I have enjoyed The Rolling Stones since being a Junior in High School 1975
I have enjoyed all of their releases since then....

Has there been an album since Steel Wheels which was not be considered "their best since Exile?"

It's almost funny, and I don't mind it.... Their most recent album IS ALWAYS THE BEST SINCE THEIR LAST ALBUM! That much is true!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-10-07 02:52 by HopeYouGuessMyName.

Since Exile I would rank:

Some Girls
Tattoo You
Black & Blue
Goats Head Soup
Emotional Rescue
IORR
Blue & Lonesome
Bigger Bang
Undercover
B2B
Voodoo
Steel Wheels
Dirty Work
Hackney Diamonds

That's a lot of Hackney Hate if you have it below Dirty Work! I would have a great difficulty putting these albums in order... I do know I listen to Blue & Lonesome the very least. And I agree that Dirty Work has very little to keep my interested... But, I seriously do love all the others!

No hate. I like everything they do.

Hackney sounds like an update of Goddess in the Doorway to me.

The Keith track and the cover of Rollin Stone Blues I will listen to occasionally.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2025-10-07 04:43 by JimmyTheSaint.

this is me at the moment it would probably be a different list if i did it next week

and as a controversial bonus i'll mix in mick and keith's solo albums with the stones albums

1. tattoo you
2. some girls
3. black and blue
4. undercover
5. goats head soup
6. talk is cheap
7. bridges to babylon
8. emotional rescue
9. iorr
10. blue and lonesome
11. cosseyed heart
12. voodoo lounge
13. wandering spirit
14. hackney diamonds
15. a bigger bang
16. main offender
17. steel wheels
18. she's the boss
19. dirty work
20. primitive cool
21. godess in the doorway



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025-10-07 05:07 by ProfessorWolf.

TATTOO YOU.

SOME GIRLS is exceptional. Culturally, Stones wise, it's more important, at the time, but TY is their greatest album post-STICKY FINGERS.

STEEL WHEELS is more along the lines of the band getting it back together. Some songs are worthy but overall it's nowhere near importance culturally.

EXILE is a compilation of unreleased tracks from the SF sessions with newly recorded tracks. Magnificent regardless.

Which is why TATTOO YOU is in line: an album derived of - 1972 through 1979 leftovers. Nothing new recorded for the album, it was completely derived of leftover tracks - and to this day there's no information regarding how many tracks were finished beyond what resulted album wise.

It seems logical that Mick sang on an amount of songs that didn't make the album. To my understanding there's been nothing ever published on any tracks beyond the album but seeing how the Stones work it seems logical that more tracks were worked on. If some of that ended up on the TY deluxe even that hasn't been talked about.

Why that remains a mystery is a bit boggling. Maybe it will be released in the possible anthology in a few years. A few years being the 2030s when it's all done with, and, if they're smart, they being UMG, making it worthwhile for old people that are alive and love The Rolling Stones.

The Stones may go down in history as a band that outlives their fanbase enough... financially? Probably not except for more deluxe reissues but Mick and Keith will be too old - or dead - to give a damn. Only then will it be known they didn't actually care, just release... because it's obvious right now, and the past, what, back to signing with UMG, they do NOT care about the sound quality of their 1971-now catalogue.

Agree with ProfessorWolf, my list will probably change before next week!

Since/ Including 1980 on:

1. Tattoo You
2. Hackney Diamonds
3. Undercover
4. Emotional Rescue
5. Voodoo Lounge
6. Blue and Lonesome
7. Dirty Work
8. Bridges to Babylon
9. Steel Wheels
10. A Bigger Bang

Didn't read the title of the this chain correctly. Here goes with extending my list since/ after Exile:


1. Goats Head Soup
2. Tattoo You
3. Some Girls
4. Hackney Diamonds
5. Undercover
6. Emotional Rescue
7. Black and Blue
8. Voodoo Lounge
9. It's Only Rock n' Roll
10. Blue and Lonesome
11. Dirty Work
12. Bridges to Babylon
13. Steel Wheels
14. A Bigger Bang

The next to be released.

The only ones on the same level as Exile are Some Girls and Tattoo You.
If I had to rank the post-Exile albums, I'd say:
1) Tattoo You
2) Some Girls
3) Black & Blue
4) Emotional Rescue
5) Goats Head Soup
6) Undercover

The other albums have occasional good songs, some great, but as albums they are not up the high standard one would wish from the Stones.

1. Goats Head Soup
2. Tattoo You
3. It's Only Rock n' Roll
4. Some Girls
5. Steel Wheels
6. Voodoo Lounge
7. A Bigger Bang
8. Hackney Diamonds
9. Undercover
10. Emotional Rescue
11. Black and Blue
12. Blue and Lonesome
13. Bridges to Babylon
14. Dirty Work

So fascinating what people love etc…and I find new love in old works….Emotional Rescue gets more love from me for individual tracks… Then listening to it as a whole… I love where the boys go I love emotional rescue… But anyway I’m not sure I can do a top 10… I always inclined to their recent work… However over and over again, I go to:
1/ Goats head soup
2/ black and blue
3/ it’s only rock ‘n’ roll
4/ Hackney Diamonds
5/ some girls
After that it’s a lottery of 1960s late stuff although I do listen to aftermath, Between the Buttons, and weirdly I listen to this satanic man request quite a lot… I know this is the wrong thread for that… But it just comes out of musing on what one chooses to listen to out of their huge canon of songs… I find lots of love in all of their oeuvre but I think I wish they did more experimental stuff… Especially now that they are old… As much as I enjoy Bite My Head Off, angry… I always love it when they push the boat out… Particularly with big ballads like Memory Motel, Whynter, time waits for no one, till the last goodbye, Laugh I nearly died, sweet Sounds Of Heaven, All about you…. as opposed to the more obvious rockers… Which is not say I don’t like them… They just don’t get me in the same way… But then that’s the great thing about the band they do so much so many different things… I think really that up until the 1980s… Possibly undercover… The Rolling Stones followed their own star… Even when they were imitating others… It was still very much all about what they decided to do… However uncomfortable or crass that could be… but I think after undercover… They have lost that arrogance, that belief that they were the best… And rather I think they have subsequently followed rather than led… I think that may well be to do with Keith, and his lack of creative drive and ego… And I think it’s only in the combination between Mick and Keith that the best of the Rolling Stones really emerges… So people often argue about whether it’s a Mick track or a key track… As though one on the other wants to dominate… Which may well be true… However it’s in the creative argument, that I think their best work really comes out… Sorry didn’t mean to go off for a ramble… But just found the inspiration.

Tattoo You
Some Girls
Goat's Head Soup
Undercover
Steel Wheels
Voodoo Lounge
Black & Blue
It's Only Rock 'n Roll
Bridges to Babylon
Hackney Diamonds
Emotional Rescue
A Bigger Bang
Blue & Lonesome
Dirty Work

I might be part of a small minority but I'd say 'Some Girls' is the only relevant Stones album after 'Exile'.

Some Girls
Tattoo You
Undercover
Emotional Rescue
Black And Blue
Goats Head Soup
Hackney Diamonds
It's Only Rock'N'Roll
Steel Wheels
Blue And Lonesome
Dirty Work
Voodoo Lounge
Bridges To Babylon
A Bigger Bang

I don’t believe any of the Stones albums since Tattoo You are playable start to finish the way their earlier releases are. There are substandard tracks on each of them.

Having said that, I’m happy the boys kept making LPs because there are also songs that I like quite a bit scattered throughout those releases.

Taking Blue & Lonesome out of the equation, A Bigger Bang is my first choice if I have to listen to a post-Tattoo LP from start to finish. I think it has more high points and fewer low points than the others.

1. Tattoo You
2. Some Girls
3. Goats Head Soup
4. Bridges To Babylon
5. A Bigger Bang
6. Black And Blue
7. Emotional Rescue
8. Voodoo Lounge
9. Undercover
10. It's Only Rock 'N Roll
11. Steel Wheels
12. Hackney Diamonds
13. Dirty Work

I'd say "goats head soup" is top 3 album of all their albums.so,it must be best after exile.
But i like very much some girls,steel wheels,B2B,even bigger bang.
Hackney is too new to me and my processing in my head.it may be the second best after exile in 2027

Tattoo You
Some Girls
Black and Blue
Goats Head Soup
It's Only Rock n' Roll
Hackney Diamonds
Steel Wheels
Undercover
Emotional Rescue
A Bigger Bang
Bridges to Babylon
Voodoo Lounge
Blue and Lonesome
Dirty Work

I'm please to read that there a few, like me, who prefer Tattoo You to the - just ever-so slightly - overrated Some Girls. Also, I'm not particularly surprised that Hackney Diamonds is viewed, overall, as a rather average album.

I enjoyed Blue & Lonesome for about a week, before coming to the realisation that if I want 'R&B' and 'Bluesy Stones', I'll listen to their pre-Aftermath albums. There isn't anything inherently wrong with the record, it's just a bit disposable. I really don't think they needed to make it. At least Dirty Work has some interesting history to it.

I'm not going to rank them in order...

Tattoo You, Goats Head Soup, Some Girls, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge and Hackney Diamonds are pretty damn good. All killer, no filler.

Emotional Rescue, Black & Blue and It's only Rock 'n Roll are decent Stones albums with some classic tracks on them, but also some mediocre ones.

Bridges, Dirty Work, Undercover and Bigger Bang.. Have their moments, some good tracks, but unfortunately also some bad ones. Medicore overall.

I'm not considering Blue and Lonesome as a true Stones album. To me, it's up there with stuff like Stripped or the deluxe bonus albums that came with the latest remasters.

Not easy choosing between Tattoo You and Some Girls. Maybe TY wins because they had the large tour while SG had less of a spectacle. Anyhow, 1981-82 was the first big time in my Stones fandom.

1. Tattoo You
2. Goats Head Soup
3. Some Girls
4. It's Only Rock n' Roll
5. Black and Blue
6. Emotional Rescue
7. Bridges to Babylon
8. Blue and Lonesome
9. Undercover
10. Voodoo Lounge
11. Hackney Diamonds
12. Dirty Work
13. Steel Wheels
14. A Bigger Bang

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frankotero
Not easy choosing between Tattoo You and Some Girls. Maybe TY wins because they had the large tour while SG had less of a spectacle. Anyhow, 1981-82 was the first big time in my Stones fandom.

Some Girls win because it is an original album while Tatoo You is a collection of leftovers from the 70s.

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slewan
Some Girls win because it is an original album while Tatoo You is a collection of leftovers from the 70s.

Odd, out of all the people that said TY is their favorite you chose me to contradict. Thanks for the attention.

Brussels'73. Simple to me, albeit a boot.

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TheflyingDutchman
Brussels'73. Simple to me, albeit a boot.

My favorite live Stones performance, Ya-Ya's comes in second for me. Opinions!

Goats
IORR
Tattoo You

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Some Girls, although it is not a serious album


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the rest

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frankotero

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TheflyingDutchman
Brussels'73. Simple to me, albeit a boot.

My favorite live Stones performance, Ya-Ya's comes in second for me. Opinions!

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