Agree. Everything that was great about the Stones is on this album.

Agree with Mick Taylor in the band

@@ansc6472 Yes.Mick was the law.

Agree, great creation, born at the French Riviera in Villa Nellcote. -----> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/achdlaag0uDDlGw.html

Yes, a true one of a kind that you couldn't copy if you wanted to. It's been my personal favorite since it first came out, which is kinda funny because at the time a lot of critics complained about the sound production, and that's one of the things i loved about it!

It's amazing that how he and Mick complimented each other.

Well put!

Me too, the best Album ever...😊

I didn't know about the friendship between Gram and Keith. This is so cool.

Exile is the greatest rock album of all time...

Some doubt, anyway (Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers,Beggar’s Banquet, Aftermath, etc.)

I can't make a ranking from Beggars Banquet till Exile, each one too perfect.

also my fav blues band

and lets not forget my fav rock n roll band aswell

Powderfinger they're pretty funky for a country blues rock band, too.

Love the comment and replies but ya left off a few. Reggae, Punk, Ballads. That evil word disco but hey, it shot to #1 picked up more fans than they lost. In concert miss you Rocks as does emotional rescue. Finally played it live in 2013 ? Yep, never know what them boys will come up with. Keith could care less the genre of music it is. Well, he probably hated disco. So many other bands stuck in one genre. We've been blessed 56 years and counting.

That's right. The Rolling Stones and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

they are great for so many reasons.

@@MrMallorcaboy MANY PEAKS AND VALLEYS AND ALWAYS A GREAT COME BACK

I always wondered what it was

@@martinnewtonholmes certainly cool for Keith who was high most of time but Jagger don't really appracieted that cause even the sound engeners what stoned and it takes two weeks for a song cause most of time Keith was out.

Yeah

Yeah I totally agree. Well done like a thick steak.

Ja, die Stones sind wie Medizin..., für jede Stimmung gibts einen Song. Es gibt keine andere Band, die solch eine Vielfalt von Musikstilen so fantastisch beherrscht. Ohne diese Band wäre mein Leben soviel ärmer.

Me too.

Brian Jones already brought quite a lot of color on everything from Lady Jane to Under My Thumb to SHE'S A RAINBOW.

Well said....

Valerie Curtis Hmm? Keith claims that from Between the Buttons Brian was AWOL and he had to lay down all the guitar tracks.

Brian Jones (a.k.a. "Elmo Lewis") actually had very little influence in the recording sessions (March-June 1968) for what would become The Rolling Stones' seventh British and ninth American studio album, "Beggar's Banquet" (1968), a fact which may observed in scenes of Jean Luc Godard's film "One Plus One" (which incorporates the evolution of the recording for the track "Sympathy for the Devil"), which depict Jones dosing off while crouched on the floor playing acoustic guitar in a sound booth at Olympic Sound Studios in that turbulent summer of 1968. Perhaps The Rolling Stones' recording session in which Jones had the most influence was that for "Aftermath" (1966), the first of the band's LPs comprised entirely of tunes composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that was also the fourth British and sixth American studio album released by the band and on which Jones played sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, marimba and Japanese koto, as well as guitar, harmonica and keyboards. Yet even despite these textures, the record's sound is still rooted in the Chicago electric blues sound that was the principal style of the early Stones, albeit perhaps with a "Paint It Black" hint of the psychedelia that would emerge more fully in the sessions of the band's next two studio albums, "Between the Buttons" and "Their Satanic Majesties Request" (both 1967). In the "Aftermath" sessions Jones showed precisely why he was, at the very least, the musical director of The Rolling Stones, clearly a musical wunderkind capable of playing just about any musical instrument he handled or touched. The term "musical genius" would not be much of stretch to describe Jones' playing abilities, even though he seemed perpetually frustrated by the prospect of actually composing a tune (in terms of the mechanics of that process, which include the writing of lyrics). A person may be well-spoken, very orally articulate, but still unable to transfer that verbal mastery to the creative level of writing poetry and prose. One may also clearly ascertain the instrumental contributions of Jones in several of the tracks" on "Aftermath," the sitar in the album's opener, "Paint It Black," the Dulcimer in "I Am Waiting" and "Lady Jane," locomotive-in-the-distance mouth harp-blowing in "Goin' Home' (one of the earliest rock & roll tracks to exceed the 10 minutes' mark), marimba in "Out of Time" and "Under My Thumb," among others. In "Ruby Tuesday" (from the sessions for the "Between the Buttons" LP which followed "Aftermath") Jones performs a tour de force in his multi-instrumentation of flute, piano and recorder. But by the time of "Beggar's Banquet" Jones was all but finished in his musical journey with the band he co-founded and gave its name, already contemplating new musical horizons along the lines of a Delta Blues and swamp rock-influenced ( a la Creedence Clearwater Revival) sound until the fate of July 3, 1969 intervened.

I am sorry man, but Brian Jones is overrated as a musician. He was a great harp player. But otherwise he could only play bits of music on different instruments. It is not like he MASTERED all these instruments. I play guitar and bass, but I can also play Oh Susannah on harmonica or I can play simple one note tunes on piano, or I can keep a simple beat on a drumkit. But it does not make me a musical wunderkind.

Jones barely contributed to Banquet. He played a nice bottleneck acoustic part on No Expectations but that was it. He was done. Look at the film of him in the movie One Plus One. Sad

Well written!

Your right, saw them in Brussell 73 my best rock concert.

@broadband0118 I feel your pain Caught them in 75 and 80 stopped paying attention after steel wheels. I noticed your comment was 10 years old , If your were sad then I can't imagine How you feel about them still out there in 2022, WITHOUT Charlie. At 10 years old I borrowed his copy of YaYa's the year it came out " Thanx Dad Rock in Peace" and fell in love ,If I think long enough about what there doing now I'd start to cry.

No. He was in the outs with the Stones after being kicked out of Nelcote Richards only saw him once more in 72 that was it. Once you cross the line with the Stones you are out. Bobby Keys was booted out for years remember?

ronnie gave them new energy

It's incredible. Exile is such a fantastic record.

Your stuff is great too.