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The Rolling Stones – Sweet Black Angel
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This song from The Stones' iconic 1972 album, Exile on Main Street, is about Angela Davis, a political activist, scholar and author from Alabama. Jagger and Richards' lyrics, in a
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Muddy Waters And The Rolling Stones – Sweet Little Angel
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I got a sweet little angel / I love the way she spread her wings / Yes, I got a sweet little angel / I love the way she spread her wings / Yes, when she spread her wings around me
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The Rolling Stones – Sweet Virginia
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“Sweet Virginia”, is a sweetly clamoring acoustic number reflects both the country music influence Gram Parson imparted upon Keith at the time and the drug-induced atmosphere at
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Yo, so I've never been here before... but Soft Rock?
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Greeting from your Rap brothers. But I just got really really into Elliot Smith. Any fans here? What would be his genre, soft rock? Alternative? Let me know.
I’ve listened to Either/Or like 15 times this week.
Favorite songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPD-a1FjUtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQrhA6QtWOM
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Dustin Bird – Rolling Stone (Live Off the Floor)
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[Intro] / Oh / [Verse 1] / You're cold eh hot stuff / Love in vain my sweet Virginia / Out of control, you start me up / And I go wild under your thumb / Flip flop and fly down on
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The Rolling Stones – Shine a Light
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“Shine a Light” is featured on The Rolling Stones' tenth British and 13th American studio album, Exile on Main St., released in May of 1972.
Lead singer, Mick Jagger, began
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The Rolling Stones – Angie
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“Angie” is a track from the Rolling Stones' album Goats Head Soup. It was written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards.
The song is about the end of a romance with a girl named Angie
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The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black
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From their 4th album, Aftermath. Per pophistorydig, the song is about the funeral of a girl from her lover’s viewpoint, and he wants the color of everything to match his mood.
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The Rolling Stones – Casino Boogie
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With seemingly abstract lyrics, “Casino Boogie” is a difficult song to interpret, however in an interview with Uncut Magazine in April 2010, Jagger gave some insight:
That song
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The Rolling Stones – Loving Cup
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From the 1972 work of art, Exile on Mainstreet, “Loving Cup” was originally conceived and attempted in London’s Olympic Studios during the Let it Bleed recordings, but found it’s
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The Rolling Stones – Turd on the Run
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[Verse 1] / Grabbed hold of your coat tail but it come off in my hand / I reached for your lapel but it weren't sewn on so grand / Begged, promised anything if only you would stay
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The Rolling Stones – Stop Breaking Down
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“Stop Breaking Down” is the second of two cover songs on Exile on Main Street originally recorded by Robert Johnson in 1937, the other being Shake Your Hips.
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The Rolling Stones – Ventilator Blues
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The only song in the Rolling Stones' backcatallogue on which Mick Taylor had a writing credit; the rest of the Exile on Main St. was credited to solely Jagger/Richards.
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The Rolling Stones – I Just Want to See His Face
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“I Just Want To See His Face” is unusual in that it has a fade-in and fade-out, leaving the listener wondering what was left out, in the recording.
As it has never been played
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The Rolling Stones – All Down the Line
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Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “All Down the Line” is a straight ahead electric rock song which opens side four of Exile on Main St..
It was the first song to be
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Muddy Waters – You're Gonna Miss Me
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Let me tell you people a low down thing or two / I just can't stand that old evil way she do / She gonna miss me, yeah, you're gonna miss me / You're gonna miss me baby, when I'm
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The Rolling Stones – Rocks Off
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“Rocks Off” is the opening track from Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stone’s seminal 1972 album.
The song has diverse lyrics, including allusions to heroin use and inability
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The Rolling Stones – Shake Your Hips
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One of two songs on Exile on Main Street that was a cover version, “Shake Your Hips” was originally written by blues harmonica player Slim Harpo, so named because of his mastery of
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The Rolling Stones – She's a Rainbow
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Issued in 1967, at the height of the psychedelic rock era, and was one of their last non top charting hits before they came up the following year with “Jumping Jack Flash”.
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