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I think most consider Undercover, and its followup, Dirty Work, to be the lowest point in their studio albums. There's one good song on Undercover, and maybe three on Dirty Work.

Eeer....what ???
You think so...but "most" ?
I think Undercover is a masterpiece...compared with Dirty Work.

It's not. It's the worst of the two. It's a shame the glorious Undercover of the Night has to be affiliated with such throwaway music. Dirty Work is only slightly better. Tell me what albums between 1963 and 1989 are worse Stones albums than those two pieces of drek.

Undercover is in my top three Stones albums. I just love it. It's exciting, raw, aggressive. It has great Jagger vocals and lyrics, great songs and great playing. Of course it sounds like 1983 and you have to listen through that, but it's great in every sense. It really was the last time the Stones were still the greatest RnR band of the world and released meaningful music.

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I think most consider Undercover, and its followup, Dirty Work, to be the lowest point in their studio albums. There's one good song on Undercover, and maybe three on Dirty Work.

Eeer....what ???
You think so...but "most" ?
I think Undercover is a masterpiece...compared with Dirty Work.

It's not. It's the worst of the two. It's a shame the glorious Undercover of the Night has to be affiliated with such throwaway music. Dirty Work is only slightly better. Tell me what albums between 1963 and 1989 are worse Stones albums than those two pieces of drek.

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I think most consider Undercover, and its followup, Dirty Work, to be the lowest point in their studio albums. There's one good song on Undercover, and maybe three on Dirty Work.

Eeer....what ???
You think so...but "most" ?
I think Undercover is a masterpiece...compared with Dirty Work.

It's not. It's the worst of the two. It's a shame the glorious Undercover of the Night has to be affiliated with such throwaway music. Dirty Work is only slightly better. Tell me what albums between 1963 and 1989 are worse Stones albums than those two pieces of drek.

UNDERCOVER is LET IT BLEED compared to DIRTY WORK. People should be given their money back for DW.

Their worst album, other than DW, is TSMR. STEEL WHEELS is pretty bad. Granted, there are good songs on those albums but as albums... they're awful.

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I think TSMR has aged very well, pretty much like everything on it nowadays.

I think Tattoo You is a pretty weak album, I love a couple tracks but the rest kind of dragged. Never played it all that much honestly. I am interested to see what a remix does for it; did miracles for Goats Head Soup.


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If it's like the 'Super Deluxe' GHS boxset, you'll get the videos associated with the album, SMU, Waiting on a Friend, Neighbors, Hang Fire. These are among the cheapest, crappiest videos ever made, excluding Waiting on a Friend, which was pretty good

Yes they were cheap and, perhaps, crappy. But I liked them. And I think they have stood the test of time better than many overproduced, expensive videos from the time.
And you have to remember that 1981 was before MTV started. A long time before those extravagant Peter Gabriel and Jacko videos.

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I think TSMR has aged very well, pretty much like everything on it nowadays.

I think Tattoo You is a pretty weak album, I love a couple tracks but the rest kind of dragged. Never played it all that much honestly. I am interested to see what a remix does for it; did miracles for Goats Head Soup.


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I’m enjoying Gas Light Street’s consistently successful attempts to wind us all up with his provocations. But I fear Mathjis is serious about Undercover!? After Too Much Blood everything on side two is filler. Too Tough and All the Way Down in particular sound like deep fakes, Stones-by-numbers. I have quoted Keith Richards on the subject before. When told by an NME journalist that undercover was ‘dull and didn’t happen at all’ Keith replied ‘no it didn’t.’
Dirty Work was viewed as a return to form. Why it has become an article of faith in this board to slam it is beyond me.
Winning ugly easily beats too much blood
Back to zero maybe draws with pretty beat up admittedly
Dirty work trounces too tough
Had it with you smashes all the way down
Sleep tonight outclasses It Must Be Hell

Case closed IMHO

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I love DW.
It´s about the bad production, tons of reverb and awful synthesizers. Ged rid of that, add some outtakes and yoou get a masterpiece.
I don´t care about ABB and "Blue and Lonesome". I alway would choose DW!

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I love DW.
Ged rid of that, add some outtakes and you get a masterpiece

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I love DW.
Ged rid of that, add some outtakes and you get a masterpiece

Yeah but which ones?
Keith's rather boring reggae tunes he brought to Paris? The alt-band's quite good soulful tunes recorded in NY? Mick's radio-friendly and soooo 80's songs like the new "Nobody's Perfect"? They have nothing in common and nothing close to DW.

Imo you wouldn't get a masterpiece. A 3-cd DW reissue would only prove the band was totally lost in that year 1985 and really scrambled to release what could be called an album.

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I love DW.
It´s about the bad production, tons of reverb and awful synthesizers. Ged rid of that, add some outtakes and yoou get a masterpiece.
I don´t care about ABB and "Blue and Lonesome". I alway would choose DW!

If you take out the bad performances and poor songwriting as well, you'd have a near perfect album.

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Re: Tattoo You deluxe version
Posted by: bakersfield ()
Date: July 27, 2021 08:12

I’m enjoying Gas Light Street’s consistently successful attempts to wind us all up with his provocations. But I fear Mathjis is serious about Undercover!? After Too Much Blood everything on side two is filler. Too Tough and All the Way Down in particular sound like deep fakes, Stones-by-numbers. I have quoted Keith Richards on the subject before. When told by an NME journalist that undercover was ‘dull and didn’t happen at all’ Keith replied ‘no it didn’t.’
Dirty Work was viewed as a return to form. Why it has become an article of faith in this board to slam it is beyond me.
Winning ugly easily beats too much blood
Back to zero maybe draws with pretty beat up admittedly
Dirty work trounces too tough
Had it with you smashes all the way down
Sleep tonight outclasses It Must Be Hell

Case closed IMHO

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Re: Tattoo You deluxe version
Posted by: 24FPS ()
Date: July 23, 2021 05:49

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For me it all feels a bit too late. I mean a re-release 40 years after the original release. I guess this re-release business accelerated when they realized they didn't have to make new recordings anymore.
Had they realized that earlier we wouldn't have had 40 years between the releases.

It's extremely likely that the Stones never had any intentions of reissuing albums in this manner. They signed up with UMe and UMe said something.

So when these releases happen really has no relevance, as EOMS and SG provided, to anniversary dates, specifically. Afterall, TATTOO YOU, so far, won't be out on the anniversary, 8-24, but it will be within the digit year 40 years later.

I guess they've discovered no profit in doing Deluxe editions with the ABKCO albums.


I don't think they really want to cooperate with ABKCO, they have not seemed to give them anything new or allowed them to release anything rare. The ABKCO deluxe editions have been nicely packaged but thats about all.

jb

They worked with Abkco to release the Deluxe Edition of Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, On Air: (The BBC Sessions) and the Charlie Is My Darling set.

They worked directly with ABKCO on those? Okay. I guess I was thinking of the better known studio albums from Aftermath onward.

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i mean is black & blue really that much worse an album then goats head soup or for that matter it's only rock n roll that it dosen't deserve the deluxe treatment

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Re: Tattoo You deluxe version new
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Date: July 28, 2021 01:59

Dirty Work needs to be reproduced. The 80s production is difficult to enjoy listening too and this goes for most mid to late 80s music

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I’m enjoying Gas Light Street’s consistently successful attempts to wind us all up with his provocations. But I fear Mathjis is serious about Undercover!? After Too Much Blood everything on side two is filler. Too Tough and All the Way Down in particular sound like deep fakes, Stones-by-numbers. I have quoted Keith Richards on the subject before. When told by an NME journalist that undercover was ‘dull and didn’t happen at all’ Keith replied ‘no it didn’t.’
Dirty Work was viewed as a return to form. Why it has become an article of faith in this board to slam it is beyond me.
Winning ugly easily beats too much blood
Back to zero maybe draws with pretty beat up admittedly
Dirty work trounces too tough
Had it with you smashes all the way down
Sleep tonight outclasses It Must Be Hell

Case closed IMHO

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Well Gas Light Street, I disagree with every sentiment in your last post, every sentence, every word and probably the punctuation too lol.
But I’m happy to agree to disagree. Personal taste is personal taste -after all - there are people who can listen ‘Blinded by Rainbows’ without cringing, incredibly. I’m glad I’m not the only who enjoys DW though. I have burned a CD replacing ‘Hold Back’ and ‘Too Rude’ with ‘Deep love’ and ‘Putty in your hands’ and now I love it from end to end. If only Charlie had been on top form it would have swung a little more……

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I love DW.
It´s about the bad production, tons of reverb and awful synthesizers. Ged rid of that, add some outtakes and yoou get a masterpiece.
I don´t care about ABB and "Blue and Lonesome". I alway would choose DW!

If you take out the bad performances and poor songwriting as well, you'd have a near perfect album.

Perhaps you should revisit. I know there are different tastes - I thought about 10 years GHS as a weak album.

Dirty work a a album:
One hit (Killer) - Killer? OK, I'm going to be nice and give you that.
fight (not bad but I prefer an early version) - Not good I prefer no version.
Harlem shuffle (nice) - OK, you said it. It's 'nice'.
Hold back (rather a filler) - you said it perfectly.
Too rude (ok) - ...hmmm. Not Ok. But this is the best you can do for your 'killer' album?
Winning ugly (Killer - but the London remix!) - OK, the London remix isn't on the album, get over yourself, and it is certainly NOT killer. I gave you a freebie already with One Hit. Don't push it!

This song is Ugly, but not in a Winning way.

Back to zero (nice parts but somehow ruined) - yeah, somehow it ruined even with the nice parts. I guess that's what happens when you write the worst song in the entire Stones catalogue, with Chuck. He must be so proud.

Dirty work (killer) - Again with the 'killer'. OK, you just have to stop with the hyperbole. It's getting embarrassing.

Had it with you (very good) - what, not killer?

Sleep tonight (well - ok) - sorry, did you say something, I slipped into a coma.

Overall far better than anything post 1997 -

OK, first of all your not setting the bar very high, because you only have A Bigger Bang post 1997, other than Blue and Lonesome, and surely you can't be referring to that.

As far as ABB vs. DW. I would absolutely take ABB, and challenge you to an off-album "killer song deathmatch", "One Hit London Remix" vs. "Under The Radar"...ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.

Take that!

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Winning Ugly beats Too Much Blood
Back To Zero draws with pretty Beat Up
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