I've always loved the album......had it on cassette and layed it in my car a lot when it first came out......Too Much Blood was my favorite, Wanna Hold You was a close second.

Layed it in your car? Was that a Freudian slip about your ex-girlfriend?

"No Anchovies, Please"

....ooops, I meant "played it in my car" ....yeah, Freudian slip Elmo

Undercover - their only Ballad-Free album.

she was hot , hot , hot!!

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everything's turnin' Wrote:
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> Who plays bass on 'Pretty Beat Up'?


He was Keith Richards...

That Bill Wyman sure plays a mean Yamaha keyboard.

no ballad? who the hell wants a ballad from the boys? this album is another look at how the stones have their ears open...feel on baby(dub and reggaeish),too much blood(jagger rapping the chainsaw line), the screaming guitar solo on too tough, find another solo that screams like this on does(aside from sympathy)the slashing never to ever be repeated guitar work on undercover...the sound is a little thin but this is the last great stones album, never leave the houe without this one...

Hey ya all need to hear the 12" of Undercover with that
massive extended plodding intro and the whole thing clocking in
at 6.22 which gives ya almost another 2 minutes of blistering sonic
rumblings..Then flip it on it's backside for the dubbed out Feel On Baby...Great Stuff



But if ya reallly wanna hang around the mad-house then
check in with the the 12" of Too Much Blood....It's a skull ripper...





ROCKMAN

JaggerFan Wrote:
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> I don't profess or pretend to be a rock writer by
> any stretch, but here's by 2 cents on
> Undercover...
>
> While there is very little actual reggae on the
> disc, it's production values (bass up front, heavy
> reverb on the percussion heavliy split stereo
> nuances) scream Carribean lust. This album is
> very, very under-valued. Like Goats Head Soup
> before it (almost like a 10-year anniversary),
> this Mick-driven work is loved by some who "get
> it", and wrongly written off by others who would
> prefer the Stones stick to the same-old 3 chord
> 4/4 Berry-sounding Keef twiddling.
>
> Sorry, this album uses that method sparingly (She
> Was Hot, All The Way Down) - but even those two
> songs carry enough of Mick's mischevious narrative
> and Mick's sometimes thoughful chord progressions
> beyond what you would expect.
>
> For Many Mick fans, this album seems like his last
> attempt to bring his and along with him into this
> kind of risk-taking, before the albums sounded
> like split hybrid-solo efforts (DW, BT or weak
> comprimises (SW, AB.
>
> I feel that Keith's moment to shine after this LP
> wasn't DW, it was VL. But undercover is Mick's
> genius all the way down (except for Keef's
> admittedly great Wanna Hold You).
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Pretty accurate post Jaggerfan and I agree 100% with everything you say about Undercover. I'm completely befuddled as to why *Wanna Hold You* strangely gets a bad rap around here. KR's singing actually sounds good and the rhythm section is incredibly tight. Great change of pace and nice to hear a melodic Stones tune once in a while. Great tune on a great great album. Jagger’s direction and brilliance underlie every song.

Rockman’s post on the Ronnie Wood interview in MOJO has a blurb on Undercover – which Ron Wood “expects to see upwardly re-evaluated”

For me,even after all these years, Undercover holds up well. IMO, Undercover is easily the best among the rest (i.e after the big 4).

Kurt Loder [little more of a real rock critic than us folks on this board :-)] reviewed Undercover in Rolling Stone and I posted his review here some time back.

I am just pasting a small part of that review which at least to me, puts this album in context.

Kurt Loder's Rolling Stone review of Undercover -

"There is a moment early on in "Too Tough," a terrific song on the second side, that sums up all of the Stones' extraordinary powers. With the guitars locked into a headlong riff and Mick Jagger hoarsely berating the woman who "screwed me down with kindness" and "suffocating love," the track is already off to a hot start; but then Charlie Watts comes barreling in on tom-toms and boots the tune onto a whole new level of gut-punching brilliance. That the Stones are still capable of such exhilarating energy is cause enough for wondrous comment; that they are able to sustain such musical force over the course of an entire LP is rather astonishing. Undercover is the most impressive of the albums the group has released since its mid-Seventies career slump (the others being Some Girls, Emotional Rescue and 1981's remarkable Tattoo You) because, within the band's R&B-based limits, it is the most consistently and energetically inventive."



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That was my FIRST Stones Studio album. Well I have mixed emotions about it, sometimes I like, sometimes I don't!

Steve is a pioneer in this area.



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