Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

I know I choose Some Girls as my Rolling Stones representation in the "100 records you should own" but Exile on Main Street is probably the Stones best record. The good news is you have another chance to buy it. They have just released a new 2 CD set with outtakes and new versions of a few original cuts. The outtakes are especially interesting because Mick Jagger went back and wrote new lyrics for a few songs that were never completed. There is nothing here that beats "Tumbling Dice" or "All Down the Line," but it is great to hear some new music from this era.

And what an era it was. The Stones had left England and were in "tax exile" in southern France. They made the record in a dank studio in the basement of Keith Richards mansion, and it was a huge departure from previous records. It was rock and roll, it was excess, it was everything the 70's would become.