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jamesfdouglas
Here's how I rank the tracks on this album.
1. Had it With You. - it feels real, and rocks like a bitch.
2. One Hit. - this song rocks too. Could do without the b/u/singers. Nice work, Jimmy.
3. Harlem Shuffle - loved this song as a kid. I love the remix on the Collectables disc.
4. Sleep Tonight - Keith could still deliver a ballad with heartfelt efflection in the 80's.
5. Dirty Work - it would work better if Jagger sand it intead of inverting his own throat (like the rest of the songs).
6. Too Rude - it's here only because it's not as awful as the rest.
7. Fight - didn't they already re-hash Jumpin' Jack Flash on their last album (Too tough). The silly lyrics and honking/singing kill this otherwise mediocre track.
8. Hold Back - the riff is actually unappealing. Throwaway lyrics (pun quasi-intented. I won't listen to this song.
9. Winning Ugly - there was a Canadian horse racing show that used to come on Global TV on Saturdays when I was a kid. I always switched the channel quickly as I hated the stupid theme song. Guess what song it was? Bad Mick. Bad.
10. Back to Zero - arguably the worst track associated with any Rolling Stones related music on any group or solo record. That's including Let's Work and State of Shock. This song embarasses me as a fan.
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T&A
bottom-line - why waste valuable listening time on DW when there is so much worthy music out there?
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Bimmelzerbott
The song is crap like 97,5% on the album. It's good that it is forgotten.
I'd be interested to know the 2.5% that is not crap in this damned album - I show mine, what yours?
This is my positive day of the week
- Doxa
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it's_all_wrong
The title track off of Dirty Work is an awful, lifeless song and is definitely best left forgotten.
The points made in the topic should be applied to One Hit, cause that song actually deserves praise.
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DandelionPowderman
I agree, but from the first chord of Fight, they are back on track imo.
You`re absolutely right Doxa , can you give us more detailed and penetrating explanations or reviews of laters albums? i`m serious.I like to read your posts.Quote
Doxa
Jamesfdouglas, I find your insights interesting...It is true that UNDERCOVER and DIRTY WORK are kind of 'lost albums' in the sense that the rest of their material is much easier to categorize prior-TATTOO YOU contra post-STEEL WHEELS periods. I think the whole era from 1981/82 to STEEL WHEELS is quite difficult to 'grasp', or decide what to think about it, or how to rate it nowadays. Still, both UC and DW are attempts to drive the band into doing something new and different, the drive that lacks from post-SW albums, that are,like you said, more like pastishes to promote tours than genuine albums to make in the drive to express something.
I have a sketch theory that lot of the progress is to do with Jagger's interest. UNDERCOVER was Mick's last attempt to express himself using Stones as his main vehicle of expression, and for some reason, it didn't quite work out. DIRTY WORK was, it was said at the time, "Keith's album", and Jagger is seemingly absent - he didn't really caréd about the result - his mind was in his solo work at the time. With STEEL WHEELS Mick was involved again, but he seeemngly had decided that Stones was his 'nine to four' job if he wants to remain as a some kind of superstar, and he will do anything to NOT change anything in success receipt as he saw it was to be like - so musically The Stones turned out to be a Stones tribute band in the record. The results since SW tell the story that minimal energy is involved to get a good salary from the nine to four shift, as far as creativity is concerned.
- Doxa