Exile

3.14159 · Joined: 12 Sep 2009

Exile on Main st's the Stones album I'd take.
It was Richards at his best and the last of the blues and roots sound that defined the band in the early years (before Jagger took over).

It's an album you can put on and leave on.

Tannin · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:33 pm

Yep, hard to pick just one Stones album. Let it Bleed certainly my first choice, after that, just off the top of my head without thinking too much, roughly in order:

Sticky Fingers
Love you Live
Beggers Banquet,
High Tide and Greeen Grass
Get Your ya-yas out.
Some Girls
Exile on Main Street
Goats Head Soup

By the way, I imagine everyone has seen Crossfire Hurricane on iView? Must-see stuff. Part 2 is still available.

Mugwump · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne

The marriage of Figaro is certainly a fantastic choice. But I'd probably choose any well-recorded CD of Beethoven's last quartets, especially the C# minor and the A Minor, Op 132. Schubert said of the C# minor quartet "after that, what is left for the rest of us to write ....?

If that choice would get me summarily shot by the Abbotstazis as a suspected highbrow, then I'd probably have to go with Sound Affects by the Jam. That just edges out Parallel Lines by Blondie - not so much for the songs, though they're pretty good in their way, but because when I've forgotten, after years on this island, what women look like, I'll still remember Debbie Harry ca 1980.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Oh, that latter problem can be easily resolved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGFJyFM_GM

Mountains Magpie · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:45 pm

Chicago - Tanglewood 21/7/1970