The Rolling STONES: A CASE For The BEST Rock ALBUM Ever MADE
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
- The Rolling Stones were on a roll! Between 1968 and 1972, they put out four albums that many fans say are their greatest, and some even say they're among the best rock albums ever made. Their last album in this amazing streak was a double album called "Exile on Main St." It was a wild ride to close out this epic period, just like you'd expect from the Stones.
Most folks know the story behind the album's name: the band had to leave England for a while because of high taxes, so they rented a place in France to make their music. But even though they were in Europe, the music on "Exile on Main St." is a mix of blues, soul, country, and rock - a sound that's all over the map in the best way possible.
This is a special double album - all 18 songs are fantastic, no duds here! Let's dive into each track and see what makes them so great.
- Sources and References:
- Stones In Exile Documentary (2010)
- Wikipedia
- The Rolling Stones Official
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NOT THE BEST STONES ALBUM. STICKY FINGERS is the best, probably followed by LET IT BLEED. BEGGARS BANQUET. Exile on Main Street is a very scrappy album, made whilst half the band were smacked out of the brains. Don't forget to mention that Anita Pallenberg was there with them pushing Keith Richards on to get more nd more smacked up. This album is more infamous for the recording and their time there.
1000%
Not true; Rocks Off, Rip This Joint, Hip Shake, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Tumbling Dice, Loving Cup, Turd On The Run, Just Want To See His Face, Let It Loose, so rich in diversity of style and American exploration...makes the Beatles and Bowie sound tepid.
Totally disagree.
Anita the evil Witch is just what the Cat covered up !!!
I personally prefer Goats Head Soap for the songs lyrics and ambiance but you have to admit Exile is the most legendary rock statement ever. Off course you have to factor in it is a double, so yes some lesser songs not scraps. If Let it Bleed was a double it were LIB the GOAT.
Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street are the 4 best rock albums ever made.
Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock and Roll are part of that golden era. 68-74. Some Girls is awesome from 78.
Exile is an absolute masterpiece.
After 50 years, still my all time favorite album. I don’t get ear burn from it, always sounds fresh
Exile is so rich in American music, Rock, Blues, Gospel, Voodoo Jazz...it just seeps into you like no other album by a British band.
No Jazz in there tbh & I think voodoo is a religion not a music genre
Which is why the Stones are better than the Beatles. "Back in the USSR?" Gimme a break.
Zeppelin were better than both.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Different yes...better no.
One thing that can be put to Zeppelin is they had no soul....the Stones had soul in abundance
Personally speaking I think Keith (in this period) was a better songwriter & Taylor a better musician.
Page was a better arranger & producer
Better is subjective...my opinion is the Stones with Taylor, Hopkins & top of his game Keith were better.
But I defer to different that way I get to enjoy both
@@nihilistlivesmatter
Zeppelin had loads of soul. Their music moves the soul in a way the Beatles or the Stones never did for me. Their music was deeper and more complex.
Or did you mean literally soul, as in soul music? In that case you'd be correct, because Zeppelin had funk instead. Bonham and Jones had the funkiest rhythm section out of all the British rock bands.
Cheers.
Sticky Fingers for studio, Get yer ya ya's out for live. Absolutely stellar...both of them.
Loved Ya-Yas, but I though Flashpoint was an underrated live album. Also liked the El Mocambo side of Love You Live, but the rest was kinda "meh."
One of the greatest rock 'n roll albums ever made...and my favorite.
Me too, man. Since I first heard it when I was about 16.
The Rolling Stones
Greatest country band.
This was always my favorite era for them. Exile was my favorite of those four too.
Its my favorite album and always starts my list of Desert Island discs.
To me, ‘exile’ is the best album the Stones ever made, whether it’s the best rock album ever made depends on who you ask!
Weren’t we lucky to be debating between Exile, Beggars, Let It Bleed & Sticky Fingers with a great live album, Ya Ya’s in the mix. On any given day one of those is my favorite and some days it is a Brian Jones era album. I still find I can’t wear out Exile and still think the vinyl version of Let It Bleed is a perfectly sequenced album. The others also have their own magic. Richards was on fire for so long and Jagger was the perfect match and the rudder that got them through very rough waters. Again, we were lucky to have had the music!
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Yeah, this album never gets old to me. I can listen to it anytime
Couldn’t agree more
Love Exile, 4 of my Stones top 10 are on it. The horns on Rocks Off make it my all time Stones favorite. Rip This Joint: total adrenaline rush. Happy is Keith's best vocal ever. All Down the Line is Mick T's best. His style meshes with Keith's better than on anything else & is their best live song. My gut feeling is that it's my favorite Stones album but their first one has the best ratio of good songs to bad ones (I only like fast ones). Looking forward to the next segment for views on the rest of the songs.
If someone who hadn't ever heard rock and roll before and wanted to know what it was about this would be the album to introduce him/her to. It has all the elements where it came from. The best album ever made in my opinion.
As far as I’m concerned, real rock-n-roll began in New Orleans, and the Stones know this…which is what makes your statement accurate as far as I’m concerned..They finally got to play Jazz Fest in Nola, Mick did a duet w/ the Soul Queen of New Orleans Irma Thomas of ‘Time is on my side’ . It came full circle right before your eyes. What a band, what a legacy. They would rather die on stage, than anywhere else!
Diese Epoche und die Informativen Erläuterungen zu den Songs finde ich hoch interessant...Danke...🎶🔝👌..
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
The sheer breadth of musical genres and the musical density of Exile is a wondrous thing to behold. It is their best effort.
It enthusiastically sure gets my vote!
As a Stones fan from day 1 (and, yes, I prefer the Taylor years), one of the most intriguing, intoxicating songs they have ever written/recorded is "Let It Loose". Jagger's vox are incredible.
prefer the Tayor years
no surprise then
Exile especially the deluxe edition is a classic masterpiece. I agree it is the greatest album ever.
Black & Blue and Their Satanic Majesties are my favorite.
Both Underrated. Both are great in their own rite.
Two words; MICK TAYLOR!
EOMS was where Keith really took over on the steering wheel & brought in some great back up players. Superb album.
I say 5 album streak: Goats Head Soup
if you can only have one thing to listen to on the proverbial desert island, this is it
And Between The Buttons the most underrated.
When they were still creative, and not merely a business. Love that lp.
@@kenm7179? Beggars banquet, let it bleed, sticky fingers, exile, goats head,black n blue and some girls wasn't creative?
I would say Undercover is the most underrated. Because it is the least commercial. Buttons is like a squeaky clean Beatlefest. While Undercover is pure Stones, rough, dirty, sexy and sleazy. All the things that BtB is not.
@@spiritualarchitect4276 A squeaky clean Beatlefest ? Anyway, if you mention The Beatles, i can tell you this : Frank Zappa considered Between the Buttons as more innovatory than Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. And Zappa did not give often compliment.
After Exile on the Mainstreet i have lost slowly but surely my interest in the Rolling Stones.
Ont vivait stones, ont pensait stones. C'était l'époque qui était comme cela, c'était magnifique, le tourne disque, tourné à fond la caisse . oui les belles années je vous le dis
I think you get it right. Exile is the culmination of those four albums from ‘68 to ‘72. All are great, all reflect a different dimension of the band and rock in general. All were produced under varying kinds of crises and struggle. Exile is the mountaintop of those years-an album that gazes blearily but steadily to what the future of ‘70s rock would become. Although for the Stones themselves it would, ironically, represent the pinnacle of their art.
Sex ,drugs, rock n roll defined defined Exile, as well as the "72 tour supporting this album... listen to "Sweet Virginia" Thank you for your wine California, thank you for your sweet and bitter fruit, yes i got the acid in my toenail, and i hid the speed inside my shoe." While there is no Gimme Shelter, or Sympathy, or my all-time fav "Moon light Mile" on Exile, when Casino boogie leads into "Tumblin Dice", or "Just wanna see his face" preludes "Soul Survivor" man I get chills. Mick Taylor never got the credit he deserved on this effort either. Finally, remember who Keith befriended at Nellacote'...just a young man named Gram Parsons...This was (IMHO) DEFINITELY THEIR BEST, but you have to grow into it and play it all to appreciate the talent... Bobby Keys at his best here too, If you have not yet seen the movie called 'Every night a Saturday" the Bobbie Keys story do so!
LOVE Exile on Main Street
Love the STONES
Starring Martin Scorsese as Captain Obvious! "The sense of being exiled... You can't go home, you can't go home."
The problem with kind of premise is that are are a couple of hundred greatest rock albums ever made.
The Mick Taylor yeats are the best.
Charlie Watts said in an interview about 10-12 years ago that he thought that lineup was their peak, both in terms of musicianship and songwriting. Have to give that opinion ultimate respect, so I agree, but I have to throw in "Some Girls" with those albums. It felt like the Stones were reborn on that one.
It was hard to find in the '90s until around 97 when Virgin rereleased it. There's a very expensive bound book that has many previously unseen photos from the French villa (Nicollete?). Despite the basic tracks being recorded in the basement, I believe all the vocals were done at Sunset Sound in LA.
Like a history of Rock music in one album, Exile is the Greatest Rock Album ever made.
The double album surely has its own raw charm but I think the two albums prior to this was of higher quality.
Here it sometimes sounds as if The Stones is rehearsing. But that’s probably exactly what speaks to many people. Like work in progress...
Maybe a double LP was a bit too much. But it still contains some of my all time favorites with The Stones.
At time of Exile album I was a young child listening to the radio and didn't have my collection started - loved the interviews and radio hosts compared with the White Album. I love this album and now have all originals collection but would not pick this one as my favourite but the making of this one is such a great story.
I now know where ZZTops' LaGrange comes from...
Yeah, not a fan of "the best" rankings, but Exile is singuarly good, still holds up 50+ years ago
Esse é o álbum da minha vida. Perigoso, sexy, sacana, sacolejante, visceral, mas com alguma ternura. Melhor do que isso é impossível.
The Rolling Stones Super Nova Started with The Beggars Banquet (1968) had Sympathy for The Devil, Street Fighting Man, Was the start. Let It Bleed (1969) Gimme Shelter, Midnight Rambler. was the High Point. The Stones directly called for Revoulution. After Altamont they backed off these topics.
I think Let it Bleed and Beggar’s Banquet, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street in that order. My opinion
I felt really lucky when a local music store was giving away free exile CD's.
Exile is the best !
amazing album. but there is no "best." best isn't measurable when it comes to art.
Let it Bleed is the greatest rock album ever made with Gimme Shelter the very best song!
Let it Bleed is hard to beat. Exiles is their greatest album is the opinion of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Shoulda glued Stick Fingers onto Exile to make the best triple album ever
1. Beggars Banquet
2. Exile
3. Aftermath
4. Sticky Fingers
5. Let it Bleed
6. Some Girls
7. Between the Buttons
8. Their Satanic Majesties
9. Goats Head Soup
10. Decembers Children
Solo me pregunto por qué no incluyeron una remix del gran "Exile On Main Street Blues" en la reedición de 2012... 🤔 🤷🏼♂️. Me enamoré de este track al instante que lo escuché, hace muchas décadas en un bootleg... y adoraría tener una versión mejorada y limpiada...
Sorry...
I correct myself: It was not 2012... Last 'EOMS' release was in 2010.
The best RNR album ever is "Teenage Head" by the Flamin' Groovies...Mick bought this album to Keith and told him that this is the album that we have been trying to make all along...so then they made "Exile"...do your research and listen to the album and you will hear the obvious similarities because Stones emulated Groovies...
Thank for bringing up one of the great under appreciated rock albums of all time. I know Teenage Head and Sticky Fingers were released around the same time and Exile came about around a year later. I had read the Rodney Bingenheimer and Marianne Faithful stories confirming Jagger was a fan and he viewed it favorably in comparison to Sticky Fingers. As to them using it as a template for Exile, I had not heard that. I did get to listen to Don Was and Bobby Keys talk at length about the recording of the Exile album (Keys because he was there and Was because he had remastered the album resulting in him not only listening to just about every tape but also discussing the process with the band). No one mentioned the Groovies or the TH album-they did discuss Gram Parsons alleged participation (with his daughter on the panel) and both Was and Keys were adamant that while Parsons was present for the drug taking with Richards, when they moved to the basement to record, there is zero evidence of Parsons being a participant-Keys was particularly adamant that Parsons did not supply any musical support for the album. Was said he never heard anything he considered as a potential Parsons track and he had listened to everything. Whatever the active participation of Gram Parsons in the recording (and it may be more than Keys or Was are willing to give him). Parsons clearly had helped guide Richards through country music history (though I think Richards’ grandfather had been in a country band at some point). I cannot imagine 2 musicians of the stature of Richards and Parsons hanging out and not being an influence on each other. As such, I have to think that Parsons had some influence on this album even if it was not direct. As to the Groovies’ Teenage Head, I had not heard of that as a direct influence. I just never thought of TH in the context of Exile. I guess I saw them as very different albums with neither causing me to think of the other until you brought it up. However, since you brought it up, I will go back and listen with that thought in mind. Exile was made by some of the greatest rock and roll talents that ever existed at a time when heroin, tax problems, internal strife and a phenomenon that Richard Pryor discussed when he said cocaine was God’s way of saying you were making too much damn money imbued the World of the Stones at that time. If you ever get a chance to read or listen to the late Bobby Keys discuss the recording, it is both insightful and funny as hell. They were young rock musicians in one of the biggest bands on the planet-it was a time when the few lucky (or unlucky enough to be in that position) literally had the world as their private buffet but also had a giant target on their backs by the establishment. On the other hand, TH is for me a much more focused almost perfect album by a band that was still hungry and trying to grab that brass ring that had eluded them despite critical acclaim. The Stones released Exile after recording Beggars, Let it Bleed and Sticky Fingers with the Live Ya Ya’s album thrown in for good measure. I think the 2 albums came from much different places but much of that may be the baggage I bring to my experience of the 2 recordings. As you suggested, I need to investigate. With all that said, thanks for bringing up an album that doesn’t get a 1/10000000 of the acclaim it deserves and putting the album in a perspective that gives me good reason to revisit it (as if I need a reason other than it is one of the great R&R albums). Great comment-thanks
you can add Goat's Head Soup to this list.... not the next one though.
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Great album, but would have been better as a single record. Rocks Off, Tumbling Dice, Rip This Joint, Casino Boogie, Let It Loose, Happy, Soul Survivor, Sweet Virginia, Plundered My Soul and All Down The Line.
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Got to scrap the shit right off my shoes 3:57
Couldn't see vrian jones playing on this.
If Exile isn't a drug drenched álbum nothing else is.
At least to my ears.
Some girls and it’s only rock and roll rate at the top after Sticky Fingers
93% tax......It's a good thing they left England. That's highway robbery. Under those circumstances, who wouldn't leave?
I was a kid when the Beatles and the Stones came out. My first musical crush was the Beatles and then I moved on to the Stones because they were the"bad boys" of rock.
14:08 WHY TF do you pronounce "bass" like it's a fish?
old people here who have nothing else to do
Indeed waiting for a remix of Exile On Main Street.
I can only listen to this album at low volume because of the horrendous mix and i'd love them to redo it ....... some people say it's part of the "charm" of that album, and I say bull****.
Goats head soup sticky fingers
I have the album Exile On Main Street, but I don't like it. Sticky Fingers is the best for me.
Interesting story. Unwatchable video. Fire that editor.
It’s for the Tik Tok kids 😂
Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and December’s Children.
Exile on Main Street is boring.
WATCH: The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus.
Watch The Who and Keith in particular stomp them into the ground.
I still really love Lady Jane tho
Hilarious bubba! I've seen rock n roll circus. On keith moons best day he wasn't half the drummer charlie was. And on that circus. Brian Jones in his drugged out state and not far from death, played better guitar than Pete ever has. I bet you think the who was something special because they beat up there instruments? Like Clapton told a reporter when ask if he could play like Pete. " You want me to beat up my guitar?"
@@briancrawford7981 STOMPED. That performance was why that movie wasn't released for so long. Because they truly crushed the Stones. Embarrassed them on their own movie.
bubba babbling on a puerile subject matter
The Who were in top form as of the filming of Rock n Roll Circus. They had been continually touring. In contrast the Stones had been off the road and were effectively a broken band given Brian Jones was totally gone as a musician. Ironically, even the Beatles were probably a better band than the Stones judging from the "Get Back" sessions that would have been happening around that time.
@@RonnieLeeDuck I will say, once i saw it, they weren't as bad as i thought tho. But no one could touch Keith on that one
Yeah The Stones made the best Rock & Roll album ever but it’s not this one, it’s Get Yer Ya Yas Out ( or Live At Leeds)
The visual style of this video makes it nearly impossible to watch.
Nah
Let it Bleed followed by Sticky Fingers and I tell yer what, Hackney Diamonds is not far behind. Never really liked Exile……..
After : Some Girls, the album’s just were not as good
Amazing album- horrible video bound to give seizures
I guess if you are a big stones fan....me...not so much...keith richards is sloppy
What is the best book ever? What is the best painting ever which is the best song ever three questions that an artist would never ask. What a silly waste of time of an endeavor.
Nowhere near the best rock album ever made! All of Thin Lizzy's albums are the best!
What are you talking about with "the best" and "not the best". This is art, not sports. I respect "favorite" or " not favorite" but you are not the grand arbitor.
no. they're not!
All their albums are filler crap around a single or two.
The Strolling Bones should have hung it up after Exile on Main Street. Outside of a studio environment, they are just a decent garage band. Seen them five times in three countries over the years. They never failed to disappoint.
Relics from another age !
Not even Rock.
Sticky fingers is the best only first lp of the dbl is any good other is mostly trash
Best Rock Album Ever? Not even.
Stopped watching at 5:06. Couldn't take any more ADHD childish camera/editing. Good audio info though.
I think this was AI generated. The giveaway was when it said: "Mick Taylor on the [bah-ass]" pronounced like the fish.
The best rock & roll album ever made was Dark side of the moon. The stones don’t even come close to
Bollocks.
You are wrong
DSOTM is not rock&roll. It's music, but not as we knew it.
You can't compare any Stones albums with Dark Side of the Moon. Prog-Rock v Rock, Blues, Country. But I think Wish You Were Here is a better record than Dark Side of the Moon anyway.
@@roy421000 you are right of course. They are different types of music . Also my favourite album is Wish you were here although Darkside has sold more records!. Believe it or not, I am one of the few people left who danced to the Floyd at the UFO club , so I have watched the monster most of my life
A LOT of Bands (The Beatles, Led-Zeppelin, The Who, RUSH, Pink Floyd, YES, Cream, etc.) could be recognized as creating the GOAT album besides the Rolling Stones.
Sticky first let it bleed second beggars third the goats head