Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

1968

The first one where things really start getting good.

You could throw this one on before Led Zeppelin III at your next record party.

The Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup

1973

The follow up to Exile On Main St. Amazingly this sounds more focused yet more drugged out and tired than it's preprocessor.

Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels

This might be worse than Eric Clapton, but still better than their previous effort.

The Rolling Stones - Dirty Work

Garbage.

I just realized that you can judge this record by its cover.

The Rolling Stones - Undercover

The first song Undercover Of The Night is reminding me of Duran Duran. She's Hot is bringing the Boomtown Rats to mind. Later on The Power Station and Bruce Springsteen also pop into my head. The Springsteen thing is ridiculous. I think Keith is singing that one. Reggae/Dub Clash song. A Disco song or two. This album is obviously an attempt at current styles of music that were popular at the time, but seems dated now. Since the type of music they were mimicing didn't last very long. New Wave anybody?

The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

Well, I'm surprised to say that this doesn't totally suck. I should warn you though that this album came out when I was in high school. I didn't have it then. I don't remember hearing this whole album, ever. I couple songs remind me of other Stones songs. That's to be expected after you put out 50 albums or so. Start Me Up is on this one. If I hadn't been listening to crazy symphonic Japanese Black Metal for what seemed like 8 continuous hours before listening to this, I might not have enjoyed this quite so much.

"Tattoo You is an album primarily composed of outtakes from previous recording sessions, some dating back a decade, with new vocals and overdubs". - Wikipedia

"It wasn't all outtakes; some of it was old songs. ...I had to write lyrics and melodies. A lot of them didn't have anything, which is why they weren't used at the time - because they weren't complete. They were just bits, or they were from early takes." -Mick Jagger

A good chunk of this is stuff that didn't make it on to Emotional Rescue.

Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons

Transition record for the Stones. They must have been running out of R&B songs to cover. This isn't quite psychedelic yet. Some non rock instruments going on as well as piano. All these songs are in the same zone and it's a unique one.

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath

1966

Good good stuff. This is when they started writing their own songs. Killer dis-satisfied biting lyrics. The first great Stones album.

The Rolling Stones - 5x5

1964

Slow dance at the sock hop.
Organ.
Primitive hypnotic blues rock.
Harmonica.
Chuck Berry cover.
Pretty groovy stuff.

Fun Facts: Five songs by five guys = 5x5.

The Rolling Stones - December's Children (And Everybody's)

Transition from R&B cover band to being THE Rolling Stones.

Fun Facts: This is a U.S. only release. Like The Beatles Yesterday and Today, it's more a compilation than a proper album.

The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request

There are several Rolling Stones records better than this one. The Stones in a post Sgt. Peppers world. Psychedelic. Straying from their R&B roots. Brian Jones. They produced this album themselves. Better than 99 percent of the stuff that gets called psychedelic.