POO: Rolling Stones post-1978

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"Heaven" was a pretty interesting tune off Tattoo You. Also got play in Cameron Crowe's Vanilly Sky-- uneven movie, fantastic soundtrack.

― Ryan, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

If we're including Some Girls-Beast Of Burden
If not-Waiting On A Friend

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Waiting On a Friend" is so much better than anything else they've done post-Some Girls that it's sad.

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a soft spot for Voodoo Lounge.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Emotional Rescue and Tatoo You -although several TY tracks were songs they had been kicking around for years- came out after 1978. Two of my favorite Stones records, easily. I've always been too chickenshit (or broke) to invest in Undercover or Dirty Work. Tell me something good.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Undercover, actually! Dirty Work is just plain awful.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Love Is Strong," and you can all suck my left one.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Love Is Strong" rules! I don't know the latter, though. One of Keith's, is it?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

*rimshot*

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"Start Me Up" is clearly a Stones classic.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I dug "Love is Strong" as well

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't really understand all this praise for "Love is Strong"! I mean, it was WEAK, people, WEAK! Bad lyrics, no real groove, not stretching themselves. Yawn.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Waiting on a Friend" by a mile

"Mixed Emotions" kicks "Love is Strong"s ass

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Hell, even "Out of Control" (off the otherwise forgettable Bridges to Babylon) kicks "Love is Strong"'s meatless, flabby posterior.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Nordicskillz: No, it's by Bikini Kill.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Love is Strong" is one of those songs I'd like to see mapped out on that "parts of a song" thread. It's hard to say what the chorus actually is (or if there is one) -- the refrain is in the verses, and there's a repeating turnaround (bridge?) (it sure ain't a chorus) leading into nothing except the next verse.

Anyway, the guitars are really buzzy and dirty, and I like the wheezy backing vox.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Apart from my (pretty obvious) choice, I would say "Mixed Emotions" deserves a mention too. And even "High Wire".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

was Some Girls in '79? If so, Shattered. cuz you've got to be toughtoughtoughtoughtoughTOUGH!

And if that was 78, than I'll go with She's So Cold.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm guessing the point of this thread is that most people consider '78 (Some Girls) the cutoff year.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"most Stones fans," I should say.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I think they did kickass stuff even recently (I dug Saint Of Me). But they've been consummate professionals ever since uh...It's Only Rock'N'Roll. If I was gonna pick the final badass Stones album it'd be Goats Head Soup. Not that it's so great, but it's the last one where they weren't, for the lack of better words, obvious pros.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Not me, I love still love 'em. I listened to Steel Wheels just a couple months ago and it sounded better than I remembered (and I always liked the record). In fact, my POO is "Slippin' Away", 'cause it gets stuck in my head all the time, and Keith seems to really enjoy singing it. Dirty Work is their worst studio album, easy, but even it has moments.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Miccio you really need to listen to Some Girls again

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 8 May 2003 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I like How Could I Stop as well.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard "Undercover" in a club last week and it sounded Great! I remember the album being notsogreat, though.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Sean, you need to tell me where that club is, so I can go. I promise not to ask for Barry Manilow.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 9 May 2003 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"Pretty Beat Up" from Undercover was really cool & skanky. In fact that whole album was really good. I second the kudos for Voodoo Lounge too. Surprisingly solid effort there.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 9 May 2003 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Where is the love for "One Hit"?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Darryl Jones.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Plenty of love. I'll pick "Hold Back" though.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I will be your night in shiiiiining armmmmaaaahhh...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Undahcovah (huge echoing drum roll)
Undahcovah (huge echoing drum roll)
Undahcovah of the niiiiiiiiiiiiight

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna rep for "Heaven."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

"Heaven" is MAHVELOUS. The second side of Tattoo You is better than the first.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Start Me Up
Highwire
Rough Justice

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

"undercover" is SO good.

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

For a lesser known tune, Keith sings a countryish ballad called 'The Worst' on Voodoo Lounge which is really good and would not sound out of place on a Tom Waits album.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

"Laugh, I Nearly Died"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Earl Nash otm - "The Worst" is a delightful slice'o Keef and arguably the best track on Voodoo Lounge ("New Faces" a close second b/c hey, harpsichord!)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

'Well I'm telling you they never got it right / Until they put out Undercover of the Night'

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

why the fuck was I talking about Goats Head Soup on this thread? I've never heard that album. Maybe I was high or something.

Anyhow, "Start Me Up."

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

kornrulez, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to dq your post above. you've apparently already laid it down. (and answered my revive question above, too!)

OPO Rolling Stones: One Hit To The Body
-- kornrulez6969 (TCBein...), August 24th, 2005 2:00 PM.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Keith does "The Worst" on the current tour.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

im so happy to see all the love for "the worst". probably my first favorite stones song (i was 12, one of the first albums i ever had, a gift from my dad)

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Great great album. They do "You Got Me Rocking" on the tour too, as they have for the last three tours.

also "Thru and Thru" is just awesome.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Almost Hear You Sigh from Steel Wheels is a personal fave, although I dig the much more well-known Mixed Emotions as well.

― John Hunter, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

The best post-'78 Rolling Stones record (w/o assistance from either Sonny Rollins or the Master Musicians of Joujouka) is Pussy Galore's "New Breed."

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

All right, all right..."Undercover Of The Night". ("Start Me Up" sounded just fine first 71,000 times I heard it.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Easy. "Don't Know Why," a Stevie Wonder cover on the singles collection.

― bh, Friday, 21 October 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

i'm starting to be a sucker for 00's stones... i like "don't stop", "saint of me" & that new one with the lame double entendre about roosters and cocks

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

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Alfred posted a similar list on his blog recently. stuck it in a spotify playlist - it slays

― lâche pas la patate (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 14 July 2018 15:52 (seven years ago)

Yeah, I read that one too. There are other tunes too, they did a few weird kinda 'psych' tunes too on some of the later albums too. You could definitely compile some play lists based upon style a few different ways.

The reunited Allman Brothers did not do all that many studio albums (really only four), but the ones they did are better than you might think. I'm going to work on making a CDR74 of those tunes next.

― earlnash, Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:52 (seven years ago)

No "Summer Romance," no cred!

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/you-trying-to-get-an-a-pass-best-rolling-stones-songs-1978-2005/

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:58 (seven years ago)

You could probably toss out one of the rockers on my list and put it back in. I'd probably cut 'Mixed Emotions' to put it in.

― earlnash, Saturday, 14 July 2018 19:12 (seven years ago)

Good on Earl for recognizing "It Must Be Hell".

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 July 2018 19:15 (seven years ago)

'Sparks Will Fly'

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 July 2018 23:12 (seven years ago)

If I was to choose one album of theirs from the post-Some Girls period, then I'd choose A Bigger Bang just over Tattoo You.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 15 July 2018 00:09 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

I'm listening to Steel Wheels now (after running thru most of the other '70s & '80s albums). It's good! I bought the tape when it came out, but haven't heard the album in the intervening 30 yrs. (I don't recall what 13-yr-old me thought of the line, "I'm horny as a hog").

These are quality songs; the band sounds tight & focused; the production and songwriting are big and "commercial" in a pleasing, late-'80s way...

― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:30 (six years ago)

A goddamn lot of filler. The singles and "Slipping Away" and mayyyyybe "Terrifying," where they get a solid groove going in the outro.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:41 (six years ago)

"Almost Hear You Sigh" has some cool chord changes.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:41 (six years ago)

I thought it would be kinda embarrassing "suburban dads jamming in the rec room" rock, and I guess to a degree it is, but these songs are tight and hard, with solid riffs and playing that's "pro-level" without sounding too faceless & slick

― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:46 (six years ago)

Some nicely "sensitive" moments, too -- like "Never Hear You Sigh" and "Slipping Away"

(I concede that "Continental Drift" and "Break the Spell" are filler)

― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:06 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Still making my way thru their catalog... I didn't realize these guys' songs could be so cartoonish/horny/corny!

The lyrix of earlier songs like "Some Girls" and "Little T&A" seem to represent a sort of, er, "sexist" nadir... happily, by the time you get to Voodoo Lounge, Mick is more good-naturedly kicking off the album with:

Your love is strong, and you're so sweet
You make me hard, you make me weak

...and a few tracks later:

Ooh, I wanna f@#$ your sweet a$$

!!!!

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:54 (six years ago)

TS: "She's So Cold" vs. "She Was Hot"

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:59 (six years ago)

"Waiting on a Friend" by a mile
― James Blount (James Blount)

otm

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:59 (six years ago)

That's a great song, but even it has dodgy lyrics... "Bros before (literal) Ho's!"

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 23:03 (six years ago)

(I'm not trying to "cancel" the Stones, btw -- I just didn't realize their lyrics were frequently so ridiculous)

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 23:04 (six years ago)

right now i'm vibing to WINTER

― brimstead, Monday, 25 November 2019 23:13 (six years ago)

LOL OOPS WRONG STONES THREAD

― brimstead, Monday, 25 November 2019 23:13 (six years ago)

xxxp I think it is deliberately perverse to read the lyric of WoaF as "bros before hos"

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 25 November 2019 23:59 (six years ago)

Wanting to fuck a sweet ass is not sexist.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:02 (six years ago)

what if the ass were Jagger's?

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:03 (six years ago)

Yeah that’s not sexist, just horny/corny!

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:07 (six years ago)

(There are a few different categories at work here, sorry I didn’t make that more clear)

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:09 (six years ago)

(“Dirty Work”)

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:10 (six years ago)

for some loser
for some jerk
for some dumbass
yeah

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:22 (six years ago)

There’s a noticeable dropoff at Bridges to Babylon (including to Mick’s voice, but I know that happens)... do that and A Bigger Bang have their fans?

Anyway, I’m pleased to discover how good they remained on record, into the ‘90s (and beyond?). Tattoo You is the only post-‘78 album that I love all the way through — but man, you could put together one hell of a 2CD comp of choice cuts from the others.

― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:20 (six years ago)

I haven't kept up with / saw no reason to keep up with post-'78 Stones, but I listened to A Bigger Bang a couple of times and was extremely surprised at how decent it was. With past Stones records, when the singles were rolled out (with the requisite hype), I just thought, meh, more dull-ass Stones shit; if "Harlem Shuffle" or "Has Anybody Seen My Baby?" is the lead single, there's little hope for anything great lurking elsewhere on the record. But "Rough Justice" and "Streets of Love" are...good. Very good, even.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:34 (six years ago)

Like a lot of Classic Rockers, the Stones had problems with CD Bloat. There's decent vinyl-length albums hidden in much of their later work.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:40 (six years ago)

Really good piece!: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-rolling-stones-tattoo-you/

― Soy Bean False Chicken (morrisp), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:14 (six years ago)

two years pass...

wow, "Heaven" might be a contender here, thank u shuffle play

― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Saturday, 1 January 2022 06:33 (four years ago)

three years pass...

“Emotional Resxue”

― calstars, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:54 (one year ago)

eight months pass...

Rolling Stones - At the Max is coming back to IMAX! Starting December 10 / Tickets on sale October 23

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 05:38 (seven months ago)

Wanting to fuck a sweet ass is not sexist.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 25, 2019 6:02 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

timeless wisdom

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 19:16 (seven months ago)

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