Exile on Main St.
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 12 May 1972
- Tracks on this edition
- 18
- Running time
- 66:51
The cover
Robert Frank’s 1958 photograph Tattoo Parlor supplies the front of Exile on Main St. MoMA says it was probably taken at Hubert’s Dime Museum and Flea Circus in Times Square, New York.
For the back, Frank made a montage from Super 8 footage of the Stones in Los Angeles.
Front photograph: Robert Frank; Back montage: Robert Frank
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
Artwork source and selected track edition are identified separately.
What critics said
Rob Mitchum’s Pitchfork review of the 2010 deluxe edition values Exile’s loose performances and Nicky Hopkins’s piano on “Loving Cup” and “Torn and Frayed”. He welcomes a remaster that preserves the original album’s roughness, while finding the bonus material more conspicuously polished, particularly its newly recorded Jagger vocals.
Tracklist
UK edition · 12 May 1972
Select a song for details
- A1Rocks Off4:32
- A2Rip This Joint2:23
- A3Shake Your Hips2:59
- A4Casino Boogie3:33
- A5Tumbling Dice3:45
- B1Sweet Virginia4:25
- B2Torn and Frayed4:17
- B3Sweet Black Angel2:54
- B4Loving Cup4:23
- 2-C1Happy3:04
- 2-C2Turd on the Run2:37
- 2-C3Ventilator Blues3:24
- 2-C4I Just Want to See His Face2:52
- 2-C5Let It Loose5:17
- 2-D1All Down the Line3:49
- 2-D2Stop Breaking Down4:34
- 2-D3Shine a Light4:14
- 2-D4Soul Survivor3:49
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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