I think that it would be either "Some Girls" or "Tatoo You"...
I can't decide.

personally i would go for steel wheels.

i thought the stones were finished before they done that.

Some Girls was a masterpiece after a couple of so -so efforts

Beggars Banquet

Never really needed a comeback?

Comeback from where???

How is Tattoo You a comeback when they had released a number 1 album only 14 months previously?

Some Girls

SOME GIRLS....

COMEBACK TOUR HAS TO BE 1969!

What Boston2006 said, plus considering Keith's troubles while making that record. A really great effort for that time.

Without any doubt for me: Steel Wheels...
Other albums may be stylistic comebacks, but Streel Wheels was a comeback to the whole business, after years of doubts if they'll ever work together again.

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> Comeback from where???


from 2 or 3 albums that were not considered great.

Only in the sense that no one would ever call "Sticky Fingers" or "Exile" to be a comeback album.

tossup between Beggars Banquet an Steel Wheels.

Then again, if they get a next one right, it would have a lot of potential to be the all-time king of the comebacks.

Steel Wheels, not because of the quality of the record, but because the Stones were perceived as all but dead and buried for a couple of years before it - and the tour that followed was their biggest comeback TOUR for similar reasons - in fact it was their first tour in 8 years.

Beggars banquet maybe doesnt apply because even though Satanic Majesties had got a bit of a negative reaction, theyd already made a return to form some months earlier with Jumpin Jack Flash.

Fair points--but you could say that JJ Flash and Beggars are connected--just in those days singles did not go on the albums. Similar to Let It Bleed and Honky Tonk Women.


But, yeah, I remember being more than a little surprised at Steel Wheels simply because, prior to that, it seemed the band had essentially been defunct for close to 3 yrs. In fact, I seem to recall Bill making a statement to that effect in Rolling Stone dring that period.

Beggar's Banquet was clearly perceived back in 1968 as a career-saving comeback album for the Stones, after the critical disaster of Satanic and the multitude of legal troubles they had endured in 1967.

There may be other "comeback" albums, but had Banquet also failed, the Stones as a formal band might have been toast a long long time ago.

60's- Beggars(after the drug problems)
70's-Some Girls(after 2 subpar albums-by Stones standards)
80's-Steel Wheels(after the near breakup)



I'd say Beggars was the biggest because it led to the big 4 .

Surely it has to be Steel Wheels, for the reasons already mentioned. Obviously not the greatest album, but just that the stones were back, and the tour broke new ground and was wildly successful.

So I would say the SW album and tour COMBINED.

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Steel Wheels was definitely their biggest comeback tour after being off the road so long and showing they could still be the #1 touring band.
SW the album was also a comeback but I would not put no. 1 since it, or anything later, has not added much to their legacy.
SG put them back on top of the world after having seen as having peaked and slid into has beens. BB was a redefinition of the Stones where they not only kept up with the changing world but catapulted past everyone on their way to being the greatest studio and live band. So I would say BB is the greatest comeback (mostly coming back from an album where they did not seem to know where they fit in and doing the psychadelic thing because it was trendy.)

Steel Wheels with Start Me Up. Without that song and 2 or 3 others on that album, we sure wouldn't be waiting so eagerly on their next European Tour. Thanks Keith.

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> Steel Wheels with Start Me Up. Without that song
> and 2 or 3 others on that album, we sure wouldn't
> be waiting so eagerly on their next European Tour.
> Thanks Keith.

SW for sure, but SMU? Wrong album/ song?

My first gig was SW or to be accurate Urban JT in Gothenburg

Wesley

Steel Wheels album and tour. I for one,thought that they were finished in 1987.

20 years later and we're waiting for a tour announcement.......increadable!!!!

sc uk

I'd say Steel Wheels as well. Certainly brought them back from the brink of extinction. If not for the album and the tour that followed, the Stones today would be more like the Who. Out of sight and out of mind.

I would say Steel Wheels to

I remember a long silence in between beggars and bleed compare to the days before '68 so i go for let it bleed

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Steel Wheels. Before that they weren't "gone".

They have never made a Farewell album, but Steel Weels and the following tour was great.

I was surprised at just how boring Steel Wheels was at the time. I never listen to it. I mean the band plays well, but the songs are dull. Tinny sound. Uninteresting album for sure.

The tour was a chance for Generation X to see what the fuss was about. Oh, the blank faces after "Okay we got some new songs for you people". The only other lull - Keith's songs.