Peak Stones! "Rocks Off" is the opening track from Exile on Main St., one of the greatest of the great albums they dropped in the early seventies. The horn riff in this was part of their signature sound for a time. The lyrics suggests the singer is so strung out on hard drugs that he lost his ability to perform sexually and is frustrated by it. The video is vintage, with almost every car pictured a gas guzzler. So it was definitely filmed before the 1973 oil crisis. I slowed it down to look for landmarks and such. The newspaper held up at one point is The Los Angeles Times, suggesting the scenes might be from L.A. They're standing at an intersection at one point and while the street sign is hard to read, a "200 E." can be seen below what looks like 3rd or maybe 5th Street -- which would put them at the intersection of 5th and Los Angeles, literally two blocks away from Main Street. The Stones did the overdubs and final mixes for the album in Los Angeles.
I'm not a Rolling stones fan but , Exile on Maine Street is one of my favorite albums. It's one of those records that doesn't have a single bad song on it.
Rolling Stones! Disciples of Delta Blues, students of Chuck Berry, spreading the gospel of Rock n Roll. And yes it is about sex. Many Stones songs have sex as a theme, getting it, not getting it, dreaming about it, yep. Perhaps that’s one reason the lyrics are not easy to hear behind the music. That way the radio stations would allow the songs.
This album and it's opener (Rocks Off\)- seems to indicate the next long hard balled and brilliant phase of the Stone's creative output. Unparalled in it's omnicient pugnancy - it made clear that the band was a force to be reckoned with.
Jagger's voice buried in the mix,whether by accident due to the less than salubrious basement recording system, or by design. Either way this opening was a signpost to a quite brilliant and timeless recording. Exile is not my favourite Stones album -(Sticky Fingers) - but all the tunes on it need to be taken at one sitting as it is a fantastic audio experience.
I think its about living in the underbelly of a large metroplis........closer to the point, all the action of the street and what that entails, is no longer doing it for him. He is tired of that lifestyle and only gets his"rocks off while he's dreaming"
First rule of Stones song, don’t over analyze the lyrics. You’re here for the music. The 3rd song is Hip Shake, another good one but look for the extended version that’s even better then the album cut.
"I just couldn't believe how bad the Stones sounded at the first rehearsals. Their timing was awful. They sounded like a typical bunch of guys in a garage... playing out of tune and too loudly. I thought, "How is it possible that this band can make hit records?" - Mick Taylor Wild Horses was the final song the Stones would attempt in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. But as the band prepared to begin recording, pianist Ian Stuart calmly packed up to leave. Memphis pianist Jim Dickinson was then recruited. It wasn't until years later that Dickinson discovered the reason behind Stewart's disinterest in Wild Horses. Stu had always hated minor chords. And the song contains minor chords. Even when playing live with the band on tour the committed Boogie Woogie man would regularly engage in an act of perverse defiance, lifting his hands from the keys whenever a minor chord came up. "He was an extreme dude", says Dickinson. "He kept them honest. There was no bullshit when Ian was around." Witnesses to sessions would come away astonished at the rank amateurism of the Stones in the studio, where they were capable of showing little more expertise than the newest band of nobodies working on their worthless demo tapes. But that recklessness was essential to the Stones process. "I've virtually based a career around what I learned in those three days," Dickinson says with a laugh. "It was so organic and natural, you just had to stop and think, 'Who's right and who's wrong here?' And they literally didn't have a clue as to what they were doing. They were making a record the way people off the street will come in and make a record." "They were the worst bloody band on the planet, the worst bunch of musicians in the world they could be for days at a time. Really fucking horrible. And you sit there wondering how on earth are we going to get anything out of this. They would play very badly, and that's how they played most of the time, very poorly, and out of tune... They were the worst band on the planet, BUT, when IT happened, they were transformed almost instantly from this dreadful band into THE ROLLING STONES, and blow you away. It was almost magical." - Andy Johns, recording engineer ♫
Amazing recording, too bad we’re stuck with Ye , and drake now. Those guys couldn’t carry the stones amps without running into issues, Like violence, money, expensive watches, and more bullets. I live in SoCal and the street crime/ culture is killing young men by the 100’s. Sad….
Back in the day, the squares called the Stones and their fans hoodlums. And the squares cause most of the problems. Sad... “The population of the affluent world is nourished by a steady diet of brutal mythology and hallucination, kept at a constant pitch of high tension by a life that is intrinsically violent in that it forces a large part of the population to submit to an existence which is humanly intolerable. Crime that breaks out of the ghetto is only the fruit of a greater and more pervasive violence: the injustice which forces people to live in the ghetto in the first place. Violence today is white-collar violence, the systematically organized bureaucratic and technological destruction of man. The problem of violence is not the problem of a few rioters and rebels, but the problem of a whole structure which is outwardly ordered and respectable, and inwardly ridden by psychopathic obsessions and delusions." - Thomas Merton
@@corailgris I guess so, but hip hop always leads to violence, I just watched ye’s claymation video about his ex prostitute wife’s latest John and it was very violent and disturbing . Total rubbish
The Greatest Rock ‘n Roll Band In The World presents the Greatest Rock ‘n Roll album ever!
The Sunshine bores the day lights out of me. Says it all.
Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest rock n roll band ever.
Peak Stones! "Rocks Off" is the opening track from Exile on Main St., one of the greatest of the great albums they dropped in the early seventies. The horn riff in this was part of their signature sound for a time. The lyrics suggests the singer is so strung out on hard drugs that he lost his ability to perform sexually and is frustrated by it. The video is vintage, with almost every car pictured a gas guzzler. So it was definitely filmed before the 1973 oil crisis. I slowed it down to look for landmarks and such. The newspaper held up at one point is The Los Angeles Times, suggesting the scenes might be from L.A. They're standing at an intersection at one point and while the street sign is hard to read, a "200 E." can be seen below what looks like 3rd or maybe 5th Street -- which would put them at the intersection of 5th and Los Angeles, literally two blocks away from Main Street. The Stones did the overdubs and final mixes for the album in Los Angeles.
My favorite band thanks great reaction!!
Oh, this is a stone cold classic.
The stones were on fire in this era. Hope you do more songs from them, especially from the late 60's early 70's
This was a great period for The Rolling Stones, imo.
I love how this album sounds like a bunch of musicians happened to get together, and they happened to be good. Magnificently under-produced album
That allowed the true magic to come through! 🤘🏻♥️
"The sunshine bores the daylights out of me"
I love seeing people experience The Stones. They are the greatest rock and roll band in the world. Bar none. Forever.
The best rock and roll song ever
This album is insanely good!
What a cute voice you have. Great song
It's their greatest album, my favourite song on it is 'Let it Loose':)
Yes I do agree with you. Simply love this song it seems to put me into another state of mine. just Love it.
I'm not a Rolling stones fan but , Exile on Maine Street is one of my favorite albums. It's one of those records that doesn't have a single bad song on it.
Thank you so much 👍🙏🏻❤️
Rolling Stones! Disciples of Delta Blues, students of Chuck Berry, spreading the gospel of Rock n Roll. And yes it is about sex. Many Stones songs have sex as a theme, getting it, not getting it, dreaming about it, yep. Perhaps that’s one reason the lyrics are not easy to hear behind the music. That way the radio stations would allow the songs.
This album and it's opener (Rocks Off\)- seems to indicate the next long hard balled and brilliant phase of the Stone's creative output. Unparalled in it's omnicient pugnancy - it made clear that the band was a force to be reckoned with.
imao rocks off is best stones song
You should react to "Rip This Joint", "All Down the Line", and "Stop Breaking Down"! They're all great songs from 'Exile On Main St.' by The Stones!
4:23. Dirty doped up Keith Richards. So cool. So rock n roll
Jagger's voice buried in the mix,whether by accident due to the less than salubrious basement recording system, or by design. Either way this opening was a signpost to a quite brilliant and timeless recording. Exile is not my favourite Stones album -(Sticky Fingers) - but all the tunes on it need to be taken at one sitting as it is a fantastic audio experience.
'Rip this Joint' !
This song (and all others on Exile) are best played loud and sing along.
ALWAYS LOUD.
About the street rhythm of the conglomeration of the city beat
Captured by the legendary Charlie
Watts honoring Charlie Parker
Check out Moonlight Mile, a very underated Stones classic.
And 'Sway'.
@@jeffreykamberos7524 she reacted to Sway
It seems to be about sex and maybe pre-mature eruption! I love your comments and your looks!! :) - great tune that kicks off a great album
I like that the vocals are hard to hear.....you get more listens to it, you have to listen harder and it adds some mystery.
I think its about living in the underbelly of a large metroplis........closer to the point, all the action of the street and what that entails, is no longer doing it for him. He is tired of that lifestyle and only gets his"rocks off while he's dreaming"
Jagger said he liked how Stax records mixed Otis Redding's vocals low. Made the music more important.
cool
Ophelia
First rule of Stones song, don’t over analyze the lyrics. You’re here for the music. The 3rd song is Hip Shake, another good one but look for the extended version that’s even better then the album cut.
Wait a second...is that voice for real???
"I just couldn't believe how bad the Stones sounded at the first rehearsals. Their timing was awful. They sounded like a typical bunch of guys in a garage... playing out of tune and too loudly. I thought, "How is it possible that this band can make hit records?" - Mick Taylor
Wild Horses was the final song the Stones would attempt in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. But as the band prepared to begin recording, pianist Ian Stuart calmly packed up to leave. Memphis pianist Jim Dickinson was then recruited. It wasn't until years later that Dickinson discovered the reason behind Stewart's disinterest in Wild Horses. Stu had always hated minor chords. And the song contains minor chords. Even when playing live with the band on tour the committed Boogie Woogie man would regularly engage in an act of perverse defiance, lifting his hands from the keys whenever a minor chord came up. "He was an extreme dude", says Dickinson. "He kept them honest. There was no bullshit when Ian was around."
Witnesses to sessions would come away astonished at the rank amateurism of the Stones in the studio, where they were capable of showing little more expertise than the newest band of nobodies working on their worthless demo tapes. But that recklessness was essential to the Stones process.
"I've virtually based a career around what I learned in those three days," Dickinson says with a laugh. "It was so organic and natural, you just had to stop and think, 'Who's right and who's wrong here?' And they literally didn't have a clue as to what they were doing. They were making a record the way people off the street will come in and make a record."
"They were the worst bloody band on the planet, the worst bunch of musicians in the world they could be for days at a time. Really fucking horrible. And you sit there wondering how on earth are we going to get anything out of this. They would play very badly, and that's how they played most of the time, very poorly, and out of tune... They were the worst band on the planet, BUT, when IT happened, they were transformed almost instantly from this dreadful band into THE ROLLING STONES, and blow you away. It was almost magical." - Andy Johns, recording engineer ♫
fire the fukin feed, nuff said.
Amazing recording, too bad we’re stuck with Ye , and drake now. Those guys couldn’t carry the stones amps without running into issues, Like violence, money, expensive watches, and more bullets. I live in SoCal and the street crime/ culture is killing young men by the 100’s. Sad….
Back in the day, the squares called the Stones and their fans hoodlums. And the squares cause most of the problems. Sad...
“The population of the affluent world is nourished by a steady diet of brutal mythology and hallucination, kept at a constant pitch of high tension by a life that is intrinsically violent in that it forces a large part of the population to submit to an existence which is humanly intolerable.
Crime that breaks out of the ghetto is only the fruit of a greater and more pervasive violence: the injustice which forces people to live in the ghetto in the first place. Violence today is white-collar violence, the systematically organized bureaucratic and technological destruction of man.
The problem of violence is not the problem of a few rioters and rebels, but the problem of a whole structure which is outwardly ordered and respectable, and inwardly ridden by psychopathic obsessions and delusions." - Thomas Merton
OK for the money but Ye and Drake aren't gansta rappers at all.
@@corailgris I guess so, but hip hop always leads to violence, I just watched ye’s claymation video about his ex prostitute wife’s latest John and it was very violent and disturbing . Total rubbish
No Jones no stones... sorry