Exile On Main Street

1972年5月、Jimmy Millerをプロデューサーに迎え制作されたMick Taylor(G)在籍時の名盤。ロックンロール、ブルース、カントリー、ゴスペル等を取り込んだサウンドが特徴。Rolling Stone誌が選ぶ「史上最高のアルバム500」の7位にランクされている!

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.90) - Ranked #7 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...EXILE ON MAIN STREET is the Stones at their fighting best, armed with blues, playing to win..." Rolling Stone (7/6/72, p.54) - "...continual topping of one's self can only go on for so long, after which one must sit back and sustain what has already been built. And with EXILE the Stones have chosen to sustain for the moment..." -Lenny Kaye Q (6/00, p.91) - Ranked #3 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...The Stones were at their most creative. The music simply flowed. The sound that emerged was dirty, sexy, soulful, f&#!ed-up and funky....a dizzy peak which the Stones never scaled again..." Uncut (p.104) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir masterpiece, an 18-track distillation of blues, soul, country, gospel and rock, all shot through with the Stones' brand of carnality, vitriol and (occasionally) nobility." NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #11 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.' NME (Magazine) (9/11/93, p.18) - Ranked #5 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...Definitive cigarette-in-mouth, fall-about rock 'n' roll..." NME (Magazine) (7/9/94, p.43) - 10 - Classic - "...stands as perhaps the band's finest hour. A sprawling, dense yet compelling concoction of their romance with America's black musics..." Paste (magazine) - "The album's murk puts it in a unique place among both Stones albums and rock classics..." Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]he sweat, grimy EXILE ON MAIN ST. has grown into the Rolling Stones' most universally acclaimed record."

ストーンズ最高傑作！との声多し！と言うか、「ベーカーズ・バンケット」から「レット・イット～」「スティッキー・フィンガーズ」、そして本作までのAlbumはまじでどれも名盤！ルーツを掘り下げ、自分のものにする力量と、R&BバンドとしてのHipサが同居するサイコーの内容！(5)とかタマラン！！ (C)DaKaRa