Top 10 Rolling Stones Post-‘Some Girls’ Songs

We will not argue with you: The Rolling Stones made their greatest music within the ’60s and ’70s.

After 1978’s Some Girls, they launched just one extra basic album, 1981’s ‘Tattoo You.’ But that does not imply that the band’s output since then has been a complete waste. There have been some good albums through the interval (like 1989’s Steel Wheels) and a few fairly good songs (1983’s “Undercover of the Night”).

So put apart “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Gimme Shelter” and “Miss You” for now, and check out the beneath checklist of the Top 10 Post-Some Girls Rolling Stones Songs.

10. “Highwire” (From Flashpoint, 1991)

One of two new studio songs hooked up to 1991’s Steel Wheels tour memento Flashpoint, “Highwire” is without doubt one of the few overtly political songs within the Rolling Stones’ in depth catalog. Written after the fallout of the Persian Gulf War, the music mentions missiles, tanks and greed. In a approach, it picks up the place “Gimme Shelter” left off greater than 20 years earlier.

9. “Anybody Seen My Baby” (From Bridges to Babylon, 1997)

The first single from 1997’s Bridges to Babylon can be the one memorable music on the LP, and a part of that has to do with its melodic similarities to okay.d. lang’s hit “Constant Craving” (she and songwriting companion Ben Mink got a co-credit). The Biz Markie pattern included in “Anybody Seen My Baby” marks the one Stones music to function an out of doors affect like that.

8. “Worried About You” (From Tattoo You, 1981)

“Worried About You” was first tracked in late 1974 and early 1975 however did not find yourself on a Stones album till Tattoo You in 1981. Had it ended up on Black and Blue like meant, it will have been a spotlight of that in any other case lackluster LP. The Stones had even carried out the music throughout their fabled 1977 look at Toronto’s El Mocambo membership.

7. “One Hit (To the Body)” (From Dirty Work, 1986)

Dirty Work is without doubt one of the band’s laziest and most boring albums. But the fierce “One Hit (To the Body)” appears like classic-era Stones, with guitars churning alongside one among Mick Jagger’s greatest post-Some Girls vocal performances. Bonus factors: That’s Jimmy Page enjoying the hovering guitar solo that exhibits up halfway by means of the music.

6. “Doom and Gloom” (From GRRR!, 2012)

If you already personal the 537 different greatest-hits compilations the Stones have launched over the previous 50 years, you in all probability do not want 2012’s GRRR!,  which spans their total profession … until you need the 2 new songs. “Doom and Gloom” is the keeper, a riff-powered rocker that sounds just like the post-Some Girls period condensed into 4 strong minutes.

5. “Mixed Emotions” (From Steel Wheels, 1989)

Depending in your perspective, the Stones had been both coasting or had a reasonably tough time within the mid-’80s. But by the tip of the last decade, they had been firing again with their greatest album since Tattoo You. “Mixed Emotions,” Steel Wheels‘ first single, appears like basic Stones: all piercing guitar riffs on prime of a flashy backbeat.

4. “Undercover of the Night” (From Undercover, 1983)

After 1981’s back-to-basics Tattoo You (which included some leftover ’70s materials), the Stones began getting stressed once more on 1983’s Undercover, incorporating road beats, tougher music and even some super-political lyrics. It would not all the time work, however the album’s opening music, and sorta title observe, is killer, with rapid-fire percussion blasts slicing by means of the screaming guitars.

3. “Emotional Rescue” (From Emotional Rescue, 1980)

The Stones’ most blatantly disco quantity supposedly prompted a rift between Mick Jagger, who favored the music, and Keith Richards, who did not. Either approach, it is one of many band’s greatest post-Some Girls singles, a honking, blaring and sweaty dance observe that includes one among Jagger’s most playful vocals (he was making an attempt to sound like Marvin Gaye).

2. “Waiting on a Friend” (From Tattoo You, 1981)

The elegiac “Waiting on a Friend” closes the terrific Tattoo You in model, full with a sky-high sax solo by Sonny Rollins. The music was began by Mick Taylor through the Goats Head Soup period, which accounts for its laid-back haunting undertone. But it is an ideal ending to the final good album the Stones made.

1. “Start Me Up” (From Tattoo You, 1981)

“Start Me Up” is without doubt one of the Stones’ all-time basic tracks, so it is no shock that it is topped our checklist of the Top 10 Post-Some Girls Rolling Stones Songs. The minimize additionally options one of many band’s all-time biggest opening guitar riffs, which in flip kicks off and fuels their final basic album. Like lots of the songs on Tattoo You, “Start Me Up” was began within the ’70s, through the Black and Blue periods. But it falls collectively so seamlessly with the remainder of Tattoo You that it beats something on Black and Blue … and all the things else they did after Some Girls.

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