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Exile
Let it Bleed
Sgt Peppers
Revolver
Quadrophenia
Who's Next
Muswell Hillbillies
Station to Station
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Low
Heroes
Physical Graffiti
Free Wheeling
Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde
John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
Sticky Fingers
Village Green Preservation Society
Face to Face
Arthur
Time out of Mind
Some Girls
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Witness
Apart from the three arguably great songs of the album (and already mentionned by Dandelion),"Miss You", "Far Away Eyes" and "Shattered", the majority of the other songs of SOME GIRLS reflects that current new simplicity, which by the way seemed to vitalize the Stones. At that juncture the Rolling Stones were capable of reinventing themselves and move with the "zeit geist" of rock music on one more occasion.
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RaiseTheKnife
Exile would be one if they had left the following songs in the trash can:
I Just Wanna See His Face
Sweet Black Angel
Shake You Hips
Turd On The Run
Rip This Joint
Casino Boogie
Ventilator Blues
Soul Survivor
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RaiseTheKnife
Exile would be one if they had left the following songs in the trash can:
I Just Wanna See His Face
Sweet Black Angel
Shake You Hips
Turd On The Run
Rip This Joint
Casino Boogie
Ventilator Blues
Soul Survivor
What makes Exile so great is the rough and ready feel of the whole album. Yes there are flaws but what incredible flaws they are.
This is where true Stones' fans wanted the Stones to be in 71/72 - in a dingy basement cranking out songs from the heart and joining together the gritty nuts and bolts from everything that had influenced them up to this point.
The beauty of the album is that incredible roller coaster ride - the dynamics of taking the rough with the smooth.
For every classic like Rocks Off there's a raw rocker like Rip This Joint right after it; for every gem like Torn & Frayed there's a wonderful tune like Sweet Black Angel.
The sequencing of the album is key - I wouldn't want to hear it any other way.
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Mathijs
Radiohead - OK Computer.
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SAL isn´t their best live album but their second-best.
For kooks only.
I wonder what Marty thinks of the movie/album.
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Witness
Apart from the three arguably great songs of the album (and already mentionned by Dandelion),"Miss You", "Far Away Eyes" and "Shattered", the majority of the other songs of SOME GIRLS reflects that current new simplicity, which by the way seemed to vitalize the Stones. At that juncture the Rolling Stones were capable of reinventing themselves and move with the "zeit geist" of rock music on one more occasion.
Correct.
And yet SG is one of their - musically spoken - worst albums ever. The songwritig is mediocre/inferior. Even if punk was an influence it shouldn´t have been that inferior. Apart from Some Girls & Beast Of Burden most songs are true candidates for the garbage can.
For the deluxe-edition they in fact pulled out better songs of the garbage can than most that are on the original album.
Respectable is quite ok, Miss You was a big hit (nevertheless I do not like it) but everything else... garbage or almost garbage. The only good thing about SG is that with all the bad songs still it isn´t boring like GHS and parts of IORR. Strangly enough ER, although more or less following a similar concept is a much better album and very enjoyable.
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Go and enjoy Indian Girl, I'll enjoy Far Away Eyes in the meantime.
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HMS
All very good excuses. In fact Exile is half great, half terrible. All because they were too lazy to carefully select the tunes to end up on a single LP, which indeed could have been one of their greatest albums ever.
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Redhotcarpet
A hard days night - The Beatles (?)