Jumping on the wagon of the much anticipated Top 3 post Exile thread please post a Top 3 of 1989-2017 albums. Studio only.

Easy.... only 5 albums to choose from.

My list:

1.VOODOO LOUNGE (not forgetting the great B-sides from these sessions)
2.A BIGGER BANG (Yes indeed)
3.BLUE & LONESOME ()
4.BRIDGES TO BABYLON
5.STEEL WHEELS



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1 Voodoo Lounge
2 Steel Wheels
3 A Bigger Bang

1. Bridges to Babylon (10/10, an almost perfect album)
2. Voodoo Lounge (9/10, a few song too long)
3. A Bigger Bang (8/10, some excellent songs, some weak songs)
4. Steel Wheels (8/10, Nice comeback album)
5. Blue And Lonesome (6/10, not much to brag about after 11 years of silence)

top 3 post dirtywork albums.

1. voodoo lounge.
2. a bigger bang.
3. bridges to babylon.

not really judged blues and lonesome yet.

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buttons67
top 3 post dirtywork albums.

1. voodoo lounge.
2. a bigger bang.
3. bridges to babylon.

not really judged blues and lonesome yet.

You like Between The Buttons more don't you Buttons67...

1. A Bigger Bang
2. Steel Wheels
3. Really dealer's choice. I'll say Blue And Lonesome cause I feel its neither amazing nor awful, but really all 3 of those albums don't do much for me.

Overall, Steel Wheels gets a worse rap than it deserves. Its by the numbers and slick, but I think it comes off relatively solid. Its pretty concise and is probably helped by the fact that they were trying not to be "too" out there. Means that most of the songs aren't great, but passable. Whereas I think on the others they had too much freedom and it often meant many bad songs.

Steel Wheels
Blue And Lonesome
Bridges To Babylon

Blue and Lonesome
Bridges to Babylon
Stripped

Blue and lonesome
Voodoo Lounge
Steel Wheels
the 2017 album

jeroen

1. Composite non-album*
2. Steel Wheels
3. Bigger Bang
4. Voodoo
5. Bridges

*1. Highwire
2. Sex Drive
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. Don't Stop
5. Stealing My Heart
6. Keys to Your Live
7. Doom & Gloom
8. One More Shot
9. Plundered My Soul

I'll chime in with one that no one has mentioned: the bonus disc of the 2010 deluxe Exile reissue.

A Bigger Bang isn't really a "post" Dirty Work album -- it's the sequel. Should've called it Dirtier Work. Stale, flat, noisy, shouty songs that go nowhere, with that trendy, dated overproduction, all the life compressed right out of the music -- I never much liked the idea of Charlie as a "lead drummer".

It's hard to tell if the Stones ever really made a great album after Tattoo You. They might have, but the flavor of the month production values kill it every time.

I have the monitor mixes of the Steel Wheels material and the sessions as well (Training Wheels) -- and they sound fantastic, just the band in a room together creating a spark of magic. There's something that happens when they play together in a room, call it a vibe. But it works, and you realize that the Steel Wheels material is actually pretty good.

And then they put out the finished album, and it sounds unbearably 1989. The vibe has been cut off, a wall of faulty production choices is put up between the band and the listener. The material sounds cold, plastic, contrived.

So, who knows, perhaps Bigger Bang is actually good. I'd have to hear some pre-production mixes or sessions before I could be sure.

Also, I have the Voodoo outtakes -- Voodoo Residue. Every time I hear those I mourn for the album that could have been.

Crosseyed Heart
Talk is Cheap
Blue and Lonesome

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I know you said just studio albums, but they've essentially been a touring act the past 35 years, so I'd just pick the best live album (not sure what that would be.).

1. VOODOO LOUNGE / BRIDGES TO BABYLON (tie)
3. STEEL WHEELS

There were more than three?

Wow! Looking at the post Dirty Work albums noted here I realize I haven't listened to a complete Stones album in some time except for Beggar's Banquet. I prefer to mix songs from various Stones albums into a blend of music, but I digress. I remember I liked a good bit of Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge and Stripped, though, I haven't played them in ages. So, these would be my three.

In chronological order:

• "Steel Wheels"
• "Some Girls Deluxe Edition" - Disc 2
• "Blue And Lonesome"



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Talk is Cheap
Some Girls bonus disc
Voodoo Lounge (plus The Storm and Cocaine Blues)
Steel Wheels (plus Highwire and Fancyman Blues)
Main Offender

A Bigger Bang
Voodoo Lounge
Blue & Lonesome

in any order

Rod

Steel Wheels
Blue And Lonesome



Bridges To Babylon

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I'm just a Bad Boy Boogie

Blue & Lonesome
Steel Wheels
Bridges To Babylon

1. Bang
2. Voodoo
3. Blue & Lonesome (I probably like it better than the 2 other ones; but there's no original material on it - that's why it comes in 3d.)

...Including the bonus discs of the Aniversary Editions (interesting concept, btw, because I do tend to think of these as 'new' material as well...), putting the arbitrary (dis-)qualification of B&L aside, and making it a 'pure pleasure ' top-4, I'd say:

1. Some Girls bonus material
2. Blue & Lonesome
3. Bang
4. Voodoo

1. Bridges to Babylon
2. Steel Wheels

I don't listen to the rest.

1. Bigger Bang
2. Blue And Lonesome
3. Bridges (but only the 37-min version I compiled to improve this mixed bag)

Some girls - Bonus disc

Crosseyed heart

Blue and lonesome