Video: 'Exile On Main Street (full album, correct order)' (18 tracks)

(Monday, May 22, 1972) — Exile on Main St., the 10th British and 12th American studio album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, was released today in the U.S. (May 26, 1972, in the UK) as a double LP.

Recording began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in mid-1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcôte while the band lived abroad as tax exiles.

A collage of various images, the album’s artwork, according to frontman Mick Jagger, reflects the Rolling Stones as “runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world,” showcasing the “feeling of joyful isolation, grinning in the face of a scary and unknown future.”

Rolling Stone magazine has ranked Exile on Main St. number 7 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003 and 2012 and dropped to number 14 in the 2020 edition, the highest Rolling Stones album ranked on the list.