Exile On Main Street

Solid Stones album. Not a lot of recognizable tracks for a non-fan, but I really liked this one. I expected not to. It is pretty darn long - didn't plan for that and it kinda turned into background music at some point.

Cool Blues and rock, but ramshackle and rough. I realise this is controversial, but I was disappointed after Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers.

Good group to listen to

The definition of bluesy rock, descent album just not to my taste 3/5

The grandfathers of nearly all rock music that anyone’s listened to since. Almost all musical styles are credited back to the band or artist who were the first to refine them. The Rolling Stones have certainly refined blues rock n roll on this album. Mick Jaggers voice is filled with as much swagger as ever and matches perfectly to the the electric bends & slides performed by Keith & Ronnie throughout these tracks. This album can be played in almost any setting and be guaranteed not to conjure up one single complaint....take my word for it. 3 Stars!

Very bluesy, but also a little too long. Liked a couple of songs, but nothing like Gimme Shelter. 3 feels fair Saved: Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Sweet Virginia, Sweet Black Angel, Let It Loose, Soul Survivor Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: They do a lot of messing around on this, some of it works for me and some of it just feels unnecessary to have put on the record (deluxe versions were made for this kind of album). I bet the performances for this album KILLED live. Had this been trimmed by about 15 minutes it would've been close to a 4. It seems like this is a favorite of Rolling Stones fans so I'll hide behind my usual "blues/country isn't usually my genre" excuse when I give this a low 3.

Understand why it's on the list. Didn't bother me to listen to but it didn't grab my attention even though it had more than an hour to do so. (Maybe one or two songs got some attention.) Would not listen to again.

It was fine, not much else to say. Wouldn't search it out to listen again.

Some really great tunes, would make a better single album.

Better on second listen, but didn't keep me interested through middle of the album

Kept skipping to next song some.good some ok

"Wham, Bham, Birmingham" (Rip this joint) Escuchando este disco y pensando alternativamente en los "NO" y "Yes" y "NO FUNNY" de John Mulaney imitando a Mick Jagger.

So effing long

This project is showing to me that I like Rolling Stones much more than I tough before these first 120 albums listened from the list. However, this is the third Rolling Stones selected in my list and I think that is the worst (the other two were awesome and this one is just good). I liked much more of this album because of the Wikipedia link. The history of this album and its production gave me another perspective of it, even wich the songs nothing touching me in any way. It worth it, but this is not the Rolling Stones album that I'll listen to in the near future.

Not really into Stones but this was alright

Too much identical rhythm'n'blues-y rock tracks, still a good vibe

Quite easy to listen to. Music is great, not the biggest fan of Jagger's voice. I enjoy the country vibes.

Fikk ikke hørt gjennom hele, men mye var veldig kult. Masse forskjellige instrumenter, kule melodier, og bra spilling. Må nok høre gjennom hele en gang i fremtiden

ihan ok, samanlaista rollaria kuin muutkin. tykkään, mutta ei jää mieleen.

Prefer the Stones, it turns out. This seems like a fun jukebox album and would've been cool to see live.

Decent LP but no standout tracks really

I haven't listened to Rolling Stones much before. I always they were more hard rock. Approaching metal. But to me they sound closer to country. I thought that was fun.

Pretty standard rock - nothing groundbreaking

Better than expected. Bit in your face sounding record and songs simplistic in concept and meaning.

3.5 good album, easy listening, stereotypical classic rock sound. Was listening to while doing some kitchen chores nothing grab my attention

Nastaa rockia jota on helppo kunnella.

1972. Key Songs: Rocks Off, Shake Your Hips

I've never cared about the rolling stones. I don't know why so many "rock guys" think they're the beginning of music as we know it. Like Keith Richards is the first guitarist that mattered. I don't care how immortal he supposedly is. It just sounds like bluesy rock. I guess they get a pass for being less annoying than the Beatles. A couple of the songs have cool solos, too. 3/5.

this is ... fine? very rustic. i'd much rather actually be sitting by a campfire and listening to some musicians playing live. and maybe those musicians would be the best i've ever heard or maybe they would be mid, but if so that wouldn't matter cause we'd be sitting around a campfire playing music. they are obv strongly blues influenced here, but they are intentionally being extra stompy-n-hollery in the arrangements here--esp in the vocals. and again, i really prefer that sorta style live. i don't mind if the vocals don't line up or something is extra wobbly when i'm in the room with them. on recordings, i'm admittedly pickier. 3/5 apparently mick jagger didn't like staying in france because he couldn't find branston pickles? i see they're channeling more than just american music, then, bc tbh peak american tourist energy

Its just not my thing i think it had good parts but it kinda felt like am just geting egded the whole time like the drop is gana happen any moment but they are just a slower rounder music i wouled say if that makes any sence

The Rolling Stones' cod Americana really gets on my tits. This is possibly the least annoying of their albums so far but, as a double album, it's length meant I spent a lot of the album waiting for it to be over.

My third and least liked stones album. Just bland, generic music that is attempted to be reached by all out production, but to my ears it just makes the music sounds more ridiculous (gospel vocals kind of lose the punch eventually). It's an ugly duckling covered in an evening gown. There's no innovation or soul here, just an attempt at producing hits, only achieving misses.

I get why someone might like it but im not the biggest fan

Meh, kinda boring. Had this on while reading comics, and rip this joint did not even register as playing in my brain. Falls into the trap I often get during albums where every song merges into one. I wouldn't mind re-listening to a few songs, but never the full album again. Favs: Torn and Frayed, Casino Boogie, Sweet Black Angel.

Рок для фанатов конкретно этой группы. Ничего для себя здесь не нашёл

My second Rolling Stones and I’m wondering if maybe it’s just not extra special to me or maybe I just haven’t come across the right album. It’s fun! But maybe not for me.

I know this is supposed to be the Stones album, the rock and roll album. I'm a big fan of that whole rock and roll genre, as they say in Spinal Tap, and of British Invasion bands and the bluesy rock and roll, etc. I've listened to this album many times. I never got it, and this time was no exception.

I quite liked it! Loose was my favourite.

The music and the grooves are good but my problem with this band is that I literally cannot understand what the lead singer is even saying 90% of the time which takes me out of it. A day later and I cannot even remember a single song off of it

sorry...I skipped half of these songs midway through 😭 tbh I only kinda liked Tumbling Dice and Let It Loose (maybe all down the line too) MMMMMMMM I'd say a 2

Beginning and end were decent. Middle was just filler.

I believe many of these songs would go crazy if I heard them being performed while I was out at the bar and especially if I had a few drinks in me and started to move a little... Unfortunately for today, I listened to this album sober at home and the individual tracks felt rather... boring. Each songs intro in the first 15 seconds sets up exactly what you will be hearing for the next 2-5 minutes, the songs don't have much change or variation throughout, and despite the bands reputation and musical ability, they did not do anything of interest with the drums and rhythm throughout the entire album. It just felt like one hour long "jam" with some classic rock instruments, which leads me to say if I had to describe this album with one word it would be "fine". I am not displeased with this album, but I am not particularly interested in listening again as very few tracks stood out as noteworthy.

I've never been into the Stones.

Not a stones man - paint it black is about my experience of their work. ----- Country blues/rock and roll seems to be the vibe, and it's one that persists throughout the majority of the album, making it a bit one note. The vocals don't really suit the music at all. In fact there's a few occasions the backing vocals outshine whiny Mick. It's kind of ugly hearing him try to come across as a soulful All American and coming across as a poor mimic performing white boy blues. The drums are probably one of my favourite parts of the record. They are tastefully done. There's also some great piano parts that provide some nice depth of sound in an otherwise flat mix. Hopefully you like sax solos because they are everywhere. [Rolling dice] is a decent number, mainly because the powerful backing vocals, funky bass and piano chops. [Ventilator Blues] is also a rare occasion of where it comes together. Mick sounds angry, the music is gritty, the horns and piano add a good tension and atmosphere. This is pretty heavy compared to the rest of the album. The album otherwise feels very derivative and doesn't offer much of note. Go listen to real blues, the artists that made this music originally and saw a fraction of the success these imitators had.

The stones do less good blues

If Mick Jagger has 0 haters I’m dead

I found this pretty boring overall, maybe with the exception of Let It Loose and Shine A Light. I thought by reputation that the Rolling Stones would make really thrilling music but I just didn’t really find that here?

Not a fan, maybe was good when it was released but to me songs sound similar in style and expression.

meh

yeah whatever

How incredibly boring

No me gustó en comparación a otros álbumes, lo sentí bastante monótono

JL : 2, Let It Loose

I can't help compare the Stones to the Beatles and the Stones always come up wanting. This is OK for a blues cover band but I think the Stones are a singles and filler mob.

Nothing exciting

There are a few good songs here but this was painfully long.

The music on this album is relatively enjoyable, if a bot too samey. My problem is that I dont really like Mick’s vocals. For odd songs it’s fine, but sustained over the full one hour plus its just horrific. His vocals also feel a bit too low in the mix for a lit of the album, which actually makes them worse. I generally like a good bit of sax in songs but not so when they pipe up a lot of the time here (‘Happy’ being an exception). Overall it’s probably a 2.5 but it’s not strong enough for a 3

As previously established on this Generator, I think The Rolling Stones are overrated. I don’t get them at all. This album, at least, has one of the two Stones songs I actually like (“Tumbling Dice”), but this was not otherwise for me.

I just don't really get The Rolling Stones. I am still not a big fan of Jagger's voice, I hate that so many things just seem to end in a long jam session, and the whole thing just seems to last forever. The brass I like because I like the sound of brass instruments, but I just don't find this particularly interesting as an album. I think I gave the previous Stones album the generator provided a 3, and while I don't think this is that much better or worse, averaging the two out to a 2.5 seems appropriate, so: 2/5

Put this off after half an hour. It’s been 6 stones albums (so far) I get it, it’s just not very interesting.

I liked Shine A Light...need to listen through again...

That's it. It's official. I don't like the Rolling Stones... in my opinion the most overrated band in history and the fact that they are often spoken in the same breath as the Beatles is an insult to the Beatles. They can't touch the Beatles in terms of songwriting, performance, and especially innovation and production.

meh meh 2,4

jak na stonesów to mehhhh

it's ok

1.5 stars I’ve always said that the Stones are not an album band. They love filler too much. But I was prepared to be wrong about this. After all, it was #7 best album of all time on the 2003 Rolling Stone list. So it’s got to at least be good, if not great, right? I first tried to listen to this album when I made a playlist of the best double albums of all time according to some google research. I was driving for Uber and wanted to use my time to listen to albums I never had gotten around to listening to, as well as kill time. Through that playlist I discovered The River and Sign O’ the Times. I also remember putting this on the playlist. I remember not knowing anything about the album, being surprised by the fact that I knew no songs from it and that it had been rated so highly. When I listened to it, I didn’t get it. I never tried again until earlier today. I complained about Sticky Fingers having filler track with faux Southern accents and cheesy country rock. But at least it had enough classic tracks to make up for that and make a passable album. This album is if someone listened to Sticky Fingers and thought: “hey, why not take out all of the good music and just make 18 songs of mediocre country blues rock.” And that’s what it is. The best thing about this album is that it is only barely a double album. At 66 minutes it is not a double album by CD era standards, but technically was more than could fit on a single LP. If they had shaved off 3 tracks (really most would do) they’d have a single album that wouldn’t feel any different. I don’t get it and won’t listen to it again. It wasn’t miserable, but it pissed me off how forgettable it was given the reputation. This isn’t one of the best albums of all time. It’s not even in my top 5 best Stones albums and I think I’ve only listened to 6 of their albums.

Any Rolling Stones record starts from a point of disadvantage because I absolutely cannot stand Mick Jagger’s voice, and I hate that I can see his stupid gurning face flapping around in my mind whenever I hear it. This is one of the few Stones records I had heard all the way through before because people bang on about it a lot - it didn’t sound any better this time. Overly long, repetitive gurning and straining, and yeah I guess if you like 'rock & roll' music this is a great example of that (?), but I really, really don’t.

Is this really supposed to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time? Maybe 3 songs stuck out of thewhole thing to me, and the rest might as well have been the same blues jam (nearly in the same key) for 45 minutes. "Tumbling Dice", Ventilator Blues" and "Let It Loose" were the only ones that left any sort of impression on me and even then it wasn't that good, it was just a changeup from the two chord (somehow) blues rock of the rest of it. The solos aren't even interesting. Maaaayybe some of the saxophone and trumpet hits save it from total mediocrity? I don't know. I seriously do not get what is supposed to be special about this.

Expertly produced pub blues. But I can't take a double album of Jagger.

well no my type

Just not for me i guess..

This is so fucking boring. I feel like I'm missing something because this is such a highly regarded album but I didn't get a whole lot out of most of the songs on here. There's some exceptions of course, I loved Tumbling Dice and Rocks Off and 1 or 2 others too, but everything else just kinda went in one ear and out the other.

didn’t have half the mind to listen to it. im constantly worrying about my finals, constantly studying - and this album just couldn’t put me in the mental flow wich i require in this period. felt like a jolly cowboy in a tarantino movie, at another time in my life it might be nice to revisite this. im also not a huge rolling stones fan, even if i liked sticky fingers this was just too much mick jagger in two weeks.

Löysää menoa, ei vaan lähe.

Handig dat we weer een album hebben mogen luisteren van the Rolling Stones, nu kan ik mijn review van de vorige nogeens gebruiken: Opzich kan ik hier kort over zijn. Ik heb het geluisterd en er zijn mij niet perse nieuwe dingen opgevallen aan dit album, gewoon het gebruikelijke recept van the Rolling Stones. Daarom geef ik het ook mijn gebruikelijke 2 sterren.

Classic rock album. Too boring for me respectfully

Couple okay songs.. not my fav

No me gusto mucho

God I hate the stones.

i don't think it rocks hard enough for an hour. some songs are alright.

The Rolling Stones have had many excellent songs over the decades but their albums always seem to have only one or two of these tracks on them. The rest is just filler. And not very good filler at that. Compared to the Beatles, there albums seem to be loaded with killer songs, is why the Stones alway seem to pale by comparison.

MID

The pinnacle of boring Boomer blues rock.

Never really been a Stones Fan. Lots of Blues & Honky Tonk, a long listen, fun at times, but hard to get through.

No, just not for me. I understand why they have 'legendary' status amongst some but the music does nothing for me. 'Turd on the Run' is about right

tvåa pga dåligt humör

Meh. Never been a Rolling Stones fan, and this album didn't change my mind. They're good at what they do, sure. It's a solid blues-rock record, but I don't connect with it on any level, and I had a hard time listening all the way through. Probably won't remember any of it tomorrow. It's also certainly not their best album. It's unnecessarily long, with not enough hits and too many filler songs that should have been cut out. It feels like at this point, the Stones were just rollercoasting on a well-established formula without putting much heart into their work. On another note, Mick Jagger describing the Stones as "runaway outlaws using the blues as a weapon against the world" during this album - while they were actually hiding in a luxurious French villa to avoid paying taxes - has to be peak hypocrisy. No wonder the punk movement would later express disgust at this kind of rock star posturing. Won't listen again. Ideally I'd rate this a 2,5*, but since I can't, it's a 2*. 4/10

ehh

I don't get how this is one of the most loved albums. Felt dull and boring and didn't do anything to me. Didn't even make it the full way through

I guess I’m okay with the fact that I really just don’t like The Rolling Stones

Just an hour of white 70s rock. Bro. Why are we doing this. I kinda dont care. It's insignificant to me. Its nothing. Just fuckin yelling all over the place. I don't care. I don't wanna hear this it's not anything new it's just more white fucking 70s rock can the critics making this list jump off that dick please. Favourite: Least favourite: Rip This Joint/All of it

it's okay, personally not my cup of tea

Aburridooo me voy

Still don‘t get them.

типичные ролинги, ничего нового и интересного просто хорошо звучит, но все одинаково 2.8

crap

Boring, not my type of music at all, I can see myself bopping my head to it if it was in the background of a feel good movie about a man, a dog, and his ford pickup.

Yep

Meh. It was fine. Ran a little too long, really stagnated for me.

I genuinely don't see the appeal of this- It's like fine.

Lots of varied instruments and fun, fast-paced blues stuff but drags on without much change from song to song. Highlights: "Rocks Off", "Sweet Virginia", "Let It Loose"

way too long. So many songs just blend into one another. Not the worst, but overrated to me.

Solid, if a little long for me.

This album is the same song for an hour and 15 minutes, I could not wait for it to be over. It is escaping a 1 because I was not giving it my full attention and will give it the benefit of the doubt. I will never relisten to determine if I was right or not.

The Stones really don't do anything for me.

This album is way too long and half the songs sound the same. The music is otherwise fine, but nothing stands out as great to me. Cut five tracks at random from this and its probably a 3.

me gusto, es una buena compañía para el estudio. un poco repetitivo, un álbum muy blues y medio country. no me deslumbró, aunque algunas canciones las volvería a escuchar calificación: 2,50/5

Didn’t even realise it was over

I’m sure it is good, I’m just not a fan

holy shot does every rolling stones song sound exactly the same?

more country than i expected the stones. have to give em a lil bit for being pioneers i spose....

I didn't hate it, so I gave it 2 stars. Although, I would rather not listen to it again. It sounded like one long song. There was discernable high point.

no es mi gusto musical, no soy fan del rock and roll.

this is simply not my genre 😂

This is way too long and too sloppy.

not my style of music

#309/1001. Well that was a lot of honkkitonkki and rokkenrolli, as expected. Some unexpected ones lift this to a 2.

Para tener de fondo durante una barbacoa en verano tiene que ser épico...... pero no me ha interesado demasiado

I'm starting to really understand what Lemy was talking about when it came to the difference between The Beatles and The Stones... The Stones have a few good songs and I'm pretty sure those were all written by Brian Jones, the rest is meh at best.

Ikke rigtigt nogen numre, der stak ud.

Underwhelmed

Best Song: Tumbling Dice. Following the classic Rolling Stones formula of having the best vocals on the album be soulful female vocals that appear nowhere else on the album. Worst Song: I Just Want To See his Face. Why does it sounds like this song was played underwater? Overall: I just find the Stones deeply uninteresting. It doesn't feel like good rock, it certainly isn't great blues, and Mick Jaggers sings with this kind of wailing looseness that I find irritating.

- Oh, these pedos (and probably Zios) again. - Muddy production and boring... no real hooks to speak of, except on Tumbling Dice and Happy, and Shine A Light is kind of nice. - I guess it's good that I can't make out the lyrics because the last album I got of theirs was totally misogynistic. I also don't think that Mick's voice fits this style of bluesy music - it's just too whiny and nasal. - The only instrumentation that stands out is some nice piano playing and a couple other licks here and there. - Would never reach for this - it's cluttered without anything that impressive to focus on, so it's not good background music or something I want to pay attention to. - There is no reason for this to be a double album. It's so long, and I just kept wanting it to end. It just feels totally self-indulgent, which doesn't help my impression that Mick is a total narcissist.

REPETITIVE OH MY WORD.

Just a bit generic and bland. I appreciate this may have been more influential and out there in the 70s but listening today it's just a bit boring 2

One thing this list has proven is that I seem to have never missed anything by not giving The Rolling Stones a listen. Their third album I’ve had to listen to so far and this still does absolutely nothing for me.

hm

Not my favorite, most songs sound the same.

I agree with what one reviewer said, and that was that it was easy for this album to quickly become background noise. I don’t know if it’s the vocals— pushed back and just out of reach where the hard to understand singing style of Jim Morrison— or something else. The Bluey influences are definitely heard throughout and there are some killer harmonica sections. This album just didn’t do it for me though. It’s a fine album and I know there are some diehard fans of this album, and I’m sure I can be one of them, but I don’t wanna really take the time to fall in love with this album if that’s even possible. I’ve also read that this is their most revered album. If that is the case, I don’t think I need to hear anymore of the Rolling Stones because I didn’t really take this happen that much. It’s fine…

похоже, этот альбом сильно для любителей жанра. а именно рок-н-ролла и кантри-блюза. отмечу живость исполнения, пространственное звучание, этакую магию присутствия. однако местами уж очень "непричёсанный" саунд. понимаешь, что делали на коленках. ну а так работа хорошая...но не отличная. как-то толком ничего конкретного из альбома и не запомнилось. не "прилипло". прослушивание быстро соскользнуло "на фон". в итоге, пока посуду моешь напеть под нос нечего. ожидала чуть другого от "одного из величайших альбомов всех времён".

Im just not a fan of the rolling stones......never have been. This album bored me. The Beatles, The Who, The Doors even the Kink - all much better. Cream better than all of them.

221/1089 kinda disappointed i can’t lie. it’s not “bad” by any means but it was a bit more dull than i was expecting. It was decent background music while i was reading though, so i didn’t feel the length as much as i expected. i can appreciate the chill mellow vibes and it had a couple of moments that stood out to me but it didn’t hook me and it was a bit too samey faves: Let It Loose, Shine A Light, Loving Cup 48/100

QUE TORTURA ESCUCHAR ESTO fue eterno suenan todas las canciones igual la mayoria de las letras son repetitivas los ultimos 30seg d cada cancion son la MISMA FRASE los instrumentos un poco mas y siguen los mismo acordes nono 2 estrellas POR EL SAXO

es buen álbum pero no se terminaba MAS, buena opción para tenerlo de fondo. muy buenos pianos

I understand this is a good album. Personally, though I wanted it to be over halfway through. Each song sounds kind of the same.

I found this kinda boring. None of the songs were that memorable, the album is too long and all the songs blur into an underwhelming slop of generic rock and roll. To be fair I don't really know the context of when they made this. They must've earned their reputation somehow and I'm sure they were very influential at the time. I wasn't there though so I don't care. It was fine to have on in the background but I'm not going to relisten, on purpose anyway. Bit dead.

ehhhhh

mudpie - “ That was quite a double turd that Jagger and co. collectively shat out. I don’t understand why a single song on that record even exists. Can you imagine that there are people to whom that album is very dear? Really, each song was more pointless, boring, and sloppy than the one before it.” Couldn’t have said it better myself.

2.2/5 Some good songs but nothing too amazing

Overall: 4.7/10 Personally, not for me. The instruments were the main thing keeping my ears focused. I can see why people would like it, but I can’t get jiggy with this.

not for me

In which the Rolling Stones bulk ordered records from america in order to produce a perfectly alright collection of songs for around an hour

Really disappointing. When the stones get it right they have some incredible songs, and I knew this album by reputation, but not a single standout track on the whole thing. Some pleasant vibes and the odd passable riff, but mostly just felt incredibly generic and heavily ripping off better artists. For every passable song - Happy, or Sweet Virginia - there's a track like All Down The Line which is just appalling. Scrapes a 2 even after a second listen. However impressive it may have been at the time, it just doesn't hold up.

A couple nice songs, but this was twice the length it should have been. I don’t get the love for this album. Would not play again.

This album dragged on the 5th track. Completely forgettable album too. Country rock just not my thing haha

For me, much of the Stones discography is background rock n roll, formulaic, meh. I think they are also awesome and very entertaining but this album is not. 2.4

Vau rok i rol mid

OK, it's the Stones. Was never a huge fan, and this really doesn't convince me either. I used to think it was because I was born too late to appreciate them, but there are other bands from "before my time" that I adore, so that's not it. I just think they are overrated. They aren't horrible, but do they deserve all the crazy amount of glory they have gotten? And this wasn't horrible either, but did it have to be a double album, with bad recording?

I like the rolling stones quite a bit and while I know this is considered one of their best it was just kind of meh for me. No shame just meh.

Liked it

Los Stones tienen algunos hits, pero no están en este disco. La segunda mitad es más disfrutable 2.5

Yall mind if a white boy gets a little.. *bluesy* with it? Cause I do. It’s not very exciting.

Obvs a classic. Pretty dang... rock-and-roll-blues-band-y. Personally, I have never been able to dig the sound of this record. Maybe it just ain't my thing? Is it the mix? The instrumentation? The wandering vocal "melodies"? Nothing futuristic about it? I'm stumped. To me it sounds like the taste of an over-cooked beef stew. Sure, it's tangy and beefy but the beef is dry and there's a slight acidity from too many tomatoes which isn't balanced by any sweetness or fat. On re-listens I find I'm not singing along to anything. Re-listens are actually making me like it less. It's too long. Yes, I know about the history and about the exile. This would have been a hell of an undertaking. It's just...not for me.

To my shame, I know very little about The Rolling Stones. This strikes me as a great album to have on at a house party - it's a hazy bluesy album. One track blends into the next well enough and they're not bad songs but none make me want to really *listen*.

The start of the parody band the Stones would become.

Not my cup of tea.

Uck. I'm still not surprised to get this, since 3 Rolling Stoneses seems about right given how much they're talked about in Society, but we juuuust had one of theirs. And it's ANOTHER double album!!! I dunno, it's not that bad, maybe a 2.5, but it has no real redeeming features. So, to me, they're frustratingly overrated! Also, slur count = 1.

Just really not for me AOTY rating: 64

An album bloated with stinkers.

Couple of ok songs but it’s boomer shit and it’s too long

Nej, det är så jobbig musik typ

Este álbum de los rollings suena como un álbum de los rollings if you know what i mean. A la primer escucha puedo decir que no es nada del otro mundo, es escuchable y consistente, pero no me asombra. Seguro le de una segunda oportunidad para ver si destaca alguna canción en particular.

Streit, litt for langt

not bad but not really my style

It’s not the albums fault, I was very stressed out and in a bad mood yesterday so I wasn’t in the mood to listen to this but I did anyway

Rocks Off is a really fun opener- big fan of the trumpets. Despite not being the last track, Shine a Light was an impressive closer. Overall, there were moments of greatness but I wasn’t a huge fan.

4.25/10

2/5

Rambling and sloppy doesn't do it justice. Parts of this were hard to listen to. I understand why this is here and it's impact on music. I like some of their hits but nothing on this album makes me want to party or dance. Seems like the schlitz of rock n roll. Like I didn't drink schlitz riding around in a pickup truck, but I'm sure my dad did and I'd bet this album was in the tape deck.

It was... Okay. It felt a little repetitive and boring but wasn't bad by any means.

I have no children and I'm under 40, what's the point of listening to this? There's no need to emulate my dad (or any other dad, for that matter) pretending to enjoy this. The other albums of the Stones featured in this list (or the Rollings as we say in Spain), at least have some hit singles. But this one, albeit being the most reputed one, is a collection of background music with no particular interest. This has been confusing for me. I have always heard this album as a cornerstone of the Stones discography but it was just a random collection of blues/rock songs. Meh.

Hmm I gave up about halfway through. I love aspects of the stones, but not these bits. Just felt like a bunch of lads with no material trying to adopt a new York sound. The piano sounds fun and the backing vocals are strong. Saxophone does not qualify as a real instrument (for me). Mick's voice sounds weak, guitars a bit thrown together. Drums... I'm too scared to criticise Charlie. Anyway I'm not sure there's even a single album of good material here, let alone two.

Pretty dull really. A couple of ok songs but nothing stands out. I think I’d rather just listen to an actual blues album.

Not a huge stone person sorry

Bluesy, has some gospel notes, has some country, mainly just old school rock and roll. Really not my thing, but I've heard much worse.

I'd really like to say that this is the album that made me finally realize that I misunderstood the Rolling Stones and they truly are a creative force. But alas, I'm once again disappointed. Sure, it's a good album, but nothing stands out and I have yet to see the allure of this band.

aldrig lyssnat men ser spännande ut

This was some mediocre rock and roll. DNF

1,5/5 didn’t finish just not my taste

Good stuff

This makes great background music to doing something else.

I feel like the Rolling Stones fall into two categories for me – stuff of theirs I think is groundbreaking, really awesome, and showcases their talent, and other stuff that makes me think they're overhyped, just average, and not my jam. This album is the latter.

Hard to believe some people prefer the Stones over the Beatles. I'll take the Beatles over this mediocre music any day.

It's okay but I really don't get the hype

Cba

Boring.

Just not a stones fan.

Other than a few tolerable songs this one was hard to get through. So noisy.

Not my favorite Stonrs album

good, but definitely not my type of thing

nada desse album que eu ja nao tenha ouvido dos beatles

litt kjedelig

Classic Stones, but I like their later stuff better

1 of these stars is for rocks off

Si aici bun de fundal

The Stones put out a lot of stuff. Not all of it was good.

ehh.

Meh

Surprisingly, a real slog.

not good for the gym

Except for a very few songs the lyrics are intensely moronic. It’s the music and arrangements that make a bit of their music listenable.

If this has been by any other band than the Stones, it would have passed without notice.

Idk if we're getting unlucky with the rolls or not but I'm stoned out. Might like this more when I revisit it sometime in the future, but for now its a step below everything else I've heard from them

I don't know how many times I've listened to this album, and for the life of me, I don't get the hype. There are some really good songs (Tumbling Dice, Shake Your Hips, Ventilator Blues, Let it Loose, Shine A Light, Soul Survivor), but no really great or timeless ones. The rest of it just sounds messy and in need of editing, to my ears. Not as bad as some of their earlier albums though, I guess.

Doing this exercise has made me think, are Rolling Stones the most overrated band of all time? The gap between the hype and the actual music is massive - this is absolutely fine but very unremarkable.

I think I've said before I've basically heard enough Rolling Stones. I'm good. This isn't painful or anything, though. Not like Oasis or Coldplay. This is another example of a band doing just a really good job at the thing they've decided to do and then where I meet them is at the juncture of what they've decided to do and whether I enjoy that thing. Also that thing is co-opting.

Sounds like everything else rolling stones

Pretty good, stones are a classic

Rolling Stones is definitely a "vibe band", they have occasional great moments on a few tracks, but there's not much beyond that. It's too long, and it all melts into this messy blues jam-feeling. It feels really uneven and unfocused. Best song: Shine A Light Worst song: Turd on the Run Cover check: Boring and none of the pictures are eye-catching

I just don't get the Stones. These songs aren't good.

Incomprehensible nonesense

So this just isn’t my favorite RS album. It’s not near the bottom but it’s probably right in the dead middle. Like it’s not awful, there’s a few RS albums where it felt like they were phoning it in or just coasting. I don’t necessarily feel that way about this album, I think this is still during their peak. I just think this is their “worst peak” album, if that makes sense. It’s not chock full of hits like some of their other albums, but it also doesn’t have any like MASSIVE hits on it. It’s just a perfectly solid acceptable album from on of the greatest bands of all time. Like if a mediocre band put out this album it would be so much more impressive than one of the greatest bands ever releasing a “good” album. You know what I mean?

Dosta meh album. Ne sviđa mi se toliko rock n roll. Jedina mi je dobra pjesma “Happy”, ostale su mi dosta uninspiring

I was excited that I got a Rolling Stones album, but I did not like this. It was The Rolling Stones trying to sound country. Not for me. I only recognized one song on the album (Shake Your Hips) and I only knew that from a cover that was in one of my Zumba Wii games. I was surprised I didn’t know any other songs because I’ve heard of this album before.

I'll side with the original assessment of this album when it came out, its uneven, song quality is all over the place...mostly meh. This is yet another album that revisionists are trying to make a masterpiece, its not.

There are loads better Stones albums than this one. It’s fine, but it gets too much praise as one of the all time greats.

Not bad but didn't make me feel anything special. Probably just bc I wasn't shown this by a role model.

Self-indulgent. Yes, this is the hill I will die on.

Okay okay

I can't believe I'm about to give the Rolling Stones a 2, but this album just didn't hit. Out of an hour, I only liked three songs and I don't I'll remember them after an hour. So many of these songs sounded jumbled, or garbled(?), that I just ended up getting distracted. Favorite songs: Rocks Off Ventilator Blues

3rd Rolling Stones album from the generator and I'm starting to realize I probably won't ever like their music fully. No matter the era Mick's voice pisses me off and the catchy tunes are few and far between. Arguably there's nothing wrong with this album and it's not bad music but I just don't care 2/5

i want to rage rate this a 2 because oh my it would’ve been impossible to get through if i hadn’t been cleaning at the same time.

I initially quite like this but felt that it just droned on and on at the end. Just couldn't tell one song from another and it all just sounded very similar.

I've never understood the appeal of the Rolling Stones and I've really tried. I've listened to this album many times. So many samey melodies and tracks. Of all the albums this one is really the one I can't fathom

Every time I check out The Stones part of me is convinced that I'll finally have some kind of revelation and see what so many others seem to see in them. The only major success I've had thus far is figuring out that Gimme Shelter and Paint It Black are really fucking good (and there are a couple of other Stones songs I go back to as well). Although, going into this, I was feeling pretty good, this album *is* held in extremely high regard, and I could only imagine there must be something here. And in short, there are things about Exile On Main Street that I like, but this is largely an hour plus of music I don't feel very strongly about. Firstly, I'd like to say I think I get what The Stones were going for here, this very much feels like a "sum of it's parts album", but it just never really came together for me. I do like the overall production aesthetic here, there's plenty of rock and roll grit, and I think everyone is doing what they need to do to achieve the sound. I'd like to single out Mick Jagger's vocals in particular, for being a kind of loose and mushy that makes it seem like he's using his voice more like an instrument than anything. I think this all works best on songs like the opener, Rocks Off, which is probably my favorite here. They really sell their particular rock sound, and there are some really great lines here, "The sunshine bores the daylights out of me" hits in particular. However, nothing else here quite reaches this high again, although there are some other songs I like: Ventilator Blues and All Down The Line, among others are also pretty good. Although my biggest issue I think is that I just don't really like The Stones' brand of blues rock. I think my problem may be that while I have no doubt The Stones truly love the (predominantly black) art that they are inspired by, their mode of appreciation seems to be to attempt to clone it so exactly that their whole shtick feels way more put on (to me at least) than I think it would have otherwise. I actually think it may be more distracting here than on some of their other stuff I have heard, like it really feels like they want me to think they're from New Orleans or something. Anyways, aside from this, I do have some other more tangible complaints about this album. It feels like they're trying to do the "song fragments that create a coherent work" thing, but some of these "fragments" are like 3 minutes long so they just feel like underdeveloped songs. I Want To See His Face has a cool sound, but it may be the most egregious example of this I can think of here. It also feels like The Stones don't know how to end a song. A trick they pull out again and again is repeating a couple bars of music and maybe a single line for slightly longer than you want, then abruptly stopping. It happens quite a bit, and feels really awkward to me. Like I said, there is some stuff I appreciate here, I like a couple of songs, I like the production quality, it just doesn't come together for me. I did at least add a couple of songs to "The List of Rolling Stones Songs I Like" so I got a little out of this. But I really can't tell if I'm closer or farther from figuring The Stones out, maybe it'll happen someday, maybe it won't, we'll see.

Oh no not another Stones album. Maybe this one will be good. Over an hour later…nope

Some good tracks but over all a sprawling mess of boredom.

Could have been a three if I actually like Mick Jagger's voice

What a mess. Muddy sound, incoherent vocals, saxes and horns mixed too loud, a band drugged up so badly they can't tell if they want to sound like delta blues or a contemporary 1970s rock band. I mean, if you like the mess, then this record is for you. Just didn't make sense to me. Life is short.

Too samey, only the harmonica stood out and not in a good way. Sorry dads.

meh

I forgot to listen until like the last 2 songs but i was still vibin'

I tried really hard to like the Rolling Stones when I was younger, and this is their most beloved/acclaimed record I'm pretty sure. The problem is that it's just too fucking long. It's 18 songs long and over an hour. This is from a time when people would sit with one record for a long time and play it over and over, but it feels of its time to me and lacks a timelessness that makes it kind of hard to sit through.

Sounds like a jam session to me and not a very good one

Eh, it's The Rolling Stones, you know what you're getting. And personally, I don't need this much of it. More and more I find Stones tracks to just be aimless blues jamming, like what my uncle does on Saturday nights in the garage with a Jack & Coke.

A classic one

Given the length I had hoped for better

Kerniger Rolling Stones Sound, nicht meine Lieblings Musik aber ok

This was okay, but I didn't love it. I know it's legendary Stones album, but I'm just not a very big fan of the Stones to begin with. I'm sorry to say it, but it seemed really long and I just really didn't enjoy much of it. Two stars.

This is the first album by The Rolling Stones I listened to and it was kind of underwhelming. It was largely a blues rock album and blues is just not a genre that I find interesting. Although it was not bad the tracks just felt bland and boring to me. Nothing stood out. Nothing made me want to listen to it again. I felt like I was listening to the same song over and over again.

Okay album. I was never that interested in the RS, but I did see them live in 2024 and gained a big appreciation for their musicianship and ability to deliver a great show. Mick Jagger is still amazing and incomparable. That being said, this album has Tumbling Dice, but the rest of the tracks are solid R&B and soul but relatively uninteresting.

My least favorite stones album.

Really just not into this era of Stones. Hard for me to listen to and enjoy.

I simply don’t get the Rolling Stones. Warmed over, derivative, stolen blues, the only reason they are revered is because they did it first. It’s not bad, but that’s only because it’s inoffensive sonic wallpaper. Beige music.

The Stones were great at making singles, but not good at all at making an engaging, encompassing record as their contemporaries could. Exile On Main Street is the shining example of this - 18 songs but not a lot to remember for this. Nothing offensive on this, but many forgettable tracks best left in the past. Best Tracks: - Happy - Let It Loose Worst Tracks: - Turd On The Run Rating: 5/10

its got good tracks, its got hopeless stuff, EOMS is a crazy mix of everything and nothing that has bluesrock as its only theme, which is not what a great record is supposed to look like. Just listen to some of the songs, theres some good stuff on here, its just not complete. Favorite track: Tumblin dice. Overall score: 4.2/10

i have a certain amount of respect and appreciation for the Rolling Stones because there is a pretty huge number of bands and artists i love who in all likelihood wouldn’t exist without them. having said that, i do not care for the Rolling Stones one bit. i find them obtuse and annoying, overly worshipful of blues/blues rock without really elevating the form at all. on some level, all of their songs, style, image, feel like they just *need* you to understand how cool they are. they have nothing for me. i’ll give this one extra star for not having any of the big hits that really crawl under my skin and drive me insane, but i really tried to give Exile a fair shake and only ended up making it halfway through.

it's fine

I’ve never really been into The Rolling Stones, and this album did not change that. It was a long album and all the songs felt pretty much the same to me. I constantly felt like I had heard the track before already. There were not really many standouts, and especially with a runtime of over an hour, it turns into quite a boring listen. Favourite tracks: Rocks Off, Let It Loose, Shine A Light

I'm sorry I just don't like the rolling stones. This album feels like they're trying to be the beatles without plagarizing them

Really not what i expected, only liked a few songs

It's okay, but it's not The Beatles.

porra eu não suporto mais rolling stones CHEGA NÃO É LEGAL ASSIM

definitivamente é rolling stones. 67 minutos de puro bluezinho feito por britanicos que queriam muito ser estadunidenses. meia boca.

I’ve been delaying writing this review because I don’t know what to say. I hadn’t ever really listened to a full Stones album admittedly. Exile On Main Street was shaking in its mediocrity. This is clearly the cool kids album. I currently am not running with the cool crowd I guess. Needs more listens. 5.8/10

I have yet to listen to a Rolling Stones album that isn't "just okay", and boy this is not the exception to that.

I get that they're influential and this is one of their best, but it doesn't really grab and never has.

My third Stones album so far. I don't know what it is, they just don't do it for me. Like, it's fine, but nothing on this album really made me *feel* anything. My choice for my playlist is Shine A Light, which I do really like.

I'm not quite a stones fan but this was quite good indeed

This album is a real letdown after so many greater earlier albums. Not much variation in sound from song to song. Boring.

I cant seem to get into The Rolling Stones. I dont know why, but their style of rock never really appealed to me.

I like some of the stones' songs but these ones don't do it for me. The horns are a nice touch tho

This has "Tumbling Dice" on it...which I would argue is the best song the Stones ever wrote. And it also has 17 other songs that are all...alright, I guess. Is this the Stones album I put on when I have the rare urge to listen to a Stones album? No, it is not. But I will put on Tumbling Dice.

Sen tyylistä rokkendaalia, että ei omaan makuun istu.

Just listen to the short of Spotify: nothing new, just another annoying Stones lp. Drop

2.5

1.81

Other than sweet black angle, the whole thing sounded like 1 song, start to finish. No good hooks. Good piano on Let it Loose, reminiscent of The Office theme song.

I can appreciate the album for the music, but I've never been a fan of Jagger...

I don’t like the Stones as much as I often think I do. This is supposedly their best, but it’s quite hit or miss for me. It starts off strong, but by track 2 I’m usually annoyed enough to turn it off. After forcing myself to listen to it as a whole, and while there are a couple of other songs that I like here (Tumbling Dice is awesome), I wasn’t missing a whole lot by not listening to the whole thing before. I’m still baffled by these Brits playing shitty versions of American blues music and getting away with it for several albums in the 60s and 70s. Not to mention the way Mick is singing throughout. It’s like when Dylan tried to sing with a different voice on Nashville Skyline. Like, okay, sure but why? You sound obnoxious. Knock it off! It just doesn’t resonate with me. How is this supposedly better than Sticky Fingers?

Maybe three good songs on this.

nah

Never been the biggest Stones fan, this was just okay for me. I appreciate and acknowledge the influence they have had on the Rock world, but this album feels played out and bogged down by today's standards

I had high hopes, but this thing is way too long with a noticeable lack of hooks. Disappointed.

didnt like, not sure what all the fuss is about

Not my liking. Too slow.

As I’ve mentioned before I was never a big Stones fan and this album typifies why. Great musicianship throughout but after a while I become bored at the same sounding blues which is the Stones’ trademark sound. I do like one or two Stones tracks which are probably their most popular and famous but none of them are on here. Tumbling Dice is perhaps their best known song on this album. It says it all when I say that it is the best track on the album but still one I dislike. 2/5 20/12/24

Oh gosh, another Stones album. Pretentious bullcrap.

As exciting as speedrunning time management games

Why does this have to be a double album? I just don't get rolling stones. It's just a bunch of drunks playing mediocre blues. maybe I'm missing something

Man, for something lauded as their 'best work' and 'a culmination of a string of the band's highly critically successful albums', I was hoping for a little more than what ended up feeling like a demoralizingly long and repetitive set of British folks getting through a country blues binge. Not the worst performances from them or anything but I felt like I had heard all there was to hear less than halfway through. It really started to bother me by the end

I honestly don't mind the Stones for the most part, definitely classic rip off black people boomer rock - I don't think I'd ever have gone out of my way to listen to a whole album though. The biggest issue here is how samey this shit is. Listening to Rocks Off I was kinda excited to get into this, but by halfway through an album of borderline sonically identical, formulaic shit, I was begging for it to be done. By the time it got to the final track I was so happy to be done with this. Good god this did not need to be over an hour. Pick out any track on this album and I would struggle to hum the tune. It just turns into white noise after the 20 minute mark, which sadly is only a third of the way through this.

2.5

It's mad that the 'best Stones album' contains zero tracks that I have ever heard before. I can't help feeling 'best' here is a title given by people trying very hard to be 'cool'.

It’s just Mick making nonsense noises on top of music you’ve heard better versions of.

This album is extremely overrated, though I respect that it's widely acclaimed. One of its most glaring issues is its excessive length. The album drags on without offering enough engaging or varied material to justify its duration. The tracks often blend into one another, lacking the distinct qualities that make each song stand out. This results in a listening experience that is monotonous and tiresome.

Groupe connu, j'ai été amené à jouer plusieurs de leurs tubes mais c'est la première fois que j'écoute un album entier, dans ce cas un double album. Celui ci est plus récent que la majorité des morceaux que je connais. Les morceaux sont dans un style blues/rock classique, mais l'album ne contient aucun tube. Les morceaux dynamiques sont plutôt bien, mais on a aussi beaucoup de remplissage : les (presque) 70 mn m'ont paru bien long. Je n'y reviendrais pas. =>2/5

okay, i like some of the stones songs, but these didnt feel as fun to me

Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it. A lot of the songs went on for a long time, more than needed. Overall good sound, usually love The Rolling Stones but not this one as much. Oh well, still a good time.

Every time a new side came on I had a glimmer of hope that it was my music player auto-playing a *different* Stones album but alas, it was still this one. I really disliked this.

That sure was one of The Rolling Stones albums of all time

This was fine.... I'm not a huge Stones guy.

For what I can only assume is a B-Sides collection this was still pretty bad. Still, plus one for horns.

Ohh those old stones, swear they got like 2 good songs, neither on this album.

Boring. I have this on LP and have listened to it quite a lot and my expectation is always higher than the outcome.

Ce n'est certainement pa s le meilleur de tous leurs albums. Quand on sait dans quelle conditions il fut créer , rien d'étonnant

I had higher expectations for every song to be a banger. I actually liked fewer than most

Nothing caught me about this album, it just felt long

Pretty good! Sounds like bad Springsteen for some reason (bad Springsteen is still good music, of course)