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This is a very average Stones song. Almost a country music tune. Probably would be #1 Country Music hit today. But it was very average to my ears. At best. No need to hear it again.
@@Greg-io1ip Album Exile on Mainstreet had a lot of country songs.. Stones are one of greatest country bands along with Rock n Roll this album is considered their very best ..
Heroin, sex, rock and roll. "The sunshine bores the daylights out of me." One of the best lines ever. Thanks for reacting to this. I have never heard another "rocks off" reaction
I think that the era that Mick Taylor was in the band was its most creative and inventive...after he left the Stones became a 'brand' complete with logo and serving up the same ol' reconstituted product. I saw them in '65, '66, and '72 so I caught them in their golden era and really noticed how standardized their music eventually became to the point where I was disappointed if someone gave me the latest Stones album as a present. The old saying is that "a rolling stone gathers no moss" but it sure gathered a lot of greenbacks!
"Rip This Joint" is about three minutes of the most frenzied pulse-raising jamming ever! "Ruby Tuesday" is one of the most mellow, wistful songs ever. The Stones didn't f*ck around, they just did it all, and most all of it very well.
The whole album is really good and it isn't like anything else by the Stones or anybody else. Exile on Main Street isn't a perfect album but to me it's always been the most rewarding and the one I come back to most for decades now. If you want a perfect album by them that would be Sticky Fingers from 1971.
Strong agree! Exile on Main Street is unique in the way each song flows into the next, making the whole much more than the sum of its amazing parts. Everyone who knows this masterpiece has a favorite deep cut or two. Mine are Casino Boogie and Ventilator Blues.
It's springtime 1972. I'm 22 and come home with this DOUBLE album. I put the first disc on the stereo record player, put on my enormous but "mighty fine" headphones, drop the needle, and THIS is the first song. Daaaaayam! Could NOT tear me away from that record player for hours. A masterpiece of an album.
If you listen carefully to Keith’s opening riff you can hear how his fingers make that slight screech as he lazily slides his fingers to the next cord. Usually guitarists try to avoid that noise and if unavoidable they try to edit it out or bury it in the mix. Not on this gritty basement home studio recording. It’s clearly heard. I look forward to hearing it every time I hear the opening cords. It’s part of the whole gritty humid basement home studio recording sound while they drink big bottles of jack Daniel’s all day. Then when everyone goes home exhausted Keith stays up all night on coke and or heroin coming up with whole new riffs and complete songs. People would come into the basement the next morning thinking Keith’s up early. He never went to bed. He’d actually be up for 2/3 days no sleep making music and recording. This album is the definition of rock n roll.
I was so into the Stones as a teen, my friends called me "stones". This is one of my fav albums!!! I love every album before "Some Girls". Their album "Between The Buttons" is an early lp with Brian Jones. Great album too. I have a lot of Rolling Stones books, mags and posters!
The band actually didn’t follow the drummer like other bands. They followed Keith and that’s why they were always on the brink of falling apart. Always playing just behind the beat. Nobody sounds like them
Yesssss! Great pick! This song kicks off one of the best double records of all time 👍 "the sunshine bores the daylights out of me" ; ) Next up......SHATTERED!!!!!
Bobby Keys (sax) will get discussed more because of his long tenure with the Stones, but Jim Price (trumpet and trombone), as both a player and arranger, was such an integral piece in the brassy sounds of Sticky Fingers and Exile.
My favorite Stones record after Sticky Fingers. They took all their influences from blues, country and soul and made the perfect love letter to American music. Can't wait till you guys hit Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Happy and Shine a Light.
The Stones at the height of their debauchery in the South of France. This album was mixed with the band being more up front than Jagger. I wore out 3 copies by 79.
As I mentioned before, the piano player on this as well as most stones tracks from " She's A Rainbow" to "Angie" and most everything in between was Nicky Hopkins. You'll also hear him on the 1st Jeff Beck Group Albums with Rod Stewart, early to mid-period Kinks albums, The Who both early period and even "Who's Next", The single version of The Beatles "Revolution" all before he moved to the U.S. where he continued with, The Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jerry Garcia etc. The work he did on John Lennon's "Imagine" album is amazing. But then most of what he did was.
Great stuff guys. That killer song is the opening track to their EXILE ON MAIN ST album, which was a double LP released in 1972. It's arguably not just the Stones greatest piece of work but also the greatest rock and roll album ever made. It's got it all: rock, rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues, blues, country, soul, and even a little gospel.
For something really different by them, try “she’s a rainbow”. Definite old skool vibes with this one. Exile on Main St is arguably their most authentic album. Delta blues given a complete refit
AirPlay Beats La & Che are enthusiastic and really into all good music. I love these guys, even when they are blowing flowers up the skirt of stinkers like this one !!! This is a dog of a song. I would add "in my opinion", but it's not necessary.
I only really love 5 songs from this album, and this isn't one them. But it's possible I could change my mind if I'm not listening on my tablet next time. And it took me hell of a long time before those 5 songs clicked for me.
Best opening to a song ever . Love you Mick 4 Ever & Ever ❤❤❤❤ My fav lyric of all time is , The Sunshine bores the Daylights out of me . Chasing Shadows Moonlight Mystery. Ugh !!! FREAKING CHILLS ❤
Definitely feel free to do the whole album!! I'd like to jump in, tho, and recommend "Loving Cup." Gorgeous piano, vocals, and lyrics. Keep up the spectacular work!
Love this song and the Stones. Do some of their live album called “Get Yer Ya Yas Out” Sympathy for the Devil on that is amazing. Their cover of Chuck Berrys “Carol” is so good too and “Midnight Rambler “ !!
I’ve put this album thousands of times, and I think I can count on one hand the number of instances that I was doing something my parents would have approved of.
This is mellow compared to the next one! Rip This Joint! Epic album. Probably my all time number one album…by anyone. It has everything from the blues of Casino Boogie, Sweet Virginia, Ventilator Blues and Stop Breaking Down to straight ahead rock and roll of this, Rip This Joint, Soul Survivor and All Down the Line to gospel infused tracks like Shine a Light and Let it Loose.
Considered by many,.. as well as myself ... the greatest RockNRoll album of all time.... key phrase here is RockNRoll... and that is exactly what Exile delivers from track 1 to 18 ...
Strong suggestion! Jaggers vocals are so gritty, and their lyrics are so unusual, you really should have the lyrics in front on you when you listen to the Stones for the first time
Awesome tune off what many call the greatest rock ‘n roll album ever made. I can’t disagree - actually I’d say it’s a tie between Exile on Main Street and Sticky Fingers! So many classics off Exile. One of my favorites is a deep cut called Ventilator Blues. That one really shows the Stones deep roots in the blues and it is really gritty, which is just what you want from a Stones banger!
Exile on Main Street is about as legendary as albums get, not only because of it’s gritty, garage band sound throughout but also because of where the Stones were on their path through rock ‘n roll history. Other great tracks on this album are Shine a Light and Loving Cup. Then there’s Happy, which Keith Richards recorded in one take after writing it that very morning. But then, if you want to experience The Rolling Stones in their full grandeur, you should check other tunes where they stretch their repertoire and try different sounds, like As Tears Go By, Emotional Rescue, Lady Jane, Prodigal Son, Beast of Burden, and of course, Miss You. There’s so many different sounds and layers to the Stones, the more you explore, the more astounded you’ll be.
Nicky Hopkins (1944-1994)- piano. If you're doing this whole album.......this is one of those albums that you experience differently as you mature......it came out when I was 12.....every time I listen I hear something miraculous that I missed in EVERY previous listen.......'Let it Loose' was one of those miracles. I don't think I ever actually heard it until I was in my late 40s! Then I was like 10 tons of bricks.....like HOW the F*** did I not hear this!?!
Exile is a great double album, literally every song on both albums is just great. I'd recommend you check out Soul Survivor--it was the bookend to Rocks Off.
There is a lot of great stuff going on in this song. Several great musicians going at it. Exile On Main Street is my all time favorite album and I believe their best work, overall. The Stones were on fire from 68-78.
Now, at age 58, I appreciate the Rolling Stones SO much more than I did as a youngster. This song seems to be a version of the new "Glam Rock" that surfaced in the early 70's with bands like The New York Dolls.
My take is The Stones being one of the first British RnR acts to wear makeup (in the later 60's, following the lead of Brian Jones), they influenced the later Glam scene...Bowie, Dolls, etc. The Glam scene really took off w/Bowie's Ziggy Stardust l.p. in June '72...same year as Exile, released a month before, in May. The next Stones record (Goats Head Soup) in '73 is them 1st reacting to a burgeoning Glam scene they'd helped generate. You're an l.p early. Pretty close!
You really should do exile song by song. Peak Stones, rock, country/folk, blues. Exile was always the critics darling. Jagger thought Beggars / Let It Bleed was better, but Exile's always been my favorite and many others too (I'm sure you'll see in the comments). Minimum do Rip This Joint next, next track on the album, you want talk about sticking your head out the window ...
When they recorded Exile on Main Street in the basement of Kieth’s rented French villa they captured that muddy, sweaty, gritty sound throughout the whole album. Mick didn’t like the mix probably bc his vocals are somewhat buried but it’s just one of the many reasons this album captures the raw gritty nature of the stones so well. Every song a gem which is hard to say about any album never mind a double album
