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Redhotcarpet
Great thread, great song, great posts from Doxa, Witness Swiss and others. To me the album sounds like someone reminiscing, crying, getting high, f-ing, trying to boost the ego, longing for a lost love, a dead friend, and finally in this last gem of a song, screaming inside the cell on the island of Saint Helena or maybe screaming outside the island, on a boat, escaping the hell hole where the prisoner spilled out his life to the muddy walls. The album is a monologue.
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DandelionPowderman
Weren't Mick AND Keith touching Exile up in LA?
And once again: Don't forget the "oldies" that also made this album great.
Loving Cup
Shine A Light
Shake Your Hips
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Sweet Black Angel
All Down The Line
Stop Breaking Down
All of these songs were either pre prod-recorded or written in 1969 or 1970...
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DandelionPowderman
Weren't Mick AND Keith touching Exile up in LA?
And once again: Don't forget the "oldies" that also made this album great.
Loving Cup
Shine A Light
Shake Your Hips
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Sweet Black Angel
All Down The Line
Stop Breaking Down
All of these songs were either pre prod-recorded or written in 1969 or 1970...
Those songs are almost the cornerstone of the album. Yeah, I think many of us tend to forget they were already floating around.
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Redhotcarpet
Great thread, great song, great posts from Doxa, Witness Swiss and others. To me the album sounds like someone reminiscing, crying, getting high, f-ing, trying to boost the ego, longing for a lost love, a dead friend, and finally in this last gem of a song, screaming inside the cell on the island of Saint Helena or maybe screaming outside the island, on a boat, escaping the hell hole where the prisoner spilled out his life to the muddy walls. The album is a monologue.
Brilliant -- brilliant!! One of the best things I've "heard articulated" about Exile.
71Tele -- agreed -- and I did say Mick polished it up in LA -- however, it still has mildew on the walls
- no matter how much Mediterranean white wall wash was swathed over it! And you know me better than to
imagine I think there's "filler" in Exile....except maybe like some spackle for my own soul...that kind
of "filler."
Rockman, I certainly didn't say party...I said 10-day bender. Tho' could be one 72-hour night or 3 months...
treaclef, love your post -- cognitive dissonance, without any angst, all rolling by.
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Redhotcarpet
Great thread, great song, great posts from Doxa, Witness Swiss and others. To me the album sounds like someone reminiscing, crying, getting high, f-ing, trying to boost the ego, longing for a lost love, a dead friend, and finally in this last gem of a song, screaming inside the cell on the island of Saint Helena or maybe screaming outside the island, on a boat, escaping the hell hole where the prisoner spilled out his life to the muddy walls. The album is a monologue.
Brilliant -- brilliant!! One of the best things I've "heard articulated" about Exile.
71Tele -- agreed -- and I did say Mick polished it up in LA -- however, it still has mildew on the walls
- no matter how much Mediterranean white wall wash was swathed over it! And you know me better than to
imagine I think there's "filler" in Exile....except maybe like some spackle for my own soul...that kind
of "filler."
Rockman, I certainly didn't say party...I said 10-day bender. Tho' could be one 72-hour night or 3 months...
treaclef, love your post -- cognitive dissonance, without any angst, all rolling by.
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DandelionPowderman
Weren't Mick AND Keith touching Exile up in LA?
And once again: Don't forget the "oldies" that also made this album great.
Loving Cup
Shine A Light
Shake Your Hips
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Sweet Black Angel
All Down The Line
Stop Breaking Down
All of these songs were either pre prod-recorded or written in 1969 or 1970...
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DandelionPowderman
In a way, Shine A Light is Salt Of The Earth part III.
It's the third gospel-ish song in a row, after SOTE and YCAGWYW.
Had they finished it, and included it as the album ender on SF, people would probably have expected all Stones albums to end with a gospel-song from there on
What a brilliant string of songs!
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Doxa
We are finally left with "Sweet Black Angel". I don't know anything of its history, not even that it was such a 'older song'.
- Doxa
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Doxa
We are finally left with "Sweet Black Angel". I don't know anything of its history, not even that it was such a 'older song'.
- Doxa
One source has Anita stating it was played over and over at Nellcote but "Sweet Black Angel" is usually said being a more or less complete instrumental backing track from Stargroves (under the title "Bent Green Needles" ).
Here´s an interesting quote from Trevor Churchill in "EXILE" about those "old tracks":
I went down to Nellcote with rough mixes of all the material I´d found and remember them listening to them and saying "God, that´s pretty good, what is all this?" One of the tracks that I specifically remember was "Shake Your Hips" which definitely came out of that bunch of tapes. Another was "Stop Breaking Down", and all the ones with Stu on the piano. There was also a version of the Jimi Hendrix song "Red House".
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Redhotcarpet
Stargroves yes.
This is what became Happy but it also has that Sweet black angel feel to it. When the Stones sit down and sing together.
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Redhotcarpet
Stargroves yes.
This is what became Happy but it also has that Sweet black angel feel to it. When the Stones sit down and sing together.
It's not possible being THAT literal when it comes to music.
Yep, by pulling some of the chords out of this track, one can say that they are (almost) identical to the opening chords on Happy. There are some crucial differences in minor/major within those chords, though, and the chords work more like pure percussion in this song.
So to conclude with this being what became Happy is an enormous stretch, imo.
I'm with you on the caribbean "feel" you get from this rhythm, though, without thinking Sweet Black Angel right away