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Best of 1981
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Rolling Stone
Debra Rae Cohen
Musically, it meant grafting unwarranted au courant attitudes onto the dependable drive of the rhythm section. Lyrically, it signified glorying in distance and turning stances, slogans and promises into false currency.
10y
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90
AllMusic
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tattoo You captures the Stones at their best as a professional stadium-rock band.
12y
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81
Pitchfork
Andy Cush
A blueprint for how to exist as an aging, internationally famous rock band.
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John Murray Music
81
THE ROLLING STONES DEEP DIVE: TATTOO YOU
The band starts this album super strong with the next mega hit of their career, “Start Me Up”. This song is just pure fun, awesome guitar work, rhythm section supporting perfectly, and Mick showcasing a lot of swagger overtop. The next song keeps up the energy pretty consistently with some pretty unique lead guitar work during the solo, it’s also quite a bit shorter than the opener. “Slave”, while being much more of a slow ... read more
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4mo
SnowyFighter
73
I want like 50 tattoos so yea please tattoo me
This is a good one! I’m glad the Stones kind of picked up again after a few albums that didn’t do as much for me. This one just has a lot stronger songwriting. Start Me Up is one of their most iconic songs and is easily one of my favs from the band. Slave was another surprise hit with one of the hardest grooves in their discog. Also there are many more songs on this thing that even if they don’t stand out quite as much as the two ... read more
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1y
Bimapolis
75
Listening to "Start Me Up" for the first time had me like :). No like for real I felt so much dopamine during that song that once it was finished I felt like I had an 💫experience💫.
The Rolling Stones decided to craft an album of outtakes when the band was scheduled to tour soon, but they needed to quickly release a new album to promote their tour. They built "Tattoo You" from a series of outtakes that were composed throughout the 70's, but the album possesses an 80's ... read more
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e1genvect0r
80
It's the Stones. It's great.
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MajorCman
80
It can’t be understated how good of a job Rolling Stones did on here: from the fact that it was formed from a series of outtakes the group did during the 70’s, and was being actively worked on while they were on tour.
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Revan65
72
One of the first albums I got on vinyl, and a really good one at that! There's a lot of standout tracks here, but it's a forgotten part of The Rolling Stones' discography. Truly the last great Rolling Stones record.
1mo
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