THE ALTERNATE EXILE ON MAIN STREET

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Label: TSP 500 12/2
Source: Disc 1, Side A Track 2: Olympic St. London 16th -27th July 1970; Disc 1 Side A,Tracks 4,5, Disc 2,Side A, Tracks 3,4 Side B Track 1: 17th-26th October 1969 Sunset St. Los Angeles & 28th October-2nd November Elektra St. Los Angeles; Disc 1, Side B, Tracks 4,5, Disc 2 Side A, Tracks 2,3: 10th July-late July and 14th October-3rd November 1971 Villa Nellcote, Villefranche-sur-mer, France; Disc 1 Side A, Track 3, Disc 2 Side A Track 1,3,4: 17th -31st October 1970, Newbury Stargroves; Disc 1 Side B, Track 3, Disc 2 Side A Track 2: 4th-12th December 1971 Los Angeles Sunset St.; Disc 2 Side B Tracks 2,5: Dallas Reh. 24th June 72; Track 4: Montreux 21st May 72.
Format: 2LP Colored Vinyl
Running time: 23:55/22:42/25:50/23:39
Sound / source: Stereo Soundboard
Packaging: Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies, gatefold cover
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Alternate Exile On Main Stree LP front

Alternate Exile On Main Street back

Review by RICCAR99 More articles by RICCAR99

Track list

Disc 1 Side A: 1. Exile On Main Street Blues, 2. Get A Line On You, 3. Good Time Women, 4. Shake Your Hips, 5. Hillside Blues

Disc 1 Side B: 1. Sweet Virginia, 2. Bent Green Needles, 3. Loving Cup, 4. Ventilator Blues, 5. I Ain't Signifying

Disc 2 Side A : 1. Let It Loose, 2. All Down The Line, 3.Travelin Man, 4. Stop Breaking Down, 5. Shine A Light

Disc 2 Side B: 1. I Am Going Down, 2. Exile On Main Street Blues (Flexi version), 3. Torn And Frayed, 4. Tumbling Dice, 5. 32/20 Blues, 6. Exile On Main Street Blues

The review

The latest product from The Swinging Pig presents alternate songs from Exile On Main Street, the Stones most revered album of the 70s. As with previous later vinyl releases it is more the form than the content that matters here: the songs are taken from recently released CDs (SODD Exile Outtakes, itself copy of Sister Morphine You Gave Me Disease) supplemented by a couple of tracks taken from the 1972 Dallas and Montreux Rehearsals. Musically speaking these are all well known outtakes, a mention on the three versions of "Exile on Main Street Blues", the first being a radio ad, the second the version that came out on a flexi disc that accompanied New Musical Express in 1972 with excerpts of songs from the album and the last with Jagger playing the same tune at the piano with no excerpts.

Obviously vinyl lovers do remember The Swinging Pig from the 80s and 90s and love the look of colored vinyl, the broadness of the covers etc. The product itself is beautiful and offers a nice chance to dig back into the band' s most creative period, even if purists would regret that the pressing operation happened transferring digital sounds into vinyl grooves therefore not recreating the analogue feel that many are still looking after these days. The cover sports an Exile lookalike cover with the front that holds black & white shots of various freaks and the back that has photo of Stones members with the songs titles of the four sides strangely assembled, starting from side 3, then side 4, side 1 and side 2 while the inside has beautiful prints of the band again. There is a label on the front cover advertising 'Colored Vinyl', however the copy I got had some dark blue basic vinyl with white stripes that make it look much more like a marble wax set of the past.