 Exile On Main Street (1972) [ larger cover art ] |
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| d48m02h1918 | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 10:43 A great example of why this album is by far their best - all kinds of sounds coming from the lads, including this gorgeous song!!  |
| ScottN (Condo in Gaza needs remodeling. Still, I Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | Posted: Dec 13, 2012 - 21:06 As others have noted, this somewhat under-rated Stones song is better many years later on their album Sripped.. Gawd.The Stones. Couple of dozen iconic songs, and many more merely great. I don't care about the hype or whether they're in it for the money. I was sixteen when Satisfaction was released. They have been the soundtrack to my life. |
| Zep (On third looking for the 'steal' sign) | Posted: Jun 06, 2011 - 11:06 Diego21 wrote: Anybody else's Stones favorite album? Does the Pope shit in the woods? |
| ottojama (Estonia) | Posted: May 18, 2011 - 05:29 Sounds like Paolo Nutini's grandfather singing in the backround. |
| h8rhater | Posted: May 18, 2011 - 05:29 zenhead wrote: this was performed better (i thought) - rootsy-er - on the "stripped" album. they have a great slouchy sound on it. Yep... they and it sounded as good if not better in 1995 as they/it did in 1972!! |
| spigolli (Peachtree City, GA, USA) | Posted: Apr 16, 2011 - 16:02 Diego21 wrote: Anybody else's Stones favorite album? Yes! My favorite 'back in the day' album. I really like the Stripped album from the '90s, which to me represents a return to their basics - I even prefer the Stripped version of Sweet Virginia to the original. |
| pinnyrat | Posted: Apr 16, 2011 - 15:57 This song feels like they are just sittin' on a deck jamming. I love it. |
| gatorade (Ocean Park, WA) | Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 19:23 One of the few Stones songs I actually like and turn up! |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Jun 04, 2010 - 01:55 Arguably their best ever, given the timing, certainly one of their top 3 albums, which is saying something. |
| Diego21 | Posted: May 03, 2010 - 09:05 Anybody else's Stones favorite album? |
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: May 03, 2010 - 08:52 This is good for my soul, rocks off! |
| zenhead (Maine) | Posted: May 03, 2010 - 08:50 this was performed better (i thought) - rootsy-er - on the "stripped" album. they have a great slouchy sound on it. |
| dogpound (the island on which I belong) | Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 17:30 this song cracks me up everytime |
| jersey_birdman | Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 17:29 Killer stuff: there are at least two cds worth of out-tales from this period , at least i have 2 cds worth of it,and the alt versions are very good..... |
| jbunniii (San Jose, CA) | Posted: Jan 28, 2010 - 15:04 God, these guys were great when they were in their prime. |
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 09:03 Gotdablues wrote: The Big Three: Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street; at their absolute peak! And to complement the trilogy, the live album from the same period, Get Yer Ya Ya's Out! Along quite different lines, Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967, just before Beggars Banquet) moves me in mysterious ways. Sticky Fingers, yeah, it's up there too. |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver, Canada) | Posted: Apr 19, 2009 - 13:15 Gotdablues wrote: The Big Three: Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street; at their absolute peak! AuralSects wrote: Of course, Sticky Fingers certainly had it's moments, probably forty minutes worth. Maybe there could be a Big Four. I agree. You gotta include Sticky Fingers for sure. After that it's up for debate. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 05:55 Great to hear this actually being "broadcast". I remember occasionally hearing clumsily censored versions on the radio. |
| AuralSects (Dallas) | Posted: Feb 15, 2009 - 11:39 Gotdablues wrote: The Big Three: Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street; at their absolute peak! Of course, Sticky Fingers certainly had it's moments, probably forty minutes worth. Maybe there could be a Big Four. |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Nov 12, 2008 - 14:51 Gotdablues wrote: The Big Three: Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street; at their absolute peak! You betcha! |
| kylemichael (Northern Virginia) | Posted: Nov 12, 2008 - 14:50 This song has particular meaning for me spending my entire life in California except for the last three years in Virginia. |
| robco1 (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Sep 10, 2008 - 09:54 Nice segue from Gomez, who also have a song named "Sweet Virginia" . . . . |
| EssexTex (Bee Cave, Texas) | Posted: Sep 10, 2008 - 09:53 It's ok...a little too contrived for me. |
| Darkmatter (Relocatin' to Osaka) | Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 19:05 It's only bluesy country stomp, but I like it!  |
| Hodgie (Dover, NH) | Posted: Jul 09, 2008 - 05:42 Perhaps a skilled therapist could explain why I've always like this song so freakin' much. I've dug deep, I've got nuthin' |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: May 07, 2008 - 06:05 physicsgenius wrote: Mick couldn't come out of the bathroom, or at least open the door, before recording the vocals?
This was mastered way before digital, of course; sounds like they used a 4-track system and the vocal mics were dropped a tad bit. If you wanted to you could pull up the vocals and boost them, but who knows where the master is these days. Important, sacred, stuff is lost everyday by incompetent Keepers. NASA has managed to loose all kinds of original stuff from the moon missions; thousands of motion picture masters have been lost or neglected to the point of destruction; indeed thousands of films are no longer existent. Unique recordings made in the 1920's and 30's are long gone, as are thousands of 78 rpm symphonic pieces. The permanence of recording media is a real problem. Remember that when you create something -- even if it is your baby's first words -- preserve the media for future generations. My first words and that of my mother and father were recorded in 1944 on a home disk recorder which cut a plastic 7 inch 78 rpm record. I remember hearing it when I was about 10 years old. It is long gone and how I wish I could play it for my grandchildren. Be careful out there! |
| Gotdablues (Connecticut) | Posted: Feb 10, 2008 - 15:19 The Big Three: Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street; at their absolute peak! |
| rbigelo (Spanish Town) | Posted: Feb 02, 2008 - 19:15 This is one of their best singles from one of their best albums. 
Their forte' is R&B and Motown, and they do it better than anyone else I know. Thanks, RP |
| ed (FL) | Posted: Dec 01, 2007 - 23:15 My "favorite" album changes but this one will always be in my top five. Lot of memories in those grooves.  |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Dec 01, 2007 - 23:07 duke wrote: Great song. To me, when the Stones were at their peak, whatever genre they attempted (R&B, psychedelic, country, roots, gospel) they ruled the roost. also, one of my favorite beginnings of any song. thanks for playing it!
Pretty damn close to it, anyway! Great album! |
| Moak (Reading, PA) | Posted: Aug 29, 2007 - 17:32 They could really do their blues nice and dirty. |
| agnes (the land of bourbon and horses) | Posted: Jul 29, 2007 - 06:58 Some of my fondest memories are of sitting around with one of my best friends in the world and his guitar, drinking until we forgot who we were and singing this song. "Thank you for your wine, California..." Such sweet and bitter fruit.  |
| skyguy (CO) | Posted: Jun 27, 2007 - 16:21 The best stones album-love the raw production. |
| felix_the_man (the shores of Puget Sound) | Posted: Jun 27, 2007 - 16:21 ugh |
| rubenbeagle (deep in the heart of illinois) | Posted: Jul 12, 2006 - 16:44 sorry, this one just doesnt do it for me.... :puke: :puke: |
| chefhahn (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) | Posted: Jul 12, 2006 - 16:38 Pure Rolling Stones! You can almost smell the bourbon and cigarettes  . |
| Calgary_Don | Posted: Jul 12, 2006 - 16:36 Please don't ever, ever play this song again. |
| wade44 (2900 Km East of Paradise, CA) | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 09:52 Not feeling this. For once, I agree with the self-proclaimed physicsgenius. |
| mysteryplane | Posted: Jun 13, 2006 - 09:52 physicsgenius wrote: Mick couldn't come out of the bathroom, or at least open the door, before recording the vocals?
It must stink if where youre from 90% of everything is crap... But then again, if you havn't left, you must be a fecalfeliac. |
| physicsgenius (90% of everything is crap) | Posted: May 15, 2006 - 05:38 Mick couldn't come out of the bathroom, or at least open the door, before recording the vocals? |
| Death_to_Clear_Channel (Chicago) | Posted: Feb 01, 2006 - 15:01 Mari wrote: "Drop your reds, drop your greens & blues"...Sweet Virginia, Exile On Main Street...
 ...
Dammit Beavis! |
| nick_valensi (Quito, Ecuador) | Posted: Jan 03, 2006 - 10:59 jbpjayhawk wrote: Call it hyperbolic, but I think that this is the greatest Rock-n-Roll album of all time.
with Sgt. Pepper, of course. |
| thatch (Shhh....at work....) | Posted: Jan 03, 2006 - 10:57 Some days I can't stand the whining sound of Mick's voice and this is one of them. |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Jan 03, 2006 - 10:57 Thanks RP! You can never hear this song on reg. radio, and we all know why...and it aint'--- |
| PattonFever (wherever i go, there i am.) | Posted: Dec 05, 2005 - 09:46 'you got to scrape that shit right off your shoe...' so true. good call, mick jagger. i love the rolling stones. |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 20, 2005 - 18:26 jbpjayhawk wrote: Call it hyperbolic, but I think that this is the greatest Rock-n-Roll album of all time.
It's in a class by itself, that's for sure. |
| jbpjayhawk (Portland, Maine USA) | Posted: Nov 20, 2005 - 18:23 Call it hyperbolic, but I think that this is the greatest Rock-n-Roll album of all time. |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 06, 2005 - 08:20 AC wrote: OK. Doesn't like that either. How about sh*take mushrooms? May I suggest: shrap? |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 06, 2005 - 08:19 am wrote: It just swings!
That it does. |
| Gregorama (Austin, TX) | Posted: Aug 24, 2005 - 11:37 banana wrote: that is some obnoxious harmonica playing, stick with your own cultural roots, Mick!
I'm thinkin' if Mick and the British Invasion boys had never played American Blues, we'd have never heard of folks like Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf and the rest of them that were hardly ever played on U.S. radio, until after they had been re-introduced to the U.S. by Cream, the Stones, Peter Green and other early Brit Blues bands... In other words, had it not been for the British invasion, we'd probably still never have heard much about the roots of blues in the USA. |