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Havo
i Know, somebody will disagree! Its a great album --for sure. but---where is a song like "Midnight Rambler" Or "Sympathie"?.. Casino boogie--"turd on the run--i just seen his face---soul survivour--are "fillers" --I mentioned "Beggars" and "Bleed"-but what i like most is "Aftermath" and "out of our heads".
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slew
What makes EOMS so great is its lack of a huge song like Brown Sugar! It delves into all styles of American music that they Stones can play. Gospel, Country, Blues and Rock N Roll. The crowning achievement of their recording career IMHO!
Exile is a magical 18 song rock opera...it tells a great story...
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pricepittsburgh
I'm the one who reactivated the thread because it popped up on Google search when I was scrolling for Exile blogs. Seeing as how I was actually a member of this one, I decided to comment, and for and old thread it sure has gotten a lot of additional responses. Maybe Exile will grow on me. As I said I can stream it with headphones off Google play or crank it on my computer speakers which is a boom box with an aux chord running from it to the tower. Maybe I'm just a tad disappointed because of all the hype I had read before listening to it. However, that same hype for Beggars, Bleed, Sticky or Some Girls didn't leave me underwhelmed. For what its worth I have actually purchased individual tracks off of Exile. The obvious Tumbling Dice but also Torn and Frayed, Rip this Joint, Ventilator Blues and Let it Loose. Having those purchased has dropped the price down to the point I might as well just buy the rest of it lol. Maybe if I own it I'll appreciate it more.
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kammpberg
It Will - and yes, Physical Graffiti is Zeppelin's best album as well (although as I mentioned, Sticky Fingers is the Stones best album).
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pricepittsburgh
Okay, I'm back and I know this is quick and may seem and I'll be called flaky and flip floppy but I just listened to in again and I finally got it. The first time I played it, my mindset was going track for track and attempting to let each song stand on it's own. This time I played it without looking at the names of the songs. I realized that this is a Soul album. I don't mean the genetic title soul as a genre. I mean Soulful regardless of the individual genres of each song. The album is filled with arrangements and deliveries that make them Soul Country, Soul Blues, Soul Gospel. And I also picked up on some Southern Rock. It was indeed an experience which felt like I was in a bar listening to a band. Very cool. I'm going to go to sleep to in tonight. I happily stand corrected on some of my previous comments.
. Lol your sarcasm didn't go over my head but thanks anyway but for real I did dig it. Cut me some slack, everyone was a newbie onceQuote
HearMeKnockin
This is great news pricepittsburgh! We can be EOMS buddies now.
Lol yeah it's all cool... I'm glad you finally came around. It took me time to love too, but I now recognize it as the Stones' best.Quote
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HearMeKnockin
This is great news pricepittsburgh! We can be EOMS buddies now.
I've listened to it 1000 times, still not always certain of the song titles. Exile is an artistic masterpiece, an intimate picture of their reckless world. The sequence is masterful, yet many songs sound like outtakes, each one fighting for its life.Desperation soaked, filthy, blood spattered, toothless, elegance. Keith the great, inventor of classic rockQuote
pricepittsburgh
Okay, I'm back and I know this is quick and may seem and I'll be called flaky and flip floppy but I just listened to in again and I finally got it. The first time I played it, my mindset was going track for track and attempting to let each song stand on it's own. This time I played it without looking at the names of the songs. I realized that this is a Soul album. I don't mean the genetic title soul as a genre. I mean Soulful regardless of the individual genres of each song. The album is filled with arrangements and deliveries that make them Soul Country, Soul Blues, Soul Gospel. And I also picked up on some Southern Rock. It was indeed an experience which felt like I was in a bar listening to a band. Very cool. I'm going to go to sleep to in tonight. I happily stand corrected on some of my previous comments.
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Havo
i Know, somebody will disagree! Its a great album --for sure. but---where is a song like "Midnight Rambler" Or "Sympathie"?.. Casino boogie--"turd on the run--i just seen his face---soul survivour--are "fillers" --I mentioned "Beggars" and "Bleed"-but what i like most is "Aftermath" and "out of our heads".
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GasLightStreet
There are days where LIB is their best/greatest album. And then SF. But never EOMS. Too long, and with that, too much filler compared to LIB and SF. Some of it is great filler - the exception being I Just Want To See His Face, which is crap.
There are days where EOMS dips below TY and even BB but never below SG.
It's mainly due to its length. It brings forth the beauty - and brilliance - of a proper album length wise. EOMS is more of a mood album. Gotta be in a mood to listen to the whole thing. I've made a couple of edit versions of it that aren't quite so mood bearing.
Perhaps that's the part of it not having a huge single like SF or TY. I dunno. EOMS is a brilliant compilation of different things they did and as an album a fantastic representation of what they liked to do.
It's just that LIB and SF are better.
Is it the greatest double LP ever? That is most likely. I love Zep's PG but it's got some clunkers on it that really clunk - they pulled an EXILE and grabbed whatever was sitting around after recording 8 songs for the LP. THE WALL is fantastic but way too long. Another album that requires a mood to listen to. Then of course there is THE BEATLES. Fantastic. But also loaded with some crap filler.
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Chris Fountain
This is the greatest album in the history of Rock-n-Roll. League office dismisses such nonsense.
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Chris Fountain
This is the greatest album in the history of Rock-n-Roll. League office dismisses such nonsense.
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mickschix
Absolutely TRUE, their BEST album ever---and they can afford to have a few " filler " tracks with the overwhelming number of GEMS!! " Shine A Light" " Let It Loose", " Tumbling Dice", " Ventalator Blues", " Loving Cup", & " Sweet Virginia".
And KAMMPBERG, you nailed it! It is a complete work, with moments of quiet, ebb, flow and then BAM!!!!! Better than a rock opera, it moves together as one cohesive unit even though the tracks are not similar really. If I could only listen to one album forever more, EXILE would be enough for me!
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lem motlow
it's a masterpiece and doesnt have a non-great song on it.
only overrated in relation to the other 3 of the best 4 rock and roll albums ever made.
i like beggars and let it bleed a little more just because the standout songs on them,exile doesnt have a sympathy or gimme shelter.
i do understand how the whole of exile is more than the some of its parts though.
but as one reviewer said when looking back on beggars banquet"this is where they laid claim to the throne" it was basically a 1-2 combination followed by a left hook and exile was the overhand right that scored the knockout.
a title held to this day....
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GasLightStreet
There are days where LIB is their best/greatest album. And then SF. But never EOMS. Too long, and with that, too much filler compared to LIB and SF. Some of it is great filler - the exception being I Just Want To See His Face, which is crap.
There are days where EOMS dips below TY and even BB but never below SG.
It's mainly due to its length. It brings forth the beauty - and brilliance - of a proper album length wise. EOMS is more of a mood album. Gotta be in a mood to listen to the whole thing. I've made a couple of edit versions of it that aren't quite so mood bearing.
Perhaps that's the part of it not having a huge single like SF or TY. I dunno. EOMS is a brilliant compilation of different things they did and as an album a fantastic representation of what they liked to do.
It's just that LIB and SF are better.
Is it the greatest double LP ever? That is most likely. I love Zep's PG but it's got some clunkers on it that really clunk - they pulled an EXILE and grabbed whatever was sitting around after recording 8 songs for the LP. THE WALL is fantastic but way too long. Another album that requires a mood to listen to. Then of course there is THE BEATLES. Fantastic. But also loaded with some crap filler.
double albums are meant to be played all the way through, until you know them, and are able to choose sides or cuts that you want to hear, and your memory can put them in the right context for you.
in most things the beatles are better than the stones. but in double albums, exile is head and shoulders above The Beatles White Album, because it is a more consistent, unified whole.