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I will go with Dirty Work

You must be from the Bizarro World Htrae!

What’s the album with Gimme Shelter????????

Rod

Survival .... last track on side two ........



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What’s the album with Gimme Shelter????????

ROLLED GOLD?

I have a few favorite Stones albums for different reasons but these two jump out for me:

GOATS HEAD SOUP is a favorite because it's so different from The Big 4 and anything after, with fantastic songs played in a bit of a daze. I really dig that. Maybe because it's just different enough.

UNDERCOVER is the true follow up to EMOTIONAL RESCUE and is aggressively different, perhaps more so than any other album sans TMSR: it's the last of their inventive studio work, and has classic Stones elements as well as the Stones growing with the music culture elements. Horns. Percussion. Lots of vocals. Great great album.

Early Autumn, because it's crisp in the morning, but still warm during the afternoon. Whoops, wrong thread...



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Exile released 48 years ago today. I feel old.

"I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon."

Sticky
Beggar's
Exile

I am not a fan of their early R&B and blues

LET IT BLEED.

Ninth grade of high school when it was released. We had a snow day from school in Virginia, and I raided all of the spare change around the house, walked over to the J. C. Penney store, bought it, and listened to it for about a month non-stop.

HONK

Exile, hands down...it is raw, gritty, bluesy, and real...Mick's vocals break at just the right time on my favorite track, " Let It Loose"....it doesn't get much better than that for me. Ventilator Blues with that SLIDE, Shine A Light...very 70's sounding...the choirs, the special touches sprinkled masterfully throughout...pure magic! So many awesome tracks...Sweet Black Angel, Sweet Virginia...great, mournful harp playing, and on & on...I still play it, A LOT..I wore out 2 copies! The Stones 1972 Tour was my first time seeing the band LIVE and I got to see & hear many tracks from Exile performed up close...it knocked me off my feet...and it still does!

It has to be Goats Head Soup. GHS has the right sense of post party comedown, and seems a natural successor to Sticky Fingers. I always maintain Exile On Main Street was a glorious anomaly, and not a successor to Sticky Fingers.

Goats Head Soup is the Stones as mature artists, something they were unable to maintain, but Winter, Coming Down Again, 100 Years Ago, are so different, yet so good. There's also a sense of jadedness, cynicism that Angie, Silver Train, and even Star Star which isn't elsewhere. Then there's some experimentalism on Hide Your Love, i.e piano-based blues, Can You Hear The Music and its return to psychedelia, coupled with a voodoo sound to Dancing With Mr D. Ultimately, what's not to like on GHS ?

BTW I could, on other occasions, throw in Bridges to Babylon. It's got some great songs, and a clear demarcation between Mick and Keith to good effect. Plus, a great blues in Might As Well Get Juiced.

Love You Live - my first Stones album. And as they say, you never forget your first one.

Too your point, Hot Rocks and Made In The Shade. They started the journey for me.

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It has to be Goats Head Soup. GHS has the right sense of post party comedown, and seems a natural successor to Sticky Fingers. I always maintain Exile On Main Street was a glorious anomaly, and not a successor to Sticky Fingers.

Goats Head Soup is the Stones as mature artists, something they were unable to maintain, but Winter, Coming Down Again, 100 Years Ago, are so different, yet so good. There's also a sense of jadedness, cynicism that Angie, Silver Train, and even Star Star which isn't elsewhere. Then there's some experimentalism on Hide Your Love, i.e piano-based blues, Can You Hear The Music and its return to psychedelia, coupled with a voodoo sound to Dancing With Mr D. Ultimately, what's not to like on GHS ?

Agree 1000%
The most mature and serious music they have ever done

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It has to be Goats Head Soup. GHS has the right sense of post party comedown, and seems a natural successor to Sticky Fingers. I always maintain Exile On Main Street was a glorious anomaly, and not a successor to Sticky Fingers.

Goats Head Soup is the Stones as mature artists, something they were unable to maintain, but Winter, Coming Down Again, 100 Years Ago, are so different, yet so good. There's also a sense of jadedness, cynicism that Angie, Silver Train, and even Star Star which isn't elsewhere. Then there's some experimentalism on Hide Your Love, i.e piano-based blues, Can You Hear The Music and its return to psychedelia, coupled with a voodoo sound to Dancing With Mr D. Ultimately, what's not to like on GHS ?

100% their most underrated album. Like you said, it was the first mature Stones album and something they never quite replicated ever again. I am SO excited for the GHS reissue with bonus material. The album will get to shine in the spotlight again.

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It has to be Goats Head Soup. GHS has the right sense of post party comedown, and seems a natural successor to Sticky Fingers. I always maintain Exile On Main Street was a glorious anomaly, and not a successor to Sticky Fingers.

Goats Head Soup is the Stones as mature artists, something they were unable to maintain, but Winter, Coming Down Again, 100 Years Ago, are so different, yet so good. There's also a sense of jadedness, cynicism that Angie, Silver Train, and even Star Star which isn't elsewhere. Then there's some experimentalism on Hide Your Love, i.e piano-based blues, Can You Hear The Music and its return to psychedelia, coupled with a voodoo sound to Dancing With Mr D. Ultimately, what's not to like on GHS ?

Brilliant post. However, SF is at least a contender for being their most mature album, imo.

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It has to be Goats Head Soup. GHS has the right sense of post party comedown, and seems a natural successor to Sticky Fingers. I always maintain Exile On Main Street was a glorious anomaly, and not a successor to Sticky Fingers.

Goats Head Soup is the Stones as mature artists, something they were unable to maintain, but Winter, Coming Down Again, 100 Years Ago, are so different, yet so good. There's also a sense of jadedness, cynicism that Angie, Silver Train, and even Star Star which isn't elsewhere. Then there's some experimentalism on Hide Your Love, i.e piano-based blues, Can You Hear The Music and its return to psychedelia, coupled with a voodoo sound to Dancing With Mr D. Ultimately, what's not to like on GHS ?

Brilliant post. However, SF is at least a contender for being their most mature album, imo.

Hmm.. and Exile (Happy Bday), BB and LIB

I have pretty much always said Exile. I listened to it for the umpteenth time today. I liked it. Loved it? I wasn’t so sure. Maybe I’ve always thought it the best/greatest BECAUSE of all the mythology behind it. Musically it is brilliant. But some of the individual tracks, NOT taken alongside those around it, perhaps aren’t that stunning.

Turd on the Run? Soul Survivor? I Just Wanna see his face? Casino Boogie? Sweet Black Angel? Really REALLY good songs. But great? Or somewhat propped up by the greatness that does surround them?

Perhaps the mythology of the album’s creation has blurred my vision a little.

Whereas EVERY track on Sticky Fingers is in itself an outright GEM. AS are all the tracks on Beggars and Bleed. So in the end, I now vote for Sticky Fingers.

Rod

The absolute best RS album is Exile On Main Street

My favourite album is Goats Head Soup, which also was the first album I bought. I was used to spending all my money on cakes. Especially on Swiss Rolls. Then I bought GHS. No more cakes!

It's an album not comaparable to other Rolling Stones albums. Unlike all other Rolling Stones albums.

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It has to be Goats Head Soup. GHS has the right sense of post party comedown, and seems a natural successor to Sticky Fingers. I always maintain Exile On Main Street was a glorious anomaly, and not a successor to Sticky Fingers.

Goats Head Soup is the Stones as mature artists, something they were unable to maintain, but Winter, Coming Down Again, 100 Years Ago, are so different, yet so good. There's also a sense of jadedness, cynicism that Angie, Silver Train, and even Star Star which isn't elsewhere. Then there's some experimentalism on Hide Your Love, i.e piano-based blues, Can You Hear The Music and its return to psychedelia, coupled with a voodoo sound to Dancing With Mr D. Ultimately, what's not to like on GHS ?

Brilliant post. However, SF is at least a contender for being their most mature album, imo.

Hmm.. and Exile (Happy Bday), BB and LIB

Yeah, but musically that maturity and soreness of some of the GHS-songs is also to be found (even stronger, imo) on SF.

Wild Horses
I Got The Blues
Sister Morphine
Moonlight Mile

Even Sway has some of that melancholy

SF is far from the "party record" many claim it to be, imo.

TATTOO YOU is another one.

If I had to pick just one, out of all the albums that are favorites, it would be TATTOO YOU.

get yer ya yas out or beggars banquet for me. Now is a serious contender. Then probably EOMS, aftermath or let it bleed.

jb

Emotional Rescue is my personal favorite. I would make mix tape versions, leaving out All About You and Indian Girl, then put Down In The Hole and the title track at the end. It would all fit on one 45 minute side of a 90 minute cassette tape. That custom mix always sounded great to me and gave me lots of energy. I associate it with driving down the road on sunny summer days.

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Emotional Rescue is my personal favorite. I would make mix tape versions, leaving out All About You and Indian Girl, then put Down In The Hole and the title track at the end. It would all fit on one 45 minute side of a 90 minute cassette tape. That custom mix always sounded great to me and gave me lots of energy. I associate it with driving down the road on sunny summer days.

The album is only about 40 mins long, so I guess you left out All About You and Indian Girl for artistic reasons (which I understand), rather than to have it fit on a 45 min tape side?

Nice to read about the evocative nature of albums, most favourites of mine have some kind of personal context around them too.

Exile On Main Street - it has a touch of everything I love about the stones. I’ve played this album most Friday nights since 1997.

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I will go with Dirty Work

Yep. Always loved that record. A product and a sound of its' time. Neck and neck with Undercover. (Give the nod to UC). Everyone has their own album to do. A matter of opinion. Yours, theirs, mine, all worth the same. In other words...Nothing. But enjoy!!



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