CC 2004: The Rolling Stones
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 07/16/2004 - 03:49
Tags:
- The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hitmakers) (1964) - *****
- 12x5 (1964) - ****
- The Rolling Stones Now! (1965) - ****
- December's Children (and Everybody's) (1964) - *** 1/2
- Out of Our Heads (1965) - *** 1/2
- Aftermath (1966) - *****
- Big Hits: High Tide and Green Grass (1966) - ****
- Got Live If You Want It! (1966) - *
- Between the Buttons (1967) - **** 1/2
- Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) - ***
- Flowers (1967) - ***
- Beggars Banquet (1968) - *****
- Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits, Vol. 2) (1969) - ****
- Let It Bleed (1969) - *****
- Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out (1970) - ***
- Sticky Fingers (1971) - *****
- Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 (1972) - ****
- More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies) (1972) - ****
- Exile on Main St. (1972) - *****
- Goats Head Soup (1973) - **
- It's Only Rock and Roll (1974) - ** 1/2
- Metamorphosis (1975) - **
- Black and Blue (1976) - **
- Love You Live (1977) - * 1/2
- Some Girls (1978) - ****
- Emotional Rescue (1980) - **
- Tattoo You (1981) - *** 1/2
- Still Life (1982) - *
- Undercover (1983) - **
- Dirty Work (1986) - **
- Steel Wheels (1989) - ** 1/2
- Singles Collection: The London Years (1989) - *****
- Flashpoint (1991) - * 1/2
- Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones 1971-1993 (1993) - ****
- Voodoo Lounge (1994) - ***
- Stripped (1995) - ***
- Bridges to Babylon (1997) - ***
- No Security (1998) - ** 1/2
- Forty Licks (2002) - *****
- Singles 196-1965 (2004) - ****
This is a new entry in an old series I am slowly bringing up to date. I'm calling it Critical Consensus 2004. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. I've ditched placing the albums in a recommended purchasing order, instead using a more traditional chronological order.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever