I totally agree with you. "Emotional Rescue" is sandwiched between two of the Stones' later classics and doesn't receive the love it deserves. I think some people are turned off by the title-track and judge the album based on that. And "Hackney Diamonds" IS a great album.
killer thoughts and commentary, thank you! Emotional Rescue was the first Stones album I ever heard (at a super young age), and I think it's quite great.
I emailed you 4 years ago to say make videos again and you have, thank you. Also Undercover is in my top 5-10 stones albums, I think there something consistent about the mood, it’s an odd album, if “I think I’m going mad” was kept on it it would be consideeed an underrated track, would also fit side 2 of Tattoo
I listened to the album with you, going from song to song as you talked about each of them, because I haven't heard it in literally 40 years and remember "She's So Cold" as a great song, "Emotional Rescue" as good, not great, but not bad either. The rest of the album has always seemed to be throwaways and as I'm listening with new ears 40 years later, I can honestly say it this album still doesn't click for me. I can't stay in line with anything else, and all of the songs have been done before and since, but all better than on here, except for, "Let Me Go". It's the only song that sounds better now than it did when I was 16. However, "She's So Cold" still stands as my #10 all-time favorite RS songs.
I call Emotional Rescue "a great Rolling Stones album for Rolling Stones fans". I think it's a wonderful album and a great listen. There are other albums like this. I think Under Cover is also a great Stones album for Stones fans". Another great video. Thanks.
I love “Emotional Rescue”! She’s So Cold Let Me Go Summer Romance Send It To Me Where The Boys Go ALL great songs Here are my rankings of the best Stones albums: 1. Some Girls (1978) 2. Exile on Main Street (1972) 3. Let It Bleed (1969) 4. Aftermath (1966) 5. Beggars Banquet (1968) 6. Between The Buttons (1967) 7. Sticky Fingers (1971) 8. Tattoo You (1981) 9. Emotional Rescue (1980) 10. 12 x 5 (1965) 11. Out of Our Heads (1966) 12. December’s Children (1965) 13. Goat’s Head Soup (1973) 14. It’s Only RocknRoll (1974) 15. Black & Blue (1976) 16. Voodoo Lounge (1994) 17. Hackney Diamonds (2023) 18. Steel Wheels (1989) 19. Rolling Stones Now (1965) 20. England’s Newest Hitmakers (1964) 21. Undercover (1983) 22. Dirty Work (1986) 23. Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) 24. A Bigger Bang (2005) 25. Bridges To Babylon (1997) 26. Blue & Lonesome (2016)
Interesting list. I always put Sticky Fingers a bit lower than many/most fans. On half the days, I have Some Girls at 1, instead of Exile. Thanks for sharing,
I like *Emotional Rescue* a lot. "Let Me Go" is, both musically and lyrically, pure Stones -- and "All About You" may be my favorite Stones track sung by Keith.
Good video! I am glad that you started making videos again! The Stones are unique group that has many generations as fans so it is hard to say which album is the worst or the best - it's subjunctive. I am from Bridges to Babylon generation.
I still remember the first time I heard the song Emotional Rescue when it came out. Sounded perfectly relevant and fresh for a band that by then, had almost 2 decades under their belt. Made me want to listen to the whole album. And then Tattoo You was even more vibrant. So, it was a good couple of years for the Stones. (Some Girls never did it for me....)
I have no problem with putting Dirty Work as the worst, but One Hit (to the body) maintains a permanent spot in my top fav Stones tunes. It is on my Spotify most played every year.
I think One Hit is a strong song. Sleep Tonight is a good sentimental song. It’s a tribute to Ian Stewart, their pianist. There’s a hidden track of boogie woogie piano. The songs Had It With You and Dirty Work are uncomfortably personal.
Great video. I'm with you ER is a Great album. Emotional Rescue is actually in my top five Stones albums. I think Undercover is very underrated. It almost cracked my top 10. As far as Dirty Work? Yea it's at the bottom of my list too.
"All About You" is my favorite Keef song. Let's face it, it's really about Mick. It may sound like the end of his relationship with Anita, but there's resignation that he has to stay in this relationship for better or worse. I love this album. It may not be kosher to talk about these days, but "She's So Cold" is one of the greatest kiss-off songs ever. Fun Fact: "Big Shot" by Billy Joel is about a night Billy was a third wheel with Mick and Bianca. Billy said he wrote it in a taxi on the way home after watching Mick and Bianca fight the entire time he was hanging out with them and imagining the rest of their argument after Billy excused himself and left.
I love Emotional Rescue, what a great album! My 6 worst albuns are: 1 Dirty Work; 2 Steel Wheels; 3 Undercover; 4 A Bigger Bang; 5 Bridges to Babylon; 6 Hackney Diamonds; and I just can't go on, although, if obliged to, I would number Voodo Lounge and It's Only Rock and Roll (there are two of my favorites stones songs ever on this one, but...) as 7 and 8 ...
My opinion is that it's a strong album but the tracking order us weird. Personally I think they should've flipped the sides ; side 2 is much stronger. Side 1 starts weak and it doesn't really move much. Side 2 is better and obviously ends very strong with the title track and she's so cold. If the album started even with just She's so cold I would've been hooked right away . I do agree; it's a good album sandwiched between two excellent albums and pales a bit in comparison. It does have that cool late 70s swagger on a few songs. But yeah, if the stronger songs were more up front it would be a better dynamic.
I love resequencing albums like this. I think eight of the ten songs have fade-outs. It's a shame. It's like they couldn't quite be bothered to resolve them. That impacts how you end sides in some cases. "She's So Cold" would be fun to start it, but perhaps doesn't really have a message for the next 40 minutes -- as Dance does. Rich or poor, just step into something new. In a way, Beyonce says sorda the same thing with Texas Hold 'Em. Thank you for watching!
I agree. There are a lot of great tracks on the album. I think it suffers from being between Some Girls and Tattoo You, two albums which are undeniably better.
I agree with your assessment. It would actually be in my top 5 stones albums. I may like it more that some girls also…. I think it has more variety of sounds.
"Down In The Hole" was played *often* on KMOD in Tulsa back in 1980... and I thought it was the worst Stones song I'd ever heard at the time. I was 14 and loved the title track and "She's So Cold"... but "Down In The Hole"? Sheesh... I still don't like it. Glad to hear you reference it as you did.
@@RobertsRecordCorner I've only just found your channel by way of these 2 "vote for the worst" Stones albums videos. I had already posted my reply mentioning KMOD before I got to the part where you mentioned being in Tulsa in high school. Hearing you say that totally blew me away. I grew up in Broken Arrow. BAHS Class of '84. 😁 I have hundreds of full-length, unscoped, Tulsa radio tapes (and MiniDiscs) spanning 1979-2006. KTFX, "The Superfox"... K107... 14K/92K, The Hot New Z104.5, Modern Rock 102.3, The Edge of Insanity on both KNGX (Rogers State College) and KCMA... There are also several tapes of KMOD in my library - but not as many as the others because my focus was to capture new music whenever I rolled tape - and KMOD was classic rock... But that doesn't mean I didn't *listen* to it all the time. My awareness of Yes, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd is directly attributable to them because they'd play the full albums as "The Ultimate 6-Pack" on weekends which eventually became "The 7th Day" on Sunday nights. Good times!
I like Emotional Rescue. I consider it to be part of their “classic” canon. I don’t even mind Undercover. The band still released some pretty good albums like Hackney Diamonds but the Stones began rolling down the other side of the hill after Dirty Work.
I'm not the biggest fan of "Emotional Rescue". However, I do really love "Let Me Go", "Down in the Hole" and "All About You". Those to me are easily Top 50 Rolling Stones songs.
Totally agree on Mick’s lyrics on ER. I am compelled to argue that he does a similarly great job of smuggling in social observation on - gasp! - Dirty Work.
I love Dirty Work and One Hit to the Body is my favorite Stones song but I can't rank anything below it if I'm trying to be objective. Emotional Rescue is awesome and hearing the title track live twice is a highlight.
I do not understand why people voted for an album that wasn't even in the list. I am confused. Well, you made a nice video about it, so there's that. My top two (best) were Voodoo Lounge and Hackney Diamonds.
Fan since 1964 when my older brother came home with their first album, I was 9, he was 17. "I thought we liked the Beatles?" I said. He had bought their first album a few months before. He looked at me and said "Not anymore; dad likes them!" What did I know about teenage rebellion.. But I really got hooked and started buying every album when they were released, arguing with my Beatles-dedicated school mates. I absolutely agree, ER is up there among the top 10. Some Girls is my number 1 album followed by that 1969-72 period. But also 1977-81 has given us some great songs. Later they released extra material from the Tattoo You and Some Girls (Super Deluxe) and the two songs Shame Shame Shame and Do You Think I Really Care are now on my Top Ten songs from them. Hackney sounds more like a Mick Jagger solo album, it´s ok but I don´t listen to it much. But one of the worst..? Naah..But I am addicted to Wyman-Watts in the engine room.
Thank you for sharing that! I'm impressed a fan since 1964 has Some Girls at #1. It's my first or second favorite, for sure. Agree that Hackney feels very Mick-driven. Keith has a song, and I think he built "Driving Me Too Hard" -- otherwise not sure. "Whole Wide World" riff might be his, but the after-school special quality of the chorus lyrics is all Mick. Thanks for watching!
Great content, as always! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
Found Hackney diamonds to be really enjoyable... Catchy, tight songs... Would place it above steel wheels, briges to babylon... Bigger bang, voodoo lounge and hackney are kinda goinh back to their actual soundscape after that period of unnecessarily metallic and harsh phase of bridges to babylon and steel wheels..(personal opinion)..
The single sounded too Clincal and sterile for me. Quantized drums. People even say they hear auto tune. It’s modern record with much suits jaggar needs to be current, but it doesn’t sound like the stones to me.
@@mumbles215 that I agree...also the artwork is shit. But overall the record was cool... Get close, live by the sword, driving me too hard, depending on you were amazing... Mess it up too, grew up on me
Lyrics are a key part of the Stones and Jagger does that very well (Sympathy is a masterpiece in this regard). What would Stones and Pink Floyd be without propper lyrics 😅 As for this album I like it though not my favorite (Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Exile on Main St.) followed by It's only R&R, Black & Blue,Sticky Fingers, Some Girls and Emotional Rescue would fit. The era with Ry Cooder and Mick Taylor is my fav.
Yay, I voted Dirty Work. I love the band & bought it the day it came out... & can honestly say I don't think I've listened to it more than 5 times in 38 years.
12:59 I'd say the same about Dirty Work because there are the musical elements that people expect from the Stones...it was my birthday present when i was 8...even when times were tough and Mick had his priorities mixed up you could say Keith,Ron and Charlie hung in there long enough and tried to get something positive out of the situation.If you're a rock n roll fan then Dirty Work can't disappoint you too much
Mick is a very underrated lyricist, but ER can sound sort of lightweight and breezy in comparison to some other records of theirs. I don't think it's a bad album and I've always dug "All About You". The lyric is both biting and endearing at the same time. "She's a dog, but I still love her." "Indian Girl" is another fascinating song and not one appreciated in my younger years because it didn't "rock". Ahh, the shallowness of youth, but being older now it's one of my favorite songs on the album. Always loved the two hits and, the song that often gets dismissed by Stones fans, "Where the Boys Go". Fun review!
I love the 'Emotional Rescue' album. Maybe because it came out in my mid teens, and that was the soundtrack of the time. BUT this album seems to be the album when The Rolling Stones stopped sounding like The Rolling Stones....if that makes any sense.
I really click with the punky early Ron Wood era the most. I was 13 when Tattoo You came out, so that's sort of the right age for it too! Thanks for the comment.
Now, how about some love for Undercover? The title track is perhaps the only other Stones song in the same vein as "Emotional Rescue", it has the funky and funny "Too Much Blood" and Wood's "Pretty Beat Up" - and "It Must Be Hell" is a superb closer that really ought to rank much higher in the Stones pantheon but I suspect critics stopped listening before they got to it.
I liked ER...yes its full of Some Girls rejects but there is some gold there..Down in the hole, ER, she's so cold and Keiths slurred all about you..just like Black and Blue..much maligned but I still think its great.
I suspect we are similar age .. hey my introduction to the RS was Let Me Go. I loved it. I too have always liked much of this album. The problem i have with this album is the song order. Dance is the weakest song and it heads off the album. Hey, with the RS i want to hear rock & roll. Dance put's you in a different mood and it's hard to recover. Hey, if you re-order this album in this way, i suspect it we be received differently: Side 1. Let Me Go, Summer Romance, Send it to Me, Indian Girl, Emotional Rescue. Side 2: Down in the Hole, All About You, She's So Cold, Where The Boys Go, Dance.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts for some reason. It is interesting and energetic throughout, She's So Cold is the song that hooked me on the Rolling Stones and the rest of the songs have great staying power. Here comes some heresy....I like it better than Some Girls, Beggars Banquest and Let it Bleed.
The 4 album run starting with "Some Girls" up to "Undercover" are some of my favorite Stones albums, probably because they came out at a time that I was old enough to hear them be played a lot (my father loved them) and to know who they were and hear them on the radio as the albums came out, everything before that I was too young or not born yet, and everything they released after that I had no interest in because by that time I was pretty much a full blown metalhead.
I just now came upon your channel and this video, so I was too late to participate in your in interesting poll. For me, their worst album is Satanic Majesties. Two great songs (She's a Rainbow and 2,000 Light Years from Home) and some fairly unlistenable filler. Dirty Work, their second worst album, is a classic compared to SM. I fully agree with your assessment of Emotional Rescue. It was a little bit of a letdown following Some Girls; it had a sort of leftovers feel to it. But it has improved over time. I'm surprised by the poor showing of Hackney Diamonds. I think albums like Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges to Babylon and Bigger Bang are unfairly viewed as weak albums. As a first-generation Stones fan, I am always interested in how younger people came to the band. That your entry was She's So Cold is interesting. To me, it is sort of a throw-away, Stones-by-the-Numbers song. I like it, but it is nothing special. But it got you into the Stones, so mission accomplished. Side note: Willie NIle, an underappreciated NY rocker, released his first album in 1980 (same year as Emotional Rescue). It features a song, She's So Cold, that is quite close to the Stones' track in theme and cold metaphors. Willie's album was released in early 1980 compared to June 1980 for Emotional Rescue. I'm not saying the Stones ripped off or copied Willie, but I've always been curious about the similarities. Terry
@@TZ1000-zu7ki Never heard about the other She's So Cold. The Stones recorded it in '79 so it's like a coincidence? It isn't my fav Stones song. I nearly forgot to mention it! But no other song of theirs has that clean of guitar used that way, so that is interesting at least! Thank you for watching!!
Yeah "Emotional Rescue" is a good album and it's very underrated and it has grown on me over the years, but even so it's not among their best and has nothing to do in comparison with "Some Girls" and "Tattoo You", which are the two GREAT last albums of The Rolling Stones.
Calling ER the worst is idiocy. It sits perfectly fine into their ‘prime run’ which I consider is 1964-1983 (and I include the woefully underrated Klein compilation Metamorphosis). Anything that could be considered ‘worst’ would be past that in my opinion (Dirty Work). That said, Hackney Diamonds is the best album they did since decades.
Undercover is a fine album. I don't love the sound. But the songs are all good and there's real energy. I don't get why I have to feel so alone in this. Compare it to albums like voodoo lounge, with it's contrived energy and self-parody.
Agree on Undercover sound. I'd love to see a complete overhaul of its mix. Strip out the tracks and rebuild it, a bit like Chris Kimsey (of all people) did for Tattoo You -- getting a unified fresh sound from sessions from 73-79. He was behind Undercover's sound too, which is all the more confusing to me. Thanks for the comment!
I never really got into Emotionsl Rescue. A couple of good tracks but I have come to the conclusion that I seem to be natural contrarian. I actually love both Undercover and dirty work so there is no hope for me.
@@Robert-f4j5u I think most people have your opinion. My appreciation of some songs -- eg Down in the Hole and Indian Girl -- were definitely a slow boil! Thanks for the comment
My biggest problem with "Emotional Rescue"....song selection. Other than the popular songs...the album sounds like outtakes. Which is ironic since the vastly superior version of this album "Tattoo You" is outtakes and unfinished tracks. The sessions that led to this album...also contained Hang Fire, Little T&A, Neighbours...and probably others. The band's decision to polish up "Down in the Hole", "Indian Girl" (sorry), "Where the Boys Go" (seriously that song lyrically is awful) and most of that album is baffling to me.
The Stones always had a sense of humor, but they play it up a little more here. "Emotional Rescue" is a jam, but when Mick goes on about his rescue plans for the listener, he's almost giggling his way through it. Sometimes the lyrics are serious, but in "Let Me Go" Mick says he is ready to cruise gay bars just to offload the woman in his life, and "Send Her To Me" introduces the "Booberrian" nationality which I think is a ghost on a cereal box.
I actually love Dirty Work. To me, it's super honest. They hated each other and the album bleeds with that hate. It does contain some duds. Back to Zero may be the worst song they have ever done. Winning Ugly should have been on She's The Boss. But I love Had It With You, Fight, Hold Back, Dirty Work, One Hit To The Body and Too Rude. As for Emotional Rescue, it's mid-tier for me. There are songs I love. Yes, Dance Pt. 1 is my favorite on that record, followed by Emotional Rescue, She's So Cold and Send It To Me. The bottom? Either Bridges, Bigger Bang or Voodoo. Voodoo has a couple of songs I love though.
@@RobertsRecordCorner You're welcome! There are times when evaluating albums you have to weigh consistency vs. quality. What is more valuable? An album with 2 or 3 great songs and the rest is a bit mid? Or an album that is listenable all the way through, but never hits any major highs?
I agree with hackney diamonds. I think it got a lot of undeserved hype. But I do like the track Mess it Up. Other than that, I get nothing out of it. I agree on emotional rescue. Some decent tracks. Not a fan of the namesake, but dance, let me go, down in the hole and all about you are solid tracks.
I don't care,but anyone who votes for any ROLLING STONES album as the "worst",is not a Rolling Stones fan at all most of the albums that I own(and I own almost all of them,including DIRTY WORK no matter what you think of the album or the album cover)it is an interesting album definitely not the worst you just have to at least give it a listen and you're right,EMOTIONAL RESCUE is a really good record and while your at it,give a listen to Dirty Work,yes,DIRTY WORK give that record some love ❤️ I'm probably one of the only few who loves the album cover.
I like Down in the Hole a lot, never quite got into Dance particularly. I've often wondered if the song order for this album is right? I long have tried to appoint a Some Girls song for each of these 10 and reorder it in Some Girls fashion to see what it's like (starting with Emotional Rescue/Miss You etc). But I'm afraid the albums don't perfectly line up. Down in the Hole for instance. What SG is that? Yes, I'm a nerd. Thanks for the comment!
@@RobertsRecordCorner I agree but would add that I finally 'got' "Dance Pt. 1" once I heard "Dance Pt. 2" from SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES, which is even groovier.
I am okay with Emotional Rescue. I loved Sticky Fingers and still do. The weakest song IMO is "You Gotta Move," and while it's not my favorite, it have grown on me over the years. The one album that they released that's unforgivable is "Goats Head Soup." I bought that during my freshman year in college and I played it to death, trying to get to like it, but to no avail. The closer "Star Star'" was a fantastic rocker, but it didn't save the album for me. The boys just didn't seem to put anything into the rest of the songs, including "Angie and "(Doo Doo Doo Doo) Heartbreaker."
I reordered Goats Head Soup and subbed in "All the Rage" and "Criss Cross" -- finally finished & released a few years ago -- for Silver Train and, yep, Dancing with Mr D. I start it with Star Star. I absolutely love "100 Years Ago" -- thanks for watching
Still life was a perfect title for that album, as a live record it's very slight and lacks vitality. Mocks vocal delivery feels so phoned in. In my opinion. You feel a million miles away from the band.
In 1982 i would have said Emotional Rescue, along with It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, was one of the Stones weakest efforts. Not the title track, though, which i felt was quite fresh and innovative. In fact half of the album is pretty decent. However, the albums that have been released since don't come anywhere near close. In that regard, Emotional Rescue has grown in stature, and doesn't deseve to be near the bottom - probably somewhere in the middle. I am very surprised at Hackney Diamonds at 3. I think it is arguably the best since Tattoo You. It again, for me, somewhere in the middle, which is incredible considering how underwhelming everything post Tatto You has been.
ER, from my memory, seemed a bit disappointing in the context of Some Girls and Tattoo You. However to me it's a listenable, good album. By the time that say, Voodoo Lounge came out, the expectations you had of The Rolling Stones was MUCH lower. Having skipped over it, never cared myself for Steel Wheels.
Love these surveys because they always prove that there's no accounting for taste. Any Stones fan that DOESN'T think Dirty Work is their worst album needs to give their ears a clean and listen again 🤣🤣 Awful production and no songs make it a rotter from start to finish (apart from Ian Stewart playing Keys to the Highway at the end),
Sorry I missed such a bizarre vote. Dirty Work is appropriately number one, regardless of all of their albums, but Voodoo Lounge is easily second worst (in this scenario), quickly followed by A Bigger Bang. 4 Blue And Lonesome, 5 Bridges, 6 Emotional Rescue, 7 Undercover and 8 Hackney Diamonds. Where's Tattoo You since there's Emotional Rescue?
"Emotional Rescue" is a fine album. The title track is a classic. "Let Me Go" is classic Stones, bluesy rockin groove. "Summertime Romance" is a fun little number. "Where The Boys Go" could almost be a gay anthem right out of David Bowie's school and reminds me of his "Boys Keep Swinging". "She's So Cold" is super classic Stones and one of their most underrated songs. It's a good album. The problem is, it is sandwiched in-between two better albums with "Some Girls" and "Tattoo You". But Emotional is prime Ron Wood Stones era at its finest. I think the cover art is the problem: let's face it, it's a lame cover.
Album who contains : " Dirty Work " , " Had it With You " , " Too Rude " , " One Hit To The Body " , " Winning Ugly " " Sleep Tonight " , " Hold Back " and " Fight " with only one bad song " Back To Zero " is far from bad album . Propaganda made it bad and sheep ( people ) follow what they read in magazines . Plus great cover of " Harlem Shuffle " as first single . Far from bad album .
I totally agree with you. "Emotional Rescue" is sandwiched between two of the Stones' later classics and doesn't receive the love it deserves. I think some people are turned off by the title-track and judge the album based on that. And "Hackney Diamonds" IS a great album.
Down in the Hole is brilliant and sounds like blues i love it
Robert, I'm so happy you're back. Please keep the Stones videos coming!
Thank you!
I definitely agree! E.R. is painfully underrated! Their best of the 80s! Hell, get me stoned enough and I’ll tell you it’s better than Some Girls! 😆
@@eze4life1000 You could never get me that high🤣
I believe that "she so cold" should have been the single as opposed to er..just saying.
well Said Robert, Some Girls, ER, & Tattoo u are great "summertime" records. those three=instant party
killer thoughts and commentary, thank you! Emotional Rescue was the first Stones album I ever heard (at a super young age), and I think it's quite great.
@@llavecch Thanks!
Awesome video! I like your approach and explanation on your thoughts. I have now subscribed.
Thank you!
I emailed you 4 years ago to say make videos again and you have, thank you.
Also Undercover is in my top 5-10 stones albums, I think there something consistent about the mood, it’s an odd album, if “I think I’m going mad” was kept on it it would be consideeed an underrated track, would also fit side 2 of Tattoo
I dig Emotional Rescue. Dance (Part 1), Emotional Rescue and She's So Cold stand the test of time imo.
I listened to the album with you, going from song to song as you talked about each of them, because I haven't heard it in literally 40 years and remember "She's So Cold" as a great song, "Emotional Rescue" as good, not great, but not bad either. The rest of the album has always seemed to be throwaways and as I'm listening with new ears 40 years later, I can honestly say it this album still doesn't click for me. I can't stay in line with anything else, and all of the songs have been done before and since, but all better than on here, except for, "Let Me Go". It's the only song that sounds better now than it did when I was 16. However, "She's So Cold" still stands as my #10 all-time favorite RS songs.
Wow, thanks for giving it a shot. Emotional Rescue was sort of a slow boil for me -- for at least half the songs.
Another reason ER is so great is the sound. Chris Kimsey really made the band shine.
Thanks for the video :)
I call Emotional Rescue "a great Rolling Stones album for Rolling Stones fans". I think it's a wonderful album and a great listen. There are other albums like this. I think Under Cover is also a great Stones album for Stones fans". Another great video. Thanks.
I love “Emotional Rescue”!
She’s So Cold
Let Me Go
Summer Romance
Send It To Me
Where The Boys Go
ALL great songs
Here are my rankings of the best Stones albums:
1. Some Girls (1978)
2. Exile on Main Street (1972)
3. Let It Bleed (1969)
4. Aftermath (1966)
5. Beggars Banquet (1968)
6. Between The Buttons (1967)
7. Sticky Fingers (1971)
8. Tattoo You (1981)
9. Emotional Rescue (1980)
10. 12 x 5 (1965)
11. Out of Our Heads (1966)
12. December’s Children (1965)
13. Goat’s Head Soup (1973)
14. It’s Only RocknRoll (1974)
15. Black & Blue (1976)
16. Voodoo Lounge (1994)
17. Hackney Diamonds (2023)
18. Steel Wheels (1989)
19. Rolling Stones Now (1965)
20. England’s Newest Hitmakers (1964)
21. Undercover (1983)
22. Dirty Work (1986)
23. Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)
24. A Bigger Bang (2005)
25. Bridges To Babylon (1997)
26. Blue & Lonesome (2016)
Blasphemy having their satanic majesties request at 23
Interesting list. I always put Sticky Fingers a bit lower than many/most fans. On half the days, I have Some Girls at 1, instead of Exile. Thanks for sharing,
I like *Emotional Rescue* a lot. "Let Me Go" is, both musically and lyrically, pure Stones -- and "All About You" may be my favorite Stones track sung by Keith.
Good video! I am glad that you started making videos again! The Stones are unique group that has many generations as fans so it is hard to say which album is the worst or the best - it's subjunctive. I am from Bridges to Babylon generation.
Thank you!
I still remember the first time I heard the song Emotional Rescue when it came out. Sounded perfectly relevant and fresh for a band that by then, had almost 2 decades under their belt. Made me want to listen to the whole album. And then Tattoo You was even more vibrant. So, it was a good couple of years for the Stones. (Some Girls never did it for me....)
I have no problem with putting Dirty Work as the worst, but One Hit (to the body) maintains a permanent spot in my top fav Stones tunes. It is on my Spotify most played every year.
I think One Hit is a strong song. Sleep Tonight is a good sentimental song. It’s a tribute to Ian Stewart, their pianist. There’s a hidden track of boogie woogie piano.
The songs Had It With You and Dirty Work are uncomfortably personal.
I totally agree with you. Emotional Rescue and Hackney Diamonds should not be on this list. Greetings from Rio de Janeiro.
I love Hackney diamonds!
Hidden gem keep it up
I LOVED Voodoo Lounge. Felt like a return to form after the goofy gloss of the previous 80's releases. It felt very Keith driven.
Me too!
" goofy gloss" lol. Only 5 years after previous album Steel Wheels. Ouch.
I like Emotional Rescue and Hackney Diamond s is one of my favorite Albums. Wow
This album is great. The Outtakes are so great too
Emotional Rescue is in my top 5 for the stones
Great video. I'm with you ER is a Great album. Emotional Rescue is actually in my top five Stones albums. I think Undercover is very underrated. It almost cracked my top 10. As far as Dirty Work? Yea it's at the bottom of my list too.
"All About You" is my favorite Keef song. Let's face it, it's really about Mick. It may sound like the end of his relationship with Anita, but there's resignation that he has to stay in this relationship for better or worse. I love this album. It may not be kosher to talk about these days, but "She's So Cold" is one of the greatest kiss-off songs ever. Fun Fact: "Big Shot" by Billy Joel is about a night Billy was a third wheel with Mick and Bianca. Billy said he wrote it in a taxi on the way home after watching Mick and Bianca fight the entire time he was hanging out with them and imagining the rest of their argument after Billy excused himself and left.
I love Emotional Rescue, what a great album! My 6 worst albuns are: 1 Dirty Work; 2 Steel Wheels; 3 Undercover; 4 A Bigger Bang; 5 Bridges to Babylon; 6 Hackney Diamonds; and I just can't go on, although, if obliged to, I would number Voodo Lounge and It's Only Rock and Roll (there are two of my favorites stones songs ever on this one, but...) as 7 and 8 ...
My opinion is that it's a strong album but the tracking order us weird.
Personally I think they should've flipped the sides ; side 2 is much stronger.
Side 1 starts weak and it doesn't really move much.
Side 2 is better and obviously ends very strong with the title track and she's so cold.
If the album started even with just She's so cold I would've been hooked right away .
I do agree; it's a good album sandwiched between two excellent albums and pales a bit in comparison.
It does have that cool late 70s swagger on a few songs.
But yeah, if the stronger songs were more up front it would be a better dynamic.
I love resequencing albums like this. I think eight of the ten songs have fade-outs. It's a shame. It's like they couldn't quite be bothered to resolve them. That impacts how you end sides in some cases. "She's So Cold" would be fun to start it, but perhaps doesn't really have a message for the next 40 minutes -- as Dance does. Rich or poor, just step into something new. In a way, Beyonce says sorda the same thing with Texas Hold 'Em. Thank you for watching!
I agree. There are a lot of great tracks on the album. I think it suffers from being between Some Girls and Tattoo You, two albums which are undeniably better.
I agree with your assessment. It would actually be in my top 5 stones albums. I may like it more that some girls also…. I think it has more variety of sounds.
One of my all-time favorite cut-out bin purchases.
100% agree, it is very much a sister album to Some Girls and is very underrated
Sister? It's Some Girls light
ER is a fun party album. Lighten up folks. It’s great
Lol I guessed both. I think Bridges To Babylon is a great sounding album, Voodoo Lounge I also rate.
"Down In The Hole" was played *often* on KMOD in Tulsa back in 1980... and I thought it was the worst Stones song I'd ever heard at the time. I was 14 and loved the title track and "She's So Cold"... but "Down In The Hole"? Sheesh... I still don't like it. Glad to hear you reference it as you did.
I grew up on KMOD!!
@@RobertsRecordCorner I've only just found your channel by way of these 2 "vote for the worst" Stones albums videos. I had already posted my reply mentioning KMOD before I got to the part where you mentioned being in Tulsa in high school. Hearing you say that totally blew me away. I grew up in Broken Arrow. BAHS Class of '84. 😁
I have hundreds of full-length, unscoped, Tulsa radio tapes (and MiniDiscs) spanning 1979-2006. KTFX, "The Superfox"... K107... 14K/92K, The Hot New Z104.5, Modern Rock 102.3, The Edge of Insanity on both KNGX (Rogers State College) and KCMA... There are also several tapes of KMOD in my library - but not as many as the others because my focus was to capture new music whenever I rolled tape - and KMOD was classic rock... But that doesn't mean I didn't *listen* to it all the time. My awareness of Yes, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd is directly attributable to them because they'd play the full albums as "The Ultimate 6-Pack" on weekends which eventually became "The 7th Day" on Sunday nights. Good times!
I like Emotional Rescue. I consider it to be part of their “classic” canon. I don’t even mind Undercover. The band still released some pretty good albums like Hackney Diamonds but the Stones began rolling down the other side of the hill after Dirty Work.
Voodoo Lounge, Bridges to Babylon, and A Bigger Bang are all flawed but low-key great albums. They just run a little too long.
I'm not the biggest fan of "Emotional Rescue". However, I do really love "Let Me Go", "Down in the Hole" and "All About You". Those to me are easily Top 50 Rolling Stones songs.
Totally agree on Mick’s lyrics on ER. I am compelled to argue that he does a similarly great job of smuggling in social observation on - gasp! - Dirty Work.
Let Me Go, Send It To Me, Indian Girl, Down In The Hole. Great Songs!
Emotional Rescue is a great album. That's my opinion as my 61 year old self. My teenage self didn't really like it much when it first came out.
I love Dirty Work and One Hit to the Body is my favorite Stones song but I can't rank anything below it if I'm trying to be objective. Emotional Rescue is awesome and hearing the title track live twice is a highlight.
Spot on, Emotional Rescue is a Stones classic.I also rate Voodu Lounge as a great Stones album
I do not understand why people voted for an album that wasn't even in the list. I am confused. Well, you made a nice video about it, so there's that. My top two (best) were Voodoo Lounge and Hackney Diamonds.
Spot on, Emotional Rescye is one of their best really, in top ten definitely. ER does not belong to their ten worst albums list at all.
Fan since 1964 when my older brother came home with their first album, I was 9, he was 17. "I thought we liked the Beatles?" I said. He had bought their first album a few months before. He looked at me and said "Not anymore; dad likes them!" What did I know about teenage rebellion.. But I really got hooked and started buying every album when they were released, arguing with my Beatles-dedicated school mates.
I absolutely agree, ER is up there among the top 10. Some Girls is my number 1 album followed by that 1969-72 period. But also 1977-81 has given us some great songs. Later they released extra material from the Tattoo You and Some Girls (Super Deluxe) and the two songs Shame Shame Shame and Do You Think I Really Care are now on my Top Ten songs from them. Hackney sounds more like a Mick Jagger solo album, it´s ok but I don´t listen to it much. But one of the worst..? Naah..But I am addicted to Wyman-Watts in the engine room.
Thank you for sharing that! I'm impressed a fan since 1964 has Some Girls at #1. It's my first or second favorite, for sure. Agree that Hackney feels very Mick-driven. Keith has a song, and I think he built "Driving Me Too Hard" -- otherwise not sure. "Whole Wide World" riff might be his, but the after-school special quality of the chorus lyrics is all Mick. Thanks for watching!
@@RobertsRecordCorner Thanks for the Spotifylinks with the filtered versions, great idea!
I bought EMOTIONAL RESCUE back in the 90's on CD when I was in HS, I've always enjoyed it, a guilty pleasure if you want to call it that
Great content, as always! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?
Found Hackney diamonds to be really enjoyable... Catchy, tight songs... Would place it above steel wheels, briges to babylon... Bigger bang, voodoo lounge and hackney are kinda goinh back to their actual soundscape after that period of unnecessarily metallic and harsh phase of bridges to babylon and steel wheels..(personal opinion)..
The single sounded too Clincal and sterile for me. Quantized drums. People even say they hear auto tune. It’s modern record with much suits jaggar needs to be current, but it doesn’t sound like the stones to me.
@@mumbles215 that I agree...also the artwork is shit. But overall the record was cool... Get close, live by the sword, driving me too hard, depending on you were amazing... Mess it up too, grew up on me
Lyrics are a key part of the Stones and Jagger does that very well (Sympathy is a masterpiece in this regard). What would Stones and Pink Floyd be without propper lyrics 😅
As for this album I like it though not my favorite (Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Exile on Main St.) followed by It's only R&R, Black & Blue,Sticky Fingers, Some Girls and Emotional Rescue would fit.
The era with Ry Cooder and Mick Taylor is my fav.
Heck yes! You nailed it. Mick T and Ry era is their highlight. Gram Parson had a lot of influence too.
@@SPY1964-LL As Billy Preston & Nicky Hopkins I forgot to mention 😅
@@Michel-r6m Brilliant. Those are the best years and albums. There is a palpable difference without them - loss of soul.
I love Emotional Rescue. The band is rockin' and I love Chris Kimsey's production. It's strong start to finish and it had a hit single.
She’s So Cold I love. Possibly my favorite Rolling Stones song ever. Lyrically, Musically. Fun,, angry, pop music.
Yay, I voted Dirty Work. I love the band & bought it the day it came out... & can honestly say I don't think I've listened to it more than 5 times in 38 years.
emotional rescue i like.
12:59 I'd say the same about Dirty Work because there are the musical elements that people expect from the Stones...it was my birthday present when i was 8...even when times were tough and Mick had his priorities mixed up you could say Keith,Ron and Charlie hung in there long enough and tried to get something positive out of the situation.If you're a rock n roll fan then Dirty Work can't disappoint you too much
Mick is a very underrated lyricist, but ER can sound sort of lightweight and breezy in comparison to some other records of theirs. I don't think it's a bad album and I've always dug "All About You". The lyric is both biting and endearing at the same time. "She's a dog, but I still love her." "Indian Girl" is another fascinating song and not one appreciated in my younger years because it didn't "rock". Ahh, the shallowness of youth, but being older now it's one of my favorite songs on the album. Always loved the two hits and, the song that often gets dismissed by Stones fans, "Where the Boys Go". Fun review!
@@ExileOnMyStreet Thank you for the comment!
Emotional Rescue is excellent, and on any given day I'll tell you All About You, Indian Girl, or Down In the Hole is the best tune on it.
It would be hard to rank them for me. I really like the punky songs, but would never put any of those as the best song.
I love the 'Emotional Rescue' album. Maybe because it came out in my mid teens, and that was the soundtrack of the time. BUT this album seems to be the album when The Rolling Stones stopped sounding like The Rolling Stones....if that makes any sense.
I really click with the punky early Ron Wood era the most. I was 13 when Tattoo You came out, so that's sort of the right age for it too! Thanks for the comment.
Now, how about some love for Undercover? The title track is perhaps the only other Stones song in the same vein as "Emotional Rescue", it has the funky and funny "Too Much Blood" and Wood's "Pretty Beat Up" - and "It Must Be Hell" is a superb closer that really ought to rank much higher in the Stones pantheon but I suspect critics stopped listening before they got to it.
Undercover is great if only for UOTN, Tie You Up ans She Was Hot. I like the "feel" of the album.
@@patrickbarry6273 See, between us, we've said that six of the album's tracks are great.
I liked ER...yes its full of Some Girls rejects but there is some gold there..Down in the hole, ER, she's so cold and Keiths slurred all about you..just like Black and Blue..much maligned but I still think its great.
Hackney Diamonds is a banger. Life long stones fan here. Your voters are nuts
@@windyhillbomber I agree.
I suspect we are similar age .. hey my introduction to the RS was Let Me Go. I loved it. I too have always liked much of this album. The problem i have with this album is the song order. Dance is the weakest song and it heads off the album. Hey, with the RS i want to hear rock & roll. Dance put's you in a different mood and it's hard to recover. Hey, if you re-order this album in this way, i suspect it we be received differently: Side 1. Let Me Go, Summer Romance, Send it to Me, Indian Girl, Emotional Rescue. Side 2: Down in the Hole, All About You, She's So Cold, Where The Boys Go, Dance.
Emotional Rescue is the Charlie Watts show, he is on absolute fire and this is easy a top 10 and Where the Boys Go is one of my top 10 songs.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts for some reason. It is interesting and energetic throughout, She's So Cold is the song that hooked me on the Rolling Stones and the rest of the songs have great staying power. Here comes some heresy....I like it better than Some Girls, Beggars Banquest and Let it Bleed.
I know the feeling! I listen to it more than any of those albums myself!
The 4 album run starting with "Some Girls" up to "Undercover" are some of my favorite Stones albums, probably because they came out at a time that I was old enough to hear them be played a lot (my father loved them) and to know who they were and hear them on the radio as the albums came out, everything before that I was too young or not born yet, and everything they released after that I had no interest in because by that time I was pretty much a full blown metalhead.
I just now came upon your channel and this video, so I was too late to participate in your in interesting poll. For me, their worst album is Satanic Majesties. Two great songs (She's a Rainbow and 2,000 Light Years from Home) and some fairly unlistenable filler. Dirty Work, their second worst album, is a classic compared to SM.
I fully agree with your assessment of Emotional Rescue. It was a little bit of a letdown following Some Girls; it had a sort of leftovers feel to it. But it has improved over time. I'm surprised by the poor showing of Hackney Diamonds. I think albums like Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges to Babylon and Bigger Bang are unfairly viewed as weak albums.
As a first-generation Stones fan, I am always interested in how younger people came to the band. That your entry was She's So Cold is interesting. To me, it is sort of a throw-away, Stones-by-the-Numbers song. I like it, but it is nothing special. But it got you into the Stones, so mission accomplished.
Side note: Willie NIle, an underappreciated NY rocker, released his first album in 1980 (same year as Emotional Rescue). It features a song, She's So Cold, that is quite close to the Stones' track in theme and cold metaphors. Willie's album was released in early 1980 compared to June 1980 for Emotional Rescue. I'm not saying the Stones ripped off or copied Willie, but I've always been curious about the similarities.
Terry
@@TZ1000-zu7ki Never heard about the other She's So Cold. The Stones recorded it in '79 so it's like a coincidence? It isn't my fav Stones song. I nearly forgot to mention it! But no other song of theirs has that clean of guitar used that way, so that is interesting at least! Thank you for watching!!
Yeah "Emotional Rescue" is a good album and it's very underrated and it has grown on me over the years, but even so it's not among their best and has nothing to do in comparison with "Some Girls" and "Tattoo You", which are the two GREAT last albums of The Rolling Stones.
@@peliche77 I agree fully. SG & TY are superior
Emotional Rescue to UnderCover is a good three album run especially for the stones in the eighties with Steel Wheels being a bounce back album
I think the run of albums from Some Girls to ER to Tattoo Your is as great a run of three albums as Beggars Banquet to Sticky Fingers.
Calling ER the worst is idiocy. It sits perfectly fine into their ‘prime run’ which I consider is 1964-1983 (and I include the woefully underrated Klein compilation Metamorphosis).
Anything that could be considered ‘worst’ would be past that in my opinion (Dirty Work).
That said, Hackney Diamonds is the best album they did since decades.
@@janpoelkamp4229 I see it largely the same! Thanks for the comment
Emotional Rescue is the album for a true Stones fan. Its not classic, but fun.
A Bigger Bang is completely uninspired.
I think it's an album that other people like. People who don't like the Stones.
Undercover is a fine album. I don't love the sound. But the songs are all good and there's real energy. I don't get why I have to feel so alone in this.
Compare it to albums like voodoo lounge, with it's contrived energy and self-parody.
Agree on Undercover sound. I'd love to see a complete overhaul of its mix. Strip out the tracks and rebuild it, a bit like Chris Kimsey (of all people) did for Tattoo You -- getting a unified fresh sound from sessions from 73-79. He was behind Undercover's sound too, which is all the more confusing to me. Thanks for the comment!
I never really got into Emotionsl Rescue. A couple of good tracks but I have come to the conclusion that I seem to be natural contrarian.
I actually love both Undercover and dirty work so there is no hope for me.
@@Robert-f4j5u I think most people have your opinion. My appreciation of some songs -- eg Down in the Hole and Indian Girl -- were definitely a slow boil! Thanks for the comment
My biggest problem with "Emotional Rescue"....song selection. Other than the popular songs...the album sounds like outtakes. Which is ironic since the vastly superior version of this album "Tattoo You" is outtakes and unfinished tracks.
The sessions that led to this album...also contained Hang Fire, Little T&A, Neighbours...and probably others. The band's decision to polish up "Down in the Hole", "Indian Girl" (sorry), "Where the Boys Go" (seriously that song lyrically is awful) and most of that album is baffling to me.
@@ptrgreeny No Use In Crying too, I believe. It is pretty odd they didn't pursue those songs. Thanks for watching!
The Stones always had a sense of humor, but they play it up a little more here. "Emotional Rescue" is a jam, but when Mick goes on about his rescue plans for the listener, he's almost giggling his way through it. Sometimes the lyrics are serious, but in "Let Me Go" Mick says he is ready to cruise gay bars just to offload the woman in his life, and "Send Her To Me" introduces the "Booberrian" nationality which I think is a ghost on a cereal box.
I actually love Dirty Work. To me, it's super honest. They hated each other and the album bleeds with that hate. It does contain some duds. Back to Zero may be the worst song they have ever done. Winning Ugly should have been on She's The Boss. But I love Had It With You, Fight, Hold Back, Dirty Work, One Hit To The Body and Too Rude.
As for Emotional Rescue, it's mid-tier for me. There are songs I love. Yes, Dance Pt. 1 is my favorite on that record, followed by Emotional Rescue, She's So Cold and Send It To Me.
The bottom? Either Bridges, Bigger Bang or Voodoo. Voodoo has a couple of songs I love though.
@@esteeb67 True about DW. I think Winning Ugly and Back to Zero sorts stain whatever is worthy elsewhere. Thanks for the comment.
@@RobertsRecordCorner You're welcome! There are times when evaluating albums you have to weigh consistency vs. quality. What is more valuable? An album with 2 or 3 great songs and the rest is a bit mid? Or an album that is listenable all the way through, but never hits any major highs?
I agree with hackney diamonds. I think it got a lot of undeserved hype. But I do like the track Mess it Up. Other than that, I get nothing out of it. I agree on emotional rescue. Some decent tracks. Not a fan of the namesake, but dance, let me go, down in the hole and all about you are solid tracks.
Emotional Rescue, Undercover and Bridges to Babylon in bottom 10 instead of Satanic Majesties? Mental.
As a big Black and Blue fan, I never really bought into all the rebirth talk around Some Girls.
I don't care,but anyone who votes for any ROLLING STONES album as the "worst",is not a Rolling Stones fan at all most of the albums that I own(and I own almost all of them,including DIRTY WORK no matter what you think of the album or the album cover)it is an interesting album definitely not the worst you just have to at least give it a listen and you're right,EMOTIONAL RESCUE is a really good record and while your at it,give a listen to Dirty Work,yes,DIRTY WORK give that record some love ❤️ I'm probably one of the only few who loves the album cover.
I love Dance pt 1 and down in the hole, I guess tastes vary. I agree this album is nowhere the bottom 8, probably a middling Stones album
I like Down in the Hole a lot, never quite got into Dance particularly. I've often wondered if the song order for this album is right? I long have tried to appoint a Some Girls song for each of these 10 and reorder it in Some Girls fashion to see what it's like (starting with Emotional Rescue/Miss You etc). But I'm afraid the albums don't perfectly line up. Down in the Hole for instance. What SG is that? Yes, I'm a nerd. Thanks for the comment!
@@RobertsRecordCorner I agree but would add that I finally 'got' "Dance Pt. 1" once I heard "Dance Pt. 2" from SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES, which is even groovier.
I always thought “All about you” was about Mick
I am okay with Emotional Rescue. I loved Sticky Fingers and still do. The weakest song IMO is "You Gotta Move," and while it's not my favorite, it have grown on me over the years. The one album that they released that's unforgivable is "Goats Head Soup." I bought that during my freshman year in college and I played it to death, trying to get to like it, but to no avail. The closer "Star Star'" was a fantastic rocker, but it didn't save the album for me. The boys just didn't seem to put anything into the rest of the songs, including "Angie and "(Doo Doo Doo Doo) Heartbreaker."
100 Years Ago is one of their all time greatest songs IMO. Dancing With Mr D. Winter. Some great tunes on Goats Head Soup!
I think Goats Head Soup is excellent. On the other hand, Star Star is one of its weaker songs.
I reordered Goats Head Soup and subbed in "All the Rage" and "Criss Cross" -- finally finished & released a few years ago -- for Silver Train and, yep, Dancing with Mr D. I start it with Star Star. I absolutely love "100 Years Ago" -- thanks for watching
Still life was a perfect title for that album, as a live record it's very slight and lacks vitality. Mocks vocal delivery feels so phoned in. In my opinion. You feel a million miles away from the band.
In 1982 i would have said Emotional Rescue, along with It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, was one of the Stones weakest efforts. Not the title track, though, which i felt was quite fresh and innovative. In fact half of the album is pretty decent.
However, the albums that have been released since don't come anywhere near close. In that regard, Emotional Rescue has grown in stature, and doesn't deseve to be near the bottom - probably somewhere in the middle.
I am very surprised at Hackney Diamonds at 3. I think it is arguably the best since Tattoo You. It again, for me, somewhere in the middle, which is incredible considering how underwhelming everything post Tatto You has been.
Every Stones album has at least one killer song on it - which can't be said for most bands.
All of the albums that came out after "Exile on Main Street" were the worst. Take your pick!
ER, from my memory, seemed a bit disappointing in the context of Some Girls and Tattoo You. However to me it's a listenable, good album. By the time that say, Voodoo Lounge came out, the expectations you had of The Rolling Stones was MUCH lower. Having skipped over it, never cared myself for Steel Wheels.
Dance Pt 1 is one of the greater songs from ER and this 2003 live performance proves it: ua-cam.com/video/kunGF_8utAs/v-deo.htmlsi=UY8WVpsPLTsygyLs
" riding across the desert on a fine arab charger"
Black and Blue the audition album. Only a couple of rockers.
Love these surveys because they always prove that there's no accounting for taste. Any Stones fan that DOESN'T think Dirty Work is their worst album needs to give their ears a clean and listen again 🤣🤣 Awful production and no songs make it a rotter from start to finish (apart from Ian Stewart playing Keys to the Highway at the end),
Sorry I missed such a bizarre vote. Dirty Work is appropriately number one, regardless of all of their albums, but Voodoo Lounge is easily second worst (in this scenario), quickly followed by A Bigger Bang. 4 Blue And Lonesome, 5 Bridges, 6 Emotional Rescue, 7 Undercover and 8 Hackney Diamonds. Where's Tattoo You since there's Emotional Rescue?
"Emotional Rescue" is a fine album. The title track is a classic. "Let Me Go" is classic Stones, bluesy rockin groove. "Summertime Romance" is a fun little number. "Where The Boys Go" could almost be a gay anthem right out of David Bowie's school and reminds me of his "Boys Keep Swinging". "She's So Cold" is super classic Stones and one of their most underrated songs. It's a good album. The problem is, it is sandwiched in-between two better albums with "Some Girls" and "Tattoo You". But Emotional is prime Ron Wood Stones era at its finest. I think the cover art is the problem: let's face it, it's a lame cover.
You forgot to mention Ron Wood’s excellent bass playing on the title track. Most people think it’s Bill Wyman carrying that song.
@@gus4u2c Good point. It's excellent
Yes it is.
They should have voted Tattoo you instead of Undercover (I thought that was a pretty good album)
I haven't heard the ER album, but i have always detested ER the song
Album who contains : " Dirty Work " , " Had it With You " , " Too Rude " , " One Hit To The Body " , " Winning Ugly " " Sleep Tonight " , " Hold Back " and " Fight " with only one bad song " Back To Zero " is far from bad album . Propaganda made it bad and sheep ( people ) follow what they read in magazines . Plus great cover of " Harlem Shuffle " as first single . Far from bad album .
"Undercover of the Night" deserves more love. It shouldn't be judged by its ugly cover.
The song?
@@FuturePast2019 - The song and the album!
dirty work, no argument