Bridges To Babylon
by The Rolling Stones
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Bridges To Babylon is ranked 32nd 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 19,495.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 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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| 02/05/2026 08:08 | spinout | 3,280 | 81/100 | |
| 05/29/2025 13:30 | platus | 5,826 | 74/100 | |
| 03/18/2025 13:17 | BoxFL | 2,581 | 51/100 | |
| 02/20/2025 09:22 | TonySayers61 | 23,819 | 64/100 | |
| 02/10/2025 15:24 | MarkusN | 933 | 78/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.3/100, a mean average of 63.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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I think this is their best post-tattoo album
VictorVale 01/28/2021 00:40 | #265194
É melhor do que parece, o começo é bem bonzinho.
Pretty good, waaaaaaaaay better than Voodoo Lounge from a few years prior.
Best song(s): Anybody Seen My Baby; Out of Control
jeremy9 10/05/2020 07:03 | #259010
I like this album
ExTeaSea 08/05/2018 20:58 | #219270
Underappreciated Stones album! Even like it more than Voodoo Lounge and Bigger Bang.
Sandrof1969 02/11/2018 16:15 | #207665
"Bridges to Babylon" è altalenante, anzi, non esiste nella discografia dei Rolling Stones un album con più sbalzi qualitativi: si va da canzoni che potrebbero stare nelle raccolte vicino ai classici come "How can i stop ?" o "Saint of me", a pezzi tra i loro peggiori ( "Might as well get juiced" ), passando per brani più che discreti, altri mediocri, altri ancora semplici riempitivi. A rendere il tutto ancora più disomogeneo è la produzione affidata a tante persone diverse a seconda delle canzoni...
Fischman 01/11/2017 23:27 | #182311
Not a great album, but it shouldn't be so far behind the likes of Voodoo Lounge.
Might be their worst album. Sounds awful and the soundwriting is uninspired. The riff on Too tight is the only moment I relly dig about it.
Too much bad songs too. In former Stones 'bad albums' the worst were forgettable & average; here the bad songs are really bad.
And on top of that it's really long and boring wich makes the overall album rating lower than the average of the songs.
The follow up to voodoo lounge is still nothing special, but it's an improvement on the previous album. It's starts off with another lazy rocker, flip the switch, which is almost stones by numbers, but it's followed by anybody seen my baby, which is better, a smoky, sultry groover which has been credited to k.d Lang and her co-writer as well as Jagger-Richards because apparently it rips off Lang's constant craving. All right, it sounds a bit like it, but not that much. Other highlights are the big ballad, already over me, Keith's reggae workout, you don't have to mean it, and the biblical rocker saint of me. Like voodoo lounge, it feels way overlong, with too many forgetful throaways. The ending though is lovely, with Keith's, how can i stop. Beautiful. It's a great end to an ok album.
Ah how the mighty have fallen. Way to much production but I guess they were trying the fact these songs were just not that good.
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