Exile on Main Street

What is the significance of this statement? Its in the second to last episode of season six when Tony tells Janice about bobby baclieri, "exile on main street"

Just wondering if you know.

Perhaps it was an inside joke because Janice is a big Rolling Stones fan (tattoo on her chest). Wasn't that right after the fight between Tony and Bobby? Tony was letting his sister know Bobby was still in his bad books. I can't remember for sure but I think Janice was also asking for money which might have been another reason Tony was peeved.

He meant that Bobby would be out of the game, out of the business... the rant about Bobby was due to the fact that Bobby still had a soft spot for Uncle Junior even though Junior shot Tony. In Tony's mind, that's disloyalty, and the "Exile on Main Street" comment was Tony telling Janice that Bobby would be persona non grata (an unwelcome person) if he's going forward.

Remember Janice having a Rolling Stones Tattoo? So she exactly knew what Tony was referring to.

Exile on Main Street = Tony, referring to his planned rejection of Bobby for siding with Junior, says it's "Exile on Main Street" for him, the title of a 1972 album by The Rolling Stones.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_on_Main_St.

You could also say that Tony was making fun of Bobby's train hobby - next stop Main Street.

In the business world,
Main Street = Shorthand for "the investing public"--in the same way that "Wall Street" is used to refer to investment professionals and brokers.

In the Sopranos world, Wall Street = Mafia(-business)
-> Bobby out of the games of Wall Street