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Nasty Habits wrote:
The most honest record the Stones have made since Some Girls. It's so fascinating and intense it's frightening - even the "bad" songs are such clashes of giants that they add to the album's intentional and unintentional content.

The fact that Jagger STOLE the idea of covering Harlem Shuffle from worshipping whipping boy Pete Townshend only adds to the general sense of decay, and I don't care what anybody says, it's a great version, very much in keeping w/Stones tradition and it's a goddam shame Dirty Work is the last album with cover songs on it.

And while Winning Ugly and Back to Zero are good songs ultimately done in by their production, Hold Back simply burns - its atonality and halfrapped lyrics sounding like something out of the early 80s No-Wave. Plenty of people I know can't listen to Sister Ray either.

I'll put the "Dirty Work/Had It With You/Sleep Tonight/Key to the Highway coda" run up against any post-Exile Stones album for emotional and human reality. Not to mention the rocks.

Do it do it do it do it do it do it!

[Edited by Nasty Habits]

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