Exile On Main Street Vs. The White Album

Exile is like the 12 stages of being f'cked up, from elation to misery.

Exile.

On sober reflection in the morning I'm having a hard time separating my question in the revive re: bad vibes from the fundamental poll question of which is better. At this stage of my life I would much rather listen to Exile and if I could magically transport myself and friends (dead, or alive but scattered) to a bar to shoot pool and the shit over beers, Exile would be a contender for an album I could put on that would be perfect.

Exile is more laid back and cool even though it rocks, while the White Album is more aggro and insidious, though acoustic and mellow in parts. Maybe?

Makes sense.

Beggars Banquet is the White Album equivalent for the Stones: folk guitar, funny accents, fiddles, Mellotrons making strange sounds, psychedelic hangover in a roots context.
Not having seen it, I suspect the new documentary is the Exile equivalent for the Beatles.

it's hard for me to me to compare an album where all the songs fuse together with an album where all the songs repel each other like magnets, but I've never gotten a bad vibe from Exile; there's too much love in it for that, even if it's a fuzzed-out hungover kind of love.

^^truth!

Great post, Lily Dale, and interesting distinction between the two.

Completely OTM Lily Dale.