Exile on Main St.

Whispering Jay Hawkins..

The idea of mixing the vocals behind in the mix is always a bad one.

Unless it's Bobby Gillespie.

Even Bobby Gillespie sounds better a bit higher in the sound.

He's high enough, I thangyew....

new tracks sounding pretty awesome so far!

Plus being low makes him scream and screaming vocals are also always a bad idea.

this isn't even remotely true unless you're talking about mixing live sound

cause see when the singer is tracking, he's tracking to an unmixed track; where he's put in the mix is an after-the-recording-session decision

maybe geir is a stickler for studio headphone mixes?

who knows, would like to live in your world for like 20 minutes geir

might look something like this
http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/being-john-malkovich-001-1.jpg

"following the river" pretty much blows :/

http://old.trmw.org/uploads/2005/12/ymo.jpg

(xpost) Sorry, wrong thread...

Pretty close, though.

"would love to hear impressions of anyone who has the original vinyl and how that sounds vs. the new 180gram vinyl"

me too

would like to see some soundwave comparisons too

listening to rocks off....at the very beginning, i hear a weird organ sounding part! i don't think i've heard that before

That second disc is some weak shit. Can't imagine wasting my time listening to it again. I'll take the boots of murky outtakes over these crisp, clear outfakes.

^yeah they aren't great, but I like Keith's mumbling through "Soul Survivor"

I'm glad I heard the whole thing once. And yeah, Keith's "Soul Survivor" was at least interesting.

thank god they didn't use that alt take of "loving cup" though...that version is so slow and doesn't have the greatest drum fill ever

^^This.

was listening to this on vinyl yesterday -- SIDE 2! Best side.

No doubt about it. I think it was polled.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/arts/music/23stones.html?hp

oy vey....

That was one of those "OK then" stories.

"exile" remastered sounds great. GREAT. "Torn And Frayed" especially sounds like layers of grit have been lovingly polished off the pedal steel and drums. Gorgeous. Can't give the tracks with new Mick vocals more than a couple more listens - they're pretty inconsequential - but "So Divine" and the Keef version of "Soul Survivor" rule.

only listened to the re-ish in the car so far, which undoubtedly comprises my opinion... this cd SOUNDS loud (i.e. "my ears hurt") but doesn't FEEL loud (i.e. "that riff trembles my ribcage"). my beef is mainly w/the vocals, i think. probably need to give it a go in the house.

i listened to the new remaster and a rip of original vinyl pressing back to back. i'm decidedly NOT a vinyl purist but the rip sounds way better. sorry dudes, try again. or don't.

I love the way the og vinyl press sounds. I don't feel like I need a new remaster but I ~REALLY~ want those bonus tracks.

just download them. mick jagger does not need your money.

*whistling suspiciously*

This has never been one of the easier Stones albums to find cheap on used vinyl in good condition, for some reason.

― Mark, Monday, May 17, 2010 5:37 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

LOL - I bought this album on vinyl, used, for $0.99 about 5 years ago. I have no idea why it was so cheap, but I just figured there were used copies of this album everywhere. Apparently I was just lucky.

Yeah I expected to pay a solid $15 or so bcz people always say that and I got it in a lot of 5 other albums for $7!

If (like me) you think the mid-90s Virgin Records edition sounds fantastic and don't want a new remaster of the original disc, Target is selling a CD of just the new tracks for, I think, $9.99.

That's the one I bought; I burned the bonus tracks on an extra CD.

Damn, my T@rget didn't have ANY versions of it when I checked today.

would love to hear impressions of anyone who has the original vinyl and how that sounds vs. the new 180gram vinyl

i've got the orig. vinyl. anybody want to send me the new pressing in the interests of science?

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

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

― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Monday, May 24, 2010 7:24 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

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)