Any Track off of the horiffic and dreaded ' Dirty Work ' album .


** BLECH ! **

1. Hold Back
2. Sing This All Together (see What Happens)
3. My Girl
4. Under The Boardwalk
5. Sweet NeoCon / Anyway you look at it (cant decide)

I can honestly find it hard to find enough songs to stretch into double figures that I find utterly unlistenable. Thats pretty good for 350 songs over 45 years. And probably about half of the worst 12-15 would either be on Satanic Majesties or are duff early covers of what were originally good songs cut while the band were still learning their trade.

Special mention - while its obviously not by any stretch of the imagination a bad song (or even a bad version), the editing abortion that shares its name with that of this message board on 'Live Licks' is the greatest atrocity ever committed to disc in the name of the Rolling Stones.

fuman wrote on May 3^rd, 2009 at 2:34pm:



Would actually be in my top 10-12 favourites!  I dont think there's any other Stones song which inspires such divided opinion.

Miss You is a great record IMO. Unfortunately its been so routinely tedious in concert since 1989, its probably become the most despised of all the warhorses, and this has led to the studio recording being so lightly regarded by many.

Streets of Love
Indian Girl
Hold Back
Sing This Altogether (LSWH)
Sweethearts Together
Also have to mention Back To Zero!

None.
Next topic.
Thank you for your cooperation & support.

" A lot of my Stones friends like Where The Boys Go too. I never did myself.
I bought a cassette of Steel Wheels once, while on vacation (1989?). Listened twice and then gave it to some guy at a gas station.
Weeks later when I was cleaning my truck, I found it !! He must have tossed it back in !! I am 100% positive that he took it from me at that Fresno gas station. "

I too bought an ' extra ' cassette of " Steel Wheels " so it would always be inside my portable boom box at the pool ......... somebody ' stole it ' during the ' Fourth of July ' weekend in 1990 and I never saw it AGAIN until two weeks ago at Sullivan's Steakhouse  when I discoved said cassette inside my plate of veal marsala . Imagine the look of surprise on my face . True Story .


O to the 'kins !

Joey wrote on May 3^rd, 2009 at 8:03pm:

Cafe Hostess Jill?

sweetcharmedlife wrote on May 3^rd, 2009 at 8:53pm:

This ain't bringing Jumacfly back.

Joey wrote on May 3^rd, 2009 at 8:03pm:



This is funny. Don't get the "O to the 'kins !" reference, but funny none the less.

Miss You live feels like 5 songs.

Bitch wrote on May 3^rd, 2009 at 9:49pm:



You’re not alone there – far too syrupy 

No such thing as a bad Stones song!

I got 4 that I can think of.
1-Miss Amanda Jones (too Popish)
2-Sing This All Together (see what Happens) Stones trying to be to psychedelic, head music for people getting stoned on acid, with this music I think you'd have a bad trip.
3-Come On (no Chuck Berry leads, just a quick romp through it)
5-Hot Stuff.

This thread is not bringing JB back.

Joey, did I read a post where you dig Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles?
They play Cambridge hardhonk, and are the real deal.
I've seen them in action, catch them if you can.....

1. Thru And Thru
2. How Can I Stop
3. Thief In The Night
4. Infamy
5. You Don't Have To Mean It

Stewed n Keefed wrote on May 4^th, 2009 at 11:10am:


You're having a laugh!!! 

Great sense of humour - as always 

top / bottom 5 could be entirely compiled from ABB -

Neo Con
She Saw Me Coming 
Look What The Cat Dragged In
Biggest Mistake / Infamy
Streets Of Love

Stewed n Keefed wrote on May 4^th, 2009 at 11:10am:



I sense a 'Connection' here.

Between '68 and '83 there are no songs that should be included on these lists.  Except maybe "Melody."  "Too Tight," "Hold Back," "How Can I Stop," and "Sweethearts Together" really suck.

1. Back To Zero
2. Winning Ugly
3. Biggest Mistake
4. Sweethearts Together
5. Sweet NeoCon

" THEN THIS THREAD HAS SERVED IT'S PURPOSE. "

WHAT ?!


!!!!!

corgi37 wrote on May 6^th, 2009 at 7:01am:



Oh yeah, completely forgot about Hot Stuff. Good choice.

1. Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
2. She Saw Me Coming
3. Sweet Neocon
4. Back To Zero
5. Streets Of Love

gotdablouse wrote on May 6^th, 2009 at 7:59pm:


I actually thought his lyrics on ABB showed two extremes. On the positive side, some welcome 'mature' relationship songs (Let Me Down Slow, Biggest Mistake, Laugh I Nearly Died - the latter of which may well have been written for 'Alfie' as some of the songs definitely were) and some which were amongst the most embarrassingly infantile drivel of his career and which sounded unbelievably infantile coming from an intelligent man in his 60's (Neocon, Oh No Not You Again)

there are alot on these lists that are merely a matter of taste...
i, for one, think that start me up is overrated and silly, but its not a bad song.
and those early soul covers were atrocious,
but let me remind everyone of the real travestly in the stones canon:

any way you look at it....
anybody have a link to this - just to drive that point home?

i bought the cd.  it has saint of me and anyway you look at it for 1.99.  i have to say that anyway song is lame.  there was a song on the bonus cd of a bigger bang, the one that had 2-3 extra songs on it and one of those was lame too.

gotdablouse wrote on May 7^th, 2009 at 6:56pm:


"Raise your glass to the hard-working people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading, but take gamblers instead
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
Whose empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And parades of gray-suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio."

I agree. Where did that guy go? Whenever anyone has any doubt about how great of writer Mick was, I play 'em something like this.

StonesFanatic wrote on May 11^th, 2009 at 8:42am:

Child of the Moon wrote on May 8^th, 2009 at 1:21am:


To his credit you can only write that song once and he did it so...I guess he just ran out of things to say or stopped caring about much else than his dick, anyway it sucks to not be in 1968 anymore as far as the Stones go.

" Anybody who doesn't like Sweethearts Together or Indian Girl never liked a Sam Peckinpah movie "


Amen !!!!!!!


The Wild Bunch ROCKS !!!!!


RIP William Holden ......... Warren Oates  ........ Jeff Healy

Even these days at his old age? Weird!!

I was surprised, looking back, to see so much hate for Start Me Up on here.  While I can take or leave that song, it's always regarded as a Stones "classic" so I was surprised to see so much dislike for it...

Gazza wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 10:02am:


Agreed G.
Add the HIDEOUS video and the number of times we've endured it live and this is one I could definitely live without ever listening to again.
Well, may not EVER.

LJ.

StonesFanatic wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 10:21am:


The video is very amateurish for the GREATEST Band of all time.
Lip synching and air guitars are an embarrassment.
Why bother???
They finally get a single (s/p 1980) that hits the charts and then put out that piece of junk????
It's so damned cheesy.  

LJ.

"What do you think of the video for Undercover of the Night?"

Mick in that White Suit and moustache....let's just say he's not going to win any Academy Awards.  But Keith looks badass so it's tolerable.

Overall, most of the Stones videos were average, imho.

LJ.

LadyJane wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 10:52am:


Most videos are crap, full stop. However, IMO the Stones - back as late as the late 90's when they still cared - were always trendsetters and pioneers when it came to promo videos.

Right from the early days where they were basically promo clips - Have You Seen Your Mother, Jumpin' Jack Flash and the video for the song from which you take your screen name up through the 70's (IORR and the 3 'Some Girls' videos) - and on into the MTV age when even as late as that magnificent one for Anybody Seen My Baby, a new video premiere from the Stones was often  a TV event and often pretty innovative, eg Undercover, Love Is strong, Like A rolling Stone etc.

In the last decade or so though, their reluctance to bother with them has matched their reluctance to spend much time making new music - the one for 'Don't Stop' was so bad I actually hid behind the settee when it was on TV.

The 'Start Me Up' video just looks very dated now. Prancing about lip synching was pretty normal for 1981 though and , in fairness, all that campy arse wiggling and gymnastic pouting was pretty much the way Jagger was still performing on stage at that time (he toned it down by the time they went back on the road in 1989). They did 4 other videos for Tattoo You - Hang Fire, Worried About You, Neighbours and Waiting On A Friend - all of which were more plleasant to watch to varying degrees, especially the last two.

First rule of thumb for a Stones video in the MTV age (ie post 1981) - if it's shot against a New York backdrop, it's usually going to be very good. The New York tourist office should have paid the band a fortune for what was basically a series of great commercials for the city throughout the 80s and 90s.

Gazza wrote on May 15^th, 2009 at 3:13pm:


Yes, the WOAF video is really quite touching, especially in light of whas was going to happen on shortly after. Keith was back in action and probably thought he could help out Mick lead the band...

gotdablouse wrote on May 16^th, 2009 at 10:53am:


Yeah that one is not too bad...