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More Details on Exile on Main Street Reissue Emerge

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Rolling Stones - Exile on Main StreetThe Stone reports more details on the upcoming reissue of the Rolling Stones‘ Exile on Main Street 30th Anniversary Edition. As reported here previously, there are ten previously unreleased tracks. What has not been previously reported is the fact that Mick and Keith went back and futzed with them, including adding some additional tracks and even new lyrics!

“I went back in the archives and dug out a load of things,” [Jagger] says. “I added some percussion and some vocals. Keith put guitar on one or two.” Jagger wrote fresh lyrics for “Following the River,” but other than some light revisions to the other songs, “I really wanted to leave them pretty much as they were,” Keith Richards says. “I didn’t want to interfere with the Bible, you know. They still had that great basement sound.”

Added percussion, vocals, and guitars? New lyrics??? Why would they do that? What’s next, a resurrected Brian Jones collaboration a la “Free as a Bird” or “Unforgettable”? At least they had the sense to bring in Mick Taylor (!!!) to lay down new guitar parts instead of, say, calling up Slash.

We’re still holding out hope that this will be awesome and the fact that this album is finally getting the remaster treatment justifies the project as a whole, but truth be told…you DID interfere with the Bible, Keef!

Details (as we know them) of the box set contents after the jump…

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Exile on Main Street Reissue News

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The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main StreetIn a year of amazing classic rock reissues (The Beatles, Neil Young, Big Star…) there’s one glaring omission: The Rolling Stones‘ Exile on Main Street.

Last year Reuters reported that Exile was scheduled for a late-2009 release, after the band’s other post-1971 studio albums were trickled out in the spring and summer. The report said that the albums would roll out in three batches:

…grouped by the albums’ original release dates, beginning on May 4 with 1971’s “Sticky Fingers,” 1973’s “Goats Head Soup,” 1974’s “It’s Only Rock’n’Roll” and 1976’s “Black And Blue.”

Four albums — 1978’s “Some Girls,” 1980’s “Emotional Rescue,” 1981’s “Tattoo You” and 1983’s “Undercover” — will roll out on June 8.

The final five — 1986’s “Dirty Work,” 1989’s “Steel Wheels,” 1994’s “Voodoo Lounge,” 1997’s “Bridges To Babylon” and 2005’s “A Bigger Bang” will reach stores on July 8.

All of which seem to have been released as planned. But Exile never did show up.

Now reports are that Exile on Main Street will roll out in May 2010 and will include a number of unreleased songs, including “Plunder My Soul,” “Following The River” and “Sophia Loren.”

Given the significance of the album maybe it’s justified to wait and make a special occasion of its reissue. If the sound quality is anything like the ABKCO reissues from 2002 then it’ll be more than worth the wait, but for heaven’s sake fellas, get on with it!

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