Rolling Stones, The - Exile On Main St. [2 LP]

Exile on Main St is a double album by English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 12 May 1972 by Rolling Stones Records. It was their tenth studio album released in the United Kingdom. The album's music incorporates rock and roll, blues, soul, country, and gospel genres. Even though the album is often described as being Richards' finest moment, as Exile is often thought to reflect his vision for a raw, rootsy rock sound, Jagger was already expressing his boredom with rock and roll in several interviews at the time of the album's release. With Richards' effectiveness seriously undermined by his dependence on heroin, the group's subsequent 1970s releases (directed largely by Jagger) would experiment to varying degrees with other musical genres, moving away from the roots-based sound. Music biographer John Perry wrote that the Rolling Stones had developed a style of hard rock for the album that was "entirely modern yet rooted in 1950s rock & roll and 1930s-1940s swing". Exile on Main St expanded on the hedonistic themes the band had explored on previous including sex as power, sex as love, sex as pleasure, distance, craziness, release and obsession, at this time that was more than appropriate in men pushing 30 who were still committed to what was once considered youth music. (180 Gram Vinyl, Remastered)