Exile On Main Street

Product Details

Artist : Rolling Stones
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724383952427
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1994-07-19
UPC : 724383952427

ASIN : B000000W5L

Track Listings for

Disc-1
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

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

Before Keith Richards' 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

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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L'Amérique selon les Stones, recréée dans une cave sur la Côte d'Azur ! L'exil, c'est un peu la vie des Rolling Stones au début des années soixante-dix. Ils ont fui l'Angleterre pour des raisons fiscales et le guitariste Keith Richards, héroïnomane de réputation internationale, a tout intérêt à éviter les douaniers chatouilleux. Qu'à cela ne tienne, ses acolytes viennent enregistrer chez lui à Villefranche. Et c'est là, isolés, soudés par les circonstances dans un studio souterrain improvisé que les Stones vont recréer une Amérique de rêve, celle de leurs idoles et de leurs racines musicales : gospel ("Shine A Light" avec l'orgue de Billy Preston, "Just Wanna See His Face"), country blues ("Black Angel"), boogie ("Rip This Joint", "Turd On The Run"), country'n'western ("Sweet Virginia"), soul ("Let It Loose") et puis le rock, tout simplement avec trois classiques de taille : "Happy", chanté par Richards, "All Down The Line" et "Tumbling Dice". Les Stones sont en très grande forme, ils swinguent comme jamais, Richards surtout qui grave, ici, quelques-uns de ses meilleurs riffs. Happés plus tard par la jet-set et usés par les drogues, ils enregistreront encore de grands disques, mais celui-ci est leur dernier vrai chef-d'oeuvre. --Hubert Deshouse

Customer Reviews

One of My Favorites (2005-02-02)

Exile is one of those albums (yes I said albums) that carries the test of time. From start to finish it carries it self with out help from other Stones albums. If you never heard of the Stones (yeah right) This is one I would pull out to let you listen to to get the feel of Shine a Light, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Black Angel and more.

The Rolling Stones' Yardstick (2004-07-03)

If you've gotten this far, it probably safe to say that you know by now that EVERYONE seems to think it is their best ever, of all time, on the desert island, scrounging for gas money because you bought it once more album. And it surely has a pretty good legend surrounding it (south of france, stoned, ripped, twisted..good people). But is it their Best? That all depends. Me? I like "Sticky Fingers" a little better for one reason: The good songs (Brown Sugar, Can't You Hear me Knockin', Bitch, Sister Morphine) are Transcendant, whereas here the good songs (Tumbling Dice, Shine a Light)Are only "Damned Good". Yes, it's a very fine line, to be sure, but it must be said. And "Fingers" Wins hands down on opening tracks-I mean "Brown Sugar" vs. "Rocks Off"? There's no comparison. Fun Fact: Keith Richards once listed "Brown Sugar" as one of his favorite all-time songs with this justification "Don't YOU think it's a great song?"That being said, however, "Exile" is the stronger album of the two. The reason? The rest of songs here are neither as bad or as ordinary as the rest of the songs on any other Stones album. Let me put it this way: It's said that any good song will have a sort of "magic" about it. Well, here most every song has that kind of magic in varying amounts. Put on any single song (with the exception of "Turd on the Run", which just doesn't have the magic) and you will end up liking that song on its own merits. It may not be a religious experience, but you will want to hear that song again. It's that kind of album. The same cannot be said for any other Stones Album in their catalogue, and all but the precious few other jewels in the rest of the history of Pop Music. Of Course, as with all High-water marks, The Stones were destined to fight against the reputation of this masterwork for the rest of their careers, and always be found just a little lacking. A shame, really, for what remains one of the Great Bands Ever and a consistent hit-making force even now, 30+ years on.

One of the greatest albums ever (2004-06-22)

The Rolling Stones' second album to be released on their own label fittingly called Rolling Stones Records, which was distributed by Atlantic at the time, was released in May of 1972. The album was the band's only double studio album but one of the best which ranks up there with The Wall, Quadrophenia, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Tommy among others. Before guitarist Keith Richards' heroin addiction took over for some time in the mid-1970s, he was what the late producer Jimmy Miller called a workhorse. The album was recorded at Keith's home in France and at Olympic Studios in London and Muscle Shoals in Alabama. Keith's music and frontman Mick Jagger's lyric writing was arguably at its peak on Exile. Songs like the opening Rocks Off, Rip This Joint, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Keith's classic Happy, Soul Survivor, All Down the Line and Shine a Light are classics which sound like they could have been recorded yeaterday. Ventilator Blues was another highlight as it was the only song that Mick and Keith wrote was co-written by guitarist Mick Taylor whom kicked ass from 1969-74. Exile was the band's second consecutive #1 album and another million seller. The tour in support of the album saw the band getting bigger and bigger. This album is hugely recommended!

"THE" Rock and Roll Album (2004-06-19)

This album being my favorite Stones album ever and probably my favorite of all time is a true classic. Despite two weak songs at the start "Shake Your Hips" and "Casino Boogie" the album comes right back with bluesy rocker "Tumbling Dice". It just speeds up from there never looking back.

I can't really put into words what is so great about this album. Everytime I put it on I begin to like it even more. The standout tracks are "Rocks Off", "Tumbling Dice", "Sweet Virginia", "Let it Loose", "All Down the Line", "Shine a Light", "Soul Survivor". I would have kept it shorter but it is virtually impossible with an album of this magnitude. Excellent Buy. IF YOU LIKE ROCK AND ROLL THEN THIS IS "THE" ALBUM.

A Hot-Blooded Rock and Roll Classic. (2004-06-09)

Exile on Main Street (1972), the Rolling Stones' seventeenth album, is hot-blooded rock and roll mixed with old-school blues, country, and R&B. This seventeen-track album contains lots of stuff written in the same vein as the proudly rumpled "Satisfaction"--simply put, there are many youthfully reckless songs about being young and having sex. Unfortunately, though, Exile on Main Street starts off with its best track, "Rocks Off"--their finest rendition of the style utilized throughout the album, so after it, songs like "Rip this Joint" and "Hip Shake" are disappointing even though they aren't that bad. "Sweet Virginia" is also a cool song--it's old-style folk/blues, and even though it doesn't really sound like "Wild Horses," it reminds me of it. "Torn and Frayed," the seventh song, is another memorable cut, but after that, the remainder of the album floats past in a heated oblivion--it's not that it isn't good; it's just not very gripping, despite its frenzy and fast pace. This album is fine, I think, but it really isn't my style. Exile on Main Street is written for really cool guys--guys similar to the members of the Rolling Stones--so it's understandable that I don't adore this album, as I'm not the target market. I'm fond of the Between the Button's Rolling Stones, but am disinterested in their harder stuff. If you like the hard stuff, though, you'll love this album. If you don't, you'll be rather indifferent towards it, like I am.

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