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| texile |
one question:
is that nicky or billy?
and is that opening riff a guitar or keyboard?
and gazza, there's a great version of this song on stp boot of 72 rehearsals -
alot of starts and finishes but they manage one almost-complete version....and jagger's voice is so loud, clear and present it gives me the chills.... |
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| ebmp |
that opening riff is a gutar... With an effect similar as the one they used in If you Really Want to Be My friend |
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| corgi37 |
Along with Soul Survivor, LIL, to me any way, the best tracks on Exile.
Jagger's vocal is astounding. He's not really putting on any fake accents, or hamming things up. He's just belting that sucker out. Everything about the song is class. The vocal arrangements are outstanding. The song builds up like no ones businees. Charlies distorted toms towards the end of the song make my heart explode. The lyrics, as we know, are just mind numbingly brilliant. Even the little tinkering piano towards the end. Man, this song has THE power.
This track is a fine example of why they are revered, and why this album towers over everything they have done. People can say they never matched Exile. I agree. But at least they made it. No one else can claim that.
I really, truly wish i was old enough to appreciate them fro 68 onwards. I mean, how unreal would it be to more or less write them off after SATANIC, only to be given JJF, then BB, LIB, GYYYO, SF - each more superb than its predesessor. Then, they bring out EXILE, and all bets are off. I swear, some how, 1 day, some one will make a movie of just the tales behind the recording of EXILE.
Of course, its not all their doing. Billy, Jimmy Miller and of course Jim Price also own this astounding musical document.
As a little side note, 1 of the backing singers, Venetta Fields, has lived here in Australia for nigh on 30 years. She came out with Boz Scaggs circa 77, and decided to stay. She is mostly famous here for being backing singer to our biggest selling artist John Farnham.
Ahh, stuff it. I'm gonna play Exile right now. |
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| speedfreakjive |
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Saint Sway wrote:
I disagree.
theres very little guitar to this track. Musically its dominated by the Prestons keys and the Stax style horn arrangement.
obviously they can pull this off bc the 2 most dominate sounds on the tour are Chuck & the horns. It would be very similiar to when they do the Otis cover on the Licks tour like THSMLI
true, but the point of the song is that it is musically and spiritually experimental Saint.
But agreed that it could possibly sound like THSMLI |
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| Soldatti |
Best track on Exile's second disk. |
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| winter |
EoM is simply the greatest artistic creation in the history of the world.
To me, it is worth $450 per night just to be in the same room as the people that created this master peice.
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| FrankiePeppers |
The song is outstanding and I especially love the instrumental-only version found on a few bootlegs. |
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| texile |
you nailed it corgi...
i hope they never try to re-create this masterpiece in thier current incarnation -
i had the same feeling when they did moonlight mile and sway....it's a rush just to hear them do it but -
these songs, and especially LIL sound so in-the-moment,
it's almost sacreligious...
i can imagine the current backing lineup just destroying 'loose' with congas, synth and god knows what else...
some things are meant to be left alone, in thier time...
when i listen to lil, that's all i listen to that day or week....until i 'come back' to the world.
it's where it belongs, in keith's basement.
i think of LIL anytime people talk about exile being all keith -
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| F505 |
Exile on Mainstreet is the best Stones album ever; even the best rock album ever. Let it Loose is the best song on Exile so it is definitely the best song ever recorded.
It has it all: gospel, soul, rock, blues.
A shame the Stones have never played this song live. |
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