Dirty Work
by The Rolling Stones
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Dirty Work is ranked 39th 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 19,386.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 67 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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| 11/28/2025 08:35 | JamesMowbray | 5,392 | 69/100 | |
| 11/18/2025 21:29 | cicadelic | 12,243 | 73/100 | |
| 09/14/2025 10:32 | Jun_Res | 270 | 85/100 | |
| 08/16/2025 15:10 | RemainInLight | 3,234 | 36/100 | |
| 08/08/2025 19:39 | darispunk | 555 | 82/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 53.5/100, a mean average of 52.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 52.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.
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Apart from "One Hit (To The Body)" only an average album, not bad if you missed that one out.
Everything about this record has aged poorly, from the music, right down to the sleeve. This is for completionists ONLY
A one song album. Very little here worst revisiting and a few tracks that are just straight up bad.
Best song(s): One Hit (To the Body)
turbottski 06/15/2019 07:57 | #237551
During my mid-teens, circa 1985-86, The Rolling Stones were my favourite band (they are still one of my favourites today) so this was the first 'new' album I could go out and buy. I thought the cover looked great in it's red shrink-wrap. Not the case once the shrink-wrap came off. The coloured clothes are ghastly. Not having many LP's in my collection back in 1986, I did play this album a hell of a lot. There are a few really good tracks but too much in the way of shouty, aggressive filler. The song 'Hold Back' is a tuneless dirge. Not an awful album to me but certainly one of their weakest. Favourite Track: 'Sleep Tonight'
VictorVale 01/03/2019 10:07 | #228713
Apesar das confusões o álbum é sólido. Boa pegada reggae.
Nowhereman1965 09/21/2018 20:43 | #221415
Every band has a worst album. Even the greats. This is The Rolling Stones worst album. Even the cover is abysmal.
nocturnaldelight 09/04/2018 21:39 | #220589
I only bought this because the LP was on sale. I really like the opening track "One Hit to the body". "Harlem shuffle" and "Had It With You" are OK as well but the rest are really terrible songs. Worst track: "Winning Ugly".
Painfully average, only good track is the awesome opener, an underrated track (just because it was featured in this bad and forgettable record)
Sandrof1969 02/09/2018 22:54 | #207493
Richards che arriva a minacciare di morte Jagger quando questo pubblica "She's the boss", le canzoni scritte da separati in casa, Ron Wood che cerca di cucire ma anche lui non è più quello di "Some girls", Charlie Watts alle prese con una tossicodipendenza ( ! ), la morte di Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman che mugugna ma quello non è una novità. Ne esce un lavoro ( sporco… ) tutto chitarre, ben suonato, non altrettanto ben prodotto, con alcuni grandi pezzi ed altri al contrario che in altri momenti i Rolling Stones non avrebbero mai pubblicato.
Fischman 01/11/2017 23:29 | #182312
The Stones mailing it in.
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