Bitch wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 6:48am:

Short and sound is crap so I'll reserve judgement but this doesn't very interesting, new vocal obviously, and that guitar line sounds new too, the type of single note doodle  Keith plays these days.

Reminds me of something I can't quite place at this point...an old Beatles song by John, let's see...that's it "I call your name"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LnR6GX-Re8

gotdablouse wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 1:50pm:

Don't hear a Fabs influence at all.

Reminds me of 'Tumbling Dice'...

I'm not even listening to this song with the thought of it being anything other than Jagger revisiting Exile. I'm fairly convinced very little of these songs are pure in their orginal Exile form.
To me, it may as well be the new stones we've been waiting for...
Jagger he's been "living with Exile" for the last few months. Maybe this really is a revisitation.

buddhabone wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 2:27pm:



That's how I've been trying to approach it. I must have been crazy to think that there were really "lost tracks" from Exile......, like finding a "lost" book of the bible.
But listening to the snippet as it is, it sounds like what I would have wanted a "new" stones song to sound like. Maybe having Exile as his guide was a good thing for Jagger. He has always dismissed Exile, just to be contrary, I suspect because that's what he does. But apparently, he has been really delving into the spirit of that time, those songs etc......maybe finally seeing in Exile what most of us always knew and its given him a new appreciation of it. But yes, it should be presented as 'songs inspired by.....

left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 3:11pm:



But if I think of them as not "new", I'll be distracted by the Was-esque polish and Jagger's new vocals.....so I'd rather take them as something-old, something-new........

We all are, better than nothing !

Ah doesn't it sound a bit like "Stealing my Heart" too, one of the tracks the Stones deemed worthy enough to be on Forty Licks back in 2002 ?

From Rolling Stone:

Tell me about "Following The River." That's a brand new vocal, right?
MJ: I just started from nothing on that. The core tape of it was the piano and the drums, bass, and guitar. There was no top line or lyric. I started from scratch — I mean, that's what I do, and I've done it many times before. And it's daunting in the beginning, but after a while you get into it.

So how do you go about writing lyrics?
You just sit down and write it as you would anything else, you know? Sometimes you write the lyrics while you're sitting down playing the piano or guitar, and the lyrics come to you while you're writing the song. And sometimes you write the melody first and you have to write all the lyrics. And sometimes you get half the lyrics. And sometimes there's a track that you didn't turn up on the session. And they say, "Mick, we've done this great track. Will you write the words?" And that was this one.

'Exile' will remain 'Exile'.

The other 10 songs are a lagniappe.

I like it more

If it's any consolation, everything I've read about Don Was' involvement in this project is with the 10 "new" songs.
The talk of new vocals, etc. is about those songs.

The remastering of 'Exile' proper was done - as were the previous Stones UMG remasters - by Marcussen Mastering.

I'd guess that Jimmy Miller won't be sharing a producer's credit on that...

No doubt Mick would approve.

'Stones In Exile' is being released separately, and is 2 hours longer than the version included with Super Deluxe.



Release Date: Jun 14 2010

Running Time: 151 mins approx

In the spring of 1971 the Rolling Stones departed the UK to take up residence in France as tax exiles. Keith Richards settled at a villa called Nellcôte in Villefranche-sur-Mer and this became the venue for the recording of much of the band's masterpiece 'Exile On Main Street'. 'Stones In Exile' tells the story in the band's own words and through extensive archive footage of their time away from England and the creation of this extraordinary double album, which many regard as the Rolling Stones’ finest achievement.

Extensive additional footage including interviews with all the band members, footage from 'Cocksucker Blues' and Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts returning to Olympic Studios and Jagger's country house Stargroves where a lot of the early work on the album was done.

Additional contributions from: Martin Scorsese, Jack White, Don Was, Caleb Followill (Kings Of Leon), Benicio Del Toro, Will.I.Am (Black Eyed Peas), Sheryl Crow, Anita Pallenberg, Ronnie Wood, producer Jimmy Miller, engineer Andy Johns, photographer Dominique Tarlé and sax player Bobby Keys.

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