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| Date Reviewed: 09/28/2007 |
- CanadaSucks
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Summary: 2007-09-28 12:37:00 Terrific listing. . .underrated party album. . .some solid tracks with few weak fillers. . .yes, "Let it Bleed" is a better album top-to-bottom, but I've left "exile" in the CD changer and it has been a crowd-pleaser in the past. . .
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| Date Reviewed: 09/28/2007 |
- oscargamblesfro
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Summary: 2007-09-28 10:31:00 Some people think that this is the best one, and while I actually prefer the three previous albums, this one has some of their best material. Astonishingly, when it came out it wasn't thought of as a great one by most of the writers, and when I got it when I was 16, I initially wasn't particularly impressed. It sounded too muddy and raw. But it's an album that grows on you. What's unfortunate about this one is that the stations play "Tumbling Dice," "Happy" and maybe something else once in a while: unless The Stones happen to be in town or something, then they might dig a little deeper. There are lots of great tunes, some of my favorites are "Loving Cup,""Torn and Frayed," and "Rocks Off," and "Rip This Joint" is almost like a primer for everything that blues soaked rock n' roll should be... My absolute favorites are "Shine A Light" and ( especially)"Let It Loose" those are two of the most incredible, emotion packed, and brilliant tunes they ever did IMO. Gritty, decadent, raw, honest, and powerful recording, in my view the last album they did that was uniformly brilliant from start to finish....One of the truly, truly awesome double albums of the genre.
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| Date Reviewed: 09/28/2007 |
- FranksWildYears
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Summary: 2007-09-28 01:33:00 I'm with Oscar, the album is the weary messy coda to their greatest run of albums that goes from Beggars Banquet through Let it Bleed and Sticky Fingers to this great set. Throw Get Yer Ya Yas Out into that period as their best ever live record and you have enough music for a legendary career. Let it Bleed is the overall strongest of the group, but Exile has a handful of absolute stone classics, my personal favourites being Sweet Black Angel and Shine a Light.
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| Date Reviewed: 09/05/2007 |
- rayrose
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Summary: 2007-09-05 02:23:00 the stones masterpiece,so raw and real.the songwriting and performances are stellar.fave:soul survivor
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| Date Reviewed: 07/04/2007 |
- gobidesert
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Summary: 2007-07-04 09:43:00 One of my favourites of all time. Rough and ready and the Stones close to their best. Rip this joint!
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| Date Reviewed: 10/22/2004 |
- Djahuti
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Summary: 2004-10-22 07:33:00 3 great reasons to own this one:"Shake your Hips" an absolutely phenomenal cover of Slim Harpos tune,"Ventilator Blues",which sounds just as vital today as when it was recorded,and "Stop Breakin Down".These alone would suffice-but the rest of the album is pretty good also.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/11/2003 |
- edward-north
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Summary: 2003-10-11 11:21:00 Their last grasp before they lost their way.
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| Date Reviewed: 06/16/2003 |
- Medgar Evers
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Summary: 2003-06-16 10:07:00 Mr. Ambivalent here. It sat on my shelf for years and now I can't keep it on the shelf. I've come to appreciate the "underappreciated classics"--"Let it Loose" (Jagger roars and cries, the horns are hot), "Sweet Black Angel", "Torn and Frayed", etc.--in addition to the hits. If it's not one song on "Exile" I'm craving, it's another. At first listen it all sounded careless. Now it sounds intricate, confident and really quite impressive. And yea- brilliant comment, Springsteen80sbaby.
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| Date Reviewed: 06/09/2003 |
- the transgressors
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Summary: 2003-06-09 01:26:00 dirty, sloppy, arrogant, moody...this is the rock n roll experience as captured by the best there was on a fine double-album.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/17/2002 |
- Jason1972
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Summary: 2002-10-17 03:02:00 Good blues riffs from Richards.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/06/2002 |
- todd90125
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Summary: 2002-01-06 01:23:00 Nothing against Gram Parsons,flying burrito brothers. Exile On Main Street was the birth of 90's NO Depression (alt.country) A Classic!!! THE ROLLING STONES "Greatest country Band"...for real!
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| Date Reviewed: 05/01/2001 |
- Springsteen80sbaby
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 for some reason I never liked the stones too much. ... Strengths: NA
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Summary: 2001-05-01 09:20:00 for some reason I never liked the stones too much. I think it was becuz Mick Jagger looks just like Luke skywalker!
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| Date Reviewed: 10/20/2000 |
- amcgraw
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Summary: 2000-10-20 02:00:00 A classic album!!! The Stones are one of the best rock bands, and this is one of their best albums. "Tumbling Dice" is one of my favorite Stones songs. I bought this one to compare it track for track to Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, which was her answer to the Stones' Exile.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/19/2000 |
- mfluty
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Summary: 2000-10-19 10:14:00 I feel this is the Stones greatest album. They were strung out on drugs/alcohol (Mick alcohol, Keith on heroin). Also, they had just finished a brutal world tour and just locked themselves in the studio for a couple of months and created a masterpiece.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/15/1999 |
- Dragonfly
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Summary: 1999-11-15 07:15:00 The Rolling Stones at their most creative, bluesiest peak. Black Crowes have attempted with only some success to re-create the sound.
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