Exile on Main St.

1 is brilliant, this is crazy talk

On ILM tbf

I mean in reality it's closer to 1 = 2 = 3 = 4.

That's more like it.

Well, yeag

YEAH

Aet hierarchies are bollocks, twist my arm it's 1-3-2-4 but

Don't matter where you are
Everybody's gonna need a ventilator

3>4>2>1

Just Want to See His Face > Let It Loose is my favorite 8 minutes by them.

absolutely agree

i love the end of "all down the line." best fade ever, mick trying to scream the song back into existence.

and "loving cup," man, still a mystery how it gets from point a to point b. there's a point early on where keith's rhythm anticipates the horn charts. i think that's the key.

I think the key to the whole thing is the breakdown in Rocks Off, when it goes from a huge horny riff monster into this strange amorphous druggy off-kilter psychedelic thing. A tip off.

Another oddity: Charlie is not playing drums on either of the best known radio songs!

Also something I just got: is the album title a drug reference?

That's my favourite part of 'Rocks Off' - I love the sheer sickness of Jagger's croaky vocal. You can still hear the drumming buried very quietly in the mix.

The general narrative goes that the Stones were crap at psychedelia and stopped being psychedelic after Their Satantic Majesties' Request, but I personally love The Stones' take on psychedelia and they nodded to that area of their sound every now and then. 'Can You Hear the Music?' on Goats Head Soup is another one.

There's something hinky happening in there, in "Rocks Off," because while the drums quietly play along in 4/4 I think the guitar goes into something like 6/8 against it. Gives it that queasy vibe.

Charlie is not playing drums on either of the best known radio songs!

Charlie is on the first part of "Tumbling Dice". Jimmy Miller stepped in for the coda.

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.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 7:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one of those rare stopped clock turrican posts

I'm not sure I need to listen to more Stones at this point but my favourite album by them and the only one I would still want to listen to is Exile.
Especially on a hot summer holidays evening !
There are some great extra tracks on the deluxe version of the album (I made myself a playlist with these : "Exile on... Backstreet" !

Exile is my favourite, though I've never listened to any Stones album beyond Goat's Head Soup, an album that does not thrill me too much tbh. I'm not much of a Stones fan, I suppose.

You're not missing much, but Some Girls is really good, and some tracks on Tattoo You and Bridges to Babylon and stuff are good, too.

not to mention Out of Our Heads, Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed....

.. I did say after Goat's Head Soup.

I know, but too often we -- I include myself -- forget they had an exemplary pop career before 1971.

after 1971 you need Some Girls and Emotional Rescue, maybe Tattoo You, definitely Dirty Work.

I don't forget any of that stuff, simply because I was familiar with the '60s Decca singles long before I heard Sticky Fingers or Exile on Main St. in full, but I agree that it often feels that American rock critics bizarrely overlook a lot of the Stones' 1963-1967 work.

dirty work?

After '73, you need Some Girls, Tattoo You, and a compilation of selected highlights from the other albums (bar Emotional Rescue, which has none) from 1974-1980.

The Stones were pretty much done after Tattoo You, but A Bigger Bang is a worthy late career record.

Dirty Work is a much better record than its reputation or its horrendous sleeve would have you believe, but it's still nowhere near prime Stones.

I've heard it, it's ok

bar Emotional Rescue, which has none)

"Summer Romance," "Let Me Go," "Dance Pt. 1," "All About You," and "Where the Boys Go" beg to differ. All would've fit in beautifully on SG, most benefit from Jagger on third guitar.

Why isn’t it called “Exile on High Street”? Dudes are British...

Well, they were exiled from Britain when they were making the record

Exile on Rue Principale

"Exile on the High Street", to be properly Britishes.

They were too rebellious to pay taxes is it!

almost unthikable that the stones would use an american idiom right enough

There's also a cultural appropriation issue (among many others) imo.
These guys wouldn't survive 5min in today's context !

Sorry that is just how i feel

makes u think

No love for black & blue? I gave it a listen recently and thought it had a pretty nice 'we're just fucking around here, don't worry about it' vibe... I daresay with a different title it has some real "I've got my own album to do" energy

"Memory Motel," "Crazy Mama," "Hand of Fate." C'est tout.

as Keef acknowledged, it exists as their we-auditioned-guitarists album.

ahhh did not know, that's fantastic

xps Black And Blue is the only one pre-1984 that I don't own and have never heard, someday I'll find a cheap copy

i hadn't heard black & blue in full til earlier this year, and it's definitely a worthwhile part of the stones catalog. there's some filler, but the high points, like "memory motel" and "hey negrita" and "fool to cry," are excellent and it's got an appealingly loose vibe.

"Summer Romance," "Let Me Go," "Dance Pt. 1," "All About You," and "Where the Boys Go" beg to differ. All would've fit in beautifully on SG, most benefit from Jagger on third guitar.

― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:04 (one hour ago)Permalink

They beg to differ, but I don't like any of 'em! They bizarrely feel more like outtakes to me than the stuff on Tattoo You!

As for Black and Blue, I like about half of it. I've plenty of time for 'Hand of Fate', 'Fool to Cry', 'Memory Motel' and the "we're just fuckin' around and jammin'" vibe of 'Melody' ... 'Hot Stuff', too, if pushed.

I bought a really nice reissue of this album that's supposed to just be a straight replication of the originals from 1972. No bells and whistles, just the album in its original packaging. This purchase was made at least two years ago.

It's still sealed. I've yet to ever hear this album in its entirety; I certainly know songs from it.

3 > 1 > (2 or 4)

"Ladies and Gentleman: the Rolling Stones" live record/film from the Exile tour is really good and features Nicky Hopkins playing some total madcap piano. Well worth checking out.