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Rolling Stones
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
4.000
Rolling Stones Album Rankings
1
It begins with a storm rolling in, shattering glass heralding murder and rape, blowing away the defenses that smaller men than Mick Jagger build for themselves.
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2
It comes in cycles. You get the shakes. The tremors kick in after a week, and then the craving starts all over again.
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3
There are songs that are better, there are songs that are worse, there are songs that'll become your favorites and others you'll probably lift the needle for when their time is due.
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4
The Rolling Stones finally delivered a set of all-original material with this LP, which also did much to define the group as the bad boys of rock & roll with their sneering attitude toward the world i
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5
For too many years it's seemed almost impossible for the Rolling Stones to make an album that hasn't involved – at least partially – the problem of being the Rolling Stones.
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6
Although their third American album was patched together (in the usual British Invasion tradition) from a variety of sources, it's their best early R&B-oriented effort.
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7
Sometime during the late 1960's, The Rolling Stones began calling themselves "The World's Greatest Rock Band." If not, they were at least "The Greatest Show on Earth".
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8
I'm not what you call a big Stones fan.
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9
The evolution from blues to rock accelerated with the Rolling Stones' second American LP.
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10
The three-disc box set Singles Collection: The London Years contains every single the Rolling Stones released during the '60s, including both the A- and B-sides.
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11
In the Sixties, they shouted and screamed and killed the king and railed at all his servants; in the Seventies, they gave it away on Seventh Avenue; in the Eighties, they did their dirty work, and the
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12
In 1965, the Stones finally proved themselves capable of writing classic rock singles that mined their R&B/blues roots, but updated them into a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context.
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13
What a great idea - immediately following one of the best studio albums ever with one of the best live albums ever, and there's virtually no doubt about that.
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14
The musical world was substantially different in 1964 from today.
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15
This is an exquisite collection of 11 singles dating from Aftermath through Beggar's Banquet ("Paint It Black" to "Street Fighting Man").
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16
The Stones go psychadelic. For those fans who hate "all that Beatles garbage" and psychadelia in general, this could be nothing short of a nightmare.
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17
This is a weird album, not exactly a compilation, but rather an interesting effort to introduce the Americans to those particular tracks that were left off the original British releases, namely, After
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18
This two-LP/two-CD set is both a lot more and a bit less than what it seems.
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19
The Rolling Stones' 1967 recordings are a matter of some controversy; many critics felt that they were compromising their raw, rootsy power with trendy emulations of the Beatles, Kinks, Dylan, and psy
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20
Released in 1994 to coincide with the Stones' catalog moving to Virgin Records, as well as the accompanying remastering of their Rolling Stone Records catalog (1971'sSticky Fingersthrough 1989'sSteel
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21
The first hits compilation of the Rolling Stones is still one of the most potent collections of singles that one can find.
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22
Another studio album, another live album, ho hum ...
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23
The last Stones album in which cover material accounted for 50 percent of the content was thrown together from a variety of singles, British LP tracks, outtakes, and a cut from an early 1964 U.K. EP.
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24
Funny that the much-touted "reunion/comeback" album Steel Wheels followed Dirty Work by just three years, while it took the Stones five years to turn out its sequel, Voodoo
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25
There are some outstanding songs here, and Jagger turns in a series of performances that are their match, full of much defiant flouncing, strutting bitchiness, preening arrogance, snarling haughtiness
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26
It seems like every time The Rolling Stones go out on tour, we get a new live album from the band. Sometimes that's good (like Get Your Ya-Ya's Out), sometimes not so good (Love You Live!).
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27
It's Only Rock 'n Rollis a decadent album because it invites us to dance in the face of its own despair. It's a desperate album that warns at the end of one side that "...
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28
Sliding out of perhaps the greatest winning streak in rock history, the Stones slipped into decadence and rock star excess with Goats Head Soup, their sequel to Exile on Main St.
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30
WhenBlack and Bluecame out in 1976, many dismissed the album because it wasn'tExile on Main Streetor evenGoats Head Soup-- which, in retrospect, is precisely what makes it so cool.
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31
The two unreleased rockers on this four-track single are surprisingly strong.
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32
I might have made a minor mistake in my selections for the best of 1997.
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33
The Stones, or more accurately the relationship between Mick and Keith, imploded shortly after Dirty Work, resulting in Mick delivering a nearly unbearably
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34
Once simply viewed as a ramshackle overview of the Rolling Stones' decidedly uneven career throughout the '70s and into the early '80s, Rewind (1971-1984), ironically enough, is now also considered s
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35
Hot Rocks covers most of the monster hits from the Stones' first decade that remained in radio rotation for decades to come.
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36
Released in the summer of 1975, in the down period between Mick Taylor's departure and as the Stones were auditioning guitarists during the recording of 1976's Black and Blue (coincidentally, the '60s
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37
Live again, from the 1981 American tour this time.
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38
It must have been difficult being The Rolling Stones in 1983. You know, The Beatles were gods, because they stopped making music in 1970.
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39
Unfortunately, the band first decided to give us this not-so-great live album.
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40
There's a certain smarmy charm in the Rolling Stones titling a compilation of their work from the second half of the '70s Sucking in the Seventies --
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41
'Black And Blue', 'Some Girls', etc, etc.
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42
The '80s Stones continue to define roots-leaning hard rock, with help from producer Steve Lillywhite ( U2 ), without expanding the scope--a tack the younger Stones would never stand for but fitting fo
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43
The predictable official live follow-up to Steel Wheels.
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44
If you're in the market for just one Stones album this year, make itA Bigger Bang.
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45
Formally (but very formally) speaking, this isn't really a case of two live albums in a row.
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46
Teaming up with the long-forgotten Andrew Oldham, Allen Klein, who was and still is holding the rights to all of the Stones' pre-1971 material, dug around the huge archives and released this rather pa
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