Rolling Stones' "Turd on the Run"

I think I 'get' 70s Miles now. You're supposed to listen to the PERCUSSION right? The layers of percussion and use of same is as 'important' as the changes/modes etc in earlier times, is that it? Anyway, alone among everybody I like 'Big Fun' best. Altho I like the bonus tracks on it best. I just think "BB" goes on forever and "On the Corner", I don't see quite what the point is of making EZ listening with a 'impossible listening' mix, but that's just the mood I'm in today. I'd still take 'Filles de Kilimanjaro' over all of those though. Reason I'm mentioning this is because I think as dense dirty organo-techno funk 'Exile' has stuff to offer which compares to some of the stuff on those, this is a recommendation, and I know alot of people who claim to hate the Stones because "They're old" or (a better excuse) "I NEVER want to hear [insert 'classic' here] ever again" but their obscure stuff shouldn't be missed by anyone! (Also see "Hey Negrita" off 'Black and Blue' - now there's a porn-disco album Air and Fischerspooner could do with listening to! Although on the basis of my theory that Air copied their entire career from the last minute or so of "Fool to Cry" [no bad thing], they already did)

On the Corner & Exile both make the "albums that are sometimes included among my favorites" list. Both came out the same year. Both dirty-as-fuck.

I didn't recognize "Turd on the Run" (by name) when you first mentioned it, but listening now, I definitely recall the dirty-ass-ness and the bitch-done-left-me-ness. It's surely their most "Miles-esque", rhythmically.

"Ventilator Blues" is pretty cool, too.

I'll take "Big Fun" too, dave; you're not alone. And yes, "Filles" is the best. I can't recall how "Turd" sounds at the moment...

yeah i like all the uptempo songs on "exile", it's the soul ballads & the fake country that sound like filler to me.

As a road-trip veteran, I've come to the old realization that yr experience of "Exile" will invariably be influenced by the state of Wyoming. Ever driven across Wyoming? (No 'civilization' to speak of out there - more mountains than people, it felt like. Laramie's the, er, 'city' - hah! Most stunningly beautiful state ever - go there if you haven't seen it) Listening on "Exile" on repeat while driving thru Wyoming was a transcendent experience. Was on uppers the whole time, of course - hadn't slept in something like 40, 50 hours. The highway was dissolving into itself, no cars for miles, just purple mountains and green grass and desert and cattle and a neverending seamless expanse of road and blazing red-orange sunsets (Ever notice when yr sped up, that everything's brighter than it should be?)

I love the soul ballads and the 'fake country' (whatever that is) - they're so achingly beautiful and poignant. For something made by a bunch of British rockers, it's very...well...Wyoming. It's difficult to explain. But the album sounds the way Wyoming feels, and I mean that in the best way possible.

"Turd On The Run" is a badass song. Jon Spencer has made a career out of aping this kind of stuff.

Another off center Stones song that has that kind of edge is "Memo from Turner". Ry Cooder's slide line on that song sounds like doing a line of coke off of a switchblade. The lyrics have about as much venom as anything they ever did and has almost a Burroghs edge.

I always thought "I Just Wanna See His Face" had a great feel. The ragged recording ads a whole other dimension to the song. After the Stones quit working with Jimmy Miller, they never quite had the same feel or sound.

Yeah, 'I Just Wanna See His Face' is amazing - sounds like nothing else (that I know of) in the Stones catalogue - love that muffled biscuit tin sound - the 'real' heroin house!

i once did a POO! on the stones for the indie and chose "do the hip shake baby!", which NO ONE ELSE PICKED...

yeah geeta i shouldntve bad rapped the "fake country" (oh you know - "got to scrape the shit right off my shoe", that stuff) 'cause really i luv this whole album & can stand to hear it all the way thru over & over & over & OVER. (havent done so for a while tho)

One of my fave reviews of "Exile" was in the fantastic "Beer Frame" zine, issue 10: (Paul L, if yr reading, I'm sorry for posting this, but I had to):

"Greatest album ever, big influence on everyone from Pussy Galore to Schooly D, blah-blah-blah - I don't care about any of that. What I care about is that my copy is badly scratched, gouged, and marked up on the back of the album jacket. The scratches are most severe exactly three-and-one-eighth inches down from the back cover's top-center point, and the cool thing about this (yes, there is a cool aspect to it) is that thousands, maybe even millions of other people have precisely the same sorts of scratches in precisely the same spot on their copies of the album. That's because if you own "Exile on Main Street", there's a decent chance that you also own "Sticky Fingers", and you probably shelve them right next to each other because that's the order in which they were released, and "Sticky Fingers" has that real zipper built into its Warhol-designed jacket. So the scratches on the back cover of "Exile" come from the zipper on the front of "Sticky Fingers" - not just on my copy, but probably on yours too (go check, you'll see). But of course this only holds true if you bought your copy of "Sticky Fingers" back when the zipper was still part of the package - at some point, I thiink when the entire Rolling Stones label and back catalog shifted from Atlantic to Columbia in the mid-80s, the real zipper was replaced by a cheesy-looking PHOTO of a zipper, which not only compromised the whole point of the design (never would've happened if Warhol had still been alive, I bet) but also put an end to the passive ritual of "Exile"'s back cover getting scratched up. Some might say that this was an improvement, at least in terms of not having to deal with all those scratches anymore, but I say it was a minor tragedy - not just the loss of the zipper but of the scratches, which are a classically inconspicuous detail. Nowadays, of course, with CDs having replaced LPs (to say nothing of mp3s and the whole Napster thing), it's hopeless - not only are there no zipper and no scratches, but a whole generation has grown up without knowing there was ever a real zipper. Don't get me started....
Obligatory music-related comment: Really is the greatest album ever."