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2	[[caption-width-right:330:''"May the good lord shine a light on you. Make every song your favourite tune."'']]
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4	-> ''"I Just Want to See His Face" - that song had a big impact on me, particularly learning how to sing in that high falsetto, the way Jagger does. When he sings like a girl, I go crazy. I said, 'I've got to learn how to do that.' I couldn't really do it until I stopped smoking. That's when it started getting easier to do. [Waits's own] '[[Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}} Shore Leave]]' has that, '[[Music/BoneMachine All Stripped Down]]', '[[Music/FranksWildYears Temptation]]'. Nobody does it like Music/MickJagger; nobody does it like Music/{{Prince}}. But this is just a tree of life. This record is the watering hole. Music/KeithRichards plays his ass off. This has the Checkerboard Lounge all over it.''
5	-->-- '''Music/TomWaits''', who put ''Exile on Main St.'' at no. 4 in a list of his personal Top 20 favourite albums, published in ''The Guardian'' in 2005.
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7	''Exile on Main St.'' is the tenth studio album (twelfth American album) by Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}, released in 1972. It was mainly recorded at Nellcôte in France, with additional recording at Olympic Studios in London and Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles. Hits and fan favourites include "Tumbling Dice", "Rip This Joint", "Happy", "Sweet Virginia", "Rocks Off" and "Shine a Light".
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9	In 2010, ''Exile'' was given a remastered deluxe edition featuring a second disc of outtakes and previously unreleased songs.
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12	!! Tracklist:
13	!!! LP One
14	[[AC: Side One]]
15	# "Rocks Off" (4:31)
16	# "Rip This Joint" (2:22)
17	# "Shake Your Hips" (2:59)
18	# "Casino Boogie" (3:33)
19	# "Tumbling Dice" (3:45)
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21	[[AC: Side Two]]
22	# "Sweet Virginia" (4:27)
23	# "Torn and Frayed" (4:17)
24	# "Sweet Black Angel" (2:54)
25	# "Loving Cup" (4:25)
26
27	!!! LP Two
28	[[AC: Side Three]]
29	# "Happy" (3:04)
30	# "Turd on the Run" (2:36)
31	# "Ventilator Blues" (3:24)
32	# "I Just Want to See His Face" (2:52)
33	# "Let It Loose" (5:16)
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35	[[AC: Side Four]]
36	# "All Down the Line" (3:49)
37	# "Stop Breaking Down" (4:34)
38	# "Shine a Light" (4:14)
39	# "Soul Survivor" (3:49)
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41	[-Note: CD releases are on a single disc.-]
42	----
43	!! Tracklist (2010 Bonus Disc):
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45	# "Pass the Wine (Sophia Loren)"
46	# "Plundered My Soul"
47	# "I'm Not Signifying"
48	# "Following the River"
49	# "Dancing in the Light"
50	# "So Divine (Aladdin Story)"
51	# "Loving Cup (alternate take)"
52	# "Soul Survivor (alternate take)"
53	# "Good Time Woman" [[note]]Early version of "Tumbling Dice"[[/note]]
54	# "Title 5"
55	# "All Down the Line (Alternate Take)" [[note]]Released only on the Japanese edition[[/note]]
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58	!!Principal Members:
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60	* Music/MickJagger - lead vocals, harmonica, guitar, percussion
61	* Music/KeithRichards - guitar, backing and lead vocals, piano, bass
62	* Music/MickTaylor - guitar, bass
63	* Charlie Watts - drums
64	* Bill Wyman - bass
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66	----
67	!!I only get my rocks off while I'm tropin':
68	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "'''L'''et It '''L'''oose" (also mentioning "'''b'''edroom '''b'''lues"), "'''S'''oul '''S'''urvivor" (which talks about "'''b'''ell '''b'''ottom '''b'''lues"). And who could forget that great line in "Casino Boogie":
69	--> '''''K'''issing '''c'''unt in '''C'''annes''
70	* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: "Sweet Black Angel", about a sweet angelic black woman who is nevertheless:
71	--> ''Not a sweet black slave.\
72	Ten little niggers sittin' on de wall,\
73	Her brothers been a fallin', fallin' one by one.\
74	For a judge's murder in a judge's court,\
75	Now de judge he gonna judge her for all dat he's worth.\
76	Well de gal in danger, de gal in chains,\
77	But she keep on pushin'''
78	* BreakUpSong: "Turd on the Run"
79	--> ''Diamond rings, vaseline, you give me disease''
80	--> ''Well, I lost a lot of love over you''
81	* ButNowIMustGo: "Tumbling Dice"
82	--> ''But baby, I can't stay''
83	* UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement: As mentioned below, "Sweet Black Angel" was written in support of civil rights activist UsefulNotes/AngelaDavis. It is one of the band's few overtly political songs.
84	* ClothingDamage: "Turd on the Run" has the narrator successively tearing off the coattail, lapel, and pants of the person he's addressing.
85	* CountryMatters: "Casino Boogie"
86	--> ''Dietrich movies, close-up boogies\
87	Kissing cunt in Cannes''
88	* CoverVersion: A couple of old blues songs, Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips" and Music/RobertJohnson's "Stop Breaking Down".
89	* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: "Shake Your Hips", which ought to be taken seriously as it makes girls think the protagonist is blues singer Slim Harpo.
90	* EpicRocking: "Let It Loose" is just over five minutes.
91	* FakeShemp: An essay in the book ''Kill Your Idols'' points out that most of the band-members were trotting in and out of rehab during the album sessions, and that very few of the parts were played by actual Rolling Stones.
92	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: The basic message of "Stop Breaking Down".
93	* GodIsLoveSongs: "I Just Want to See His Face"
94	--> ''You don't want to walk and talk about Jesus\
95	You just want to see His face''
96	* GriefSong: "Soul Survivor"
97	--> ''It's gonna be the death of me\
98	It's the graveyard watch''
99	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Turd on the Run". Fitting, since it's basically a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about a former lover.
100	* IntercourseWithYou: "Rocks Off", "Happy", "Loving Cup", and "All Down the Line" all allude to it.
101	* NocturnalEmission: Alluded to in "Rocks Off", whose narrator can "Only get his rocks off when he's dreaming."
102	* NWordPrivileges: Averted in "Sweet Black Angel" - see BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama above. Because the song was in support of civil rights activist Angela Davis, the Stones escaped controversy over it. (Also, the song's aversion of this trope doubles as an allusion to the original title of Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', which has been changed in modern printings for obvious reasons.)
103	* OneWordTitle: "Happy".
104	* PepTalkSong: "Shine a Light"
105	--> ''May the good Lord shine a light on you\
106	Make every song (you sing) your favourite tune''
107	* PrecisionFStrike: Richards ad-libs "I just can't fuck it" in the outro of the alternate take of "Soul Survivor". The album also contains the lines "Got to scrape that shit right off your shoe" in "Sweet Virginia" and "Let it Loose", "They're gonna hold some shit for me" in "Rip This Joint", "Plug in, flush out, and fire the fuckin' feed" in "Rocks Off", and, of course, the use of CountryMatters mentioned above.
108	* ProductPlacement: "Happy"
109	--> ''Never got a lift out of Lear jets''
110	* ProtestSong: "Sweet Black Angel" is one of only about ten in the Stones' entire discography, written in support of civil rights activist UsefulNotes/AngelaDavis, who at the time was in jail for the kidnapping and murder of a California judge (she was acquitted later that year). The song does not mention her by name, but as critic Steve Kurutz writes:
111	--> "Having never heard of Angela Davis, a listener could easily overlook the political lyrics and get lost in the circular acoustic plucking or the washboard rhythm that propels the song so well. Yet, by knowing the case history one realizes how deft and clever Mick's lyrics could be, even if he hides behind his best backwoods diction and garbled annunciation [sic] obscure[s] the point."
112	* RecognitionFailure: The protagonist in "Shake Your Hips" is mistaken for blues singer Slim Harpo:
113	--> ''Well, I met a little girl in a country town\
114	She said: "What do you know: there's Slim Harpo!"''
115	* ShoutOut:
116	** "Casino Boogie" mentions Creator/MarleneDietrich.
117	---> ''Dietrich movies, close up boogies''.
118	** "Rip This Joint" references UsefulNotes/RichardNixon and his wife Pat
119	---> ''Dick and Pat in ole D.C.\
120	Well, they're gonna hold some shit for me''
121	** "Shine a Light" inspired the Rolling Stones ConcertFilm of the same name, ''Film/ShineALight'', directed by Creator/MartinScorsese.
122	** "Sweet Black Angel", one of the Stones' few overtly political songs, was written in support of [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement civil rights]] activist UsefulNotes/AngelaDavis, at the time jailed as an accomplice to a kidnapping and murder (she would be acquitted on all counts shortly after the release of the album).
123	** The outtake "Pass the Wine (Creator/SophiaLoren)" kinda speaks for itself.
124	** The reference to "bell bottom blues" in "Soul Survivor" is probably a reference to the song of the same name from Music/DerekAndTheDominos' ''Music/LaylaAndOtherAssortedLoveSongs''.
125	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Ventilator Blues" and "I Just Want to See His Face".
126	* SomethingBlues: "Ventilator Blues". "Soul Survivor" talks about "bell bottom blues" and "Let It Loose" also mentions "bedroom blues".
127	* SpiritualSuccessor:
128	** Music/LizPhair's ''Music/ExileInGuyville'' is an [[AnswerSong answer]] to this record. Try not to think about it too hard, since some of the song counterparts don't make sense. She did give an interview to ''Magazine/RollingStone'' where [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/14639/89656 she elaborated on the parallels]].
129	** ''Exile on Mainstream'' by Music/MatchboxTwenty is another ShoutOut.
130	** Music/{{Chemlab}} named the leading track from their album ''East Side Militia'' "Exile on Mainline".
131	** Music/PussyGalore even covered the entire album in their own style. Music/{{Phish}} did the same during a Halloween show in 2009.
132	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Keith Richards sings lead vocals on "Happy" and the alternate take of "Soul Survivor" included on the bonus disc of the remaster.
133	* WalkingTheEarth: "Tumbling Dice"
134	--> ''You got to roll me and call me the tumblin' dice''
135	* WordSaladLyrics: A justified example with "Casino Boogie". Jagger had writer's block when attempting to write the lyrics, so he mixed up a bunch of phrases he'd written on torn pieces of paper; then the band members pulled them out at random. The order in which they pulled out the phrases was used for the song. This technique was evidently inspired by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, who in fact had passed through the Nellcôte villa where the Stones recorded much of the album.

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