Exile on Main St.

It's the number one selling album in the UK apparently: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10144577.stm

Amusing bit in that documentary about the making of the album when Don Was says that at the time the Stones were recording the album, Coppola was making "Apocalypse Now"... errrrrr, I think not, Don

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it's true! and in the middle of the recording sessions, kennedy was killed! very memorable era IMO.

Keef sounds great on that other version of "Soul Survivor," but thank goodness he didn't write lyrics for whole albums.

That NY Times Ben Ratliff piece kinda bugs me, right from the opening sentence:

A LESSER-KNOWN version of the Rolling Stones’ “Loving Cup,” found on the bonus disc of the new reissue of the band’s 1972 album, “Exile on Main St.,” seems to me the best thing the Stones ever did.

This should be a poll question.

At least he says "seems to me"

I'm surprised the song "Exile on Main Street" from the NME flexi hasn't been added at all.

xxpost, yeah that really irked me too, Loving Cup is my favourite track on the album.

I'll take "Tumbling Dice"

jagger is so hilarious on live versions of tumbling dice
"Wymma thin ahm tastah, aways tryna wase muh, may muh burna canda righ dowwwww!"

That's how it's written in the lyric sheets.

He's a proto-Amy Winehouse.

For the record, this is awesome. Keith's singing on Soul Survivor is AWFUL though.

Really love the alt take of Loving Cup. Love "Pass the Wine". Love "Title 5", could almost be a Jon Spencer track (?!)

I haven't got to the extras, but I do wince *for* Keith during his verses on "Happy"

Haha yeah that's a good way to put it. I wish there was a Mick version of that song (heresy! blah blah).

(I mean an ALL Mick version)

u crazy

Definitely. Keith is perfect on "Happy." I wouldn't want him to sing an entire album though.

I like his solo stuff I've heard!

"Main Offender" was the album. I'm not recommending it to all my friends with glowing reviews but was way, way more rockin than anything I expected from a Stones member as late as 1992.

There's a track called Exile On Main Street that was on an NME flexi and.. nowhere else since?!

Hey you know the original Hollywood billboards were amazing weren't they?

http://rockandrollreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/billboard.jpg

cool

i remember those, j/k. they are pretty awesome, could imagine driving down Sunset Blvd., seeing them and thinking i have to buy that.

well, sure, especially after remembering the good times you had last summer jamming out to 'Sticky Fingers' up in the hills with your bros

Pretty amazing... actually kinda surprised that the Rolling Stones corporation would put something so obscure rather than a pic of the dudes with Jagger out in front in some wacky pose.

i bought that rarities edition of the outtakes, many of which I've heard before (like most of ya) they were polished up, and it's kind of a dud. i guess i'll take anything by them, but other than plundered my soul, which sounds just like a great stones hit that could have been made yesterday--and the wildly overrated but still good alternate take of loving cup--it's meh. the keith vocals on soul survivor are stupefyingly bad...and I LIKE when he sings on the canonical records.

Most of the extras are nice, but I could have lived without them. As for the alternate Loving Cup that Ratliff lost his shit over, it's nice in a good B-side sort of way, but saying it's the best thing they ever did is chaloppy crazy talk. I wish instead of the outtakes we had gotten a good concert from 72. There's a lot of stellar stuff floating around on the intertubes.

anyone know what concert they showed clips of in the exile docu is?

Really loving "So Divine (Aladdin Story)".

Yeah. And I think Pass the Wine is phenomenal. You can see why all this stuff didn't make it onto the album but shit, I love shambolic boogie rock.

It makes you wished they'd worked up some of these songs for Goat's Head Soup ala the Some Girls stuff that went onto Emotional Rescue.

Alternate Loving Cup is fine enough...but it's like the 'heroin' take. Slow and droney and just a bit messier. A nice oddity but there's no way it outshines the album take. Ratliff is high.

So Divine is great...and I really like Soul Survivor. I actually don't half mind Keith's vocals, there's a vague Lou Reed tone to his voice that I kind of dig. I mean, he sounds like a mess but I like it anyway. Maybe I'm too soft on him, I'm sure I'd hate it if I didn't know who he was, lol. Was thinking about picking up Talk Is Cheap....ill advised? y/n?

Don't like the new vocals much...almost wish they'd put them out as instrumentals so you could play 'what if'...rather than banging new stuff over top. But the grooves are pretty nice for the most part. Bit of shine back in the day, they coulda been somethin.

The Stones in Exile doc is quite excellent! I was wary of it, but it is really very good. Lots and lots of new footage (and I've watched CS Blues and Ladies and Gentlemen many times!), new visuals at least, with excellent (some of them old probably since jimmy miller is deceased i believe) interviews with jimmy miller, andy johns, anita. but the buck o'neil award goes to bobby keys who is really, really great. Who knew the Glimmer Twins used Burroughs' cut-up technique for the lyrics to Casino Boogie? (They have film of it, amazing) The only cringeworthy moments are the celeb talking heads at the beginning talking about EOMS...cultural luminaries such as Benicio del Toro, Sheryl Crow, and Will.I.Am talking about the record, just wow.

will.i.am's opinions are always welcome.
is it available any where else except on the super deluxe dvd?

yeah, it's a stand alone dvd, i got it through amazon--highly worth it for diehards. it's also going to be on pbs sometime, probably in the fall?

will.i.am's opinions are always welcome.

well, they are always there, in any event.

Not really related to Exile On Main Street (or maybe yes?!), but the official dvd of "Ladies and Gentlemen...the Rolling Stones " (filmed live in 1972) was just released here in Italy.
And it is great.

you know what i'd love to see again? the 25x5 documentary they put out in the 80s.

I went to Nellcote today! Obviously I didn't get inside, just up to the gates. The weirdest thing is how close it is to civilization; I'd wrongly thought it was far away from the world. But no, it's right off the train tracks that connect Nice & Monaco, about seven minutes by train from Nice, & about a five minute walk to a popular beach. Gorgeous villa, though; the tree in front is gargantuan.

that's so cool, I wonder who lives there now?

Someone extremely rich, since they're presently doing massive expensive work on the villa (the cost was on a sign outside the gate, for French bureaucratic reasons). But there was a motorcycle parked outside the gates. The house is at the base of a peninsula on which many of the world's richest people own villas. I took pics & I'll post a couple once my net connection is more reliable.

secret weapon on this LP: Nicky Hopkins

Going to see Cocksucker Blues in a theatre Saturday night!

what do you want from this band? this is the best album ever right?

Tom Waits, in an interview i read from the late 80s this week, said he quite fancied doing a cover of I Just Want To See His Face.

all the guitars at the end of "torn and frayed" >>>>>

This is a particularly good/interesting thread (just read the whole thing). Could never really get into this album, though, beyond a few key songs (I’ve owned it for years). Maybe I should try once more...

It's a pretty great record.

It's one of those unique popular Classic Rock albums that didn't get run into the ground by radio.

True. "Tumbling Dice" accounts for 80% of airplay, "Happy" for the other 20%. I've never heard a single other song on the radio.

I still need a physical copy of the mid 90s Virgin reissue, which to my ears remains the best sounding version.