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rolling stones-exile on main st.Review created: 04/16/08
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this dense murky mix is probably best heard under the influence. gram parsons,besides being present,was also an influence,as were little feat. i'm partial to mick taylor, but like most stones releases during the taylor years, it's half brilliant...and half-baked
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TOPS!!Review created: 04/03/08
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I have always thought that this was The Stones best, most pure, and soulful bluesy album that they ever put out.I snagged the record from my folks when I was a kid and from the first time I heard it I was hooked. Just thought it was time to buy the CD.Even if you're not a fan of The Stones you cannot deny that this is one of the best albums ever recorded from any era/genre etc. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
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Exile on Main StreetReview created: 07/06/07
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I like the Rolling Stones!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........
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Exile on Main streetReview created: 01/01/07
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Classic Stones album. Very Bluesy and a different stlyle than it predessors, They turned the corner with this one andshifted gears a bit.It is regarded by most critics to be one of their best. i think it is interesteing consider the times.
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One of Stone's Best AlbumsReview created: 11/09/06
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Before my first listen of this album, I knew only three songs that were on this album. I thought maybe I knew Rocks Off, but I believe that the version that I knew of is a Rod Stewart song. I knew Tumbling Dice, Happy, and Shine a Light. That left 15 songs I didn't know so I didn't really know what to expect. There are a lot of them though that sound sound eerily familiar, and the first time I listened to them I thought they were all right. The second time they grew on me, and after that I thought that this could possibly be one of the best albums of all time. There's not a lot of flash on this album. No big time hit, but a lot of good songs. There's no need to go into the highlights of this album, because they're all equally good tunes. It's almost like a gospel album. I don't know what influences the Stones had when they wrote this album, but it worked brilliantly.
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a classicThe Stones at their best. It still amazes me that with all their personal problems at the time, they managed to make a great album.
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Stone good StonesReview created: 07/31/06
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This album on by the Stones took some time to grow on me. But it is a good collection of songs.
Track listing
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
Track listing
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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Back to their roots. And then some.Review created: 01/28/04
by: ilash -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
The album works so well on the whole...
The album works so well on the whole...
Cons:
that we can overlook some questionable songs.
that we can overlook some questionable songs.
When I first heard Exile ON Main Street I was, to say the least, unimpressed. Monotonous, seemingly uninspired, overly simplistic, even irritating: these are hardly the kind of attributes that you would expect a great album to possess. Still, despite everything I found myself compelled to keep listening to what many consider to be the Rolling Stones finest hour. As time went on I found more and more to enjoy the melodies started to become more and more distinct, different songs started to stand out and I started to notice some truly inspired performances buried in almost every song. By, what..
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The Final Sum is Greater Than Its PartsReview created: 02/27/06
by: knowncutter -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
The concept of the album as a complete piece of work.
The concept of the album as a complete piece of work.
Cons:
Not immediate at all.
Not immediate at all.
Common sense would have you believe that if an album is to be hailed as one of the greats in the rock pantheon it shouldn t be very difficult to enjoy. After all, if we are truly talking about a legendary work of art, rooted in some timeframe or era yet remaining undated, it shouldn t take time and effort to find its greatness. The music should speak for itself, and it would seem that it should do so rather rapidly. The mindset above has to be the greatest undoing of the Rolling Stones murky 1972 release Exile on Main Street. Fans of the world s greatest rock and roll band , as they began...
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The Rolling Stones -- Gritty And BeautifulReview created: 04/26/00
by: e_burrell -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Eighteen tracks of pure, true MUSIC. The Stones rely on their blues backgrounds and have created one of the single greatest rock albums ever!
Eighteen tracks of pure, true MUSIC. The Stones rely on their blues backgrounds and have created one of the single greatest rock albums ever!
Cons:
Not enough of these songs are "hits", so the average consumer might overlook this first rate gem
Not enough of these songs are "hits", so the average consumer might overlook this first rate gem
In 1972, 'the greatest rock and roll band in the world' made one of the greatest blues albums ever. That band was of course The Rolling Stones, and the album Exile On Main Street, is considered (by both critics and most fans of the group) to be their finest effort. The Stones had always based their sound on the old blues style -- simple licks, straight-ahead chords and deceptively sexual lyrics. With Exile On Main Street they became the blues. They no longer based their sound on their heroes --- they became the heroes that the next generation would idolize. Combining elements from their...
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Foundation Stones In Rock & RollReview created: 12/15/03
by: allan23dk -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Everything
Everything
Cons:
Nothing
Nothing
Few living rockartists has been described as fully as the Rolling Stones, and even fewer has expressed themselves less analysing regarding their own life s work. Well okay, Mick Jagger has been a cleverdick a couple of times, and said something about carrying on the legacy of black music, make it white, without making it colour- and harmless, but if you calculate the square root of all articles, then a 1995-statement from Charlie Watts will be left, as the most suitable. In the occasion of the bands 117. worldtour he was asked, why he kept on doing it. "I don t know why it s so attractive...
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Strip it Down and Play it LoudReview created: 09/10/01
by: jasonmv1701 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
The Stones at their simplistic best in stripped down fashion
The Stones at their simplistic best in stripped down fashion
Cons:
A few B-A-D tunes
A few B-A-D tunes
This album is ragged. Everything about it is ragged. The singing's ragged, the guitar is ragged, the production is, for lack of a better word, ragged. But for the Rolling Stones, it's perfect. And sometimes when it's perfect in your own eyes, there's not a soul on the planet who can tell you otherwise. To put this album into context, we have to go back to 1970. Altamont. The decade of flower power and LSD came to a crashing halt when a black man was killed at the Stones' free concert at Altamont. It woke up a lot of people. It slapped a generation in the face and woke them up from their...
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