Dirty Work (studio album) by The Rolling Stones

Dirty Work by The Rolling Stones
Year: 1986
Overall rank: 17,557th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
53/100 (from 161 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (245th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,379th)
Award Best albums of all time (17,557th)

The Rolling Stones bestography

Dirty Work is ranked 39th best out of 99 albums by The Rolling Stones on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Rolling Stones is Exile On Main St. which is ranked number 44 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 22,555.

The Rolling Stones album bestography « Higher ranked (16,495th) This album (17,557th) Lower ranked (19,322nd) »
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Dirty Work track list

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53/100 (from 161 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 53.4/100, a mean average of 52.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 52.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.9.

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55/100
From 09/08/2021 14:32
Apart from "One Hit (To The Body)" only an average album, not bad if you missed that one out.
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From 03/13/2021 18:29
Everything about this record has aged poorly, from the music, right down to the sleeve. This is for completionists ONLY
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From 01/02/2021 07:21
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)
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75/100
From 06/15/2019 07:57
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'
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70/100
From 01/03/2019 10:07
Apesar das confusões o álbum é sólido. Boa pegada reggae.
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45/100
From 09/21/2018 20:43
Every band has a worst album. Even the greats. This is The Rolling Stones worst album. Even the cover is abysmal.
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30/100
From 09/04/2018 21:39
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".
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From 08/04/2018 01:25
Painfully average, only good track is the awesome opener, an underrated track (just because it was featured in this bad and forgettable record)
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70/100
From 02/09/2018 22:54
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.
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70/100
From 01/11/2017 23:29
The Stones mailing it in.
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