Comments on: Sevens :: I Just Want To See His Face

By: ctm

ctm — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:56:00 +0000

I’m just getting into the Stones and I listened to Exile for the first time last week. I know I’ve heard “I Just Want to See His Face” on a tv show or in a movie or in a trailer or something, but I can’t remember what. Can anybody help me figure this out?

By: lugnut

lugnut — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:47:58 +0000

Forgive my confusion on the Memo from Turner tracks. Was the one posted on 12/31 the Metamorphosis version or the soundtrack version? Trying to figure out which one I need to hunt down to have the complete set. Many thanks.

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:09:59 +0000

Mygod, what an amazing picture of Mick and Keith.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:11:02 +0000

I Just Want To See His Face has been covered by the Blind Boys of Alabama – though it sounds like they’ve been playing it for years!

By: Deiter

Deiter — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:30:54 +0000

Perhaps the ultimate redundant Stones comment, but: Exile was the peak of a long climb the Stones made to produce an album of such power. This one stood on the shoulders of what proceeded in their canon. What followed Exile was a slow and worthy decline. I for one have found memories of Goat’s Head Soup, It’s Only Rock and Roll, and Black and Blue but clearly the Dark Angel that hovered over Exile was long gone. (I even bought into the hype at the time of Some Girls being a return to form. Not an easy album to listen to now. And as for the rest of ‘em that followed: Fuggitaboutit.)

My favorite moments on Exile: Turn It Loose and Rocks Off. What kind of idiotic chutzpah would it take to create a Rocks Off and make a classic out of it? Brilliant. The blues work outs–I Just Want to See His Face, Shake Your Hips, etc–was the band trying to prove that they could still rock the blues as well as anyone, despite the bubblegum hit legacy. And they were probably right.

By: dalillamma

dalillamma — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:37:06 +0000

Listening to this track just forced me to digitize the entire Exile album to my external drive. It’s been too long but I’ve just started to get back into the habit of listening to entire albums again. Thanks for the great post

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By: jon

jon — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:27:59 +0000

“Pentacostal cough syzyrup ritual”

By: Peter81

Peter81 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:50:53 +0000

“Pentacostal cough syrup ritual. ”

Brilliant.

By: radionowhere

radionowhere — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:54:10 +0000

Great post, on a band and an album that don’t necessarily need any further props, but a song that definitely does. “I Just Want To See His Face” is definitely the Exile-iest song on Exile, too: so swampy, muddy and grungy that you can barely identify the band, who sound like they’re channeling some kind of Pentacostal cough syrup ritual.

I actually first acquired this album through the Columbia Record Club, if you can believe that. Blew my little high-school mind, for sure.

By: TI '71

TI '71 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:13:13 +0000

Can’t say enough good things about this album. I got wind of this album around the time when Pussy Galore released their own version. I haven’t listened to PG’s version much but through the miracle of the Internet I see that it’s still around (http://www.xtrmntr.com/pg/exile/). For anyone that hasn’t listened to the Stones version of the album much ‘Loving Cup’, ‘Torn and Frayed’, and ‘Let It Loose’ are incredible songs.

By: Satisfied '75

Satisfied '75 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:01:29 +0000

RE: “paint it blue” album. I used to have this about 10 or so years ago but lost it. I remember it being pretty great.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:35:37 +0000

i love how mick and keith are dressed in that first pic…i mean who dresses like that in public, let alone hanging out around the castle at the dinner table?

By: jon

jon — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:34:29 +0000

Tumblin Dice is the definitive song from exile IMO…nasty, dirty messy blues rock. one of my favorite songs of all time and i still don’t know the lyrics.

odd that they never felt like any of this stuff worked live since it was recorded in such a haphazard way. of all stones albums you would think it would be the EASIEST to work out on stage.

does anyone have the house of blues “paint it blue” album with blues versions of stones songs? of course the Exile tracks are awesome, including

gatemouth brown doing Ventilator & luther allison &derek trucks doing tumblin dice.