Exile on Main St.

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.

I owned it on cassette for many years, and it sounded wonderful, especially in the car.

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.

― piscesx, Saturday, March 3, 2018

that song and production invented Rain Dogs.

I owned it on 8-Track for a while...

It's a good record indeed, but I'd still reach for Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Goats Head Soup, Some Girls and even Tattoo You over it.

I’m always thrown by “Rocks Off” when the horns come in... like, where were the horn players hiding in this grungy cave? lol

Their most consistent album

Minus Let It Bleed maybe

I suppose I don't have much time for 'Casino Boogie', 'Turd on the Run' and 'I Just Want to See His Face', but everything else is good to great. I don't know why I don't feel like digging it out more often.

The entrance of the horns on 'Rocks Off' is such a great moment.

So many good things in "Casino Boogie": the slide, the epicene Keef harmonies, Charlie on the hi-hat for the outro, "Judge and jury/walkin' hand in hand."

and the best bobby keys sax solo

You can tell the Decca era was over. Somehow I don't think they would have allowed 'em to put "Kissing cunt in Cannes" in the lyrics, let alone the direct references to cocaine, morphine, needles and spoons on Sticky Fingers ...

there was a song on sticky fingers called 'sister morphine'

That's exactly what I mean.

Their most consistent album

Yeah, I dunno. I think its inconsistency is very much of a piece with other classic "inconsistent" albums, from the White Album to Sandinista!, where the (relative) ups and downs are more than the sum of their parts. It's also maybe a reason why it's less overexposed, since it's not some monolithic slab of radio staples but more of a mysterious beast that evinces more surprises with every listen. And I don't mean inconsistent as in some stuff is better than others, more that sonically it's kind of all over the place.

Sticky Fingers, fwiw, is probably the most consistent, imo. Of the classic albums of the era, I'd say Beggars Banquet is the most inconsistent.

It’s gonna be the death of maaay

this is maybe my favourite record when i'm listening to it, everything about it screams to me. it's funny how Pussy Galore's version, which is fine, is no more scabrous, inspired, fucked up, story of yr life than the original. the *sound* of the thing, that thick, trebly reverie. tbh this shd've been the end of rock music.

Agreed. It's consistent in the way a whirlwind of scum feels consistent when you're caught up in it.

The way "All Down the Line" seems to summarize everything that's already happened, then up the momentum.

I think about this description a lot

Speaking of which, I've been meaning to go though their entire discography in chronological order for a while now. I might as well get around to it.

The demos for this album are so great:

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

Side 4 feels different, sonically. It demurks a bit, sounds like an encore or a victory lap. I like that, now, but there were times when i felt like "Let It Loose" should be the climax.

(It is, sort of.)

i love side 3 so much, everything falls apart and more

come on, shine a light is the real climax.

Xp Yeah, 3 is an epic of its own

Don't get me wrong i love the whole album and listening again this morning there's something about the way the clouds part on 4 that's great but

i love side 3 so much, everything falls apart and more