New Guardian rating of every Stones album.

"All comparisons are odious" -- Samuel Johnson

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/17/the-rolling-stones-every-album-ranked

23. Dirty Work (1986)

The best moments on Dirty Work come when the atmosphere of intra-band animosity in which it was recorded is channelled into the music: One Hit (to the Body) and Winning Ugly fizz with nasty energy. Elsewhere, it’s lifeless, and the period production on Back to Zero has dated abysmally.

22. Bridges to Babylon (1997)

Mick Jagger attempts to gussy up the Rolling Stones’ sound with samples and loops courtesy of trip-hop producer Danny Saber, and an intransigent Keith Richards responds by throwing Saber out of the studio. Results are as uneven as you might expect.

21. Voodoo Lounge (1994)

More stripped down and straightforward than its predecessor, Steel Wheels, this isn’t a bad album, exactly, but it sounds as if hard work was involved, the product of craft rather inspiration: tough coming from a band that, at their best, made it all seem effortless. Also, it feels as if it goes on for about six weeks.

I hate "lists"...and I refuse to look at this one as well.


andrews27 wrote on May 20^th, 2018 at 12:02pm:

One Hit (to the Body) and Winning Ugly fizz with nasty energy.

I believe I recall reading that Winning Ugly, was actually written to be used as a closing song for an 80's film...it certainly sounds like one to me...I have no further details on this and could very well be making it up as a diluted memory of the times.

andrews27 wrote on May 20^th, 2018 at 12:02pm:

23. Dirty Work (1986) The best moments on Dirty Work come when the atmosphere of intra-band animosity in which it was recorded is channelled into the music: One Hit (to the Body) and Winning Ugly fizz with nasty energy. Elsewhere, it’s lifeless, and the period production on Back to Zero has dated abysmally.

It really hasnt, It was shite in 1986 and it's still shite now.

Paranoid Android wrote on May 20^th, 2018 at 7:06pm:

I hate "lists"...and I refuse to look at this one as well. andrews27 wrote on May 20th, 2018 at 12:02pm: One Hit (to the Body) and Winning Ugly fizz with nasty energy. I believe I recall reading that Winning Ugly, was actually written to be used as a closing song for an 80's film...it certainly sounds like one to me...I have no further details on this and could very well be making it up as a diluted memory of the times.

It's right up there with Ruthless People, to be sure.