Exile On Main St Music Cd

Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St

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Exile on Main St.      Artist : The Rolling Stones      List Price : $17.98 USD        Your Price : $12.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1994-07-26      Studio : Virgin Records Us      Label : Virgin Records Us      Avg. Customer Rating : (443 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Exile On Main St      It coulda been a contender      Rating:      For classic rock bands, the double live album was an essential part of their discography. The double STUDIO album on the other hand was a different animal altogether. Keeping an audience's attention over the course of 4 LP (now 1-2 CD) sides isn't always easy. And the few that worked (The White Album, Physical Graffiti, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Blonde on Blonde, Electric Ladyland) are rock and roll classics. The Who actually accomplished this feat not once, but TWICE (Tommy and Quadrophenia). Unfortunately, the Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" isn't one of them. "Exile" has always been a difficult album not only for fans, but the band themselves. In the book "According to the Rolling Stones", Mick Jagger says that Exile is not one of his favorite albums, admitting that while the atmosphere of the album is good, he'd love to remix it as it has some of the worst recorded vocals. And he's right. Half the vocal tracks sound like their buried under a combination of backing vocals and sonic sludge. It sometimes sounds like a badly recorded bootleg. And as gritty as they sound, they don't work well in a live setting either. So other than "Tumbling Dice", "Happy" and maybe "All Down the Line", tracks from Exile don't always figure highly when the Stones choose their set list. I resisted buying "Exile" for many years because of this, but also because ½ the songs aren't all that great in the first place. If the band had wised up a little and sliced off about half of them they would've had the knockout punch to finish off the classic series of albums that started in 1968 with Beggars Banquet and through 1971's Sticky Fingers (with the live Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out thrown in as a bonus). If this was possible, Exile would've been a much different (and better) album with only the following songs; Rocks Off Tumbling Dice Shake Your Hips Happy Loving Cup All Down the Line Sweet Virginia Casino Boogie Rip This Joint Torn and Frayed So Exile isn't necessarily a bad album, it's just one of those Stones albums that should've been much better given the time it was recorded and their previous album (Sticky Fingers). It's also one that now benefits from the "skip" button on your CD player or IPod.     Customer Reviews for Exile On Main St Cd      One of the best Rolling Stone Albums      Rating:      You have to have this album if you want to really appreciate the importance of The Rolling Stones impact on Rock & Roll. This is one of the best recorded works of a band ever.