Exile on Main Street was released in remastered form yesterday. There’s a song on it called Ventilator Blues, which by the three-second mark is already one of the raunchiest, sleaziest, scariest things I’ve ever heard. One of Keith’s most visceral, physical, venal riffs.

Exile on Main Street

No one does hedonism like the Stones, and no one gets at the sheer exhaustion and the come-down like them, either. It’s a pointless way to live. But what a song. What a song.

brendan o’donnell could generally care less about non-American music. he makes occasional exceptions.

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