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skipstone
All of the tracks are there only because they used some leftovers and wanted to get them out. Otherwise it would be a much shorter album.

Or in other words : If Exile would have 12 instead 18 tracks,it would have been much shorter.

Sharp-as-a-knife-conclusion,skip,haha.

Way back somewhere Jagger said that Exile double-vinyl was best heard as
4 seperate sides/albums but since CD that way of hearing Exile has been lost....

But if ya first copped it on vinyl then it still lingers with ya even on a CD listen...

ROCKMAN

I agree with Terry --- EOMS is four discrete sides, meant to be heard in that context.

Exile is not my all-time favourite. My choice would probably be Let It Bleed, on which there is nothing that could remotely be considered sub-par.

I think it's safe to say that most diehard fans' favourite will be in the top 4 however.

i don´t own the vinyl, could anybody tell me which songs belong together on the 4 sides?

1 Rocks Off - Tumblin' Dice
2 Sweet Virginia - Lovin' Cup
3 Happy - Let It Loose
4 All Down The Line - Soul Survivor

ROCKMAN

thank you!

Pleasure ole son....

ROCKMAN

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Havo
i Know, somebody will disagree! Its a great album --for sure. but---where is a song like "Midnight Rambler" Or "Sympathie"?.. Casino boogie--"turd on the run--i just seen his face---soul survivour--are "fillers" --I mentioned "Beggars" and "Bleed"-but what i like most is "Aftermath" and "out of our heads".

Please. Midnight Rambler isn't even the best song on Let It Bleed

Tumbling Dice and Happy are pretty well-known songs

Shortfatfanny, I was making fun of the previous comment! However, take off the Sticky Fingers recorded/finished tracks and it IS a shorter album.

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Rockman
1 Rocks Off - Tumblin' Dice
2 Sweet Virginia - Lovin' Cup
3 Happy - Let It Loose
4 All Down The Line - Soul Survivor

Yeah and each side would always take one into a different journey. The best.

L.O.

I really love 'just want to see his face.'

Some say it is filler, maybe, but it has tremendous presence, mood, feel, rhythm.

When it pops up on Exile, I feel like we suddenly take a detour through some Louisiana Bayou fever swamp.

It's cool.

When it pops up on Exile, I feel like we suddenly take a detour through some Louisiana Bayou fever swamp.

Great Description.

L.O.

(JWSHF)

If it has to be ranked it goes:

"Rocks Off" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) - 4:33 3+
"Rip This Joint" (Jagger/Richards) - 2:22 4+
"Shake Your Hips" (James Moore, aka Slim Harpo) - 2:59 1
"Casino Boogie" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:34 2-
Sida två

"Tumbling Dice" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:47 3-
"Sweet Virginia" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:26 4+
"Torn and Frayed" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:18 2
"Sweet Black Angel" (Jagger/Richards) - 2:58 4
"Loving Cup" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:25 2
Sida tre

"Happy" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:05 3
"Turd on the Run" (Jagger/Richards) - 2:38 1
"Ventilator Blues" (Jagger/Richards/Mick Taylor) - 3:24 2
"I Just Want to See His Face" (Jagger/Richards/Taylor) - 2:53 1
"Let It Loose" (Jagger/Richards) - 5:18 2+
Sida fyra

"All Down the Line" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:50 2
"Stop Breaking Down" (Robert Johnson) - 4:34 2
"Shine a Light" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:17 5+
"Soul Survivor" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:49 1+

See, just 6 out of 18, and 2,44 points


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

Shake Ya Hips 1 ...Tumblin 3- ..... Geeeeez can't go on any further....

ROCKMAN

I like Black and Blue and Tattoo You better than Exile on Mainstreet,Exile is in my top ten stones albums

Feel The Fear
And Do It Anyway

I don't know.... I guess I just dont get it.... While Exile is certainly not terrible it is not some kind of masterpiece either (at least to my ears). I like at least 10 Stones albums way better. There is no comparison between a true masterpiece like "Let it Bleed" vs. Exile which contains a lot of filler and is very bloated.

I also think there are (few) fillers in Exile.
It is a very strange album to my taste : some of their best songs, some of their worst songs...

I have heard one time an old blue song (I don't remember who sings this, but it is a famous bluesman) which is exactly similar to "Hip Shake"...

The best of the best (from the beginning until the end, with no weakness) being "Sticky Fingers" for me....

but I recognize that the best songs of "Exile" are among the best of the bests.

AW Come On , Come On .

Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion but you must be listening to the LP backwards .

"Loving Cup" gets a thumbs down ?

The charm and greatness of Exile is the flow of the music .

have heard one time an old blue song (I don't remember who sings this, but it is a famous bluesman) which is exactly similar to "Hip Shake"...


errrr well like King Bee .... Shake Your Hips is a Slim Harpo track .....

ROCKMAN

This is one of those cases where arguments are useless. Either you get it, or you don't. Exile has no bad songs; it doesn't even really have songs. It's a trip; at one point you might be bopping to "Turd on the Run", or singing along to "Shine a Light", but you're always in that green barroom staring into the jukebox.

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Come On
If it has to be ranked it goes:

"Rocks Off" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) - 4:33 3+
"Rip This Joint" (Jagger/Richards) - 2:22 4+
"Shake Your Hips" (James Moore, aka Slim Harpo) - 2:59 1
"Casino Boogie" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:34 2-
Sida två

"Tumbling Dice" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:47 3-
"Sweet Virginia" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:26 4+
"Torn and Frayed" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:18 2
"Sweet Black Angel" (Jagger/Richards) - 2:58 4
"Loving Cup" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:25 2
Sida tre

"Happy" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:05 3
"Turd on the Run" (Jagger/Richards) - 2:38 1
"Ventilator Blues" (Jagger/Richards/Mick Taylor) - 3:24 2
"I Just Want to See His Face" (Jagger/Richards/Taylor) - 2:53 1
"Let It Loose" (Jagger/Richards) - 5:18 2+
Sida fyra

"All Down the Line" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:50 2
"Stop Breaking Down" (Robert Johnson) - 4:34 2
"Shine a Light" (Jagger/Richards) - 4:17 5+
"Soul Survivor" (Jagger/Richards) - 3:49 1+

See, just 6 out of 18, and 2,44 points

see this is where it gets very subjective...
For instance, Torn & Frayed, Loving Cup, Casino Boogie, Let It Loose and Soul Survivor are some of the highlights of this album IMO....yet you have given them all thumbs-down.

each to their own.

as I have said earlier...it's consistently a very good album, one that you can listen to all the way thru.

Hey Eleanor Rigby, Revolver gets 14 in my ranking...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

Exile On Main Street is the best album ever

...by anyone.

I thought it was 'Astral Weeks' by Van the Man but what the f...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

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Skipstone
Shortfatfanny, I was making fun of the previous comment!

Sure,but it was too funny to waste the opportunity,no offense included,you know...

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Skipstone
However, take off the Sticky Fingers recorded/finished tracks and it IS a shorter album.

Nevertheless,to say that,Tattoo You might have been a 7".

When I first heard Exile, I thought it sounded flat and not at all like previous albums, my fave being LIB. In fact I thought, this is pretty weak. But after buying the CD, my original view changed. It has a wider range of styles than previous albums and although the mixing is a bit suspect, most of the tracks rock in their own subtle ways.

EXILE IS BRILLIANT LP OR CD SOME FANS ARE NEVER SATIFIED WITH WHATEVER STONES PUT OUT.GET YOUR ROCKS OFF AND ENJOY THE MUSIC,ALL THIS DISCUSSION WE ARE MISSING
THE MUSIC,ONE LOOK AROUND AND LIFE IS OVER.KEEP ON ROCKING.

so much fun to read all these opinions, presented like they're the truth...
Opinions are like A$$holes, everybody's got one...is what comes to mind.

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boston2006
AW Come On , Come On .

Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion but you must be listening to the LP backwards .

"Loving Cup" gets a thumbs down ?

The charm and greatness of Exile is the flow of the music .

Anyone who does'nt like Loving Cup is just living on the wrong planet. Absolutely nothing wrong with that one. I even like the SAL version with Jack White that most people hate.