Exile on Main St.

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."

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

I think he's talking about the bonus tracks so *shrug*

I heard Dizzee puts down a guest verse on 'Torn And Frayed'

came to exile in my late teens as a half-assed stones fan. my brother gave it to me for christmas one year, along with steely dan's can't buy a thrill and the buffalo springfield record with the "stop, children, what's that sound" song, all bought used someplace. at that point i liked the few stones records i'd heard, especially hot rocks and the recent tattoo you, the pop hits, but was more curious than devoted. at first i liked the raw, upbeat rock tracks and heartfelt ballads: "rocks off", "shake your hips", "sweet virginia", "torn and frayed". a lot of the 2nd half, however, seemed a mess - an oppressive, murky soup of underdeveloped ideas. the whole record had a strangely compelling vibe, though, and it went VERY well with bad weed and cheap beer, so i wound up listening to it a fair amount, in spite of my reservations. after a few weeks, i had this epiphany where i realized that "sweet black angel", "ventilator blues" and (especially) "i just want to see his face" were by far my favorite tracks on the album. though they weren't as immediate as the songs around them, they had this deep, visceral fascination that seemed novel to me. they felt like these giant, alien spaces i could get lost in. i loved the way the disembodied ghost of a gospel song seemed to coalesce out of misty nothingness right before my ears on "...see his face". the slashing, seething head-trapped anger of "ventilator blues". the album's bleary alienation synched up with my feelings and state of mind as a stoned, cynical and rather naive young man. it seemed worldly, bottomless and thick with unarticulated, all but unarticulable feelings. it's an album about wanting to cut through something you can't name to get at something you don't even believe in, and i could seriously relate. because of that, it'll always be a great record in my eyes, even though the sounds and attitudes that once seemed so authentic and rich now strike me as somewhat shticky. taken down a notch in retrospect due to jon spencer proximity (certainly not mick's fault) and my own increased awareness of the sources the band were drawing on. still love every minute of song.

I don't think these guys ever had much truck with "authenticity" so it's not shocking that they'd be open to tinkering with their past too. I've heard at least three rounds of Stones "remasters" over the years and they each sound pretty different, fwiw: guess the idea is that they want something that sounds good for its time so that they can make optimal bank; leave whether it's "real" to the scholars.

xp to whether they fucked with the tapes

"...every minute of every song."

there was some blog that had an exile outtakes boot up for download a couple of years ago, and the intro blurb was probably the most otm piece of music writing i've ever read: the first ten times you listen to exile on main street, it sounds like a fucking mess.

I hate to say this, but the "new" tracks smoke, especially "Plundered My Soul."

it's an album about wanting to cut through something you can't name to get at something you don't even believe in

OTM. I finally "got" the album after playing "Just Wanna See His Face" and "Sweet Black Angel" a lot (I owned the remastered cassette released in the early nineties, which was just as murky as the original LP, no doubt). I liked how Jagger's inflections project skepticism tinged with yearning, while the music is precise yet murky; for a long time not knowing how I was supposed to respond was a large part of the album's charm.

And whatever else, Jagger remains one helluva harmonica player. Listen to "Pass The Wine (Sophia Loren)."

I can't believe I'm going to buy yet another Exile On Main Street CD. But since it's the greatest album ever released by anyone, I guess I don't have much of a choice.

i think you're forgetting one little album that rocks harder than anything on exile

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/cov200/drg500/g518/g51894dz5c6.jpg

I like the Pony's old stuff, before they got so little.

I hate to say this, but the "new" tracks smoke, especially "Plundered My Soul."
stop making me want to buy this!!

"the "new" tracks smoke"

think the same, after listening to them I felt less stupid for having bought it (again).

gah!

haha, yeah!

I'm pretty happy with my original vinyl copy. Such a well-designed record.

yeah, it's endlessly great on vinyl, you see different things every time you pick it up.
was just lol-ing at this description on amazon: "The Digipak is printed in reverse board double white to keep an 'uncoated' feel like the original LP release."
thank god.