“emotional rescue” its weird, beautiful, and shitty. i love it.

Hands down, Beggars Banquet. Great album!!

I’d go with Tattoo You or the UK version of Aftermath.

Voodoo Lounge.

Although it`s hard to call Let It Bleed under appreciated, when the topic of greatest Stones record comes up, Exile and Sticky Fingers seemed to be mentioned more than this absolute classic. Gimme Shelter, Can`t always get waht you want, Midnight Rambler, Monkey Man…..need I say more.

“Some Girls”. Without a doubt

has to be “goat’s head soup”… how do you follow exile? it’s so different, but it has a wasted, burned-out vibe. ‘100 years ago’, ‘winter’, ‘if you really want to be my friend’… sublime.

‘Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!’ The Rolling Stones in Concert

best soundtrack for snuff films at a race track, too.

Some Girls deserves to be up in the top four Stones albums. Before They Make Me Run is the greatest stones song EVER!!

After I saw “Rushmore” I had to get the song “She Smiled Sweetly” one of their more tender songs – the rest of “Between the Buttons” is good too what with “Lets Spend the Night Together” and a bit of uneven weirdness too the whole album.

Not much to appreciate about “Black and Blue”–that is one lame album. “Get Your Ya Yas Out” is one of the best dozen or so live albums by any major band, even if Keef is grossly out-of-tune on “Love in Vain.”

Goats Head Soup (overshadowed by its predecessors)

Emotional Rescue i agree with

It’s Only Rock & Roll But I like it. Only two great songs– the title track, “Fingerprint File”– but the rest of it has that vintage Stones sound.

Goats Head Soup also deserves mention. It’s not a very good listen throughout (it’s only half good), but there are some nice diamonds in the rough. “100 Years Ago,” dig the Hammond organ and wah-wah solo; “Winter,” one of their best ballads; “Angie,” a classic for that acoustic line, even if Mick is full of shit; “Heartbreaker,” one for their few full-bore rockers and there’s that B3 again; “Star Star,” that Chuck Berry rip, is still good for yucks even if John Wayne and Steve McQueen have been dead for decades. The rest is crap, seriously.

Their Satanic Majesties Request is also half good. “Citadel,” “She’s a Rainbow,” “2000 Light Years from Home,” are all good rockers. Too bad the Stones forgot they were a rock band and played “Sing This All Together” for 11 fucking minutes.

I’ll second Voodoo Lounge. It’s too long maybe, but there’s 10 excellent songs on it.

“Between the Buttons” is just a joyful album as they finally broke away from their blues roots and had some fun in the studio for a change. “Cool, Calm and Collected” along with “Connection” are just splendid.

I KNOW THE MOST UNAPPRECIATED SONG…it is the last track on ‘bridges to babylon’…it’s called ‘how can i stop’-it’s a ballad keith sings. it’s a very beautiful song that blows me away.

I’m thinking that these RollingStone bloggers are reading Stylus’s features on its site. This week it gave some praise to Goats Head Goup.

The answer, though, is Between the Buttons, and the most overrated is Some Girls.

Let it bleed.

Tattoo You is an unbelievable album. “Waiting On A Friend” off that same album could be one of their most underrated song of all time. “Tops” and “Worried About You” are also classics. I just feel that theyfound the quintessential Stones sound on that one. “Black and Blue” is another damn good one. I love the Stones, but I wasn’t that impressed with “Goat’s Head Soup”. Everyone else saying “Between The Buttons” is right too…great album!

emotional rescue

has to be goats head soup by far!

It’s always amazed me that “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out” isn’t unversally lauded as the greatest live rock album ever.

I’m giving the nod to “Steel Wheels.” As big a deal as everyone made about “A Bigger Bang” being some sort of return to form, I actually found most of it lyrically lazy and generally tiresome. “Steel Wheels” is more like it – has better hooks by far, some tasty jams on the rock side of things and two of the best ballads in their catalog in “Almost Hear You Sigh” and “Slipping Away.” “Black And Blue” is a not-distant second…

Underappreciated being the key word here ladies and gentlemen, which means you can’t answer with an album from 1968-72. Beggars Banquet being exempt, I’ll go with either Between the Buttons or side two of Tattoo You.

Tattoo You

all i feel is that most everything about them is quite overappreciated…

AfterMath

It’s raining somes up this dude’s life

Black and Blue, Emotional Rescue and Steel Wheels are all strong overlooked albums with GREAT songs and GREAT performances. Emotional Rescue is probably the most overlooked of the three.

Some Girls

cheers Poindexter! I, too, go with “Between The Buttons”.

I like the Stones latest album: We’re older than Dinosaurs. That is the Stones at their best!

ya im gonna go with let it bleed
there is not a song i wouldnt love to listen to on that album

but some girls, while it gets great respect, is still not getting enough notice it is a kick ass album

Still Life, Emotional Rescue, hell I could go on forever!

Oh wait, this is the worst albums by the best bands forum right?

I am a HUGE fan of DIRTY WORK (1986)it was considered a failure by the media, Mick and Keith were fighting (Mick would not tour)and CBS took a bath financially…

Ho wever

O ne Hit To The Body
Too Rude
Had It With You
Sleep Tonight
Harlem Shuffle

are among their best tracks since Some Girls (and as good or better than anything they have done since)

Also I am a big fan of Between The Buttons ,Aftermath, and the SONG Undercover Of The Night

some girls

I’d go with one of the earlier ones. 12×5 or Aftermath maybe? Everything since Let it Bleed has been, if anything, overappriciated. Want proof? Check out RS’s review of A Bigger Bang, then actually listen to the album. One of their better ones of the past 25 years, but that doesn’t say anything considering that the band really should’ve called it a day after Some Girls. Mere competance should not be celebrated from the band that wrot Gimmie-fucking-Shelter.

Emotional Rescue-but I could be saying that out of sentiment, it was the first stones album I bought when i was 7, But the title track is still a great song, some of their best stabs at funk, as well as some of Bill Wymans (a truly underrated bassist) best playing

Fortune mentioned Let It Bleed and I have to agree. I think it is definately The Rolling Stones best album. Sticky Fingers is good, but Let It Bleed works better as a whole piece, and I just dont get all the love for Exile on Main St. To me its just ok; greatly overrated. Just my opinion though

Stripped.

Old hippie. Most wonderful albums are, of course, “Let It Bleed”, “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out” and “Between the Buttons.” Brian Jones!!overlooked, underrated.

what album was “Factory Girl” on?

IT’s Only Rock and Roll. Just to hear Mick Taylor’s solo on Time Waits for No One is worth the price of the Disk. I just saw “Stripped” mentioned…..the BEST of the Stones live albums by far.

Factory Girl was on Beggers Banquet

I’d have to go with Tattoo you as well. It has one really solid number after another… not one song that I want to skip, but many that didn’t make it as a hit.

UNDERCOVER followed by EMOTIONAL RESCUE are the most underappreciated. Much better than folks tend to give them credit for.

“Steel Wheels”

no good Stones albums sine Ron Wood joined band

Goats Head Soup. It’s actually my favorite Stones record, period.

UNDER appreciated? You mean which one have the critics jerked off to the least?

I’d go with Black & Blue or Steel Wheels. Steel Wheels was inconsistent, but had some really great songs, especially the overlooked Keith ballad “Slipping Away.”

I also think “A Bigger Bang” was horribly overlooked, by the public at least. It should’ve at least sold as well as Voodoo Lounge or Bridges To Babylon did. Alas…

I’d say Magical Mystery tour

I will go with Black and Blue – I know it was recorded about the same time as Its Only Rock N Roll but all those guest guitarists really made this project come alive. Many different types of songs all held together by Mick’s singing/phrasing (he’s probably at the peak of his vocal abilities here IMHO). I alos loved Tattoo You – side 2 was esquisite

Magical mystery tour is a beatles album…dumb ass.

flowers

1.Goats Head Soup reasons: Winter, 100 years ago, sliver train
2.Steel Wheels- Almost hear you sigh, slipping away, mixed emotions
3.It’s only RNR – Till next time we say goobye and Time waits for No one (Mick Taylor enough said!)
4. Bridges to Babylon – Saint of me, Out of Control and every song by Keith

Their Satanic Majesty’s Request
Obscure beauties like “Citadel” still ring out with vitality today. Some killer riffs and licks spread throughout.

re Out of Our Heads
I forgot to mention Satisfaction
(ps, I am down with the crowd that is pumpin for goats head soup. I remember when it came out, I thought uuuugggghhhhh, but one of my alltime fave songs is heartbreaker … and who can’t love mick singin..when i walking through the woods the other day..the world laid before me like a carpet

sorry, but i can’t shut the fuck up…anyone who wants to know if Brian Jones was really a great musician has just got to listen to his slide on No Expectations…man it is scary good..i had forgotten how much of a musical contribution he had made until listening to this the other night

IORR and voodoo lounge

Between the Buttons…if for no other reason “Connection” – one of the greatest Stones tunes ever.

1. 12 X 5
2. Between the Buttons
3. Voodoo Lounge (A lot of really good songs).
4. Got Live If You Want It

The next one that they record is the most underappreciated. After them there will be no more rock and roll

who cares……it’s better than anything that idiot springsteen has put out in the last decade and a half!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree, it’s Black & Blue.

Thriller

Flowers, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are the same band.

They used the Rolling Stones name for LP’s released in the UK and The Beatles name when they released albums in the USA.

i dont know about albums but i do know that waiting on a friend is the most under-appreciated song.

Bigger Bang for sure!
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the rolling stones are the greatest rock band of all times!!..there will never be another entertainer of rock mick!!

And lets not forget ’83’s Undercover!
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That is Undercover.
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Their Satanic Majesty’s Request

I will put a plug in for “Flowers”. Even though there are a few cuts that are lifted from Between the Buttons, songs like Sitting on a Fence, Backstreet Girl & Please Go Home are all classics. Great album!

Side 3 of Love You Live recorded at the El Mocambo Club, Toronto; Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass; and yes, Steel Wheels-resurrected Stones straight from the heart.

voodoo lounge!!!!!

Emotional Rescue … also Parachute Woman off Beggar’s Banquet is most underappreciated song.

“LET IT BLEED” with Love In Vain Midnight Rambler,mary clayton’s killer vocals on Gimme Shelter kieth singing lead on You Got The Silver and the anthemic You Can’t Always Get What you Want

Still Life is a Suck Live Record, Flowers is Great!!!

Hey we ain’t got the space to talk about ‘em all but what about these two missing in action gems:

She Saw Me Coming…Nuts and blots bare bone, punk Stones.

And from bootleg You Should Have Seen Her Ass 1972. Rattles like a runaway train on a bent track.

Rocky Boy

you are right Black and Blue w/o
a doubt
melody &
memory motel

Oh yeah… Voodoo Lounge. Wonderful production, and a string of great songs. A standout for me: “Blinded by Rainbows.” (V.L. was one of the great tours, too, IMO)..

I would have to say “Goats Head Soup” it is an awesome album that has not been credited the way it should have been. LOVE IT!

Tattoo You, definitely. Remember, Start Me Up came from here, as well as Waiting On A Friend, Slave, Neighbours and Little T & A. Very funky, tight, and even jazzy in bits with extremely slick production for its times.

It has to be Goats Head Soup. That album has not been given the credit it most certainly deserves.

Voodoo Lounge

“Tattoo You” is probably the better overall album, but “Goats Head Soup” has some of their greatest moments (”Star Star” anyone?). “GHS” has moments that are worthy of succeeding their four great albums. Give the nod to that.

I remember when “Black And Blue” came out and all the stupid old Baby Boomer assholes said it was the crappiest album ever. Well, fuck them – That album is fantastic!

‘undercover’-that is a good one….thatis one of the first stones lp’s i bought. ‘too much blood’ ia a campy classic, i think.

all of them, hah.

Dude, all of the rolling stones albums are fucking awesome, they are the badest mother fuckers of all time!! Nuff said

Satantic Majesties Request buy far more psychedilic than the Maxwell Silver Hammer collection therefore most un-appreciated. Let it Bleed the Greatest and Some Girls the welcoming return of Mr Riff from exile… thanks for the beautiful melodys in his absence M.T.

The most under estimated Stones album must be Between the buttons.

Tattoo You isn’t underappreciated ! It’s one of their biggest selling albums of all time you dolts !!!

Satanic Majesty is awesome and everyone has always written it off as a copy of Sgt. Pepper. Listen to it, it was years ahead of it’s time. There are songs Citedel that sound like Nirvana. Also every single album after Tattoo has been very under rated.

The current album is great. So is all work done by them. They got me into Muddy Waters,Junior Wells-Buddy Guy, later followed these bluesmen’s’tours’-bar dates mostly-and Howlin Wolf with Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Shaw….all because of the stones introducing me,a midwestern/southern kid to what was right across the tracks!Dylan did the smae for woody guthrie and Big joe Williams…and I followed these blues singers as they aged,loving all their work-muddy’s last 3 albums and wolf’s last two arguably some of the best they ever did.Like that with the STONES,only they try harder, and age better(car tours of the american south and midwest in your 60’s can be trying)and like WOLF,MUDDY,Jr Wells, their stuff gets better…this album is great..AFTERMATH MAY BE THE UNDERRATED CLASSIC,AS WITH BUTTONS

Let it Bleed may be their best but it certainly isn’t underrated.
To me it’s Decembers Children/Out of our heads. Should be one album.
The proof is that no one has even mentioned them in this stream. Now thats underrated.

A Bigger Bang. A fantastic Stones album, but very under appreciated.

ALL OF THEM ARE UNDERRATED!!!!

It has to be ‘Still Live’, off their 1981 American tour. Listen to Bill Wyman’s rolling bass on Time Is On My Side and Going to A Go Go, and you realise what a great album this. Most Stones’ blogs rate Still Life as their best album followed by Let It Bleed. Go and buy.

Yep! I Knew It! Back in ‘76 when everyone wrote off Black and Blue except me and my mates, one day eveyone was going to say it is a ‘Classic’ ‘Ahead Of it’s Time’, etc. All Rolling Stones records are like a great bottle of wine…put it down for a few years then open it! Voila!…Keep on Rolling
Say no more!

In the underappreciated division, I nominate the bootleg “Chess Sessions”. It’s amazing that these notes were laid down in two days in June 1967 with some really rockin’ instrumentals

Steel Wheels
*Hold On To Your Hat
*Almost Hear You Sigh
*Continental Drift
*Rock And A Hard Place
*Mixed Emotions
all underappreciated