Exile on Main Street

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From the swaggering frustration in the first song ("I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping," Mick Jagger sings in the hyper "Rocks Off"), the Stones speed through familiar neighborhoods of country, blues, and R&B on Exile. They never even bother to stop when they've crashed into something. They don't leap into new worlds so much as master the old ones, turning Slim Harpo's blues obscurity "Hip Shake" into a harp-and-piano steamroller and setting spines a-cracking in "Ventilator Blues." Both "Tumbling Dice" and Keith Richards's "Happy" have become hits, but the 1972 album is most notable for its overall murky adrenaline. --Steve Knopper

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Before Keith Richards's bad habits took over for a time in the mid-'70s, his work ethic was quite high. Stories abound of the long, if somewhat off-schedule, hours he spent working on this classic album in the basement of his home in France. Hanging together as much because of great songwriting ("Rocks Off," "Soul Survivor") as its fabled grungy atmosphere, Exile caps the Stones' great 1968-'72 run with a force that belies their supposed spiritual tiredness. What some of... read more

Exile on Main Street

Tracks:

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Hip Shake
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn & Frayed
Black Angel
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd On The Run
Ventilator Blues
Just Wanna See His Face
Let It Loose
All Down The Line
Stop Breaking Down
Shine A Light
Soul Survivor

Amazon.com essential recording

From the swaggering frustration in the first song ("I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping," Mick Jagger sings in the hyper "Rocks Off"), the Stones speed through familiar neighborhoods of country, blues, and R&B on Exile. They never even bother to stop when they've crashed into something. They don't leap into new worlds so much as master the old ones, turning Slim Harpo's blues obscurity "Hip Shake" into a harp-and-piano steamroller and setting spines a-cracking in "Ventilator Blues." Both "Tumbling Dice" and Keith Richards's "Happy" have become hits, but the 1972 album is most notable for its overall murky adrenaline. --Steve Knopper

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Before Keith Richards's bad habits took over for a time in the mid-'70s, his work ethic was quite high. Stories abound of the long, if somewhat off-schedule, hours he spent working on this classic album in the basement of his home in France. Hanging together as much because of great songwriting ("Rocks Off," "Soul Survivor") as its fabled grungy atmosphere, Exile caps the Stones' great 1968-'72 run with a force that belies their supposed spiritual tiredness. What some of these songs are about is anybody's guess--Keith claims "Ventilator Blues" was inspired by a grate, while the song plays like an ode to a pistol--but that's just part of this album's hazy game. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Raw, relentless Stones.......2007-07-16

I was imagining this is to be the Stones' "White Album", right? - a double album which coulda made an incredible single album. A big reason it's not is that the Beatles' opus was wildly eclectic, with 1930s crooners, art songs, even garage music. This '72 effort, with all the verbiage about rediscovered echoey dungeons in somewhere in France, has a very consistent sound, thanks to the Glimmer Twins and all their good friends (Bobby Keys, Jim Price, Bill Plummer, et. al.). Gotta say, though, there are some tentative "B-side" quality cuts, and it's to their credit that the Stones open the double-album with one of them, "Rocks Off". Let's see, we'll also put "Casino Boogie", "Ventilator Blues" on the shelf....just kidding.
"Rip This Joint" was probably the best pure R & R song for that whole year, despite the high profiles that year of '50s originators like Ricky Nelson ("Garden Party"), Chuck Berry ("My Ding-A-Ling" and "Reelin' And Rockin'), Elvis Presley ("Burning Love"), and Little Richard ("Rockin' With The King" - Canned Heat with LR). When it came to roots music, they could do it better than all of them (except for when Richard showed up with his full band, at that time).
They proved they understood the blues, too, delivering on Slimp Harpo's "Shake Your Hips" (saw Mr. Penniman perform it in Trenton, NJ, in 2003 - did he dig the Stones' version?). "Turd On The Run", despite the lousy title, brings 'em back to the '60s and their many Bo Diddley "tributes", this one seems takes off like an SUV leaving the parking lot of a New Jersey community college, and never slows down.
Now to the real heavyweights, and you can name 'em, "Tumbling Dice", the super hit; "Sweet Black Angel", a beautiful folk-blues said to have been written about Activist Angela Davis; "Happy", still sounding great.
"Shine A Light", featuring Billy Preston, re-emerges with even more might. A real gem, which should have proven to be a true Pop evergreen.
"Sweet Virginia", almost straight ahead Country, also warrants reappraisal as an almost "lost" artificat.
Small criticism: voices are mixed too far back; this together with the occasional monochromatic sound image, can put the listener on edge.
I guess it's in the spirit of serious bluesmen, combing that dank and dusty basement overseas for some scent of the American Delta.

A MASTERPIECE! ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE!.......2007-07-10

This is such an incredible two album set. From the opening guitar lick of "Rocks Off" to the final strum in "Soul Survivor" we know we have just listened to a amazing collection of music! This is not a hits album by any stretch! It is a record that sounds great from start to finish or picking random cuts. I am a musician and I have been a DJ in past years in clubs and pubs. I always got a great response from the hip customers when I would throw in "Casino Boogie" or "All Down The Line" in at the local pub. What some folks don't understand is how many different sounding songs are on this album! Most groups today have one or two songs and they just keep regurgitating them out over and over again to fill album after album. This is the my favorite Stones album and it doesn't even contain my favorite Stones song! A timeless classic!

Timeless, and even better (!) than I remembered.......2007-07-03

You know, I haven't visited this album in a long time; it has been one of my very favorite works of art since its release in '72, but it seemed like one of those things that might have been played out for me. I've been helping my wife load her iPod with things I think are essential, and naturally this came to mind, so in the process I gave it another spin. To say that I am reinfatuated is an understatement, which gives rise to this review. "Exile" is just such a work of uncommon depth and maturity and desperation and joy and carnality and the whole nine yards that it is nearly staggering. Plus it rocks harder than you ever will. Don't listen to haters who bemoan its lack of hits; it flows like nothing else...best digested as a whole. And anyways, "Tumbling Dice" was a certifiable hit back in the day; I know, I was alive then, and it was an indelible part of the soundtrack of the summer of '72. This listen brought me back to my very first needle drop on "Rocks Off" in '72 when I was 13 years old. From the first whomp of Charlie's drums I remember it as being a life-changing experience that gave me some idea of what adult music and life was all about. And the power and glory of this record is such that I have always been mystified over the critical response alluding to the allegedly murky mix, etc. To me it simply sounds like the perfect example of what rock and roll is supposed to sound like, and when words and phrases emerge from the mix they're almost always a surprise, even after thirty-five years. This record is proof positive of the enduring greatness of the Stones, and is to my ears their finest hour, and then some.

Quick question: My CD version of this is an original CBS era iteration (bought it like in '87-88), and it still sounds pretty good to me, even with the undoubted advances in mastering since then. Is this relatively newer Virgin version a BIG BIG BIG sonic upgrade, or just a sonic uptick? Thanks!

Exile on my street.......2007-05-30

Exile on main street is one of the best. With a variety of styles it nrver drags. Great songs like Let it loose, Shine a light. Rocks Off, Soul Surivor Tumbling Dice and Ventilator Blues is a paint peeler. Sweet Virginia and Torn and Frayed are good country.Stop Breaking down and shake your Hips are good blues, good slide on stop Breaking Down Texas blues on Shake your Hips. Sweet Black Angel is great reggae.

Maybe the best .......2007-05-11

This is just great..
Keith, Mick, Mick, and Nicky are at their best.

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Strings of the Storm

Manufacturer: Dusty Roses Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA6JTY
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Difficult, brilliant, obsessive

Tacoma Ballet

Manufacturer: Brain Floss
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006JN14
Release Date: 2002-09-04

Tracks:

Happy Accident
Welcome to America
Big Dog
End of the Line
Seven Stringer
Hallow
Fall
Home for the Holidays
Point of No Return
Sweet Misery
This Old Town
Manzanar Recess
Tacoma Ballet
Everyone's Got an Area 51
Lucretia
Who Is Memory
Somewhere New
Note to Self
Absence Breaks the Heart Grown Fonder
Favorite Star
Mr. Slow
Problematic
Aloneness
Kindred
Love and War
Livia
Pharmaceutical Soup
Happy
Universal Application
Liberty Street
30 States, 30 Days
Shelter

Album Description

Tamra begins at her most confrontational, singing of claustrophobia, of ties that bind, of being stuck in something old, of having reached the end of something. But by the time we get to the opening song of "What's the question?" it seems that Tamra has decided the answer is to "try something new before we die." And so the last songs seem to be about the scary pleasures of getting out, of finding release. By the final track (significantly entitled "Shelter") I felt like I had just heard rock's first novel.

But to describe these CDs in literary terms is to do a disservice to the fact that "Tacoma Ballet" is above all a genre-hopping journey through country blues, Ramonesesque punk, dark psychedelia, electronic sound collage, with a very strong nod to the Rolling Stones, including a loopy deconstruction of "Happy" off "Exile on Main Street," and, perhaps most of all, a blending of the aggressive, menacing bass sound of Peter Hook at the height of Joy Division and the band's general enthusiasm for all things Pere Ubu.

Customer Reviews:

Difficult, brilliant, obsessive.......2002-12-04

"A punk Exile on Main Street" with shades of The Stooges, Riot Grrrl, Pere Ubu, and even The Doors," Magnet Magazine. After reading that I bought this. Patty Schemel of Hole plays drums with Greta Brinkman of Moby's band on bass. The music and the words all combine to create something like an independent movie. It rocks hard, floats away ethereal, grinds noisey, talks right to you, yet its like spying on the inside of a person's mind. If you like intelligent rock this is for you!

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Stranger to Someone

Manufacturer: Laughing Outlaw Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000A28G36
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Album Description

Jason's debut solo album has been acclaimed as an Australian alt-country classic, sitting comfortably between Gram Parsons and the country-inspired rock on The Rolling Stones 'Exile on Main Street'. It contains beautiful interpretations of top shelf tunes.laughing outlaw.2004.

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Public Domain: the Best of Lucid Nation

Manufacturer: Brain Floss Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAFV02
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Movin' On Up / You're Just Too Dark To Care / Don't Fight It Feel It (REMIXES) 6 track EP

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Movin' On Up / You're Just Too Dark To Care / Don't Fight It Feel It (REMIXES) 6 track EP
Primal Scream
Manufacturer: Sire/Warner Bros.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000QHOPGC

Product Description

1991 EP release from the great Primal Scream. The "Movin' On Up" EP features production from Jimmy Miller (Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street") as well as stellar remixes of "Don't Fight It, Feel It" by Andrew Weatherall and Hugo Nicholson of Boys Own Productions. TRACKLISTING: 1. Movin' On Up (Single Version), 2. Don't Fight It Feel It (Single Mix), 3. Don't Fight It Feel It (Whistling Mix), 4. You're Just Too Dark To Care, 5. Don't Fight It Feel It (Scat Mix), 6. Don't Fight It Feel It (Remix by Graham Massey). The final remix, track 6, is the best one and features a cool nod to The Beatles song "Hey Bulldog". Comes in digipak case.

Exile On Main St. + 3 Bonus Tracks (Street)

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Exile On Main St. + 3 Bonus Tracks (Street)
The Rolling Stones
Manufacturer: CD Maxium
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

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Product Description

This is a special edition Russian import cd. It has all 18 tracks from the original album plus an additional 3 bonus tracks (21 tracks total). Please see the above photo of the back cover for a list of songs. There is also a mini-poster included with this cd.

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ASIN: B00004YSC8
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