Voodoo Lounge (studio album) by The Rolling Stones

From pedro1976 07/26/2023 17:39

There's a good album in here but easy to miss amongst the bloat! At least 25 mins too long, if only they'd left some of the lesser songs on the cutting room floor.. or even used them as b-sides in place of the various remixes and edits they issued on the singles at that time.

From TheDude85 07/02/2022 18:59

A few highlights, but overshadowed by a plethora of garbage.

Quite a slog to get through. The only stand out to me is "I go wild"

Nothing here was notable, painfully average.

From VictorVale 09/19/2019 21:02

Uma bateria criativa, mas, no geral, pouco inspirado disco.

From Goliath 12/23/2018 16:40

Would be a decent album without 'New Faces', 'Moon is up', 'Brand New Car' and 'Sweethearts Together'. Padding albums out to CD length, mad idea.

From Sandrof1969 02/11/2018 16:02

Buon disco che continua a rimanere tale anche dopo vent'anni di ascolti, senza grandi picchi ma nemmeno senza cadute.

From Fischman 01/11/2017 23:15

This album helped cement the opinion that the real Stones were gone forever.

Listening to the demo tapes of voodoo lounge one can realize the best songs where probably meant for Keef&Mick's solo albums.
Keith rendition of Love is strong is better than Mick's (it wouldn't have been a hit song tho. The merit of that goes for Mick no questions).
Mick's uptempo Out of tears from the demo makes a far better song than the cheesy ballad from the record (that is saved by Ronnie's great slide solo).
There are a couple of tracks worth listening but really this is packed with fillers. The lenght doesn't help too. It's hard to sit and listen to an hour of this. Could've been better as a 9 or 10 tracks 40min album.

It was a five year gap between this and their last album, steel wheels, the longest in their career so far. Was it worth the wait? Not really. This is an album lacking ideas and direction. The first two tracks, love is strong and you got me rocking are ok, but they're obviously a desperate attempt to re-produce the classic stones sound. Elsewhere, there are some ok tracks, the lovely new faces and the ballad out of tears. Keith's, the worst is also rather lovely. Unfortunately, there are also some real duds. Brand new car is awful, probably the worst song the stones have ever done, and moon is up is a tuneless mess with ridiculously loud drums. The fact that there's nothing great on here is made worse by the fact that the album is so long, a product of the CD age. The best you can say about this album is that it's better than dirty work, the worst, it's no better than any other stones album.