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I mean, props to him for popularising guitar, but the man has no idea of pocket, push/pull, etc - things which particularly mark out the blues greats like BB.
3 & 4 completely lost me.
Country,
Jazz...
Never heard a record I liked by Bob Dylan or the Smiths.
Horses for courses and all that
Throw in anything Springsteen ever did. (Except write some songs that more talented people turned into classics.)
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Apparently it's a classic, I feckin hate it.
To be fair, I bought Exile when I was a skint student and thought it was so disappointing when I first heard it. Months later I left it on repeat at a barbeque and at some point during the afternoon of getting pissed in the sunshine it just clicked and track after track turned into little nuggets of musical perfection.
With its revolving door of guest appearances, frequently dense instrumental production, sloppy playing and poor recording it’s a very difficult listen. Jagger’s vocals are frequently buried in the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink mix, and Bill Wyman is absent for half the album.
I do realise that the loose, sprawling nature of it is a huge part of the appeal for many; just not for me. It’s a real shame, as there’s some gems buried in there; the languid splendour of Tumbling Dice, the ZZ Top prototype of Shake Your Hips, the Deep South soul of Shine A Light to name a few. There’s just a lot of crap to wade through in order to get to them.
Listening to it while pissed is probably the best way to enjoy it, as you’re unable to stagger over to the stereo and put something different on.