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Post by pacinoyes on May 8, 2022 20:00:55 GMT
Sure, I could have literally waited until 12th ...........but this album - arguably the GOAT Rock record - pacinoyes' all-time #2 for God's Sake - doesn't have to "wait" and doesn't just get 1 day either. Pfffft. The most dazzling piece of cultural appropriation ever at the very least (um) - thoughts on this masterpiece: Is it your fave Stones album? Your fave double? Like all of the overwhelmingly awesome things in life - certain girls, certain alcohol or drugs, The Ramones in general etc. - it created an immediate "OMG it's amazing / It's F'n Overrated!" debate: I'd argue that it's not only a GOAT contender in an important way that verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry few Rock albums are whether you like them or not ( Highway 61 Revisited, London Calling, etc).........it is also an album that maintains its druggy, loose and ragged vibe from beginning to end......it's the best example of an album being greater than the sum of its individual parts......and it is also amazingly deep across its genres - Country, Blues, Rock and Roll, Gospel, Folk - and diverse subject matter sprawl........... finding room for such colorful characters as Slim Harpo, Angela Davis, Robert Johnson ..............and Jesus Christ. It is also almost comically deep across its instrumentation: saxophone, piano, organ, pedal steel guitars, harmonica, trumpet, marimba. No album was ever more cluttered and dense than Exile on Main Street ............while seeming to be so sparse, uncluttered and minimalist. The band that made the monster: Watts, Taylor, Jagger, Richards, Wyman |
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Post by ibbi on May 8, 2022 20:24:16 GMT
I like Sticky Fingers better, but whew, that trilogy this capped (throw Beggars Banquet in as well, but I think it's lesser) never ages, never gets old, and just reinvigorates my love for music any time it wanes.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 9, 2022 6:36:57 GMT
Week long celebrations of the record, and several famous musicians commenting on it in The Guardian today www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/09/drugs-exile-on-main-st-rolling-stones-sprawling-masterpiece-50-rocks-off-cote-dazurI bought it with the food shopping money’
J Mascis, Dinosaur Jr.When I was 13, I bought the album with money my mother gave me to go food shopping. It was harder to get into than other Stones albums but harder to get sick of because there were so many songs. I aspired to play guitar like Keith or Mick Taylor, and I definitely copied Mick when I started singing. I love Rocks Off, Tumbling Dice, All Down the Line, Let It Loose. My favourite track is probably Happy, with Keith singing and Mick harmonising. Rather than listen to American blues, I listened to this mysterious version from England. They were emerging from the shadow of the Beatles to be the best band in the world.Among the grit and dirt, there’s a Rimbaud-like romance’
Chris Robinson, the Black CrowesWe were American hardcore punk kids, but when we discovered Exile we called it the Bible. In our infancy, we wanted to capture that magic and mystery. It’s English guys looking at American blues, country rock, soul and gospel through their own aesthetic of drugs, satin shirts and sparkly shoes. The Stones had the guts to remove themselves from society and live outside the law, but among the grit and dirt, the overdoses and arrests, there’s a romanticism that goes back to Baudelaire and Rimbaud. We recently covered Rocks Off. I love its romantic decadence: “I was making love this time with a dancer friend of mine. / I couldn’t seem to stay in step, but she comes every time that she pirouettes on me.” It’s a holy relic, so playing it felt like walking with John the Baptist.
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