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GasLightStreet
It's a genius track and one of their musically superior tunes.

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stonesstein
This is a great topic! Thanks so much for doing this.

There are some great records in this list.

1. GHS - Starf%cker is among their best tracks, ever, and (to me) the only lemon is Coming Down Again (I know, 20 of y'all will say "I like that song!"). They still play Doo Doo Doo Doo, Angie, and they dusted off Silver Train after 41 years. Following Exile was like following Lou Holtz at Notre Dame.....

2. IORR - an LP with among the best "Hit Singles That Never Were" such as Dance Little Sister, Time Waits for No One, and If You Can't Rock Me. Only one really mistake - If You Really Want to Be My Friend, which, as much as they wanted to pay tribute to the Philly-soul trend of the moment, it is truly among the worst 5 songs of the band's career. (I know, someone here likes it!) IORR is a good, but very mixed, bag, from which one can roll a really good phattie.

3. Black & Blue - really solid but short group of songs. The Stones in transition with a Keef where cool papa is just too prevalent. This is Mick and Charlie's record with guest guitarists and here, as much as ever before, in Keith's absence, the band is forced to experiment with such tracks as Hey Negrita, Hot Stuff, and Melody. Arguably, their cover of Eric Donaldson's Cherry Oh Baby is the only track which is less than up to par. To give you an idea of the band's opinion - note that this, Sticky, and Some Girls are the only LPs of the modern era that they have played all songs.

4. Emotional Rescue - Oh, the blow! Ok, there are some good songs here like Dance and She's So Cold and some good-enough songs like Summer Romance, the title track, and Where the Boys All Go. Then, there are among the band's worst - Indian Girl, All About You, and Down in the Hole (sorry!) All in all, were it not for an even more spotty record to follow (after Tattoo You), this would stand out as the worst of this period.

5. Undercover - WOW! Didn't think it could get worse, did you? So, other than the (fantastic!) title track and that schlock-MOR hit She Was Hot, what else do you listen to very much? Ok, there's one REALLY INCREDIBLE song on this record, and that's among Woody's finest moments - Pretty Beat Up (WOW!). Beyond that, everything else is just that - pretty beat up......

6. Dirty Work - the Stones go "studio tan" with more drugs around that anything else since Black and Blue. Here, though, the "mortality" is evident, because it saddens us all to think that the Stones could not find 1-2 tracks better than Back to Zero and Fight.... Give us Bobby Womack and Strictly Memphis. Don't get me wrong, there are some really good and fun listens here like One Hit, the title track, Too Rude, Winning Ugly, and the LP's hidden gem, Had It With You (so much blow going on, had to avoid using a bassist to enable the middle ear to pick up the treble frequencies.......... This IS a good record!

Very nicely put! I enjoyed reading it. If You Really Want To Be My Friend among the 5 worst Stones songs? Hmm... What are the other 4?

I think this might be in another thread, but for me, Anyway You Look At It, Indian Girl, Back to Zero, Gunface, Blinded by Love (or all Steel Wheels save 2-3 trax) are horrible cysts on the catalog......

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Some may love these albums and some may hate them...but taking away Some Girls and Tattoo You...we are left with these six albums to battle for best to the worst from 1973 - 1986.

Here's my picks...let's hear yours: Rank them Favorite to least Favorite.

1. Black and Blue(Best engineered album and with experimental music directions)
2. It's Only Rock&Roll(Fingerprint File-only notable song staying w/the times)
3. Undercover (trying to stay with the times...experimental in nature)
4. Goats Head Soup (Exile hangover...murky..out of tune..a #1 ballad...no rock)
5. Emotional Rescue (Some Girls out takes...horrible engineering...no bottom)
6. Dirty Work (we all know about this)

Pecman