)

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:56 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also: is it just a discarded outtake, or did they record a proper version later?

Not a Stones expert, but I don't think it was properly recorded later.
In the Rolling Stones review, Jagger alludes to a "very, very long song" titled Pass The Wine edited down for the reissue. Maybe it's the same song?

yeah, i was wondering the same thing ... either way, it's safe to say that the new reissue will *not* render the bootlegs obsolete!

Anyone know if they are they going to remaster Sticky Fingers and Tatoo You soon? I'm stoked to hear a remastered EOMS.

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i'm not an audiophile, but those Virgin reissues (from the 90s) always sounded fine to me ...

and the reissues of the earlier stuff were incredible sounding ... Beggar's Banquet was gorgeous, in particular.

I d/l'ed a vinyl rip of Exile that burned my mind, man, in a good way.

it is a pretty cool album to have on vinyl -- sound aside, I think it's their best packaging.

i'm not an audiophile, but those Virgin reissues (from the 90s) always sounded fine to me ...

― tylerw, Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:58 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and the reissues of the earlier stuff were incredible sounding ... Beggar's Banquet was gorgeous, in particular.

― tylerw, Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:59 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah the early one are AMAZING sounding...

I just hope they do not mess around with Exile's original sound.
Other recent reissues sound quite good though (Sticky Fingers included).

The crispness of the drum sounds on the vinyl rip were revelatory.

glad Mick gave props to Watts in that RS interview: "Charlie [Watts] didn't need to come in. The drums were all perfect."

how is charlie doing these days? wasn't he pretty sick a while back?

tyler, you're right. i picked up the most recent some girls, and i think the diference is negligible compared to the 1990's issue. LOVE the sound on the abkco series

A lot of my friends who first listened to Exile on CD just didn't seem to "get it" until sitting down with the LP.

This should be worth celebrating, but the notion of adding new instrumental tracks is extremely alarming, Mick Taylor notwithstanding. Hope the results are unobtrusive...

No way I'm gonna buy this again (they don't need my $) but I'll certainly check out the downloads - see if I can't assemble for myself an alternate improved "Exile" after a substitution or two.

I just picked up Exile on vinyl this weekend....good shape copy for $15 and yeah it's AMAZING compared to the Virgin CD from the 90s...

i'm kinda surprised at how much "bigger" it sounds, the drums are huge

here's this vinyl rip of it: http://zambonisoundtracks.blogspot.com/2009/12/rolling-stones-exile-on-main-st.html

'Plundered My Soul' from Record Store Day is pretty great.

Not an instant killer tune, but very nice nonetheless. What's the deal with the reissue - this is just one of ten additional tracks, did I pick that up right?

holy fuck it's great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB5i38QzFIw

I would quite like a proper write-in poll for this album, maybe when the reissue's had a month or so to bed in.

those are definitely recent vocals and i think i read somewhere that the song didn't even have lyrics--those are new too? i guess the new guitar parts are mick taylor though..

yeah this new songs ok but definitely not all that old. A bit slick.

"song's"

Are we sure 'plundered' is the one with the new overdubs? I thought those were the other 'new' tracks. And I would be embarassed if I wasn't able to pick this out after a couple listens. And hasn't Mick T been pissed off at J and R for awile now re: money? Anyway the song grooves. Charlie teeters back and forth with the tempo like a drunk driver next to the white line.

I could see leaving it off, but i'm glad to hear it now.

oh yeah, plundered has all new mick vocals for sure--so different to my ears that it just does not sound like an exile track much at all (and the background singers are all new too, not sure about keith's backing)

Sounds like a new Stones track, which for all intents and purposes it is. A good one too.

i agree, i like it

is anyone getting this Super Deluxe Edition that is coming out next Tuesday May 18, 2010?:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mvpYHaD8L._SS400_.jpg
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Exile on Main Street will be available in two CD formats: the original 18 track release; a deluxe CD edition with the 10 special bonus tracks; and a super deluxe package that also includes vinyl, a 30-minute documentary DVD with footage from Cocksucker Blues, Ladies and Gentlemen... the Rolling Stones and Stones in Exile, and a 50-page collector's book with photos from the Exile era. The 10 unreleased tracks were produced by Jimmy Miller, The Glimmer Twins and Don Was.

from Wiki:

Re-release

Universal Music, which has just remastered and re-released the post 1971 Rolling Stones catalogue, plans a new remastering of Exile on Main St. in a deluxe package for May 2010.[15] New tracks include 'Plundered My Soul', 'Dancing in the Light', 'Following the River' and 'Pass the Wine'.[15] The package will also include new versions of 'Soul Survivor' and 'Loving Cup'.[15] On the selection of tracks, Richards said, "Well, basically it's the record and a few tracks we found when we were plundering the vaults. Listening back to everything we said, 'Well, this would be an interesting addition.'"

Most of the tracks were left as originally recorded at the time, with Richards continuing, "There wasn't much to be done and I really didn't want to get in the way of what was there. It was missing a bit of body here and there, and I stroked something on acoustic here and there. But otherwise, I really wanted to leave them pretty much as they were. Mick wanted to sort of fix some vocal things, but otherwise, basically they are as we left them 39 years ago."

Jimmy Fallon announced on his show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, that he would mark the re-release of the album with a week's worth of musicians performing songs from the album. Phish, who had played the album in its entirety live in concert before, were the first confirmed act to join the salute.

Most of the tracks were left as originally recorded at the time, with Richards continuing, "There wasn't much to be done and I really didn't want to get in the way of what was there. It was missing a bit of body here and there, and I stroked something on acoustic here and there. But otherwise, I really wanted to leave them pretty much as they were. Mick wanted to sort of fix some vocal things, but otherwise, basically they are as we left them 39 years ago."

wait...what? Did they overdub the original tracks?

what the fuck???

'basically they are as left them 39 years ago'

BASICALLY??

I'm a complete retard, but I never really enjoyed this record. Too murky (?) and plodding.

this is how i felt, too. otoh, i'm not much of a stones fan to begin with, and what i love most -- e.g., emotional rescue; undercover of the night -- is way past the band's "prime."