Well said... It's really difficult to isolate why this track is so good, but it's one of those very rare things that after you hear it, it lives in your body and brightens your existence for the rest of your life.. 🤸
I made a Spotify playlist of opening songs from great albums. This and Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” from LZ1 were my first two picks. Brown Sugar, Silicone Grown from The Faces Ooh La La and BaBa O’Reilly were on it as well.
I totally agree with you. After Exile, everything else they did was a disappointment. Every song on that album is worth a listen! The last Stones album that I care about.
Good ol' Charlie Watts. I remember on the '89 tour a reporter marveled something like, you and the Stones have been working together and hanging out for 25 years, etc. "Yeah, 5 years of work and 20 years of hanging out" ha ha.
I@@Girl-so7yk I think it's video out-takes from Robert Frank's documentary.It has an obscene title.I'm sure it's findable here somewhere,despite the lawsuits.
One of the best music videos I've ever seen. Maybe Brian Eno's King's Lead Hat is even better, but this captures the whole vibe of the Stones and the whole vibe of the seventies. I think you could show it to an anthropologist a hundred years from now and say "that was New York City in the seventies."
Everyone talks about Brown Sugar, Satisfaction, Jumping Jack Flash etc etc but this my friends, THIS is the greatest Rolling Stones song in the entire damn catalogue. It's just an absolute blitzkrieg of Rock 'n Roll heaven, a 4 minute and 33 second explosion of pure bliss. For some inexplicable reason, they have never properly been able to re-create Rocks Off live, then or now, and nor have they been able to reach this zenith in the studio since. What's it about? Who bloody knows, but one thing for damn sure, it could not have been made sober!! Long live the Boys!! EXILE forever baby!!!!!
What's it about, it's about being strung out on junk! It's also about the best song on one of the best albums ever made! The Stones actually are responsible for some remarkable works, even though this entire album is great, Some Girls is another great album too.
Just the opening riff alone, what I always referred to as "Chuck Berry goes to Hell", could be put on a tape loop and played at my funeral. I can't even feel the pain no more, indeed.
Tim Huguet Yes, it is great for sure. They have probably never attempted it live as there is just too much going on. Jagger could never sing like this now, and Bobby Keys, Jim Price and Nicky Hopkins are all dead!
Tim Huguet Couldnt have been said better. As soon as it comes on, in my head it feels like i just got started up and nothing else can quite bring that same satisfaction
@@klimtklavier There's something about the whole album. Like the Mona Lisa, you just can't explain it. Exile started out with 2 jams like this one and "Rip This Joint", then veered into a virtual encyclopedia of every original American type of music. Charlie loved jazz and bebop, but took those skills into rock. Your Uncle could explain it better. I'd bet his own musical tastes are very diverse.
“I’m always hearing voices on the street, I want to shout but I can hardly speak,”; video courtesy of the great Robert Frank who captured the seediness of the 70’s here.
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Yes and on the whole Album, Charlie was so good, so important, I realised that specially 2020 when listening to Sticky Fingers and Exile a lot. The Stones are an important Band, a Part of Music History, really awesome. And Exile is my new no.1! So many groovy Songs!
A lot of their lyrics were truly awful too though I think that's why they don't get the credit they otherwise would have, inconsistency is the story of their careers honestly.
Gimme Shelter wasn't too shabby. Brown Sugar and maybe Sympathy for the Devil also. There's too many to name by any band but these boys set the tone. The greatest rock and roll band in the world period!!
This album just feels like its a bunch of guys sitting in a house covered in mold, doing drugs most of the day and playing some music. Which is exactly what it is... And it still sounds awesome.
These lyrics are Profound! They fully describe a state of being. a emotional state and is thus comforting to realize others have been there too! Sometimes we are tempted to forget how very wise and smart the Stones truly are!
The best album kickoff song ever, full stop, fully appropriate for the masterwork the Exile is. Sets the entire tone for the tapestry of sound that follows.
How's about, "I was makin' love last night/ to a dancer friend of mine/ I can't seem to stay in step cause she comes every time that she pirouettes over me"
You’ve always gotta interpret Mick’s lyrics through the prism of a man who’s had more p**sy than he knew what to do with. They make much more sense that way
until the eighties and nineties... then they released some overproduced crap. 'Blue and Lonesome' was a nice reprieve, but I wish they'd get back to this.
The Stones HAVE performed "Rocks Off" live. It's online, look around you will find it. It does not come even near the record. No big deal. The song in that respect is like most later Beatles pieces--they are masterpieces of the studio and really were never intended for live. This song is so dense and brilliant it's just in a class by itself. Almost cannot be compared to anything but the rest of the Exile album. And we all know what that's about. Endless rock and roll without peer.
Except that it's not endless Rock'n Roll. A lot of it is great country. The Stones' three best albums have a share of country, those being *Sticky Fingers*, *Exile* and *Let it Bleed*. While *Sticky Fingers* will always be my favorite album, Exile was one of those albums that grew on me. I bought it when I was 14 or 15 (1975 or '76), with hard earned cash, and was somewhat disappointed in just how country so much of the album was, but it had a few songs that I found stunning, such as *Rocks Off*, *Tumbling Dice* and *Loving Cup*, and while Taylor and Jagger had melded so beautifully on *Sticky Fingers*, the guitars of Richards and Taylor really came together on *Exile*. The Taylor-Richards magic pretty much vanished after that, and the next two albums seemed to me to be filled with too many weak songs. The Stones only put out one more good album, and that was *Some Girls*, and by then I had realized just how good *Exile* really was--every single song.
The first time I saw the Stones (February 1, 2003 at what was then called the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO), they played this song fifth (After Street Fighting Man, You Got Me Rocking, Start Me Up, and Don't Stop). For a bunch of guys pushing 60 (at that time, although Charlie was 61), I was floored by how good they were and I flipped when they played this seldom-performed gem.
Lyrics I hear you talking when I'm on the street Your mouth don't move but I can hear you speak What's the matter with the boy? He don't come around no more Is he checking out for sure? Is he gonna close the door on me? I'm always hearing voices on the street I want to shout, but I can't hardly speak I was making love last night To a dancer friend of mine I can't seem to stay in step Because she come ev'ry time that she pirouettes over me And I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed Plug in, flush out and fire the fucking feed Heading for the overload Splattered on the dirty road Kick me like you've kicked before I can't even feel the pain no more But I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming (only get them off) I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping (only get them off) Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene Its all mesmerized all that inside me The sunshine bores the daylights out of me Chasing shado
Driving my 69 Marina Blue SS Chevelle with this song cranking man that was living. I remember playing trumpet in the band in school and when I first heard this song it hooked me immediately. Still loving it all these years later.
Good morning children, and welcome to Rock & Roll 101. We'll be starting the course off with this piece by the Rolling Stones- well, actually, this is the only song we'll be listening to this semester, all day every day. And the homework is- yes- go home and listen to this song every night. It will not be that hard to get a grade of 'A'+ in this class.
That is brilliant! I am in awe watching this for the first time. They were completely incognito walking around downtown Los Angeles in September of 1971. I had been on the French Riviera in July/Ausgust of that year hoping to catch a glimpse of them and they ended up coming round to Los Angeles where I lived, and I was clueless to the fact. In(bloody)credible.
@@fredkruse9444 Hi Fred. I actually did see a source. Mine was the sheet music book of Exile put out by The Stones in 1973 . Lyric sites on the web are mostly put up by ordinary people who post what they think the lyrics are, and they're often riddled with small mistakes. Fire has 2 syllables. Jagger clearly sings a word with one. Anyway, I'll take the official version over genius lyrics, unless I hear an obvious clean up, like if "Let's Spend the Night Together" had the Ed Sullivan lyrics, it would clearly be an error, but in this case, well, just listen to it again.
La primera vez que escuché el "Exile", "ventilator blues" me colocó al instante. Con el pasar del tiempo cambiaba mi opinión con relación a la mejor rola (son tantas), pero, por ahora ésta es mi favorita.
Charlie's insanely great on Rock's Off, it's why he's their drummer! SO MANY MEMORIES HERE! Forget the Neanderthals and trapeze Artists, I'll take a surgeon here.
Very sad, but he graced us and The Stones a looong time. My Dad said 50 years ago that The Stone's would just die off. Man, he was wrong. Charlie may have passed away, but he'll live on and on.
And this is just fifteen years after Elvis was considered too risque. Put that in context by comparing music from 2005 to music now. This. Kicked. All. The. Ass.
If I made a movie, any movie, It could be 2 hours of watching grass, I don't care, I would put this song in my movie. How the hell does this song not appear in movies that often?
Heard a good one today . Apparently one night at a bar, Jagger said to Charlie : You're just MY drummer. Charlie punched him in the face. Right on Charlie ! Jagger's always been an asshole.
The Rolling Stones are more New York than 99% of native New Yorkers. They exude the crude, cocky, cool, scruffy, gritty, rough and tumbleness of that city. At least, what it was in the 70s. Today the millenial metrosexuals living in New York would have never survived the 70s. The Stones owned it. Rocks Off, Shattered, Miss You..... New York was never more accurately reflected in anyone in rock n roll than these cats from London. Not even the Ramones.
@@anthonypercachi3133 Well, lol, maybe not Disneyland for kids, more like a hell of a party for adults. it was good times in a way yes. High inflation, mortgage rates at 20%, oil crisis..... no, not good times. But people weren't worried about offending anyone, nor were anyone offended by anything. It was a time when literally anything goes and no one cared. Hell Times Square was the epicenter of the porn movie industry - by the early 70s it was nothing but XXX theaters and seedy, drug head junkies and hookers. When Frank Sinatra said if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, he really meant it! It was just a different time. People didn't have all the stuff we have to do today so there was more physical contact with humans in every way possible. I think the Rolling Stones really tapped into that rough and kinda dirty underbelly of New York. They were probably in that scene in London long before they ever came to America to begin with.
Luis Perdomo I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since I’ve seen him now no the one you said that you saw the tattoo you was it late 70s maybe because I got the sticker from on 81 and it just says salutes Rolling Stones and that might’ve been a tattoo one I don’t know but I didn’t really even know what it was think of my brother was older and he held onto these I’ll try to put a picture on here it’s got the radio station from St. Louis where we live
When I was in the US Naval boot camp, Great Lakes, I'll, sep- Nov, 1977, isang myself to sleep with this song, every nite, could not wait to get it on the turntable when I got out on leave after, don't think I've ever jonesed to hear a song that bad ever, been kinda my mantra ever since.
The break at 2:11 is one of my favourite things in a song, ever. It comes from nowhere and doesn’t make any fucking sense and it’s so strange but it’s just perfect.
Totally right. And see how they managed to get back into the song, at about 2:34 - 2:38, incredible, no? Keith reported the recording of this in his book Life. I love Rocks Off as well as I love Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Grew up listening to the Stones and I've never found a band that I like more! 23 now and I plan on playin their music until the day I die, then hopefully someone plays it at my funeral.
What song would you want played at your funeral? Write up a will, if not through a lawyer, write it up on paper, have a witness sign with you (preferably a family member), and get it notarized. It would be kind of funny because funerals are so boring and one might as well celebrate the life of a person rather than their death. I want to be cremated, no open casket seeing me dead, and have a party out of it--people dancing and what not. I'll make a setlist. Lol. As it is, my family's church has a memorial service, then what's called a repast afterward that's a luncheon, and everybody's social (since usually you see people you haven't seen in a while, and most now show slide shows of photos of the person's life, and some music playing along with it--for you it could be the Rolling Stones. (:
***** It'd have to be "moonlight mile". I don't want people to cry or make a big deal over my death; this world belongs to the living, not to the dead.
***** why get cremated when you can have your brain preserved in a freezer and then re-attached to either a body or a virtual cognitive stimulation device? you all have this romanticized view of funerals... but the truth is you probably won't exist during the funeral so it would be nice to come back into existence 100 years later and meet up with all the other people to tell you all about it :)
That is a weird reply. I'm getting cremated so, no, I won't exist except in carbon form. I'd like to revisit in a 100 years so I can see what music remained popular and if I was right.
I graduated high school in 72...driving my friggen new vw beetle with this double casste cranking with huge bose speakers...still listening to it 46 years later...lol
I bought a 73 2 door Continental in 93 for 1000 dollars-faded paint,no rot-and it had an 8 track installed with Exile on Main Street and The Superfly Soundtrack in the glove. My 2nd car.
A MASTERPIECE. THE STONES OWNING...AT THEIR ABSOLUTE FINEST. EXILE HAS TOPPED MY 'DESERT ISLE LP LIST' FOR 5 EFFING DECADES. STICKY FINGERS? EPIC, AS WELL, A THISCLOSE 2nd. BAD.ASS BALLSY ROCKnROLL...; BOTH LPs SLAY ME
Man just look at them, caught between innocence and jaded,making songs about how that feels. Maybe American music can save them.48 years later theyre still at it so it must have worked. This footage is priceless.
Esta es la mejor cancion del mejor disco de la historia del mejor grupo de la historia, es increible su sonido, se. Mezclo en un camion estudio propiedad de los stones , es simplemente sublime, es la unica cancion de los stones que en directo no suena al mismo nivel que su version original, por eso no es tan conocida como otras, pero al verdadero seguidor de los Stones, sabe que esta cancion y tode el disco de Exile on main street, es la razon porque los stones son el grupo mas grande de la historia, ademas ,aunque amo a Roonie, en esta epoca, conraban con Mick Taylor, el mejor guitarrista que han tenido.
El verdadero seguidor de los Stones... Depende de gustos y sentimientos. Para un amigo muy fanático a los Stones, sus cinco rolas preferidas son: "Let it loose", "wild horses", "beast of burden", "Angie" y "waiting on a friend"...hermosas rolas, no hay duda. Sin embargo, yo voy con estas: "rocksoff", "sway", "starfucker", "dance little sister" y "slave". Entiendes??. Las lentas, las rápidas, el rockcountry, el blues. Los Stones son todo eso y más.
@@harrygozzer8324 estoy de acuerdo contigo amigo, cada uno tiiene su setist preferido de los stones, es dificil elegiir canciones dentro de su magnifica y extensa obra de los 60 y 70,, efectivamente los stones son blues, soul rock, country, gosoel etc como tu bien dices, y este album es un compendio de todos esos estilos, es magistral, todas las canciones son magnificas,el album , como concepto musical, es el mejor que han echo y para mi es el mejor album de rock de la historia, es todo un homenaje a la musica afroamericana.
@@jeffryhammel3035 me too! As of today the Stones announced that the summer tour that starts next month in St Louis will go on and Steve Jordan will take over behind the kit for the tour and the future.It won't be the same without Charlie but I guess the show must go on..
@@jamiemartinez8674 Hey, thanks for the reply. I don't think many people realize that Charlie was a jazz drummer first and foremost. I really think that the younger drummers of this generation will fill in admirably. I hope u see the concert. I haven't seen a big concert like The Stones or Prince since the early 2000's! I am going to see a group called "King Crimson" at my hometown of Milwaukee's Summerfest. I myself hope that Bill Buford will be the drummer. Watts and Buford are 2 of my favs, along with so many old jazz drummers and rock guys like Moon and Peart. I'm sure that maybe The Stones now really want to keep playing. And that it's not too hot in old St.Lou.
@@jeffryhammel3035 no I'm not going to see the stones not without Charlie I had tickets but I think they're going to probably cancel the show because of covid that's my spin on it but the bottom line is this bill Buford my God I believe he retired from King crimson you know I retired from the entertainment industry after 32 years so I'm here in la man so I'm just away from that stuff and I used to do tours and all that but that's those days are over thank God now it's just me and my LA Dodgers kicking back until we get a hold of this Covid til it dissipates anyways have fun in Milwaukee I love the Pabst theater great great town
this guy who did the edits is fucking mad brilliant. here he has captured footage of life in an era of revolution and endless potential. The social experiments of the 60's have failed. I've learned my moves as a young kid in the 70's growing up in urban/suburban NJ, watching crazy fukers walk and carry on. Trips into Manhattan had shaped and molded me into being the soetime cynical soul I am today. I yearn for a much healthier time- when our food wasn't poisonous, we didn't have synthetics which fuck up the molly and other entheongenic vehicle. The Stones were'nt always coke and herion, booze. They were into psychedics in their early stage. They saw the golden 60's ended at Altamont and it was time to get down to business and secure their own foturnes. Be an opportunist and work on your skills.
maybe...but those "shits" have thrown the most creative works in humankin...call it Rock artist, painters, writers, etc. Drugs have been helping artists far way before music industry or rock music kicked in: Dali, Gaugain, Baudelaire, O Wilde...
mi channnal mate I have taken/I still take drugs when I want and I´m fine with my life, I´m more functional than most...If someone has an adictive personality...call it drugs, booze, sex, gambling, eating that person is gonna be trapped regardless whether they listen to rock or not.
"The sunshine bores the daylight out of me" is one of the most sublime, perfect verses in the general idiom of pop or rock-n-roll music.
It's a great line
Chasing shadows moonlight mystery………fantastic✌
Finally someone who sees this!!!! It's a brilliant verse.
I guess we ain't alone in our thinking, cause I agree as well!!!!!!
Their verses are so open to interpretation
This has got to be the strongest opening song on any album ever. Sloppy, loose, loud rock and roll perfection.
Well said... It's really difficult to isolate why this track is so good, but it's one of those very rare things that after you hear it, it lives in your body and brightens your existence for the rest of your life.. 🤸
Can't argue with that. Dirty, gritty sloppy, nasty rock and roll by the masters.
Love the Stones, but for album opening, I'd go for Break on Thru, which not only kicked off their first album, but launched the Doors as well
Agreed
I made a Spotify playlist of opening songs from great albums. This and Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” from LZ1 were my first two picks. Brown Sugar, Silicone Grown from The Faces Ooh La La and BaBa O’Reilly were on it as well.
Exile on main Street is the best album of time,it's a masterpiece.There,s 7.8 billion of you out there,somebody must agree with me.
We're at seven, out of seven billion. Clearly, we have superior taste. If I had to choose one album in the world, this would be it.
I totally agree with you. After Exile, everything else they did was a disappointment. Every song on that album is worth a listen! The last Stones album that I care about.
The best Stone album is the first Stone Roses...sorry.
Oh F yes
Greatest musical master piece ever made on earth.
Possibly the most overlooked Stones masterpiece Truly embodies everything that is them
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¡ Absolutely ! ☝
Agree!
Agreed along with Jigsaw Puzzle of Beggars Banquet.
Got the raw, Stones sound..
Rest in Peace Charlie Watts. Your 80 years on Earth were well lived.
RIP Charlie, least flashy but maybe best rock drummer ever
Wow. Thanks. The Stones have been my favs for over 50 years; but sometimes I'd just put on a song (like this) to listen to Charlie.
Fucking right. Over 50 years being a rolling stoned
Good ol' Charlie Watts. I remember on the '89 tour a reporter marveled something like, you and the Stones have been working together and hanging out for 25 years, etc. "Yeah, 5 years of work and 20 years of hanging out" ha ha.
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Everybody's talking about the song, which is undoubtedly a gem, but let's take a moment to appreciate the masterpiece that this video is!
Yes! I can Watch it 10 times in row
I@@Girl-so7yk I think it's video out-takes from Robert Frank's documentary.It has an obscene title.I'm sure it's findable here somewhere,despite the lawsuits.
One of the best music videos I've ever seen. Maybe Brian Eno's King's Lead Hat is even better, but this captures the whole vibe of the Stones and the whole vibe of the seventies. I think you could show it to an anthropologist a hundred years from now and say "that was New York City in the seventies."
Everyone talks about Brown Sugar, Satisfaction, Jumping Jack Flash etc etc but this my friends, THIS is the greatest Rolling Stones song in the entire damn catalogue. It's just an absolute blitzkrieg of Rock 'n Roll heaven, a 4 minute and 33 second explosion of pure bliss. For some inexplicable reason, they have never properly been able to re-create Rocks Off live, then or now, and nor have they been able to reach this zenith in the studio since. What's it about? Who bloody knows, but one thing for damn sure, it could not have been made sober!! Long live the Boys!! EXILE forever baby!!!!!
What's it about, it's about being strung out on junk! It's also about the best song on one of the best albums ever made!
The Stones actually are responsible for some remarkable works, even though this entire album is great, Some Girls is another great album too.
Just the opening riff alone, what I always referred to as "Chuck Berry goes to Hell", could be put on a tape loop and played at my funeral. I can't even feel the pain no more, indeed.
Tim Huguet Yes, it is great for sure. They have probably never attempted it live as there is just too much going on. Jagger could never sing like this now, and Bobby Keys, Jim Price and Nicky Hopkins are all dead!
Tim Huguet Couldnt have been said better. As soon as it comes on, in my head it feels like i just got started up and nothing else can quite bring that same satisfaction
broadband0118 Jim Price is not dead, is he?
Rocks Off is one one of the best rock and roll songs ever made!!!!!!!!!
Rip this Joint was great too!
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it's my freaking theme song.
@@francoisdesnoyers3042 SWEET BLACK ANGEL !
Loving Cup and this song - the best
Imagine a song so wild that it still packs the same punch after 50 years
F I F T Y. 5 - OH. F I F T Y (EFFING) Y E A R S. ABSOLUT LEGEND. EXILE HAS TOPPED MY 'DESERT ISLE LP LIST' FOR AS LONG. A MASTERPIECE
Once again, Charlie set the groove on this classic. R.I.P. CHARLIE.
Yeah my uncles loved this album when it came out, Jeffry...
Yup.
Couldn't have said it better myself... Damn right... R.I.P Charlie... ☹️😢... One KICK-ASS DRUMMER... ONE OF THE BEST...
@@klimtklavier There's something about the whole album. Like the Mona Lisa, you just can't explain it. Exile started out with 2 jams like this one and "Rip This Joint", then veered into a virtual encyclopedia of every original American type of music. Charlie loved jazz and bebop, but took those skills into rock. Your Uncle could explain it better. I'd bet his own musical tastes are very diverse.
Not sure, but I think that's actually Jimmy Miller on drums. Not 100% on that though
Can never hear this enough, loud enough...makes want to dance, bop around, smile, drink, smoke, quit my useless job and roam..LOVE this song!!!
I totally agrss!
Ohh yeahhh
Yeah baby
Someone like me, this is in our souls, it’s away of life👍
Call me along
If I had to pick one Rolling Stones song to represent their ENTIRE career, this would be it...
Starfucker from Goats Head Soup for me.
Worried about you from tattoo you
And tumbling dice Keith's personal anthem
Cant You Hear Me Knocking...Mick Taylors guitar Solo in the Middle is SICK!
YES
Man that jive Turkey washing windows on the street was my grandpa who got five dollars from Robert Frank to be in the film.
Seriously? Wow. He's my favorite part of the video.
“I’m always hearing voices on the street, I want to shout but I can hardly speak,”; video courtesy of the great Robert Frank who captured the seediness of the 70’s here.
You can almost SMELL NYC in this vid...
I loved the 70s. I was in my 20s. Much better time than now.
now Frank would be stabbed and beaten with the perps out on bail by noon
The Rolling Stones in all their hedonistic, decadent glory!
Finding videos like this on UA-cam makes me think UA-cam is the best invention since the wheel. Whoever posted this, God Bless You!
Multiple UA-cam channels are talking about UA-cam being discontinued in the 2020’s. Permanently. I agree with your comment so please just let the whole discontinuing UA-cam just be a rumor.
agree
Johnny Thunders Really this song is appropriately named....it Rocks. 🎸✌️😎
@@katherinedupoise4604 TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENT, Walter B.Memphis.
Charlie Watts was the engine that drove this machine. He is stunning on this track. RIP
That’s why I’m here! The way he opens this song never fails to make me smile. RIP KING
Yes and on the whole Album, Charlie was so good, so important, I realised that specially 2020 when listening to Sticky Fingers and Exile a lot. The Stones are an important Band, a Part of Music History, really awesome. And Exile is my new no.1! So many groovy Songs!
The heartbeat of the band!!!
Was it Charlie or Jimmy Miller who played drums on this?
I thought it was JM, I could be wrong…
@@michaelkearney2186 It's Charlie 😉
Few things in life kick ass like this song.
"The sunshine bores the daylights out of me".
***** Ba-da-dada, dunt-dunt-da-dunt--OH, YEAH!
Nun Ya Ha. Didn't realize that's what he was saying. Mick is looking INCREDIBLY cute! Not my favorite video by far...but am lovin' Mick :))
Daisee .Tatum One of my favorite Stones lyrics.
There are SO many good lyrics by them!
I can't get past the intrusive window washer ;))
This is possibly the best album ever made!
not possibly. definitely!
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Stones wrote some fantastic lyrics which they are seldom given credit for. Really really great lyrics to really really great songs.
A lot of their lyrics were truly awful too though I think that's why they don't get the credit they otherwise would have, inconsistency is the story of their careers honestly.
This song should be the kickoff to every weekend.
especially if dating a dancing friend lol
Serious wonderful perfect rock n roll. I think
It's 8 pm on Friday night. That's why I am here.
right on!
Pedrp
Right from the start and Mick's "Oh yeaahhh" this tune rocks! Everything from the vocals, guitars, drums, horns and overdubbed piano, is perfect.
When he goes ohhhh yeaaa you know its gonna get rowdy.
It's fuckin brilliant....that's what it is.. musical genius. Could no agree with you more!!!!
Charlie’s very good tonight, int’e?
Never missed a beat that Charlie
Always
No doubt in my mind. This is the Stones' masterpiece.
Back when the horns you hear were actually musicians playing horns. Great stuff.
Listen to the Saints "Know Your Product" immediately!!
Ok boomer
Check out Oh Lord by Foxy Shazam, you'll be amazed!
@Ben Johnston r/lewronggeneration
Yeah because no one ever plays real horns anymore. They all died out after 1972.
Nothing will ever touch this. The Holy Grail of albums.
Mick Taylors years with the Stones were the best songs!!!
Agreed
Absolutely
Nicky Hopkins was the best. Underpaid fro great work
Tooooo less credits…
No doubt about it!
Rolling Stones - Rocks Off ( 1972 )
This is one great song so underrated and one of there best songs !!
Oh yeah!!
+Mike Hand And Mick Taylor just rockd
I hear you! the stones have a portfolio of amazing songs. this one is very high up there.
how could anyone overrate Rocks Off?
this video is so early 70s New York
I think,that the best times of stones were with Mick Taylor:
Sticky Fingers,Exile on main st. ,Let it bleed,It's only Rock'n Roll !
I agree
My three favorite Rolling Stones albums were recorded while Mick Taylor were in the band.
@@miguelosvaldofloresdomingu8911 ...and Jimmy Miller producing.
Yep, I’ve always said the same!
Amen to that. But don't forget Goats Head Soup and Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out
So shambolic; feels like it will fall apart at any moment; ragged; sharp; PERFECT.
BEST OPENING TRACK TO ANY ALBUM, EVER.
Back in the USSR, Come Together, Wouldn't It Be Nice and Like A Rolling Stone too!
What about Start me up? :)
Suspect Device is an amazing starting track, too
Gimme Shelter wasn't too shabby. Brown Sugar and maybe Sympathy for the Devil also. There's too many to name by any band but these boys set the tone. The greatest rock and roll band in the world period!!
Good Times Bad Times...
Nicky Hopkins on the piano holds the whole song together. One of the best opening songs to an album ever.
This album just feels like its a bunch of guys sitting in a house covered in mold, doing drugs most of the day and playing some music. Which is exactly what it is... And it still sounds awesome.
These lyrics are Profound! They fully describe a state of being. a emotional state and is thus comforting to realize others have been there too! Sometimes we are tempted to forget how very wise and smart the Stones truly are!
The best album kickoff song ever, full stop, fully appropriate for the masterwork the Exile is. Sets the entire tone for the tapestry of sound that follows.
Not only the groove, but the lyrics are genius «The sunshine bores the daylights out of me». Pure rock ‘n roll.
How's about, "I was makin' love last night/ to a dancer friend of mine/ I can't seem to stay in step cause she comes every time that she pirouettes over me"
On par with memo from Turner
You’ve always gotta interpret Mick’s lyrics through the prism of a man who’s had more p**sy than he knew what to do with. They make much more sense that way
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My Lordy, this is fantastic! So gritty, the Stones never failed to bring the grit, the down and durty, the hardcore view of life.
ABSOLUT BAD.ASS
until the eighties and nineties... then they released some overproduced crap. 'Blue and Lonesome' was a nice reprieve, but I wish they'd get back to this.
Perfect album to open up a case of beer on a warm summer night in your garage
The mixing on this song is truly astonishing!! Every vocal and instrument clashes so perfectly!!
Plug in, flush out…
Pure rock and roll. Nicky Hopkins awesome on piano.
"The sunshine bores the daylights out of me. Chasing Shadows, Moonlight Mystery." I love those lines!
Kick me like you kicked before, I don't even feel the pain no more.
The Stones HAVE performed "Rocks Off" live. It's online, look around you will find it. It does not come even near the record. No big deal. The song in that respect is like most later Beatles pieces--they are masterpieces of the studio and really were never intended for live. This song is so dense and brilliant it's just in a class by itself. Almost cannot be compared to anything but the rest of the Exile album. And we all know what that's about. Endless rock and roll without peer.
Except that it's not endless Rock'n Roll. A lot of it is great country. The Stones' three best albums have a share of country, those being *Sticky Fingers*, *Exile* and *Let it Bleed*. While *Sticky Fingers* will always be my favorite album, Exile was one of those albums that grew on me. I bought it when I was 14 or 15 (1975 or '76), with hard earned cash, and was somewhat disappointed in just how country so much of the album was, but it had a few songs that I found stunning, such as *Rocks Off*, *Tumbling Dice* and *Loving Cup*, and while Taylor and Jagger had
melded so beautifully on *Sticky Fingers*, the guitars of Richards and Taylor really came together on *Exile*. The Taylor-Richards magic pretty much vanished after that, and the next two albums seemed to me to be filled with too many weak songs. The Stones only put out one more good album, and that was *Some Girls*, and by then I had realized just how good *Exile* really was--every single song.
The first time I saw the Stones (February 1, 2003 at what was then called the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO), they played this song fifth (After Street Fighting Man, You Got Me Rocking, Start Me Up, and Don't Stop). For a bunch of guys pushing 60 (at that time, although Charlie was 61), I was floored by how good they were and I flipped when they played this seldom-performed gem.
Still the baddest boys in rock & roll. Farewell Charlie Watts.
there was never and will never be another band that approaches the significance of this band. they are the greatest, period.
mark alan G. the soundtrack to our lifetime......
What about the beetles
@@theMcWOPPER They made pop music
Haab Saab no they didn’t, just because they were popular doesn’t make their music pop.
@@jaimelannister1797 They're not really rock either. Maybe just barely.
Bobby Keyes blowing his brains out on sax, well done Bobby...
The dominant brass is Jim Price on trumpet. Nicky Hopkins on piano drives the whole song forward.
Bobby is the MAN!!!
No other album comes close to Exile, pure fuckin rock and roll, exiled in Villefranche sur Mer
Lyrics
I hear you talking when I'm on the street
Your mouth don't move but I can hear you speak
What's the matter with the boy?
He don't come around no more
Is he checking out for sure?
Is he gonna close the door on me?
I'm always hearing voices on the street
I want to shout, but I can't hardly speak
I was making love last night
To a dancer friend of mine
I can't seem to stay in step
Because she come ev'ry time that she pirouettes over me
And I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming
I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping
I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed
Plug in, flush out and fire the fucking feed
Heading for the overload
Splattered on the dirty road
Kick me like you've kicked before
I can't even feel the pain no more
But I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming (only get them off)
I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping (only get them off)
Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene
Its all mesmerized all that inside me
The sunshine bores the daylights out of me
Chasing shado
Plug in, flush out and fire the fucking feed.
Yep Keef was in it up to his elbows
Driving my 69 Marina Blue SS Chevelle with this song cranking man that was living. I remember playing trumpet in the band in school and when I first heard this song it hooked me immediately. Still loving it all these years later.
magnificent as usual.NOBODY has rocked as hard and for as long as The Rolling Stones.Legends doesnt do them justice.
Good morning children, and welcome to Rock & Roll 101. We'll be starting the course off with this piece by the Rolling Stones- well, actually, this is the only song we'll be listening to this semester, all day every day. And the homework is- yes- go home and listen to this song every night. It will not be that hard to get a grade of 'A'+ in this class.
ooh yrah
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This is the greatest video for one of the greatest songs by the greatest rock band..
One of the best Stones song. EVER
Jeff Narup Stones must have liked Buffalo, NY they played here 6 times. Yes that Buffalo that still gets 10 feet of snow every winter from Lake Erie
The greatest opening song for any album ever. Bar none.
THE BEST OF TIMES Were in the 70s ,,, 1972 WRIGHT HERE
Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar, Miss You.
This is one of the best rock and roll songs ever!
I think, I'm my humble opinion, that this is the greatest rock and roll song of all time. PERFECTION!
Damn Charlie makes you waiting for his boom on the drums....that is why the song is always a pleasure to hear. THIS IS ROCK'N ROLL. Joie de vivre.
That is brilliant! I am in awe watching this for the first time. They were completely incognito walking around downtown Los Angeles in September of 1971. I had been on the French Riviera in July/Ausgust of that year hoping to catch a glimpse of them and they ended up coming round to Los Angeles where I lived, and I was clueless to the fact. In(bloody)credible.
"I'm zippin' through the days at lightning speed. Plug in, flush out and fire the f*ing feed." Just your everyday lyric, right? 1:27
Fred Kruse no, “Plug in, flush out and fight and fuck and feed”
Fire the fucking feed....
That the correct lyrics
The correct lyrics are "plug in, flush out, and fight the fuckin' feed"
@@Fredro11111111111 please see a source, such as Genius Lyrics. The fire heats the drug.
@@fredkruse9444 Hi Fred. I actually did see a source. Mine was the sheet music book of Exile put out by The Stones in 1973
. Lyric sites on the web are mostly put up by ordinary people who post what they think the lyrics are, and they're often riddled with small mistakes. Fire has 2 syllables. Jagger clearly sings a word with one. Anyway, I'll take the official version over genius lyrics, unless I hear an obvious clean up, like if "Let's Spend the Night Together" had the Ed Sullivan lyrics, it would clearly be an error, but in this case, well, just listen to it again.
La primera vez que escuché el "Exile", "ventilator blues" me colocó al instante. Con el pasar del tiempo cambiaba mi opinión con relación a la mejor rola (son tantas), pero, por ahora ésta es mi favorita.
Bei mir war es 1985 genauso. Grüße vom Bodensee
Que casualidad, el disco lo compre en el 85. Antes, la única rola que conocía era "happie" y "tumbling dice". Saludos desde México.
GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME HANDS DOWN!!!!!!!!
RIP Mr.Watts. The world is less without you. Thanks for helping us rock!
Wow, thanks! Charlie always helped me, too. It's amazing how he made every great song even greater.
It simply does not get any better than this.
Mick jagger is at his peak here , so much swagger in this song
1969-1974 Yeah The sunshine kicks the lights out of me
Sir Jagger always kicks the shit out Rolling Stones music. That is why the Rolling Stones are the oldest best rock band in the world.
RIP Mr Watts, you kept the beat of the universe for generations. ⚡🤘🥁🌹🙏😞
Can't believe I was about 16 years old when I got this album - now look at me I'm an old fuckin man
NO!
YOU ARE YOUNG WITH STONES MUSIC. GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬
Charlie's insanely great on Rock's Off, it's why he's their drummer! SO MANY MEMORIES HERE! Forget the Neanderthals and trapeze Artists, I'll take a surgeon here.
one of the best grooves ever by the one and only Charlie Watts. May your soul rest in peace.
Very sad, but he graced us and The Stones a looong time. My Dad said 50 years ago that The Stone's would just die off. Man, he was wrong. Charlie may have passed away, but he'll live on and on.
🙏😞🌠 Charlie miss us
Charlie's biggest fan was Keith.
I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed...
And this is just fifteen years after Elvis was considered too risque. Put that in context by comparing music from 2005 to music now.
This. Kicked. All. The. Ass.
If I made a movie, any movie, It could be 2 hours of watching grass, I don't care, I would put this song in my movie. How the hell does this song not appear in movies that often?
Heard a good one today . Apparently one night at a bar, Jagger said to Charlie : You're just MY drummer. Charlie punched him in the face. Right on Charlie ! Jagger's always been an asshole.
Stones 1972...estrada rocknroll na veia e muitas loucuras e...eh...stones...
getting my rocks off listening to this masterpiece
lol same here my friend good old times
This is how you start an album off!
I bought this album in 1972, however my dad turned it off after a few tracks because of the bad words in it. I did not hear the full album until now.
Them SWEEEEET SWEEEEEET 70 DEEZ BABY
Nice to know there is YT Music in heaven.
Too busy wrecking hotel rooms and running over your chauffeur
Exile is my fav album, hands down. I've probably listened to it thousands of times and still can't stop
I can't even feel the pain no more!
“Charlie’s good tonight, isn’t he?” (Mick riffing, on Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out.) I’d say YES.
Charlie's good tonight ain't 'e?
When you read Keith's autobiography, it's amazing they did what they did on this album. Truly their best
Keith wrote all their good songs and Charlie dragged them into actually performing them.
The Rolling Stones are more New York than 99% of native New Yorkers. They exude the crude, cocky, cool, scruffy, gritty, rough and tumbleness of that city. At least, what it was in the 70s.
Today the millenial metrosexuals living in New York would have never survived the 70s. The Stones owned it. Rocks Off, Shattered, Miss You..... New York was never more accurately reflected in anyone in rock n roll than these cats from London. Not even the Ramones.
Joe I hear a lot of people say it was a Lotta good times back then early 70s know it’s like a fucking Disneyland or something
@@anthonypercachi3133 Well, lol, maybe not Disneyland for kids, more like a hell of a party for adults. it was good times in a way yes. High inflation, mortgage rates at 20%, oil crisis..... no, not good times. But people weren't worried about offending anyone, nor were anyone offended by anything. It was a time when literally anything goes and no one cared. Hell Times Square was the epicenter of the porn movie industry - by the early 70s it was nothing but XXX theaters and seedy, drug head junkies and hookers.
When Frank Sinatra said if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, he really meant it!
It was just a different time. People didn't have all the stuff we have to do today so there was more physical contact with humans in every way possible. I think the Rolling Stones really tapped into that rough and kinda dirty underbelly of New York. They were probably in that scene in London long before they ever came to America to begin with.
I was all of 6 years old during that time, so I missed the Stones at their best; sucks! I did catch the Tatoo you Tour, and it was phenomenal though.
Luis Perdomo I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since I’ve seen him now no the one you said that you saw the tattoo you was it late 70s maybe because I got the sticker from on 81 and it just says salutes Rolling Stones and that might’ve been a tattoo one I don’t know but I didn’t really even know what it was think of my brother was older and he held onto these I’ll try to put a picture on here it’s got the radio station from St. Louis where we live
The first two joints on Exile set the stage. Greatest rock album of all time.
When I was in the US Naval boot camp, Great Lakes, I'll, sep- Nov, 1977, isang myself to sleep with this song, every nite, could not wait to get it on the turntable when I got out on leave after, don't think I've ever jonesed to hear a song that bad ever, been kinda my mantra ever since.
The break at 2:11 is one of my favourite things in a song, ever. It comes from nowhere and doesn’t make any fucking sense and it’s so strange but it’s just perfect.
Agreed
The break is insanely perfect to me.
Totally right. And see how they managed to get back into the song, at about 2:34 - 2:38, incredible, no? Keith reported the recording of this in his book Life.
I love Rocks Off as well as I love Jumpin' Jack Flash.
The best Band of the world
Keith estava chapado dormindo. Acordou e criou essa melodia em 3 minutos
Foda.
If any song started with keith saying "ohh yeah" this would be a better world..
I thought it was Mick but now that I hear it it does sound like Keith
Grew up listening to the Stones and I've never found a band that I like more!
23 now and I plan on playin their music until the day I die, then hopefully someone plays it at my funeral.
What song would you want played at your funeral? Write up a will, if not through a lawyer, write it up on paper, have a witness sign with you (preferably a family member), and get it notarized. It would be kind of funny because funerals are so boring and one might as well celebrate the life of a person rather than their death. I want to be cremated, no open casket seeing me dead, and have a party out of it--people dancing and what not. I'll make a setlist. Lol. As it is, my family's church has a memorial service, then what's called a repast afterward that's a luncheon, and everybody's social (since usually you see people you haven't seen in a while, and most now show slide shows of photos of the person's life, and some music playing along with it--for you it could be the Rolling Stones. (:
***** It'd have to be "moonlight mile".
I don't want people to cry or make a big deal over my death; this world belongs to the living, not to the dead.
I agree with you, and interesting choice. Cheers.
***** why get cremated when you can have your brain preserved in a freezer and then re-attached to either a body or a virtual cognitive stimulation device? you all have this romanticized view of funerals... but the truth is you probably won't exist during the funeral so it would be nice to come back into existence 100 years later and meet up with all the other people to tell you all about it :)
That is a weird reply. I'm getting cremated so, no, I won't exist except in carbon form. I'd like to revisit in a 100 years so I can see what music remained popular and if I was right.
I graduated high school in 72...driving my friggen new vw beetle with this double casste cranking with huge bose speakers...still listening to it 46 years later...lol
Scott Morrow right with you, dude - same age, too
I bought a 73 2 door Continental in 93 for 1000 dollars-faded paint,no rot-and it had an 8 track installed with Exile on Main Street and The Superfly Soundtrack in the glove. My 2nd car.
I'm graduating this May...can't wait to be doing exactly that once I get my licence
crew of 72 R Cray was in our Class at LHS
Graduated 75 and my black VW Beetle and this was the bomb. Yep, still listening.
Best Rock album of all time. Not 1 bad cut on a 2 record album.
Not as good as Sticky Fingers though
A MASTERPIECE. THE STONES OWNING...AT THEIR ABSOLUTE FINEST. EXILE HAS TOPPED MY 'DESERT ISLE LP LIST' FOR 5 EFFING DECADES. STICKY FINGERS? EPIC, AS WELL, A THISCLOSE 2nd. BAD.ASS BALLSY ROCKnROLL...; BOTH LPs SLAY ME
Opinion @@RBIKO5
Boomers we lived in
The greatest musical
Renaissance the world
Has seen or will ever
See.
@Black Dog Really stopped Vietnam landed on the moon
Greatest advancement in
Personal finance
Fall of USSR.
Do your homework kiddy
That horn section..... Awesome and Charlie just laying it down
Man just look at them, caught between innocence and jaded,making songs about how that feels. Maybe American music can save them.48 years later theyre still at it so it must have worked. This footage is priceless.
Esta es la mejor cancion del mejor disco de la historia del mejor grupo de la historia, es increible su sonido, se. Mezclo en un camion estudio propiedad de los stones , es simplemente sublime, es la unica cancion de los stones que en directo no suena al mismo nivel que su version original, por eso no es tan conocida como otras, pero al verdadero seguidor de los Stones, sabe que esta cancion y tode el disco de Exile on main street, es la razon porque los stones son el grupo mas grande de la historia, ademas ,aunque amo a Roonie, en esta epoca, conraban con Mick Taylor, el mejor guitarrista que han tenido.
And Brown Sugar should have been on this album
El verdadero seguidor de los Stones... Depende de gustos y sentimientos. Para un amigo muy fanático a los Stones, sus cinco rolas preferidas son: "Let it loose", "wild horses", "beast of burden", "Angie" y "waiting on a friend"...hermosas rolas, no hay duda. Sin embargo, yo voy con estas: "rocksoff", "sway", "starfucker", "dance little sister" y "slave". Entiendes??. Las lentas, las rápidas, el rockcountry, el blues. Los Stones son todo eso y más.
@@harrygozzer8324 estoy de acuerdo contigo amigo, cada uno tiiene su setist preferido de los stones, es dificil elegiir canciones dentro de su magnifica y extensa obra de los 60 y 70,, efectivamente los stones son blues, soul rock, country, gosoel etc como tu bien dices, y este album es un compendio de todos esos estilos, es magistral, todas las canciones son magnificas,el album , como concepto musical, es el mejor que han echo y para mi es el mejor album de rock de la historia, es todo un homenaje a la musica afroamericana.
RIP Charlie Watts...Love his drumming on this gem..
Thanks. I'm very sad about the news. Sometimes I'd put on a song like this just to hear Charlie.
@@jeffryhammel3035 me too! As of today the Stones announced that the summer tour that starts next month in St Louis will go on and Steve Jordan will take over behind the kit for the tour and the future.It won't be the same without Charlie but I guess the show must go on..
@@jamiemartinez8674 Hey, thanks for the reply. I don't think many people realize that Charlie was a jazz drummer first and foremost. I really think that the younger drummers of this generation will fill in admirably. I hope u see the concert. I haven't seen a big concert like The Stones or Prince since the early 2000's! I am going to see a group called "King Crimson" at my hometown of Milwaukee's Summerfest. I myself hope that Bill Buford will be the drummer. Watts and Buford are 2 of my favs, along with so many old jazz drummers and rock guys like Moon and Peart. I'm sure that maybe The Stones now really want to keep playing. And that it's not too hot in old St.Lou.
@@jeffryhammel3035 no I'm not going to see the stones not without Charlie I had tickets but I think they're going to probably cancel the show because of covid that's my spin on it but the bottom line is this bill Buford my God I believe he retired from King crimson you know I retired from the entertainment industry after 32 years so I'm here in la man so I'm just away from that stuff and I used to do tours and all that but that's those days are over thank God now it's just me and my LA Dodgers kicking back until we get a hold of this Covid til it dissipates anyways have fun in Milwaukee I love the Pabst theater great great town
@@jamiemartinez8674 Hey, thanks J.M. Whether or not the Stone's perform, it's been a great ride; but thanks for story even more.
this guy who did the edits is fucking mad brilliant. here he has captured footage of life in an era of revolution and endless potential. The social experiments of the 60's have failed. I've learned my moves as a young kid in the 70's growing up in urban/suburban NJ, watching crazy fukers walk and carry on. Trips into Manhattan had shaped and molded me into being the soetime cynical soul I am today. I yearn for a much healthier time- when our food wasn't poisonous, we didn't have synthetics which fuck up the molly and other entheongenic vehicle. The Stones were'nt always coke and herion, booze. They were into psychedics in their early stage. They saw the golden 60's ended at Altamont and it was time to get down to business and secure their own foturnes. Be an opportunist and work on your skills.
Robert Frank I believe.
maybe...but those "shits" have thrown the most creative works in humankin...call it Rock artist, painters, writers, etc. Drugs have been helping artists far way before music industry or rock music kicked in: Dali, Gaugain, Baudelaire, O Wilde...
mi channnal mate I have taken/I still take drugs when I want and I´m fine with my life, I´m more functional than most...If someone has an adictive personality...call it drugs, booze, sex, gambling, eating that person is gonna be trapped regardless whether they listen to rock or not.
Shit yeah!
Slow down, Tiger.
Watts is so 'effin' tight in this tract it is a thing of beauty. Cookin'.