It was certified platinum in the US by 2000, and the chart-topping deluxe reissue went platinum in the UK. Released on May 12, 1972, it went to No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic - their sixth chart-topper in their own, temporarily estranged country -and in many other countries from Spain to Canada. It’s a rock‘n’roll environment.”īut from such unpromising circumstances came a record that continued the Stones’ blinding run of form of the era. There was lots of drugs and drinking and carrying on. There’s a lot of people with a lot more hangers-on now than we ever had. Some of them were great fun, they’re all good for a bit, but when you really come down to it, you don’t want them around, because they just delay everything.
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Mick Jagger, remembering the coterie that surrounded the Stones, added: “Everyone’s life was full of hangers-on. You could hear the drums playing, for instance, but it would take you a while to find Charlie’s cubicle.” “It was large, but it was broken up into cubicles, it kind of looked like Hitler’s bunker. “The basement was the strangest place,” Richards said in the same article. We ran the cables down into various rooms that we tried sound in.” We had to saw a couple of them down to get the truck in to record. “It was fantastically exotic, with palm trees. When Keith rented it, the garden was very overgrown, so it was magical. Wyman, describing the villa in the Sunday Times piece, said: “It was very Mediterranean, and very beautiful, on top of this point with its own boat. The sessions were captured in their celebrated and much-used Rolling Stones mobile truck, but only after certain modifications. The challenges were myriad, from sheer audiophonic limitations to endless delays caused by the Stones’ lifestyle of the time. But Exile was chiefly recorded, with considerable difficulty, at Richards’ Nellcote villa in the south of France. They continued at Olympic Studios in London. The Stones began sessions for songs that finished on the album at Mick Jagger’s Stargroves estate as early as 1969. “My family were very happy there, and I was.” “What do they call it, a break in earnings? It worked out, thank goodness.” Both he and Bill Wyman settled in France. “It was the only thing to do,” added Charlie Watts. “Yeah, you could have stayed and made tuppence out of every pound,” he joked, of the punishing tax laws that forced the Stones to relocate. This use of compression was even more of a disaster on the recent Beatles stereo reissues.“You were very resentful about having to leave your own country, because that’s really what it came to,” said Keith Richards to this writer, in a Sunday Times feature at the time of the deluxe reissue of Exile in 2010. I am lucky enough to own the original vinyl and he Virgin reissue. In some tracks, you can tell they were unfinished and finished for this project. As for the bonus material, most of it is alright. I am told that the vinyl of this reissue is better. If you want to hear the music the way it was recorded, try the mid '90's Virgin reissue or the original vinyl. Every song has the same range and eventually causes listener fatigue All this data reduction detracts from the music.This is all well and good if one is listening to an I-Pod or MP3. Much of the high and low ends were wiped out. This killed the dynamics of the original release. To accomplish this, compression was also used to bring the sound into a certain range. The new mix brings Jagger's vocals, intentionally, to the forefront. It was not necessary to know all the lyrics because a whole experience was the goal of the LP.
The LP was more of a sound experience and feel. It was raw and Jagger's voice was treated a another instrument in the recoding and mix down of the album. The original release would, for me, earn an 11 on a ten scale. That gives me no particular qualification other than I lived in record stores from when i was a kid and that was a natural progression for me. I owned a record store from 1969 until recently when I sold it to the managers.
Not that it matters but, i was around when this LP was originally released. Not that it matters but, i was around when this LP was I signed up expressly to voice my opinion on this particular remastering of Exile. I signed up expressly to voice my opinion on this particular remastering of Exile.