DON'T NEED NO JEWELS IN MY CROWN
Exile on Main Street didn't really make much sense to me until I was 18 or 19.
But it's been with me-- and vice versa-- ever since.
Of course I was thrilled when I heard that the Stones were compiling a “deluxe” version.
Now, I'm not enough of a trainspotter to go chasing after outtakes and such, but I'd certainly be a willing consumer of Exile-era flotsam if it showed up on a silver platter.
And if the Beatles could squeeze three double-disc anthologies out of their archives, surely the Stones could support at least one disc's worth of interesting 1971-2 material.
But the Stones being the Stones, they apparently decided we couldn't handle the rough stuff, so they went and added new vocals and such to a bunch of the old tracks.
And again their legacy is ill served.
Well, that's $20 that will stay in my pocket, at least...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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