Undercover
by The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones bestography
Undercover is ranked 36th best out of 105 albums by The Rolling Stones on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Rolling Stones is Exile On Main St. which is ranked number 49 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,199.
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Undercover track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 71 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Undercover rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 80 Music Albums of 1983 | 48/80 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 75 Music Albums of 1983 | 26/75 | 3 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 34 Music Albums of 1983 | 28/34 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1983 | 45/100 | - |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1983 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 41 Music Albums of 1983 | 30/41 | 1 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 94 Music Albums of the 1980s | 76/94 | 4 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 54 Music Albums of 1983 | 54/54 | 0 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 99 Music Albums of 1983 | 73/99 | 1 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 60 Music Albums of 1983 | 54/60 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 81 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 125 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/03/2026 18:06 |  VictorVale | 3,900 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/24/2026 16:48 | matterhornrider | 5,168 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2026 01:30 |  hoyquarlow | 541 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 62.4/100, a mean average of 61.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 61.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.
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dihansse 4 days ago in My discoveries per yearUndercover comments
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I think Undercover is yet another underrated stones album. They never seem to get any credit for trying new sounds. This is a much more contemporary record with a really interesting use of percussion, especially on the title track, which I have to admit is the last of the truly great stones tracks. Having said that, there are other standouts such as the hilarious too much blood and the grooving feel on baby. Sure, there's a few stones by numbers but at least half the album is fantastic. There's nothing really awful but it does need a few spins to fully appreciate it.
Them crappy 80s sounds.
The songs are not as bad. Undercover and She was hot where pretty good stonesque-classic-rocks. There's some interesting guitar work on Too much blood and the chorus of Tie you up with that free-tempo landings and laidbackness couldn't have been made by anyone besides the Stones.
Still overall sounds as plastic as pretty much every other rock album made during that era. (Edited)
lightmyway TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/11/2012 17:27 | #42027 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is actually better than people give it credit for, there are some good songs here but the real problem is the weak production takes all the life out of them.
Sandrof1969 02/11/2018 16:09 | #207661 | TOP COMMENT
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I've always thought this is the worst Stones album
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/11/2017 23:24 | #182309 | TOP COMMENT
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This album could have fared better with better production and some more meat and classic Stones attitude in a few of the songs. It's not dreadful, but it's nothing to get excited about either. (Edited)
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