Exile on Main St. | 
| Artist: The Rolling Stones
Label: Virgin Records Us
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Rating:  441 reviews
Sales Rank: 356
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 724383952427
UPC: 724383952427
EAN: 0724383952427
ASIN: B000000W5L
Release Date: July 26, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Rocks Off | | • | Rip This Joint | | • | Shake Your Hips | | • | Casino Boogie | | • | Tumbling Dice | | • | Sweet Virginia | | • | Torn And Frayed | | • | Sweet Black Angel | | • | Loving Cup | | • | Happy | | • | Turd On The Run | | • | Ventilator Blues | | • | I Just Want To See His Face | | • | Let It Loose | | • | All Down The Line | | • | Stop Breaking Down | | • | Shine A Light | | • | Soul Survivor |
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Artist: ROLLING STONES
Title: EXILE ON MAIN STREET
Street Release Date: 07/26/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
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
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 A place, not a CD February 27, 1999
228 out of 238 found this review helpful
I came to terms with Exile when asked by a friend what I thought the five all-time greatest Stones songs were - songs that will still be alive 50 years from now. My response was fairly quick - Satisfaction, Gimme Shelter, You Can't Always Get What You Want, Wild Horses, and Sympathy for the Devil. Just my opinion. But I realized immediately none were from Exile, which I think is the Stones' all-time best album. Yes, Tumbling Dice and Happy are up there, and some cuts on Exile are, IMHO, absolutely awesome (viz their cover of Robert Johnson's Stop Breaking Down) - but clearly Exile is not not rich in standout hits. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Like few other albums, Exile is a world, a place I immerse myself in - a distillation of American blues and gospel and country and rock - a funky smokefilled bar or afternoon fishfry or steamy bordello, with beer and bourbon, pianos and slide guitars and hard-partying working people letting it loose, shining a light, shaking their hips, boogieing, scraping the sh*t off their shoes, rocking the joint all down the line. Exile critics cite no outstanding hit songs and too much "fill" and murky production/garage band sound. But that's the point, the genius of the album. The album IS the song - I love that murky sound - I listen more to my scratchy old vinyl than to the new cleaned up CD I just bought from Amazon - Exile is where the Stones perhaps peaked, where, catalyzed by Taylor's sinuous guitar playing off Richard's rythmn funk and Hopkin's/Stewart's honky tonk piano, they finally came home to the country blues where they began, when Brian Jones, God rest his soul, alias Elmo Lewis, played slide guitar in a London bar and 18 year-old Keith actually thought he was seeing Elmore James - smokey, funky, rockin, wailing, torn and frayed poor white trash and juke joint black, the soundtrack of Saturday night, til my late night friends leave me in the cold grey dawn. Hang out in Exile. Accept it on its own terms. It will be, I firmly believe, the Stones ALBUM (not song) that will stand the test of time. Pass me the bourbon - quick- the band's coming on for another set and the night's still young.
The Greatest Rock'n'Roll Album Ever March 1, 2000
Mark Devey (Murrieta, CA USA)
56 out of 68 found this review helpful
If I had to play one CD for someone from another planet who had never heard rock'n'roll before, this would be it! On "Exile on Main St." the Stones synthesized Chuck Berry-style guitar rock, blues, and country influences to create a new and previously unheard of hard rock style. In essence the Stones invented, on "Exile on Main St.," an original style of hard rock that neither they, nor anyone else, has duplicated since. This CD contains some of the most exciting hard rock music ever cut-"Rocks Off," "Rip This Joint," "Tumbling Dice," and "All Down the Line." This is only time the Stones approached the magic and excitement of their late 60s and early 70s concerts on a studio recording. A word of caution to the uninitiated: the murky sound mix will require multiple listenings, but this is part of "Exile's" greatness-the slamming drums, the chaotic guitars and horns, and the best "slurred" vocals of Mick Jagger's life. The dense sound is due, in part, to the fact that the album was recorded in various parts of Keith Richards home in the south of France. It is this dense and murky sound that gives "Exile" its claim to greatness. No rock CD collection is complete without it.
Reflection Exile - 30 Years Later November 4, 2003
C.F. Stewart (Annapolis, MD United States)
44 out of 61 found this review helpful
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History: The Rolling Stones began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" in the late `60s, and few disputed the claim. The Stones' music, based on Chicago blues, has continued to sound vital through the decades, and the Stones' attitude of flippant defiance, now aged into wry bemusement, has come to seem as important as their music.Review: Painfully rough and rusty. Lyrics are yelled, whispered, cried, and moaned-but not sung, in the way most define singing. But beneath this, the album is richly developed and ripe, full of raw and pure spiritual energy. (I believe `Tumble and Dice' to be the purest rock song.) Nothing was dried out-these songs ooze with feeling-joy, lust, regret, redemption. The Stones aggressively seduced their muses and demons, they delighted their gods, which sometime seem Pagan, and other times Christian. If you want to have your whole being rocked, moved, shoved, jammed, delighted, it will happen here. Importance: Probably too rough and too pure for most-once you tire of pop/catchy/soulless music, you will find your redemption here. You must be alive to love this and to those who are, those who feel the pain and joy, this is an, or the, important rock album. To those overcivilized, those citizens, those respectable-you will be dissatisfied.
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One of the GREATEST albums ever recorded by anyone. Period. April 12, 2001
M. Pincus (East Meadow, NY USA)
27 out of 31 found this review helpful
Not only is this the best Stones album, it is one of the best albums EVER recorded, by any artist, at any time. After the psychedelic 60's and the death of guitarist Brian Jones, the band with newly recruited (ex-John Mayall's Blues Breakers) lead guitarist Mick Taylor entered the 70's with a swaggering reckless abandon that bands ever since have tried unsuccessfully to copy. On this LP they go WAY back to their roots (blues, gospel, R&B, country, early rock n roll) and actually make you think that this is the way music WAS. The truth is, it wasn't, and the Stones bring alot to the party in terms of amazing songwriting. The singles are the gospel influenced "Tumbling Dice" and the Keith Richards sung "Happy", both of which are timeless classics. But this originally double record gets much better. The adrenaline pumping "Rip This Joint" is the definition of juke joint wildness, the raucus "Sweet Virginia" the most rockin' & memorable song that you'll NEVER hear on the radio (what a chorus!). The powerful "Loving Cup" is perhaps the most passionate song they've written, maybe beating only the gorgeous "Shine A Light" and "Let it Loose" (with Mac Rebennack, a.k.a. Dr. John supplying keyboards). If nothing else, the Stones take endlessly varying types of blues & roots music and write great songs around them ("I Just Wanna See His Face", "Casino Boogie", "Stop Breaking Down", "Black Angel"). But the results are stunning, and leave you feeling like this was the greatest party that you never went to ("All Down The Line"). There is just so much music here that it may take a few listens to get it. Like a heroin, cocaine & booze fueled train that goes careening uncontrolably down the tracks, this is the album that forever dispelled the notion that the Stones were nothing more than a rip-off of the Beatles.
 The Stones Only Overrated Album September 24, 2002
Richard R. Carlton (Ada, MI United States)
25 out of 61 found this review helpful
Do me a favor and rate this review based on how useful the information is, not on whether or not you agree with me! I've been a Stones fan for almost 4 decades now and I'm not afraid to give their work a critical review.Exile On Main Street was originally released May 12, 1972. Numerous polls of greatest rock albums rank it in the top 15 of all time, but I've never been able to see what everybody is so excited about. Sure there are famous Stones cuts like Tumbling Dice, Happy, Sweet Virginia, and Sweet Black Angel but all their albums have famous songs on them.....most have more and often individually better songs as well. The blues is serious and typical of the band.....Son House's Stop Breaking Down, Shake Your Hips, Torn and Frayed, and Ventilator Blues....and there are some solid rockers too.....Rip This Joint, All Down The Line, Casino Boogie.....I find0 myself getting tired of listening to the album as a whole.....somehow it just doesn't have the depth of good feeling and strong emotion that is so evident to me in something like Sticky Fingers, Beggar's Banquet, or Let It Bleed. Although there were "Exile" sessions (Jul-Sep, 1971 at Keith's Nellcote in France and Nov 71 - Mar 72 at Sunset Sound and Wally Heider Studios in L.A.), the tracks were laid down over a fairly long period of time from June 1970 to March 1972 with nothing recorded during 1971. Here are the details:
Jun 16, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Stop Breaking Down
Jun 30, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Sweet Virginia
Jul 14-15, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....All Down The Line
Jul 20, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Sweet Virginia
Jul 23, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....All Down The Line
.....Shine A Light
Jul 27, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Shake Your Hips
Oct 17-31, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Shake Your Hips
.....Sweet Virginia
.....Stop Breaking Down
Dec - Mar, 1972 at Sunset Sound in L.A.
.....Rocks Off
.....Rip This Joint
.....Casino Boogie
.....Tumbling Dice
.....Torn and Frayed
.....Sweet Black Angel
.....Loving Cup
.....Happy
.....Turd On The Run
.....Ventilator Blues
.....Just Wanna See His Face
.....Soul Survivor This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection.
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