ROLLING STONES EXILE ON MAIN ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING 2 LP SET WITH POSTCARDS

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"THE ROLLING STONES"

Exile on Main St LP

ORIGINAL USA 1972 RELEASE

1. "Tumbling Dice" / "Sweet Black Angel"
   Released: 14 April 1972
2. "Happy" / "All Down the Line"
   Released: 15 July 1972

Exile on Main St is a double album by English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 12 May 1972 by Rolling Stones Records. It was their tenth studio album released in the United Kingdom. The album's music incorporates rock and roll, blues, soul, country, and gospel genres. Although it originally received mixed reviews, Exile on Main St has since been considered to be the Rolling Stones' best work while being ranked on various lists as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Exile on Main St was released in May 1972. It was an immediate commercial success, reaching No. 1 worldwide just as the band embarked on their celebrated 1972 American Tour. Their first American tour in three years, it featured many songs from the new album. "Happy", sung by Richards, would be a Top 30 US hit later that summer.

Exile on Main St was not well received by most contemporary critics, who found the quality of the songs inconsistent. In a review for Rolling Stone, Lenny Kaye said the record had "a tight focus on basic components of the Stones' sound as we've always known it," including blues-based rock music with a "pervading feeling of blackness". However, he felt because of the uneven quality of songs, "the great Stones album of their mature period is yet to come".Richard Williams from Melody Maker was more enthusiastic and deemed it the band's best album, writing that it would "take its place in history" as it "utterly repulses the sneers and arrows of outraged put down artists. Once and for all, it answers any questions about their ability as rock 'n' rollers." In a year-end list for Newsday, Christgau named it the year's best album and wrote that "this fagged-out masterpiece" was the peak of rock music in 1972 as it "explored new depths of record-studio murk, burying Mick's voice under layers of cynicism, angst and ennui".

Critics later reassessed Exile on Main St favourably, and by the late 1970s they had come to view Exile on Main St as the Rolling Stones' greatest record. Bill Janovitz later called it "the greatest, most soulful, rock & roll record ever made" because it seamlessly distills "perhaps all the essential elements of rock & roll up to 1971, if not beyond". On the response to the album, Richards said, "When [Exile] came out it didn't sell particularly well at the beginning, and it was also pretty much universally panned. But within a few years the people who had written the reviews saying it was a piece of crap were extolling it as the best frigging album in the world

Exile on Main St has been ranked on various lists as one of the greatest albums of all time.According to Acclaimed Music, it is the eighth most ranked record on critics' all-time lists. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Exile on Main St the 42nd greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 3 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987 it was ranked third on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the best 100 albums of the period 1967–1987. In 1993, Entertainment Weekly named it No. 1 on their list of "100 Greatest CDs". In 2003, Pitchfork Mediaranked it number 11 on their Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In 2001, the TV network VH1 placed it at number 22 on their best albums survey. In 2003, the album was ranked 7th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the highest Rolling Stones album ranked on the list.

 In 2005, Exile on Main St was ranked number 286 in Rock Hardmagazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. The album was ranked number 19 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time. In 2007, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame placed the album No. 6 on the "Definitive 200" list of albums that "every music lover should own." Its re-release has a highest normalised rating of 100 onMetacritic based on seven professional reviews, a distinction it shares with other re-releases such as London Calling by The Clash. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2012, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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Tracks

All songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Personnel

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion; rhythm guitar on "Tumbling Dice" and "Stop Breaking Down"
• Keith Richards – guitars, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Happy"; electric piano on "I Just Want to See His Face"; bass guitar on "Casino Boogie", "Happy" and "Soul Survivor"; lead guitar on "Tumbling Dice"
• Mick Taylor – guitars, slide guitar; bass guitar on "Tumbling Dice", "Torn and Frayed", "I Just Want to See His Face" and "Shine a Light"
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar
• Charlie Watts – drums

• Nicky Hopkins – piano
• Bobby Keys – saxophone; percussion on "Happy"
• Jim Price – trumpet, trombone, organ on "Torn and Frayed"
• Ian Stewart – piano on "Shake Your Hips", "Sweet Virginia" and "Stop Breaking Down"
• Jimmy Miller – drums on "Tumbling Dice" (the outro), "Happy" and "Shine a Light", percussion on "Sweet Black Angel", "Loving Cup", "I Just Want to See His Face" and "All Down the Line"
• Bill Plummer – upright bass on "Rip This Joint", "Turd on the Run", "I Just Want to See His Face" and "All Down the Line"
• Billy Preston – piano and organ on "Shine a Light"
• Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar on "Torn and Frayed"
• Richard Washington – marimba on "Sweet Black Angel"
• Clydie King, Venetta Fields – backing vocals on "Tumbling Dice", "I Just Want to See His Face", "Let It Loose" and "Shine a Light"