One of my Top 10 Albums

The weird thing about this album is that there aren't any hits on this album, but every song is awesome. I guess some songs can stand on their own, but sit down and play the whole thing from start to finish to really get the most. If you ever wanted to know why the Stones are the greatest band of all time, get this CD now.

The single best album the Stones ever recorded-period!

As a fan who fell in love with the Stones during the early 1970's and has been following them ever since, I have to go out on a limb and say that if I were stranded on a deserted island and I had to have one Stones album with me--this is it! This record has got it all. It is the Stones at their peak and is a textbook lesson on why they are the greatest rock and roll band in the world (to quote Get Yer Ya Yas Out). It is funny that when this 2 set record was first released, it garnered very mixed reviews. Somehow, Exile's reputation has grown over the years. And I also think that this is one of those rare instances where the album, like a fine wine, has aged magnificantly! The Stones try their hand at a lot of different musical styles on this record, and it works. This album is a classic and certainly belongs in any serious rock collection...

The Stones are real

The Rolling Stones have an absolute love for playing music that I can hear when I listen to them. They are obviously having fun, they aren't worried about their hair or their image, they are just playing and having a blast. They put so much feeling into it, and you want to be there playing with them. Just listen and feel the music, don't contemplate it. Their music is meant for fun, not to be contemplated.

Many compare them to the Beatles, and apparently some hate one or the other band. I think they were both grown from the same plant. I think they both loved music, and I think both bands understood where the other was coming from, and they had friendly competition over album sales, but in the end it came down to their music and the enjoyment they got out of making it. You can't make music like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles without putting your soul into it. The Beatles were a little bit softer and less raunchy for the most part, but they were more creative musically, whereas the Stones were masters at drive and feeling.

I don't understand how anyone can even compare the Beatles or the Stones to Linkin' Park. Linkin' Park sounds to me like a bunch of image obsessed teenagers jacking off. They have no real good rhythm you could dance to, and their egos are so large that it would be hard to get behind them even if they were decent musicians. I don't know, I hate it when I am supposed to like someone in the music biz because they are what the current music is, but they have no real feeling behind it. Anyway, I don't know why you would compare a male blues vocalist like Mick Jagger to a female wailing pop vocalist like Mariah Carey. Apparently the person who wrote the review has completely different taste in music and I don't know how they got their hands on a Stones CD.

My overall point is, just forget about the politics of music and which band was better, and just enjoy it. Even though the Stones and the Beatles were somewhat "rivals" they both were wonderful musicians and created some of the most important art of the twentieth century, and I really think that neither band really cared about it that much. The Stones were semi-friends with the Beatles and respected them greatly for their music, and occasionally jammed with them. Forget all that stuff and just listen to their music, it will comfort you to know that at one time, music this good was being made. The late 60's and early 70's created so much good music, and hopefully there will be an age in the future when more will be.

Thank God the Stones and Paul McCartney are still alive now, and God help us when they die.