New Rolling Stones song cracks the top ten
April 21, 2010 by Beatweek · Leave a Comment
Plundered My Soul, the long-buried Rolling Stones song left over from the band’s Exile on Main Street sessions, has been released the “lead single” from the forthcoming Exile re-release, which will include several additional unreleased tracks from the Exile era. The song, which has been available for $1.29 in iTunes since yesterday, is currently in the number seven spot on the iTunes rock singles chart, behind song from artists like The Script, OneRepublic, and Daughtry.
Our critical assessment of the song is that it’s the best “new” material the Stones have released in more than a decade – and the impressive early charting of the single suggests that the Exile re-release (coming May 18th) may also fare better in terms of sales than some of the band’s recent album releases, which haven’t sold in huge quantities despite continued massive worldwide demand for the Stones as a live touring act.
review: “Plundered My Soul” by The Rolling Stones
April 19, 2010 by Bill Palmer · 8 Comments
Can you believe it… It’s almost as if Mick Jagger somehow knew nearly forty years ago that he’d someday be teasing us with that opening line to the “new” Rolling Stones song entitled “Plundered My Soul” which was actually recorded back during the Exile on Main Street sessions but never has seen the light of day until now. Released as an extremely limited thousand-copy run this week as part of Record Store Day, the song will actually serve as the lead single for Exile’s re-release on May 18th. Universal sent over an advance of the song, and after having spent some time with it, I can confirm that it definitely sounds like it was recorded in 1972 – that’s not a bad thing, mind you – and I’m also left to wonder how the band (and the label) managed to go this many years without finding a way to release it, seeing as how it’s a pretty darn good song.
It’s one of those plodding mid-tempo Stones songs with the meandering guitars in which Jagger’s vocals have a pliable relationship with the downbeat, and he sounds perfectly okay with the fact that he’s been taken by the lady who serves as the recipient of his lines even as he sings “I thought you needed my lovin’ but it’s my heart that you stole… I thought you wanted my money… but you plundered my soul.”
It’s not necessarily a vital song, and may not carve out a place in Rolling Stones history for any bigger reason than the novelty of having spent so many decades sitting in the vault before being sent to radio – and hey, it’s probably the best “new” Rolling Stones single in at least fifteen years.
I know, you don’t want to have to wait another month to hear the song – but if you’ve already waited four decades…
Rolling Stones to re-release Exile on Main Street with unreleased tracks
April 8, 2010 by Beatweek · Leave a Comment
Nearly four decades after its original release, Exile On Main Street will hit the streets another time as The Rolling Stones prepare to rerelease the 1972 album on May 17th in the United Kingdom and on May 18th in the United States. The album’s original eighteen songs will now be joined by ten previously unreleased tracks from the Exile era, including “Plundered My Soul” which will be released as a single – a funky mid-tempo number accompanied by a bari sax and female backing vocals [Editor's note: we've heard the new song, and it's good stuff, very 1972-ish].
