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
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 April 2019 04:52 (five years ago) link
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" !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 18 April 2019 09:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2019 09:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
not to mention Out of Our Heads, Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed....
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
.. I did say after Goat's Head Soup.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:01 (five years ago) link
I know, but too often we -- I include myself -- forget they had an exemplary pop career before 1971.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
after 1971 you need Some Girls and Emotional Rescue, maybe Tattoo You, definitely Dirty Work.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:03 (five years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
dirty work?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
I've heard it, it's ok
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
Why isn’t it called “Exile on High Street”? Dudes are British...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
Well, they were exiled from Britain when they were making the record
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
Exile on Rue Principale
― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
"Exile on the High Street", to be properly Britishes.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
They were too rebellious to pay taxes is it!
― commercial showing hitler munching cookies and chanting "I love Rasha" (calzino), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
almost unthikable that the stones would use an american idiom right enough
― Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
There's also a cultural appropriation issue (among many others) imo.These guys wouldn't survive 5min in today's context !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
Sorry that is just how i feel
― After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
makes u think
― Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
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
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
"Memory Motel," "Crazy Mama," "Hand of Fate." C'est tout.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
as Keef acknowledged, it exists as their we-auditioned-guitarists album.
ahhh did not know, that's fantastic
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
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
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
"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
― 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!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
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.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
3 > 1 > (2 or 4)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 April 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
"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.
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 April 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
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.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Interesting, do you have a timecode on that?
To my ears, the piano and drum lines tie it together (assuming you’re talking about the transition into the final “outro” section with the horns).
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 19 April 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
It’s def. a good example of a song with three heterogenous-feeling sections (main, bridge, outro) that somehow cohere really well.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 19 April 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
No bells and whistles
the deluxe version of this is a real enhancement, tho
― j., Friday, 19 April 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
Exile on Rue Principale― pplains, Thursday, April 18, 2019 9:06 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Thursday, April 18, 2019 9:06 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i like this post a lot
― budo jeru, Sunday, 21 April 2019 06:11 (five years ago) link
Except there are no rue principale in France !
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 21 April 2019 07:35 (five years ago) link
I was just about to say – it's a French Canadian thing. The idea of Jagger, et al. exiling themselves to Quebec pleases me even more.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 April 2019 08:07 (five years ago) link
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDT02kwD-g
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 April 2019 08:19 (five years ago) link
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Sunday, 21 April 2019 08:24 (five years ago) link
:)
― After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 April 2019 08:36 (five years ago) link
Mercí. The sum of my French is basically only what I've gotten from living within six hours of the Cajundome.
https://i.imgur.com/7yStCY5.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 21 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
most explicitly, i'm hearing it around 1:14 and again around 1:30. electric guitar (telecaster?). the five fast downstrokes that mimic the "gimme little drink" line and that little answering pulloff thingie.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 21 April 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
i can't get enough of this thing lately. all of it except for "let it loose"... everyone has to let one loose from time to time i guess lol.
i'm hearing / connecting with a lot of tenderness in the songs this go-around.
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 16 August 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
I love Let it Loose. What makes it the exception for you?
― Lily Dale, Friday, 16 August 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
i think the chord progression is bland, the tempo is leaden, and the scrunch-faced vocals sound over-wrought and constipated as a result.
i pretty much love every other song though and find it easy to overlook.
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 16 August 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
It's the vocals I really love! Jagger sounds more honest to me in this song than anywhere else - the way he sort of plunges into this emotional whirlpool of longing and jealousy and self-reproach as he's watching his friend (Keith, I guess?) fuck up yet again, until it doesn't even matter what lyrics he's singing, it could just be nonsense words and I would still get the same meaning from it, that we're all struggling through this terrible, flawed, difficult world, and the bedroom blues (but it could be anything, really) are the burden the world has laid on us that's almost too heavy to carry, and just when we've been pushed to the absolute edge of endurance, here comes Mick to bring us catharsis and preach us the gospel of letting it loose.
But then to me the whole album is about trying to push through the noise and muddle of the world around you and get some kind of meaning and beauty out of it - people at the end of their rope somehow finding a way to endure. And so "Let it Loose" feels to me like the moment on the album where all that crystallizes. But maybe that's just me.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 16 August 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
well that's a very appealing description, i'll have to give it more chances.
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link