1. Rocks Off
2. Rip This Joint
3. Shake Your Hips - The Rolling Stones, Harpo, Slim
4. Casino Boogie
5. Tumbling Dice
6. Sweet Virginia
7. Torn and Frayed
8. Sweet Black Angel
9. Loving Cup
10. Happy
11. Turd on the Run
12. Ventilator Blues
13. I Just Want to See His Face
14. Let It Loose
15. All Down the Line
16. Stop Breaking Down - The Rolling Stones, Johnson, Robert [01
17. Shine a Light
18. Soul Survivor
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Media Type: CD
Artist: ROLLING STONES
Title: EXILE ON MAIN STREET
Street Release Date: 07/26/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com essential recording
From the swaggering frustration in the first song ("I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping," Mick Jagger sings in the hyper "Rocks Off"), the Stones speed through familiar neighborhoods of country, blues, and R&B on Exile. They never even bother to stop when they've crashed into something. They don't leap into new worlds so much as master the old ones, turning Slim Harpo's blues obscurity "Hip Shake" into a harp-and-piano steamroller and setting spines a-cracking in "Ventilator Blues." Both "Tumbling Dice" and Keith Richards's "Happy" have become hits, but the 1972 album is most notable for its overall murky adrenaline. --Steve Knopper
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Before Keith Richards's bad habits took over for a time in the mid-'70s, his work ethic was quite high. Stories abound of the long, if somewhat off-schedule, hours he spent working on this classic album in the basement of his home in France. Hanging together as much because of great songwriting ("Rocks Off," "Soul Survivor") as its fabled grungy atmosphere, Exile caps the Stones' great 1968-'72 run with a force that belies their supposed spiritual tiredness. What some of these songs are about is anybody's guess--Keith claims "Ventilator Blues" was inspired by a grate, while the song plays like an ode to a pistol--but that's just part of this album's hazy game. --Rickey Wright
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Exile on Main St.
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1994-07-26)
- Publisher: Virgin Records Us
- Label: Virgin Records Us
- Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
- Studio: Virgin Records Us
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 452 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #1737
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Summary: Could Have Been Edited to One Very Good Album 2008-12-24
Comment: Everyone heaps praise on this, but like the Beatles White Album, I think it could have been condensed into one very good album. Don't get me wrong - there are some great songs here - Sweet Vriginia, Torn and Frayed, Tumbling Dice, etc. - but is Turd on the Run really top notch Stones material? Ventilator Blues and Just Wanna See His Face also could have been dropped without any big loss. I know that diehard Stones fans will disagree, but this album has way too much "filler".
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Summary: Best record of the album era 2008-12-21
Comment: There has long been a Beatles vs. Stones battle. The Beatles, in my opinion, are in a class of their own. The Stones, though, deserve their World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll band moniker, the Beatles being more of a pop band. If I was stranded on the proverbial desert island with only one album, this would be it. It is the Stones at their finest. It is raw and emotional. It promotes hip shaking.
I don't review music because it is so highly personal. I made an exception for this one.
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Summary: I don;t think it's good 2008-12-09
Comment: cuz some songs in formal studio version lost some oringinal feeling
like shine alight,all down the line, loving cup
their demo version sounds much better than the one on exile
this 2lp contains some classic
but not perfect stones album at all!(cuz too separated,not has a total theme)
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Summary: Mish-Mash of Rushed & Blurry Mis-Direction 2008-12-05
Comment: The best Stones album is "Let It Bleed". My favourite Stones albums are "Goats Head Soup" and "Decembers Children". Exile is a bunch of tracks scraped from the bottom of the barrel and recorded in dysfunctional chaose at Keith's Heroin House in the South of France in the Summer of 1971. I love the Stones, but this is so far below their standard.
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Summary: That indescribable "bluesy swagger" 2008-11-29
Comment: I would not want to call myself a big Stones fan, in fact 'Exile' is their only album I own. I rate it at 5 stars. On this record, these Rolling Stones have that indescribable, what I call "bluesy swagger", all over them. Just listen to songs like 'Shine a light' and 'Sweet Virginia'. These Rolling Stones know their history, after Johnson and Muddy, they have taken it to a whole new level. This is no sell-out but rather a big ode to these old Bluesmen. Excellent and timeless.
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