Exile

Exile

ASIN: B00008ZZ7Y

Track Listings

1. Dal'ouna on the Return

2. Al-Quds

3. Jenin

4. Ouz

5. Orient House

6. Land of Canaan

7. Exile

8. Côte Méditerranée

9. Epilogue

Tracks:

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn And Frayed
Sweet Black Angel
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd On The Run
Ventilator Blues
I Just Want To See His Face
Let It Loose
All Down The Line
Stop Breaking Down
Shine A Light
Soul Survivor

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From the swaggering frustration in the first song ("I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping," Mick Jagger sings in the hyper "Rocks Off"), the Stones speed through familiar neighborhoods of country, blues, and R&B on Exile. They never even bother to stop when they've crashed into something. They don't leap into new worlds so much as master the old ones, turning Slim Harpo's blues obscurity "Hip Shake" into a harp-and-piano steamroller and setting spines a-cracking in "Ventilator Blues." Both "Tumbling Dice" and Keith Richards's "Happy" have become hits, but the 1972 album is most notable for its overall murky adrenaline. --Steve Knopper

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Before Keith Richards's bad habits took over for a time in the mid-'70s, his work ethic was quite high. Stories abound of the long, if somewhat off-schedule, hours he spent working on this classic album in the basement of his home in France. Hanging together as much because of great songwriting ("Rocks Off," "Soul Survivor") as its fabled grungy atmosphere, Exile caps the Stones' great 1968-'72 run with a force that belies their supposed spiritual tiredness. What some of these songs are about is anybody's guess--Keith claims "Ventilator Blues" was inspired by a grate, while the song plays like an ode to a pistol--but that's just part of this album's hazy game. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

A MASTERPIECE! ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE!.......2007-07-10

This is such an incredible two album set. From the opening guitar lick of "Rocks Off" to the final strum in "Soul Survivor" we know we have just listened to a amazing collection of music! This is not a hits album by any stretch! It is a record that sounds great from start to finish or picking random cuts. I am a musician and I have been a DJ in past years in clubs and pubs. I always got a great response from the hip customers when I would throw in "Casino Boogie" or "All Down The Line" in at the local pub. What some folks don't understand is how many different sounding songs are on this album! Most groups today have one or two songs and the just keep regurgitating them out over and over again to fill album after album. This is the my favorite Stones album and it doesn't even contain my favorite Stones song! A timeless classic!

Timeless, and even better (!) than I remembered.......2007-07-03

You know, I haven't visited this album in a long time; it has been one of my very favorite works of art since its release in '72, but it seemed like one of those things that might have been played out for me. I've been helping my wife load her iPod with things I think are essential, and naturally this came to mind, so in the process I gave it another spin. To say that I am reinfatuated is an understatement, which gives rise to this review. "Exile" is just such a work of uncommon depth and maturity and desperation and joy and carnality and the whole nine yards that it is nearly staggering. Plus it rocks harder than you ever will. Don't listen to haters who bemoan its lack of hits; it flows like nothing else...best digested as a whole. And anyways, "Tumbling Dice" was a certifiable hit back in the day; I know, I was alive then, and it was an indelible part of the soundtrack of the summer of '72. This listen brought me back to my very first needle drop on "Rocks Off" in '72 when I was 13 years old. From the first whomp of Charlie's drums I remember it as being a life-changing experience that gave me some idea of what adult music and life was all about. And the power and glory of this record is such that I have always been mystified over the critical response alluding to the allegedly murky mix, etc. To me it simply sounds like the perfect example of what rock and roll is supposed to sound like, and when words and phrases emerge from the mix they're almost always a surprise, even after thirty-five years. This record is proof positive of the enduring greatness of the Stones, and is to my ears their finest hour, and then some.

Quick question: My CD version of this is an original CBS era iteration (bought it like in '87-88), and it still sounds pretty good to me, even with the undoubted advances in mastering since then. Is this relatively newer Virgin version a BIG BIG BIG sonic upgrade, or just a sonic uptick? Thanks!

Exile on my street.......2007-05-30

Exile on main street is one of the best. With a variety of styles it nrver drags. Great songs like Let it loose, Shine a light. Rocks Off, Soul Surivor Tumbling Dice and Ventilator Blues is a paint peeler. Sweet Virginia and Torn and Frayed are good country.Stop Breaking down and shake your Hips are good blues, good slide on stop Breaking Down Texas blues on Shake your Hips. Sweet Black Angel is great reggae.

Maybe the best .......2007-05-11

This is just great..
Keith, Mick, Mick, and Nicky are at their best.

Definitly in my top 5.......2007-03-26

Jagger and Richards really go back to their roots in argubly the best stones album and on of the best of all time. Every track is just about perfect. What I like best about this album is how it opens with an electric exciting fast 4 or 5 tracks then slowly sets into a slower and occaisionally acoustic tone. Very few albums are better then this.

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3.5 stars
Cornell, Wilkes, Comerford & Morello are, at best, an ill-fitting group of clashing musicians, commie Cuba-supporters at worst!!
liked it...
Audioslave shouldn't be boring
Great Album

Out of Exile
Audioslave
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Drown Me Slowly
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In what was widely predicted to be a short-lived supergroup/side-project, Audioslave has instead gratifyingly yielded a bonafide band. The follow-up to their promising, if not quite artistically congealed '02 debut finds singer/songwriter Chris Cornell contributing a slate of songs that would have done his former Soundgarden proud, while guitarist Tom Morello and his former Rage Against the Machine bandmates cast them in a focused rhythmic groove that suggests that the old school can still yield a timely lesson or two. Cornell's best songs may still lurk in the shadows (the funeral hypno-blues of "Heaven's Dead," the martial metal of antiwar opener "Your Time Has Come," "The Worm" as anthem for self-loathing), yet they're now brightened with such surprisingly sunny fare as "Dandelion," "Doesn't Remind Me"'s charged, existentialist daydream and even a hook-rich, dangerously optimistic back-to-the-future power ballad in "Be Yourself." Morello's work on the title track and elsewhere is a study in taste and less-is-more efficiency, a telling hint of how forcefully these iconic '90s stars have sublimated their egos as their new music has blossomed; who said there are no second acts in American (rock) lives? --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

3.5 stars.......2007-03-21

Seems most either love it or hate it, its pretty good the first 4 songs really hold me then it drops slightly after that but its not bad. Definately check out the first album if you haven't already, i don't know i just feel there's more energy coming from that one. My rating of 3.5 stars means its on the higher end of and average album.

Cornell, Wilkes, Comerford & Morello are, at best, an ill-fitting group of clashing musicians, commie Cuba-supporters at worst!!.......2007-02-08

Audioslave's sophomore-slump CD--with an accordingly self-righteous and "epic"-looking shot of waves on the horizon--antagonizes the listener to revile the group for two, major reasons: their music and also their political ideology!!!! The team-up of a grunge-singer and accomplished guitarist like Cornell with these three urban hoodlum-types from Rage Against The Machine, a band whose musical inferiority was surpassed only by its hazardous, socialist-justice proselytization, was an ill-fitting mismatch from the getgo. Add to that already inexcusable, woeful combination the taint that these four are a bunch of liberals and socialists who detest America and the system of capitalism while longing to be Marxists and commies, and you have a completely rotten band you cannot tolerate.

Audioslave was never, ever a harmonious combination of musicians because of their irreversibly different, musical backgrounds. As far as musicianship goes, Cornell is the most consummate of the four with his credentials being quite unquestionable as Soundgarden frontman (great, primal screaming/singing; guitar playing). Even his solo album was not too shabby. Now, juxtapose that with the three rejects from Rage Against the Machine, who are remorselessly talentless hacks with no finesse in their instruments' playing, and you have a total inequality. Morello's imitative skill as a shortcoming guitar playing is typified by his dreadful playing; he's unapt at playing a guitar competently. All he does is produce aggravating and chaotic, funk noises on the guitar that sound more like someone messing with their guitar. The drummer has a subtle bit of promise to him, as he drums quite hard, but his metronome timing is uninspired and he's nowhere near the best drummer alive today, Tool's Carey. The bass player is also--like the miscreant Morello--preoccupied with producing funk-like beats on his bass, and it sounds like excrement!!!!

Take the most notorious song off of Out of Exile, Doesn't Remind Me: it's too unseemly, bouncy and uninspired. Cornell sings the verses monotonously with no ambition, and the chorus is just your basic, "balls-out" rocker. Also worrying is the subliminal message of nihilism in the song which seems to advocate an ideology of having no real principles, beliefs or positions. The line "what's mine is ours" is also scary because it reeks of socialist ideology.

The title-track's lyrics may be poetic and "beautiful" in a sort of clandestine approach, but, again, when examining the lyrics, it's flagrant what Audioslave's indoctrination-message is. The references to "her labor" and "harvest" are barely loosely disguised insinuations to Mother Earth, feminism and environmentalism. In short, all dislikeable and unpopular liberal diseases. As the listener, you always have to be 100% wary of Audioslave's socialist, secular-progressive miscreants plotting to indoctrinate their audience...which shouldn't be too hard for them to do, considering the kind of sheeple who make up their fanbase.

Continuing their pessimistic and hopeless theme of mortality on this CD--which, again, is consistent with their socialist sickness where they refuse to recognize God in order to feel a higher purpose--Heaven's Dead is a plodding exercise in depression and self-pity!!!! Grudgingly, I'll willingly concede that the tune and the way Audioslave plays on this song are uncharacteristically memorable; Cornell sings passionately, and there's this repeated chord which has that sweet feel to it. Yet, this is no excuse for the song's theme which is utterly nihilistic and full of mortality, a mindset that can only be brought about by questions of existentialism which arise from not having a higher power (God) to believe in. As such, Audioslave has again, with an increasing failure of originality, disseminated socialist and progressive misbeliefs!!!!

How American "fans" (read: misguided sheeple who've come to like the concept of Audioslave more than the actual product of their music) can still financially support this band of un-Americanism is beyond this morally clear reviewer, as Audioslave's hugest trespass was playing a concert in 2005 in the dictatorial, communistic cesspool known as Fidel Castro's Cuba. Audioslave was even disdainfully proud to have mingled with the enemy--the Cuban regime--but upon returning to the US, pejoratively compared the US to socialist, third-world Cuba!!!! In interviews from last year, Tom Morello relentlessly accused US policemen at their American concerts for "beating up" concert-goers while the "good, old" commies in Cuba--according to the falsifying Morello--fostered only an atmosphere of unity and love. This propaganda from Morello's mouth culpably sounds like nothing but pro-socialist, pro-Democrat Party talking points.

My review has absolutely contained more than enough demerits to Audioslave's reputation to make undecided listeners boycott and shun the band of questionable talent and loyalty. Unluckily, the diehard "fans"--again, it's hard to believe sheeple can be so misguided to get excited about a band which has no good guitar players and only produces monotonous-sounding songs--will obstinately continue patronizing this anti-American group. Just remember that Audioslave only has Cornell as its saving grace; sounds more like RATM garbage than rock; and supports US enemies like Cuba!!!!

liked it..........2007-01-24

Not as good as their first album, but better than the 2006 album.

Audioslave shouldn't be boring.......2007-01-09

First off I must state I was never a huge fan of Rage or Soundgarden. However....I loved the first Audioslave CD. It was one of the best albums I had heard in years. But there is something wrong with this CD. I can't claim it to "growing", diving into the mainstream, or experimenting. It's just boring. I like some of the slower songs like "Doesn't Remind Me" and "Dandelion" but it's the heavy tracks that bore me. The songs start off hard, but then they trickle down into what amounts to Cornell wooing on and on until all the songs end up blending together. All of the tracks on here sound like B-sides from the debut album. Who knows...maybe they are.

It is astounding to me that they would release "Be Yourself" as the first single. I could understand if they were some band in fuzzy shirts created by the Disney Channel and the song was featured on an episode of Lizzy McGuire....but from the singer of "Black Hole Sun" and the band that rocked out in "Bulls on Parade"??? Why go that cliche'?

It's still Audioslave, but a boring version. If you're not already a fan skip this album and buy the third album, then go back to their debut...and if you still can't get enough....borrow this one, and then hope for the best when their fourth comes out.

Great Album.......2006-12-07

Wow, what a killer rock album. I was never all that into Soundgarden or Rage Against The Machine, I have always liked what I have heard from Audioslave, but this is the first album that I have picked up. This is top notch stuff all the way through. The songwriting is strong throughout. The vocals are pristine. The guitar playing is constantly creative and at times very innovative. The rhythm section is solid as a rock and there are some killer bass and drums parts to be found throughout. The album spawned two hit singles "Be Yourself" and "Doesn't Remind Me" both of which are great tunes. The opener "Your Time Has Come" is a great high energy to start the album with. More great rock is to be found with "Man Or Animal" and the title track. The band does a great job with ballads to with "Heaven's Dead" being a highlight. The band even does a blues number with "#1 Zero". Cornell sings in a blues style that fans of his work are probably not used to, but the guy just wails on this tune. If he ever wanted to move into a more bluesy direction I think he could be very successful at it. This album to me has more in common with old Soundgarden than it does Rage. There is no hop hop or rap to be found here, but just straight ahead rock played with intensity and power. This is a great album!

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and yes I said yes I will Yes
!!!!!
unsure that i would like? LOVED it
This is not the usual
Fantastic Record

Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair
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and yes I said yes I will Yes.......2007-02-17

This is a great album that has stood the test of time. "Flower" - WOW. I wish Liz wanted ME that bad.

!!!!!.......2007-02-17

A good cd. Much better than her newer music. If you like good music, you should pick this cd up.

unsure that i would like? LOVED it.......2007-01-15

Ok im not the type of person that only likes the mainstream...not at ALL. i love my Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, PJ harvey and such like the next person they are all fantastic. With Liz Phair i have to be honest i brought Whitechoc and whipsmart first (based on reviews) and despite really liking a few songs on both i wasnt excited...and they made little impact...this of course made me unhappy because via the reviews i was expecting to find yet another new goddess of great music....i then brought liz phair and somebodys miracle...and despite understanding some fans point in the sounds...i still loved the music its great catchy stuff and in no way has she "sold out" by making it, its her choice to go in another direction musically and she's done the lo-fi thing now so why not move on? ANYWAYS in all of this i knew i had to at some point get Exile, supposedly her best work, raved about, in rolling stones top 500? but i was unsure...after whipsmart and co...well i got it and....wow! so good, as good as they say and better! i LOVE this album 6''1, help me mary, dance of the seven viels,never said,mesmerising, f**k and run, girls!, stratford-on-guy and strange loop are all among her best ever songs and i would recommend this album to anyone...and another great thing is it made me go back to the other two and they are not as great but they both come close! so yeh her first three are her best...and she has vocal limits...but on exile this works brillaintly for her, Liz Phair rocks amongst the best!!!!!!

This is not the usual.......2006-11-06

album that is going to sound great to most people out of the box, but given time it will grow on you. It certainly is not the most polished piece of work but that is part of the charm. I am kind of tired of over produced albums being held up as the pinnacle of music. Sometimes you have to find the diamond in the rough and appreciate it for what it is.

The lyrics alone make this worth the price of admission. There are very few artists that can write the things that are found in this album and then have the guts to sing them out loud.

If you are looking for something polished and top 40 this is not it, but if you have an open mind give it a try.

Fantastic Record.......2006-06-24

This album will grow on you faster then moss in a swamp. Lyrics that when you hear them - your just happy she's not singing about you - yet are sexy enough that you also wish she was singing about you. Also, in the songs you really can see Liz's inner thoughts and insecurities. It was said when she went to support this record her stage fright was enormous - you can also see that nervousness in her songs. Do yourself a favor and put up the 14 or 15 bones and be entertained by the sexy girl next door Liz.

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One of many neglected albums by Mr. Van Morrison...
One Of Van's Best
the sheep baabbaaaaaaaa
to long in exile
If you're a fan of Van, get this cd man!

Too Long in Exile
Van Morrison
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One of many neglected albums by Mr. Van Morrison..........2007-06-04

This is one of my favorite Van albums. This one is really good and terribly underrated. Most of Van's 90's work is unjustly ignored, but he's been very consistent throughout his career and has put out an amazing amount of quality work. This album has a very cool, mellow, jazz feel to it, even though it's more than that. I love the arrangements here, especially the interplay between the organ and the piano. The best songs are the title track, the intense Til We Get the Healing Done, the new version of Gloria, the bluesy Big Time Operators, and the gentle ending of the album, with 3 songs intertwining (I'll Take Care of You/Instrumental/Tell Me What you Want). This is a Van album I revisit a lot.

One Of Van's Best.......2004-02-18

In some of my other reviews of Van Morrison recordings, Too Long In Exile has served as a point of comparison, but for some reason I never got around to reviewing the CD itself.
I bought this on cassette way back when it was issued but hadn't listened to it for years until I recently bought it on CD. When I shoved it in the CD player, it brought forth a flood of memories.
When originally released, the big selling point was a couple of duets Van did with his long time idol John Lee Hooker. I am going to go against the general positive commentary on the results of their collaboration. I think both songs they did together pollute and dilute the CD both musically and in spirit. Gloria was lame and commercial in the original and the insertion of Hooker into the remake made it worse. Wasted Years is in fact a waste of vinyl.
It is the strength of most of the other material which makes Too Long In Exile one of Van's best despite the aforementioned duets. Highlights are Big-Time Operators, his rant against those who tried to cheat him in the music business; a heartfelt version of the 50s classic Lonely Avenue; Van's surrender to love on Ball and Chain; an excellent bluesy rendition of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl; the jazzy vocal expression on Lonesome Road and Moody's Mood For Love; and the soulful I'll Take Care of You which segues with a dreamy instrumental interlude into the finale.
There are not enough superlatives in the lexicon to describe how good this CD is when you disregard the Morrison/Hooker duets. Too Long In Exile sets the bar high and indeed Morrison will not issue another CD of this quality for 10 years until the issue of Down the Road.
If you are an old fan of Van Morrison who has somehow missed this, don't miss it for another day. If you are new to Morrison's music and are reading this out of curiosity, why not start with this? Neither of you will be disappointed!

the sheep baabbaaaaaaaa.......2003-02-03

buy this one for the sheep noise van does it rules he sounds like a poor little sheep in the fields it's an ok cd what do you want the guy gets older and he cant make everything great

to long in exile.......2002-12-12

this is with out a doubt his best work. He has many great albums but this is just fantastic!

If you're a fan of Van, get this cd man!.......2001-11-02

Great, great bluesy tunes. A mellow album that you can play all day.

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Excellent lyrical funkno tech music
A New Kind Of Fantastic
Best Record of the 90's
Love, love, love!!!!h
greatest cd ever

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This London exponent of "sweet, pretty country-acid house music"--formerly Alabama 3, until someone remembered the similarly named country-pop group--makes its hybrid work on this debut album. In fact, Exile on Coldharbour Lane sounds like the record U2 wanted Pop to be. Fronted by one Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love, A3 prove their seriousness about roots music with a mournful version of John Prine's "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" while sprinkling the rest of the disc with blues harp and acoustic guitars. Dr. Love's schtick is a bit silly, but his commitment to saying something about the utopian rave culture's potential for waste is obvious in songs like "You Don't Dance to Techno Anymore"--in which a DJ watches a girl overdose in front of his booth. --Rickey Wright

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Excellent lyrical funkno tech music.......2007-03-22

This album is really a great listen. It's full of good songs between a few great ones. Peace In The Valley is excellent, and Mao Tse Tung Said is perfect. Anyone with knowledge of China and the violent psycho Mao was will enjoy such a message put to music.

I love anything that bashes Mao, he's as bad as Hitler, and I usually hate any Hitler comparisons (Bush isn't great, but he's no Hitler), but with Mao, or Idi Amin, or Pol Pot, the comparison can be made.

A New Kind Of Fantastic.......2006-06-29

This is easily one of the best and most infectious albums I have ever had the pleasure to come across. The cohesion of country and techno with tribally-tinted gospel pop is not nearly as confusing or slick as I just made it sound. This is an album that makes you want to dance in wet sand with bare feet and hands held high.

It really is impossible to put your finger on what A3 does to make this album so unique. In the 90's, Portishead and Massive Attack's unique, unparalleled sounds forced the music world to coin the phrase "trip hop." I believe A3 will force us to add another entry to the dictionary of musical arcana, and, for the life of me, I have no idea what to call it. (A3 does help us out at one point by referring to their sound as "sweet, pretty country acid house music." But that's the tip of the iceberg.

What about "Connected" or "Ain't Goin' to Goa" with their church-rafter echoes of hypnotical hymnal nods and floorboard quaking rhythms (not to mention a sprinkling of hip-hop goofiness slathered over by a harmonica rift that will make you wish you could play the banjo).

Their cover of "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" is one of few songs I have ever heard that is as heart-breakingly sad as it is spirit-liftingly glorious.

The heavy techno pulse of "Mao Tse Tung Said" never fully lets go of the albums country roots, and uses a sound clip by Jim Jones to amazing effect. This song slides almost effortlessly into the wild, hilarious, gleeful, and party-ready "Hypo Full of Love," a song that could easily be the centerpiece of this record (not counting, of course, "Woke Up This Morning," a deep and gravelly song you've probably heard over the opening credits to a show called The Sopranos).

I would love to devote some time to each song, but that would be pushing your patience. They all meld into one almost flawless creation (although I didn't dislike them, I don't think "Old Purple Tin" and "U Don't Dance 2 Tekno Anymore" fit quite so snugly into the lineup as the rest of the tracks).

The band's half-joking, half-invigorating spirituality is in no way diluted by their sometimes heavily political lyrics (they seem to be pretty big on communism) and the other purpose-driven messages that provide the blood for some of the tracks. Suffice it to say that even if you disagree with the band's politics or their views on religion and drinking and sex, I have a hard time believing that you'll disagree with the pulse-rattling and soul-charged way that they sing about it all.

Best Record of the 90's.......2006-05-16

This may be the most cohesive nonclassical album I own. Every song segues into the next to produce a number of tracks that are both different yet thematic. The subtleties of expression and nuance hidden in each track will ensure that you will listen to this album for years and still find new things in it. Not as moody or depressed as La Peste, nor chaotic as Power in the Blood, this album is this band at their height (not that their other efforts aren't good in their own right). This is practically a concept album, and it works fantastically, producing a unique sound that still hasn't been replicated. The dirt cheap prices being offered for a used copy make it almost criminal not to pick this up. If you can, try to get a copy with the bonus second disc of remixes, including drawn-out "Ain't Goin' to Goa" that's worth the price of finding such a rare copy.

Love, love, love!!!!h.......2006-02-15

Great music, I can't stop listening to it! Original, funky, brilliant, addictive its all there. I had to make a copies so I could listen to it at home, work and in the car. I also ordered La Peste and Outlaw, can't wait to get them.

greatest cd ever.......2005-09-17

Alabama 3 goes way, way beyond the Sopranos theme song on this recording and shows a wonderful depth in both blues, country, and euro dance inspired themes. A truly uniques and individual statement. Yes it is eclectic, and if you are looking for something mainstream avoid this. Bit if you like original truly new sounds, buy this. For a first time out recording, it rivals Led Zeppelin 1 in unique new sounds.

It is the best recording since Exile on Guyville (Liz Phair) and Exile on Main Street (da Stones)before that. Should we create an Exile on .... registry?

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A great enjoyable album of hits to listen to
Exiles Greatest Hits
Nostalgic
Rocking country music
A Decent Collection from a Great Band!!

Exile - Greatest Hits
Exile
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00000267G
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Woke Up In Love
I Don't Want To Be A Memory
Give Me One More Chance
She's A Miracle
Hang On To Your Heart
The Girl Can't Help It
I Could Get Used To You
Crazy For Your Love
Super Love
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A great enjoyable album of hits to listen to .......2007-05-03

I was impressed with exiles greatest hits. They are a very good group with a very good sound you don't
get tired of. Anybody could get into their music and enjoy it.

Exiles Greatest Hits.......2006-03-27

We where very pleased with the purchase of our cd. It was sent to us very fast and it was in perfect shape. Thank you so much for your prompt service and we will not hesitate to use you again. I had looked for this for over a year for my wife for she is a great fan of exile. Again thanks and have a great day. Rob Petefish

Nostalgic.......2005-10-10

This CD makes me wish I were back in the '80s experiencing when this music was becoming popular. This group's carefree, light, laidback sound pretty much epitomizes country music of the mid to late '80s. From "Woke Up In Love" to "She's a Miracle", this CD is replete with easy to remember tunes that most of us probably danced to with our girlfriends (or boyfriends for those readers who happen to be women) or significant others when we weren't otherwise occupied with them. I can't imagine a country music aficionado not being interested in this one.

Rocking country music.......2004-10-03

Exile, founded by J P Pennington, began as a group as far back as 1963 (as a rock'n'roll group called The Exiles), but changed their name to Exile in 1973. They had one major international hit and several other (minor) hits. The major hit, Kiss you all over, topped the American charts and also made the British top ten, In both countries, they followed up with some minor hits and it seemed that they were just another pop group who would disappear quickly. However, their songs were good and attracted a number of covers, particularly by country singers although Huey Lewis and the News were successful with Heart and soul. Among the country singers to cover Exile's songs were Dave and Sugar (Stay with me), Janie Fricke (It ain't easy being easy) and Alabama (The closer you get, Take me down). All these covers did well on the country charts with the two by Alabama going to number one.

Eventually Exile, with a new lead singer (Les Taylor), decided to try their luck as a country group. Their rocking, upbeat, pop-country music proved to be very successful for a few years. Some people found them too slick but I found their music highly entertaining. Now that Exile were having hits with their own songs (often going all the way to number one in the country charts), covers of their songs became rarer although the Forester sisters scored a huge country hit with Just in case, a track from one of Exile's country albums.

This collection contains nine of their best country hits (most of them number ones), plus a re-recording of Kiss you all over. You can find the original version of that song, plus their other pop songs, on a different compilation covering that period of their career. My favorite tracks here are Woke up in love, I don't want to be a memory, Give me one more chance, She's a miracle and Crazy for your love. A few hits are missing including three further number ones (It'll be me, She's too good to be true, I can't get close enough) but a couple of twofers are available for those that want the original albums.

This is a great overview of one of the best rocking country groups I've heard.

A Decent Collection from a Great Band!!.......2003-06-13

I began listening to country music about the time Exile switched from pop to country. I immediately fell in love with these guy's music. Their debut release is available on the "Hang on to Your Heart/Exile" CD; it was by far their best recording. However, you can catch a few of those songs ("Woke Up in Love" and "I Don't Wanna Be a Memory") and many other hits of theirs on this Greatest Hits package. I loved all these songs back in the day, and now, I still find them enjoyable. If you like this release, check out the recommendations I made. I would suggest two others, but they aren't available anymore, which is a shame!!

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The pop years
One of the Best!!
Very good coverage of Exile's pop era

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ASIN: B000000D1V
Release Date: 1991-07-30

Tracks:

Kiss You All Over
The Closer You Get
Take Me Down
You Thrill Me
Smooth Sailin' (Rock In The Road)
Stay With Me
You're Good For Me
Dixe Girl
Don't Leave Me This Way
Nobody's Hero
Jailbait
Heart And Soul
Take This Heart
One More Night For Love

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The pop years.......2004-10-23

Exile, founded by J P Pennington, began as a group as far back as 1963 (as a rock'n'roll group called The Exiles), but changed their name to Exile in 1973. When they eventually achieved success, it was big - a major international hit, Kiss you all over, which topped the American charts and also made the British top ten,

In both countries, they followed up with some minor hits and it seemed that they were just another pop group who would disappear quickly. However, their songs were good and attracted a number of covers, particularly by country singers although Huey Lewis and the News were successful with Heart and soul.

Among the country singers to cover Exile's songs were Dave and Sugar (Stay with me), Janie Fricke (It ain't easy being easy - Exile's version is sadly not on this compilation) and Alabama (The closer you get, Take me down). All these covers did well on the country charts with the two by Alabama going to number one. You thrill me, a minor hit for Exile, also spawned a country cover - this time by Lynn Anderson. Except as noted, Exile's own versions of these songs are included here.

Eventually Exile, with a new lead singer (Les Taylor), decided to try their luck as a country group. Their rocking, upbeat, pop-country music proved to be very successful for a few years. Those recordings are available separately.

This compilation covers their years as a pop group superbly.

One of the Best!!.......2003-07-04

This is a very good compilation of the greatest "early" hits. The original versions by Exile of "Take Me Down" and "The Closer You Get" (written by J. P. Pennington) are better than the versions covered by Alabama. It is especially nice to have the original version of "Kiss You All Over" sung by Jimmy Stokely. Great for Exile fans who go WAY BACK or for the new fan who wants to add to their collection.

Very good coverage of Exile's pop era.......2003-03-31

With the omission of the rather bland "How Can This Go Wrong" (mentioned in the liner notes), this album is undoubtedly a complete collection of all of their pop years before country fame. The album begins with the only full-length version of "Kiss You All Over" I know of available-the one that top the pop charts for a full month in 1978. The next two songs, both major later successes (and classics) for Alabama, "Take Me Down" and "The Closer You Get" were nice touches. "You Thrill Me" hit #40 on the pop charts immediately after "Kiss You All Over". Though lacking the dynamics of "Kiss You All Over", it still features some of JP Pennington's best vocal talent. "Stay With Me", also a Top 10 Country Hit for Dave & Sugar, is certainly worth a listen and was good enough that it actually charted country in their peak of country success. "Heart and Soul" also was also reincarnated in 1983 as a major Top 10 smash for Huey Lewis & The News. Another great song is the R&B flavored "Take This Heart".

Tracks:

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn and Frayed
Sweet Black Angel
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd on the Run
Ventilator Blues
I Just Want to See His Face
Let It Loose
All Down the Line
Stop Breaking Down
Shine a Light
Soul Survivor

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Forget the nay-sayers--this album is spectacular!.......2004-04-09

It is understandable that because the Rolling Stones are, well, the Rolling Stones, there are going to be some highly uptight and stingy critics out there. But I am not one of those critics! I have been listening to this album since I was 4 years old, with a childlike interest that has grown into fullblown adult appreciation. You cannot go wrong on this record. Every track is a raucous, sonic blend of bluesy riffs, wailing vocals, and an overall theme of spontaneity and fun. Songs like "Tumblin Dice" and "Rocks Off" are great songs on their own, but when listened to in sequence with the likes of "Loving Cup" and "Happy" (with Keith on vocals, I believe) this album is a full blown sonic masterpiece that will pump you up and brighten your mood within the first seconds of hearing it. Largely underrrated in its day, this album is a unanonymous top 20 album of all time for hundreds of critics, and millions of rock music listeners. If you enjoy the Stones, it is simply impossibe for you to not be enamored with this record. A classic that everyone should own in their collection.

The Stones Only Overrated Album.......2002-09-24

Exile On Main Street was originally released May 12, 1972. Numerous polls of greatest rock albums rank it in the top 15 of all time, but I've never been able to see what everybody is so excited about. Sure there are famous Stones cuts like Tumbling Dice, Happy, Sweet Virginia, and Sweet Black Angel but all their albums have famous songs on them.....most have more and often individually better songs as well. The blues is serious and typical of the band.....Son House's Stop Breaking Down, Shake Your Hips, Torn and Frayed, and Ventilator Blues....and there are some solid rockers too.....Rip This Joint, All Down The Line, Casino Boogie.....I find0 myself getting tired of listening to the album as a whole.....somehow it just doesn't have the depth of good feeling and strong emotion that is so evident to me in something like Sticky Fingers, Beggar's Banquet, or Let It Bleed.

Although there were "Exile" sessions (Jul-Sep, 1971 at Keith's Nellcote in France and Nov 71 - Mar 72 at Sunset Sound and Wally Heider Studios in L.A.), the tracks were laid down over a fairly long period of time from June 1970 to March 1972 with nothing recorded during 1971. Here are the details:
Jun 16, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Stop Breaking Down
Jun 30, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Sweet Virginia
Jul 14-15, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....All Down The Line
Jul 20, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Sweet Virginia
Jul 23, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....All Down The Line
.....Shine A Light
Jul 27, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Shake Your Hips
Oct 17-31, 1970 at Olympic in London
.....Shake Your Hips
.....Sweet Virginia
.....Stop Breaking Down
Dec - Mar, 1972 at Sunset Sound in L.A.
.....Rocks Off
.....Rip This Joint
.....Casino Boogie
.....Tumbling Dice
.....Torn and Frayed
.....Sweet Black Angel
.....Loving Cup
.....Happy
.....Turd On The Run
.....Ventilator Blues
.....Just Wanna See His Face
.....Soul Survivor

This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection.

One of the Best Rock Albums Ever.......2002-07-25

The Rolling Stones are one of the most important rock bands ever, and the 1971-72 period (covering "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main Street") was their musical peak. Together, these two albums represent the very best of British blues-rock. Essential listening.

The best American music by a British band, ever.......2001-08-29

Sometimes when you're too close to the source of something (in this case American music -- blues, country, gospel, rock and roll, jazz), or too much in its thrall, you don't recognize all the wonder and the beauty that it is made of. The Rolling Stones -- addled by tax problems, drugs, love, celebrity, politics, death and disolution -- laid themselves bare on the altar to which they had dedicated their entire lives. Anyone who actually listens to, and tries to understand the beauty contained in the slurry vocals, the jam-like quality of the recording sessions, and the sticky and dank producing-style will be rewarded. This was a group of really smart and talented people attracted to an imperfect America that was caught in the grip of Nixon, race riots, Vietnam, addiction & etc. Anyone who compares this to "Tattoo You" is nuts and lacks any sense of context, or not listening in the right frame of mind. Rather than "Tattoo You," "Exile on Main Street" comparable to Sly & The Family Stone's "There's A Riot Goin' On" or to Hank Williams or to Robert Johnson. (It's hard to compare to any other Rolling Stones album because it's more rootsy yet less studied, and more sincere.) Sometimes it's hard to take in, but if you can listen through the slurry vocals, it's among the most beautiful and thoughtful rock and roll out there.

The best American music by a British band, ever.......2001-08-29

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No Voice of Mine
Best Punk Album In Years
Perfectly Done
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BEST STRUNG OUT ALBUM EVER!

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Manufacturer: Fat Wreck Chords
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Release Date: 2004-11-02

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No Voice of Mine.......2006-11-18

I like The rock against bush no voice of mine better.......................great album

Best Punk Album In Years.......2006-10-25

It is great when a band can evolve musically. It is even better when they can do it and not loose the hardcore edge that you love. It seems that while all the other bands are evolving and getting softer (its true, think of almost every hard band you like, they get softer with age), Strung Out is evolving and holding on to that intensity and agression that makes hardcore music great. In my opinion, this CD is the best CD to come out in years, and is Strung Out's best to date.

Perfectly Done.......2006-09-23

After going through three phases... Strung Out has come to the point where they have found their sound. They started out as an okay skate/punk band no better than others on Fat Wreck Chords at the time with their first two albums "skinny years" and "Another Day in Paradise". Then they made two excellent cds that some still consider their best, myself included as with "Twisted by Design" and "Suburban Teenage...". What came next was the transitional period where they tried to fuse punk and metal as on "Element of Sonic Defiance" and "An American Paradox"... both reletively good albums but nothing spectacular. Finally, they released "Exile In Oblivion". I knew this would be something better from the first time I heard "No Voice of Mine" on Rock Against Bush Vol. 1. It is one of those albums that grabs from the opening seconds and holds your attention through every song until ending perfectly. No filler on here though there are some songs better than others (none being anything less than 5/5). There are no other bands on the face of this Earth that sound like Strung Out which makes them all the more amazing to listen to... its kind of hard to even place them in a genre these days.
1. Analog- This song has the ability to be one of Strung Out's greatest songs ever written. It starts the album off perfectly with its eerie intro and hard hitting guitar bursts. It also has some of the best drumming and lyrics of the album.
2. Blueprint of the Fall- Continues the album moving right along with one of the catchiest songs on the album. As with the rest of the songs this also has great lyrics.
3. Katatonia- One of my personal favorites has got to be this one. It is one of the best songs to mosh to or see live. One that you cant help but scream out with or pump your fists.
4. Her Name In Blood- This song is one of the first ones you will be able to sing along to when you first hear it. It is probably the most distinct song on the album.
5. Angeldust- This slower song is a great singalong. It has great lyrics with an eerie sound and talks about things which southern californian's can relate to.
6. Lucifermotorcade- This song is usually the least liked by people at first listen. I for one, think it is very good. It is the hardest song on the album and offers a change of pace from Angel Dust
7. Vampires- Another great "ballad"... extremely catchy and one that you pick up like that.
8. No Voice Of Mine- The first song I heard off this album and still one of my favorites. This great song has the coolest overall sound to it than any other song. A classic.
9. Anna Lee- Another very catchy song with an uplifting mood to it.
10. Never Speak Again- One of the best songs Strung Out have ever written... its sound shows all of the work they evidently put into this one.
11. Skeletondanse- Actually my least favorite song on the album although still an easy 5/5 Just not as magnificent as the rest of the songs.
12. Scarlet- A Strung Out love song... you know its gonna be good.
13. Swan Dive- An awesome sound with more of the Strung Out punk feel of their older days
14. Misanthropic Principle- Definately one that will eventually become a favorite... just maybe not one you will love right off the bat.. but an awesome song and a great way to close this album.

Overall: One of the best albums to be released in years... strung outs best?? maybe

the best cd i have ever bought.......2006-05-14

it doenst get much better then this...SO is prolly the best band EVER...this cd is sooooooooooo effing good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! technical guitar, GREAT LYRICS, good vocals, and not ONE BAD SONG...NO FILLER IN HERE KIDS BUY THIS....BEST ABND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST STRUNG OUT ALBUM EVER!.......2006-05-11

The title pretty much sums it up. I've been a fan of Strung Out for some time, but I was unaware of how good they really were until this album comes out. The music is outstanding in both complexity and sound. Hats off to Strung Out on this one:)

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Excellent lyrical funkno tech music
A New Kind Of Fantastic
Best Record of the 90's
Love, love, love!!!!h
greatest cd ever

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A3
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Release Date: 1998-03-02

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Excellent lyrical funkno tech music.......2007-03-22

A New Kind Of Fantastic.......2006-06-29

Best Record of the 90's.......2006-05-16

Love, love, love!!!!h.......2006-02-15

greatest cd ever.......2005-09-17

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