Main Offender
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| Studio album by Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos | ||||
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October 20, 1992 |
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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10 |
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running time |
49min 53s |
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Keith Richards, Steve Jordan |
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Studio (s) |
Master Sound Studios ( New York ), The Site ( San Rafael ) |
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Main Offender is the third solo album and second studio album by the Rolling Stones - Guitarist Keith Richards . It was created in collaboration with the band X-Pensive Winos and was released on October 20, 1992; Wicked as It Seems was released as singles in 1992 and Eileen in 1993 .
Emergence
The band X-Pensive Winos was already involved in the recording of Richard's first solo album Talk Is Cheap (1988) and the subsequent live album Live At The Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988 (1991). In addition, singer Bernard Fowler, who had already worked as a background singer for the Rolling Stones, can be heard as a guest singer on some of the songs. Each of the ten tracks was recorded separately, some at Master Sound Studios ( Queens ) and some at The Site studio in San Rafael , California . Then the instrumental tracks were arranged and then put together.
Track list
- 999 (Keith Richards, Steve Jordan, Waddy Wachtel ) - 5:50
- Wicked as It Seems (Richards, Jordan, Charley Drayton) - 4:45
- Eileen (Richard, Jordan) - 4:29
- Words of Wonder (Richards, Jordan, Waddy Wachtel) - 6:35
- Yap Yap (Richards, Jordan, Wachtel) - 4:43
- Bodytalks (Richards, Jordan, Drayton, Sarah Dash) - 5:20
- Hate It When You Leave (Richards, Jordan, Wachtel) - 4:59
- Runnin 'Too Deep (Richards, Jordan) - 3:20
- Will but You Won't (Richards, Jordan) - 5:05
- Demon (Richards, Jordan) - 4:45
Reviews
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Cub Koda from Allmusic calls the album pleasantly concentrated and says that the next Rolling Stones album should rock just as hard. Timothy White from Billboard Magazine confirms that Richards has left the self-imposed limits of his profession with the album. At Main Offender , Richards showed that concentrating on the essentials could create something amazingly sophisticated. Billy Altmann from Entertainment Weekly calls the album surprisingly rousing, although the musicians involved would have done their best to take the structures away from the songs and compares the music with early Rolling Stones albums.
Web links
- Main Offender at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Timothy White: Keith Richards: On the 'Offensive' . In: Billboard Magazine . October 17, 1992, p. 5 .
- ↑ Sources chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / UK / US , accessed October 12, 2010.
- ^ Billy Altmann: Music Review: Main Offender . In: Entertainment Weekly . No. 143 , November 6, 1992 ( online ).
