Music CD - The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St.

	Music CD: Exile on Main St. Artist: The Rolling Stones List Price: $47.98 Our Price: $77.37 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
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Tracks: 1. Rocks Off 2. Rip This Joint 3. Shake Your Hips 4. Casino Boogie 5. Tumbling Dice 6. Sweet Virginia 7. Torn and Frayed 8. Sweet Black Angel 9. Loving Cup 10. Happy 11. Turd on the Run 12. Ventilator Blues 13. I Just Want to See His Face 14. Let It Loose 15. All Down the Line 16. Stop Breaking Down 17. Shine a Light 18. Soul Survivor
Binding: LP Record EAN: 0724384786410 Label: Virgin Records Us Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Virgin Records Us Release Date: 1999-10-19 Studio: Virgin Records Us
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Clasico de Clasicos Comment: Muy bueno que siempre se sigan editando estos clasicos de los mas grandes de los grandes, los Stones y una de sus obras maestras. Ya no se hacen discos tan buenos como este sin tanta parafernalia electronica. Customer Rating: Summary: Absolutely Fabulous Rolling Stones Comment: This cd album is awesome. I listen to it every day. This is a must for Stones fans. Customer Rating: Summary: Difficult Stones album for the uninitiated Comment: It would be easy to find 2 or 3 Stones albums to take the place of Exile as the "Stones Best". I find Exile very slim on classic Stones tunes. If you enjoy the Stones playing acoustic blues-based songs this is a great album. If, however, you prefer the Stones playing their great, crafted songs, then choose something else, as this is more for the well-versed and initiated in the Stones. I would start with "Let It Bleed", "Sticky Fingers", Beggar's Banquet" or "Some Girls" even.. Don't get me wrong--Exile is an excellent album, but instead of being a quintessential Stones masterpiece, I would call it an encapsulation of the top British Blues Band playing their nod to great American Blues. I think even the Stones would have agreed back in '72 when Exile was released. This was just after they had started their own label, and they were more isolated in the studio, arguably more in the throes of drug addiction, and they weren't at their creative peak. Interestingly the prior album Sticky Fingers--their first on their own label--is arguably their strongest album, but probably Let It Bleed is their greatest achievement. All the songs are strong and original on Let It Bleed (with plenty of blues to knock your socks off, and great slide work by Brian Jones). I think they were still struggling and Mick Taylor's contribution would not really come forward until later. So basically I'm saying that if you acknowledge the Rolling Stones' best era as being between '68 and '78, mostly the Mick Taylor era with some early Ron Wood at the tail end of it, then Exile is certainly an important work. But if you realize how capable the Stones were of writing incredible tunes, then you have to admit that Exile on Main Street is a second-rate effort song-wise. It is still a great album by any standards, though... Customer Rating: Summary: The Rolling Stones - Not As High As Others Rate It Comment: Ahh the Stones........instrumentally probably one of the most average bands to make it big in the history of rock n roll, but they have always had that certain something that have kept them at the top much longer than most of their peers from the same era. In 2007 the Stones can still fill football stadiums more than 40 years after their formation. I don't have a lot of Stones on CD, but I have picked up a few of their albums over the years. Many Stones fans consider "Exile" to be one of the band's all time great albums. I like it, but probably not as much as a lot of people do. The production is muddy and lackluster even by 1972 standards. There is some good material to be found here, but like many double studio albums (the CD is a single) there is a lot of filler here too. The album really did not produce any huge hits for the Stones. "Tumbling Dice" and Keith Richard's led "Happy" were the two tracks to receive the most airplay with "All Down The Line" getting a bit on AOR radio as well.. The rest of the album is a mix of R & B, basic rock, blues and country. It is the Rolling Stones at their most basic, and they neither excel nor bomb on the majority of this album. Customer Rating: Summary: One of the Stones' greatest recordings Comment: I'll begin by echoing what some other reviewers have mentioned: this is a terrific Rolling Stones album (actually, when released, it was a two album set), but without a lot of great singles on it. But that may be a part of why this is such a good work. There is rawness throughout the set of songs--and raggedness. It has an earthy rock and roll/blues sensibility and it works because of its rawness, as opposed to despite its rawness. One characteristic, too, is how difficult it is sometimes to make out the words to the songs (there is a famous quotation attributed to Mick Jagger that this was intentional at times). The CD begins with two flat out neat rockers--"Rocks Off" and "Rip This Joint." Jagger growls and the band plays with a hard edge to it. Then, to one of the gems--the Stones' version of Slim Harpo's great blues number, "Shake Your Hips." Jagger sings it differently from Harpo, but he is effective in his own way. The Stones show that they can play blues well (and note a later piece on "Exile," once recorded by Robert Johnson himself, "Stop Breakin' Down"). One of the few "hits" off this work, "Tumbling Dice," well played here. Some interesting features: Jagger on guitar and Mick Taylor on bass. Then, "Sweet Black Angel" which, if my memory serves me correctly (please correct me if I'm in error), was inspired by activist Angela Davis. A catchy hook and tune. "Ventilator Blues" seems to focus on a bad hair day, with one line being "I feel like murder in the first degree." This is a down and dirty song, with some gritty instrumental work. One of Keith Richards' earlier solos shows up here, the up tempo "Happy," featuring a nice guitar riff to start the song off, presumably Mick Taylor's work. And "Exile on Main Street" concludes with "Soul Survivor," a lively song featuring some guitar work and nice keyboards. Jagger's voice is ragged and, because of this, quite effective in the context of the entire CD. The Stones near or at the pinnacle of their career--Jagger on vocals, Taylor and Richards on guitar, Wyman on bass, Watts on drums. "Friends" showing up: Keys on sax, Price on horns, Hopkins on piano, Stewart (an old Stone himself) on piano, and so on. A rip roaring rock and roll album. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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