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  • One idiot broke his butt.

  • 5 people dont have ears

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  • this song makes me imagine myself driving a really old rusty pickup, rattling down the road through the desert, pouring sweat with a cigarette in my mouth and a bottle of whiskey in my hand.

  • IIIRC the house this was recorded at in France was a former Nazi SS headquarters and the wrought iron ventilator grates in the whole place had swastikas in the design, supposedly this inspired the writing of this song

  • does anyone have the tabs to this i'm tryin to learn it by ear and i'm having a hard time

  • i really wanna do a shot of whiskey with keith richards before i die for real that would be the best story to tell some1 well shit i did a shot with keith richards porb won't happen but fuck it i can hope right

  • @namey420 If it doesn't happen before you die, you can have yourself cremated, and your loved ones can send the ashes to him. He'll snort you up like he did to his dad. I'm just jokin' with you, btw - not tryin' to be an asshole. I'd like to drink with Keith, too - but I wouldn't stop at a shot, that's for sure.

  • @namey420 I think Keith Richards should go onto some charity show and have the highest bidder get to drink some whiskey with him. I think he would raise close to ten million dollars, if not more.

  • @top20modernrock that's agood idea they should that

  • Fuckin picture at 1:31... sheesh...

  • This is as gritty as it gets. This is the heart of the beast.  Brilliant song.

  • This song is extremely symbolic. I'll let y'all figure out of what....

  • @TheShakespeareBlues of what mick hating the band he was in? lol

    please enlighten

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  • 5 people broke the ventilation system

  • Truthaxe, have your doctor up your medication! We'll all be happier.

  • Mick Taylor wrote this. Too bad he didn't get credit.

  • @fibberm Actually, this is the only song he ever got credit for.

  • The rhythm in this song really is incredible

  • This was recorded at Keith's castle in France in the summer of "71,hot as hell.They set up in rooms for sound purposes that had no ventilation.That's where this song came from.Mick Taylor plays the opening chords.It's a masterpiece.

  • This song has a rather contrived sound, a "We wish we were badasses" forced sound.

    This is one of those directionless songs that the (in those days) the tape kept rolling while the band reached but couldn't quite come up with something.

    Of course, 1,000s of listens makes most believing that it's good.

  • @TruthAxe Right.

  • @TruthAxe No, the thousands of listens are BECAUSE people think it's good. Your opinion is not fact.

  • @Vanguard448 Thousands upon thousands believe McDonalds sells good hamburgers too.

  • @TruthAxe Your point? Incidentally, you're not very good at trolling, are you?

    Yeah, I knew. I've seen your posts before. What can I say, I like poking the trolls.

  • You amuse. @Vanguard448 Yes, I scored the point on you. And you've confused trawling -- fishing for a fight -- with being a troll, who is someone who hangs on the same message board.

    Oh how you amuse. Years upon years of bands that have come since the Stones reveal what shoddy musicians they are.

  • The Stones always make me feel like going out and starting a violent, bloody riot.

  • GTFO WITH YOUR "THUMBS DOWN" AND "DISLIKE BUTTON" COMMENTS! Fuckin' turds can't just enjoy the music without commenting on how anyone that doesn't like it sucks. Morons.

  • This song makes me want t fight or fuck, it is so raw, I love it.

  • @JoshuaNykamp

    exactly my thought!

  • bow your head

  • Read "Symphony For The Devil" and its description of the making of this great album, and I think you'll can't help but conclude that Jagger was a bit player.

  • this song is so unbelievably badass it is what every rock band strives for

  • this is too much for mortal words

  • haha at top comment!!!! Great Tune!

  • Recorded in a cave under a castle in france , without airco , thats why its called ventilator blues.

  • what rhythm!!!

  • I was in a small hut on Koh Samui in 1980s. Lots of mushrooms and things getting out of hand. This song coming onto me like a very heavy overcoat. I wrestled with it for hours, tossing turning, sometimes I thought it was going to consume me. It was climaxing as it did . Then spiralling back down. The lyrics took over.Don't fight it ! Don't fight it! I did and won......

  • Perfect. Suits my current mood and helps me like nothing else. Thank you, The Stones.

  • Keef in an interview: "When I was a junkie, I still learned how to water ski, and I made Exile On Main Street." Winston Churchill would be proud. Mr. Richards was always the heart of this band -- Mick was just the pitchman. Oh, and Charlie Watts...GREATEST DRUMMER EVER.

  • @zregime Oh, please. I mean I love Keith too, but M. Jagger did a lot more of the songwriting work; give him credit.

  • Servo 900?

  • Keith's riff is superhypnotic. And what about Nicky Hopkins piano playing? Brilliant.

  • @robin14669 mick taylor's riff actually

  • From 1968 to 1974,this gloriously and seriously degenerate bunch produced some of the best music ever made.Nothing I've heard since touches what they were at this time.

  • 40 years on, the Stones continue to amaze..For my money tho, Midnight Rambler is hands down the greatest R and R song of all time. Studio version, that is.Live version is like the Bobsey Twins on crack. Slithery, evil, machine-tool tight, first time I heard this song I literally had to pull over, hair on the back of my neck standing up. when it ended, I had to take a second to orient myself, where the F.. * was I? and 40 years on, I still play Midnight Rambler, the effect only slightly diminish

  • @tbloopner Had to laugh!...I heard this album when I was soo young and it has stuck with me all this time,chicago blues?...south london mate,white niggers thats where we came from,aint nothing changed just all grown older and sharper than ever..whole album is genius,go read keefs book life,it will fill in the gaps!!..so long yo dude.....got to scrape the shit right off my shoes!!

  • Damn, I 'd give all I have got to return just 5 minutes in 60s guys..

  • the stones were never better

  • WHOAAA talking about killer riffs!!!!!!

  • Jason Becker's favorite song!

  • This is credited to Jagger/Richards/Mick Taylor. The only Stones song guitarist Mick Taylor received a writing credit for. One of the reasons Taylor left The Stones in 1974 was because his songwriting was not being credited, meaning he did not get royalties.

  • Superb song...superb performance...only surpassed by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's EXCELLENT interpretation of this song...

  • @dimiballas - <- I became interested in this song when I heard 'Gatemouth' do it (at a blues festival in Maryland) - in fact I was so impressed I bought the album for this track. I uploaded the Stones version hoping people would 'discover' a fine but relatively obscure track. I have to agree with you however, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's version is brilliant. Perhaps I should post it.

  • @amenhop perhaps- its also on paint it blue 

  • @dimiballas Actually, the original is the excellent one and it hasn't been surpassed by any interpretation.

  • @dimiballas ???surpassed by Clarence Brown`s version? ??

  • so dope God bless the stones

  • Just 1 loser put negative :)

  • now i know someone will agree with me when i say One..STONES FOREVER and two this song could be the intro for a crime show.. CSI OR LAW AND ORDER lol

  • @Euphoria221 AMEN! Never heard this before and now I LOVE it. It definitely could be the opening theme to a crime show set in some dirty little town in the south like True Blood is. Good call.

  • rolling stones the example of a band

    the best band of music ever made period!!!!!!!!

  • hottequilabrownsugar: What do you have against Yoko? Is it something personal?

    You apparently don't like "beautiful" women whose art closely resembles an enema-spewed toilet.

    Additionally, her screaming on John Lennon's solo efforts sounded like a wolf with its balls snagged on a barbed wire fence. (Check Side 2 of "Life Peace in Toronto)

    Seriously, I have friends in the SAS. They'll find the bastard and cut off his thumb.

    Of course, it will be sent to you.

  • <3

  • what a fuckin tune! long live the glimmer twins!

  • ventilator means gun....thirty years and I finally get this song

  • Dirty!

  • WHEN YO!! LOVE that intro....dirty, gnarley, gritty Stones flava! Sexy as hell!

  • Nicky's piano playing is unbelievable on this song

  • One of my favorite songs off of Exile on Main Street.

  • @worldcitizenforever Yeah, thanks for coming.

    You can leave now.

  • They must have been trying to drive down the Strip In Vegas

    when they wrote this. You really need a ventilator when you

    do that . I know they wrote it in France, But Vegas seems

    just as fitting.

  • Mick Taylor wrote this.

  • @rubbersnout Really?, how do you know that?

  • @rubbersnout . I read it from Mick Taylor's own website.

    There again, he could be exaggerating. But the Stones never gave him much credit for his contribution.

  • Mick,Keith,and Mick Taylor have all said that this song was about the recording of Exile in the south of France in summer in the basement of Keith's castle in stifling heat with no ventilation.

  • pure sex and desperation

  • not too often you hear two slide guitars on one song.this band was way more musically sophisticated than they ever let on.in fact,they'd probably deny it.

  • When this album came out in '72, I used to blast this song whenever I had a bad day.

  • God I love this song...

  • What do you mean "underappreciated"? this is explosives from first riff. So it goes straight into sex. No one can be mistaken.

  • When your spine is cracking and your hands shake !!!!!!

  • Arguably my favorite song, off arguably my favorite Stones LP....

  • Oh My GOD, this song is -fgrgfegfeiufgriugfrui- !!!

  • ggweb1919;What's stunning is that so many people,including Stones fans,have never heard Exile,their masterpiece.I like your 3,but I've got 15 more I love from that record.

  • My favorite song from Exile.....thanks for sharing it.

  • some kind of ventilator.............

  • who the fuck gave the thumb down? yoko ono?

  • @hottequilabrownsugar haha class

  • @hottequilabrownsugar hahahaha, you cracked me up buddy, but i think she hasn't been keeping up since the vcr, she can't do that

  • @hottequilabrownsugar Only one troll has visited this vidja@!

  • @hottequilabrownsugar ......quite possibly the best youtube comment i've ever seen

  • @amnorton79 seriously i lol'd

  • @hottequilabrownsugar whats the matter with yoko ono ?

  • @FuckStaub Thank you. I bet he gets a big laugh whenever he says how much he hates mimes too. Edgy.

  • @hottequilabrownsugar  that comment is hilarious....!!

  • @hottequilabrownsugar maybe Keith and yoko did the yoko bono..oh no!!!!....:)

  • @hottequilabrownsugar good call, hahah. However those two go way way back thumbs up though

  • @hottequilabrownsugar Divine comment pal!

  • @hottequilabrownsugar Hilarious!

    

  • @hottequilabrownsugar Yup now Nancy and Hillary gave it a thumbs down to fuck them! or not

  • @hottequilabrownsugar Ha! What a fucking idiot, joko oh-no. This song is the fucking shit.

  • i really didnt appreciate this album as much when i first got it, when i heard this song, i played the album non stop

  • this album is a masterpiece

    i dont care about press

  • Bill Wyman does great bass work on this song. He and Keith stopped speaking to each other around this time, and he was so disgusted with the drug use that he only played on eight tracks on "Exile."

  • @Staggerbaroque it's a myth mate, wyman is credited with all 18 songs on exile along with bill plummer (upright) it was recorded in the following one east studio

    NYC , olympic, stargroves, nellcote,henson village & mix this ! L.A.

    he wasn't happy about the drugs though........

  • The Stones are like Batman. Down through the ages, no matter what version or incarnation, Bob Kane, Adam West, Frank Miller, Christian Bale, etc., it's ALL BatMan - pick one, or pick 'em all; Likewise they're still The Stones; whether you like them selling Kellogg's Rice Krispies on the BBC in '63, on the friggin' "Hollywood Palace", Psychedelia in '67, back-to-basics in '68 - 69, ''Glam' in '73, Disco in '78, She's So Cold/She's Hot, whatever, well I like it, like it, yes I do...like it all to∞

  • These are some of the best song lyrics ever, imho

  • No matter where you are EVERYBODY needs some kind of ventilator

  • As a bass player I get a little pissed of as to how Bill Wyman is completely neglected with the new reissue of "Exile on Main Street." It's as if he was never in the band . He started with them and retired in the 90's. His simple yet dead on bass lines along with Charlie Watts kept all the Stones hits strong. Hey Bill I hope you're getting your payment due on this.

  • killer hook by M.T.

    very claustraphobic

    who would get a brilliant song out of a tiny fan in a basement !!!!!

  • my fave stones-song!

  • It 's one of the best riff that had ever made by the rolling stones.One of the most underestimated as well.

  • @DesmondMacedo:

    Ha ha ha, when does Jagger EVER sing his lyrics in a manner that we can make out the words? lol

  • this is one of the best taylor riffs

  • this is one of the best taylor riffs

  • hell yea

  • temaso

  • The problem with the album is it had so many varied styles of songs on it the album

    was actually hard to digest because a lot of the songs ran over the 2.50 mark and the anticipation was more songs that sounded like the early bird special Tumbling Dice which never happened on the album. Plus believe it or not you had to get up and turn the album then get up and change the album then turn it again which made a loss of continuity "Fact ".

  • @himycatsdead Yeah, I think people expected 'more' Sticky Finger style musick. It was pretty confusing. I played it a fef times, recorded what I liked best on tape and left the album to collect dust. Today I'm embarresed to have done such a vulgar thing. In hindsight I think this is one of their best albums ever and really show where their roots are,

  • this is mick taylors song

  • Alot of cool things to be heard in the background of this song...such a wonderful tune that's been missed by so many ears...

  • i feeeeel this

  • @augustusdes Your mother is overrated, ass nibble. How many tours you been on over the past 45 years? Thought so. Now, back to Dennys and sweep thsoe floors.

  • my friend crack addicted use to spend hours listening to stones.. thats his favourite mine is roks off

  • great song

  • Hey guys, you can find the LYRICS @ EasyLyrics . org/?artist=Rolling+Stones&tit­le=Ventilator+Blues

  • @worldcitizenforever - Rolling Stones are the greatest rock and roll band in the world!

  • @FuzztoneProductions They do have the most platinum albums I believe, but Beatles are amazing in so many more genre's so :/

  • @FuzztoneProductions

    of course ,,,,

  • And ya took the time to hate him while he pisses in a golden toilet on a golden island and still doesn't know ya

  • Even though that song I referenced kind of sucks.

  • but I like it.

    like it.

    Yes...

    I do.

  • very The Doors-style song

  • @Kynatics I agree its a Doors-style blues

  • Dont fight it !!! , and dont compare bands , jeez , you guys sound like republicans and democrats for crying out loud.

    Anybody know about the extended exile on main st they are sup to release ? A bunch of lost songs from the sessions in Keiths non ventilated basement? Cheers from Flagstaff AZ

  • nagging hook by MT.

    ev'ry bodies stepping on their accelerator

  • taylors nagging riff makes this song & jaggers delivery....

  • the rolling stones always annoyed me...

    ...until i heard exile on main street from beginning to end. then sticky fingers. then let it bleed and beggers banquet.

    now im hooked. especially exile on main street

  • Your right. They landed a million miles away with Gram Parsons on the moon. They will be there playing when this all ends. If you drive out to Joshua Tree and have packed in enough blotter paper you'll see him up there in the new Gilded Palace of Sin. See you on the weird side, Gram.

  • A blues protest song. Brilliant.

  • Charlie Watts is one of the best drummers ever

  • Stunning song. Powerful.

  • Dont hear to many songs like this no more

  • hey dude, thought for a second i wrote that, def agree with that man. badass tune!

  • when your spine is cracking!!!

  • i love rolling stones

  • seen them twice ...in St. louis in '77 and again in 1980....didnt suck...Keith the expensive wino!!!!

  • the rolling stones have not made one bad song. this song is freakin awesome. there is a reason they lasted more than the beatles.....because theyre better :)

  • @icl96

    oh course. murder, cancer and group problems had nothing to do with it.

    think about what your saying. The Rolling Stones have lasted long, and made more record then The Beatles, but how many records are crap?

    I like The Stones, and hard rock as much as the next person; but The Stones don't even come close to The Beatles.

  • @DuplexPaladins Lennon was killed after the group broke up, and harrison died after they broke up too. i love all of the stones' records. The Rolling Stones have pop, rock, blues, and a country sound. the beatles were pop & rock.

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  • :))))

  • I've had to play this at a blues jam on bass. Fun song.

  • 0:53-1:12  the best photo the Rolling Stones,so there is my sentence

  • great riff

  • @blakeobera

    GONNA FIGHT IT!

  • excellent riffing

  • love driving to this song

  • this is my favorite stones album and the best track of that album. pure gold. soonewr or later everyone needs a ventalator.

  • That's right, summer's comin' and Mick Taylor is touring. Thanks for this and so many others MT. Can't wait to see you in New York this July!

  • A great song from an awesome album.

    SUMMER IS COMIN'!!! : - )

  • I can't believe how underappreciated this song is by just about everyone- including most stones fans. it's the third best song on exile next to rip this joint and rocks off.

  • Indeed! Tis a great song . . . always one of my favorites . . . .

  • Love this song. Its so dirty and it ROCKS

  • This is my FAVORITE on the album...timeless r&r

  • @ggweb1919 Your'e right. But what about loving cup and tumbling dice?

  • @ggweb1919 Mick and the boys must have been sittin' aroun' smoking and had a Cap'n Beefheart album on. Jagger sounds exactly like he's tryin' to sound like mad Don Vliet. I call it the race to be outRageous! ;-D