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October 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Rolling With The Stones: A Lifelong Journey

Growing up the first two Rolling Stones albums I heard were Undercover and Dirty Work. Now, these won’t ever figure highly on lists of favourite Rolling Stones records, but I have a connection to them because, as is often the case with music, the first album/s you hear from a significant artist will remain a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Lifelong Journey, Archives, Beggar's Banquet, Black And Blue, Blog, Blog Archives, Blog On The Tracks, Dirty Work, Exile, Exile On Main Street, Goat's Head Soup, Journeying With The Stones, Let It Bleed, Rolled Gold, Rolling With The Stones, Rolling With The Stones: A Lifelong Journey, Some Girls, Steel Wheels, Sticky Fingers, Stuff.co.nz, Tattoo You, The Rolling Stones, Undercover ·

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April 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 108 Valhalla

It was a house on the Terrace that we found when we learned the big warehouse space that we called home was about to be torn down. Old and stucco, full of earthquake cracks and rundown but with a majestic view of the city. Valhalla was painted in spidery writing on the façade. There was […]
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October 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Classic Albums I Can’t Ever Listen To Again: #3 The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street

“Exile On Main Street spends its four sides shading the same song in as many variations as there are Rolling Stone readymades to fill them, and if on the one hand they prove the group’s eternal constancy and appeal, it’s on the other that you can leave the album and still feel vaguely unsatisfied, not quite […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Classic Albums I Can't Ever Listen To Again, Exile On Main Street, Keef, Lenny Kaye, Mick Jagger, Phantom Billstickers, The Rolling Stones ·

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December 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1701

The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street (1972) I first heard this – one of the most revered/raved about albums by The Rolling Stones – when my brother bought the cassette tape. I only ever knew it as a tape and then a single CD; I never heard it as the double album. I liked […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1972, Double LP, Exile On Main Street, Goat's Head Soup, LP, Tattoo You, The Rolling Stones, Ventilator Blues, Vinyl ·

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