Tattoo You (studio album)
by The Rolling Stones
Top 20 albums of 1981 (
The Rolling Stones bestography
Tattoo You is ranked 7th best out of 102 albums by The Rolling Stones on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Rolling Stones is Exile On Main St. which is ranked number 45 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,057.
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Tattoo You track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 09/14/2025 10:31 | Jun_Res | | 85/100 |
100/100 | 08/12/2025 14:02 | jacobeddy1984 | | 99/100 |
75/100 | 07/21/2025 21:30 | MaxStorm98 | | 90/100 |
75/100 | 07/03/2025 22:35 | culwin | | 75/100 |
70/100 | 06/24/2025 01:56 |  AAL2014 | | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Jboy56 02/06/2024 12:16
Stones still knows how to begin a song. Lots of quite good stuff, albeit not very memorable, but I still liked many like
Heaven and Waiting for a friend and Hang Fire. Slightly above average
Not as good as Let It Bleed/Sticky Fingers but the opening and closing tracks are two of their best - Start Me Up and Waiting on a Friend. Absolutely beautiful guitar on both and really nice lyrics on Waiting on a Friend. A couple of filler tracks in the middle (Black Limousine, Neighbours) that drag the rating down, but overall a very decent album. Slave, Hang Fire, Heaven and Tops all good too.
This album sounds good, but as a whole is not a big standout and is boring especially compared to their earlier work. Start Me Up is great and I kinda like Slave and Waiting On A Friend, the rest sounds like filler in my opinion.
A real mixed bag of reviews on this album. This is clearly a Marmite album, loved by many, hated by others. Generally I like it. 'Worried About You' and 'Tops' are personal favourites. I see a lot of comparisons to Some Girls. Bit like comparing a good curry to a roast, I like both for different reasons.
pedro1976 05/02/2022 05:54
Album of the year. 1981
Quizás, el último gran álbum de los Stones, comparable a sus clásicos de los 60 y principios de los 70.
My favorite by them.
I cant say that i am really keen on this album, definitely would not buy it. The first four tracks are ok, along with the last three. I think that Goat Head Soup and Its Only Rock And Roll are better albums.
The last decent stones album
This one just fell flat for me. I've always hated "Start Me Up" and it seems like that was really the only notable song from this. Nothing bad, the songs are quite fine for a first time listen but I can't imagine i'll be going back to this soon. Maybe my least favorite Stones record.
Best song(s): Heaven
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