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The Rolling Stones Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (8 Jun 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B0024RID8I
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 12,997 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  2. She Was Hot 4:41£0.89
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Listen  4. Wanna Hold You 3:52£0.89
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Listen  6. Too Much Blood 6:14£0.89
Listen  7. Pretty Beat Up 4:04£0.89
Listen  8. Too Tough 3:51£0.89
Listen  9. All The Way Down 3:13£0.89
Listen10. It Must Be Hell 5:04£0.89


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By the late seventies, The Rolling Stones were unquestionably the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band, a tag they thoroughly deserved and have yet to lose. They had moved effortlessly into open-air stadiums but also began a tradition of performing more intimate shows in theatres and clubs alongside their groundbreaking concerts in arenas. To the delight of their millions of fans, they have continued with this policy to the present. The world really was The Rolling Stones’ oyster in the late seventies, as their Canadian escapades made headlines around the world. They partied at Studio 54, came up with dancefloor favourites "Miss You" and "Emotional Rescue", and recorded in Paris, Nassau and New York. The eighties saw the band stretch the envelope further still, working with jazz great Sonny Rollins, film directors Julien Temple and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and producers Chris Kimsey and Steve Lillywhite. Amazingly, the Rolling Stones topped these achievements with ever-more ambitious tours in the nineties and noughties, and recorded three more classic studio albums with acclaimed producer Don Was, in Dublin, Los Angeles, France and the Caribbean.

Produced by the Glimmer Twins and Chris Kimsey, and recorded in Paris and New York, Undercover made the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic in 1983. Its lead-off single, the stunning "Undercover Of The Night", incorporated elements of reggae, dub and dance and proved that the group kept their finger on the pulse of popular music. Jagger has never been in better form than when delivering its politically-charged lyrics. He also raps about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the nasty "Too Much Blood". The Top 50 single "She Was Hot" has rightly been revived by the band in recent years, as has the Richards-sung rocker "I Wanna Hold You". Corriston’s cover originally came with strategically-placed stickers to cover the risque image.

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Format:Audio CD
i think people are judging this album on sticky,exile ect.
80% of this album is crazy up tempo stones..
i wish the last five stone albums would be as mad and crazy as undercover..
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Rating: 3.5/10

Best tracks: "Undercover of the Night", "Too Much Blood"

Where did the Stones lose it? Although 1980's weak Emotional Rescue is hardly beloved by anyone, it was immediately followed by the rather splendid Tattoo You, so when it comes to pointing the blame for the real downslide, it's 1983's Undercover; simply put, this is the one that really started the rot. The main problem is the production; for the most part, it`s utterly lifeless. "Undercover of the Night" rises above everything else here and is a great tune, arguably their last excellent single. The other single was "She Was Hot", which is a bit rubbish, but rather fun in a very trashy way. However, when the Stones resort to their usual blues-rock, it sounds staid. "The Pain of Love" is a good/bad example of this; it simply cruises, gets the job done, nothing more. Same goes for "Wanna Hold You", which nevertheless is entertaining because Keef's always good value when he gets to sing! "Feel on Baby" is a throwback to the reggae-tinged rock they meddled with far more successfully back in the seventies; it's alright, I suppose, it drifts along pleasantly enough. The other stand out here along with "Undercover of the Night" is the absolutely mind-boggling "Too Much Blood", which is the Stones trying to do a "Thriller" by way of "Sympathy for the Devil", a six-minute plus funk monster where Jagger sings about violence in modern culture, throwing in a serial killer anecdote and this totally insane bit which has to constitute the silliest thirty or so seconds in any Stones song. Behold:

"You ever see The Texas Chain Saw Massacre? `Orrible, wasn't it? You know people ask me, `is it really true, you know, where you live in Texas, is that really true, what they do to around there to people?' I said, you know, every time I drive through the crossover I get scared there's a bloke running around with a [naughty word deleted] chainsaw! Ooooh! Ooooh! Oh no, he's gonna cut off my...oh no, don't saw off my leg! Don't saw off my arm! When I go to the movies, you know, I like to see something more romantic like An Officer and a Gentleman or something! Something you can take the wife to, you know what I mean? AAAGGGHHHOOOW! TOO MUCH! TOO MUCH! YEAH!"

The album gets back to basics with the Ronnie Wood-penned "Pretty Beat Up", notoriously re-titled "Dog S***" by a less than complimentary Mick and Keef; it's more going-through-the-motions blues rock, best forgotten. The same goes for "Too Tough", which sounds like another Stones song throughout the verses, but I can't remember which one. "All the Way Down" (which sounds a lot like "She Was Hot") is an appropriate title given where the Stones' creativity was heading, although the midst of this nothingness is this rather good bit where it slows down a bit around the two minute mark; it only lasts a few moments, but it's a good bit. "It Must Be Hell" pinches the riff from the band's own "Soul Survivor" from Exile on Main Street. As a result, the song's alright, given the brilliance of the riff, but everyone sounds a bit bored on this track, especially Mick Jagger, whose vocals on the majority of this album sound like they were recorded while he was distracted doing something else, something more interesting, like rearranging his sock drawer or something.

The band sound like they're coasting. It's okay, I suppose, but who wants to waste their time with okay music? There's a whole world of music out there, and who needs the Stones 231st album?
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I can distinctly remember buying this album in 1983 after hearing the decent single 'Undercover Of The Night' and feeling distinctly underwhelmed. There are perhaps two songs here that are substantial enough to be remembered over the longterm - the single already mentioned 'Undercover Of The Night' and 'Too Much Blood' and the others are so insubstantial it's doubtful they could be remembered even the following day.
It's best to think of 'Undercover' as what happened the morning after the night before because this was the first album in a series leading right up to the present day that represents the Stones after they lost their muse.
Every song on this album not already mentioned is a shortterm pleasure (which is perhaps better than being no pleasure at all) - it's ultimately sketchy, underdeveloped and insubstantial where the most exciting aspect is the title of the songs themselves - 'Pretty Beat Up', 'All The Way Down', 'Tie You Up', 'She Was Hot' etc.

Possibly worth a 2.5 though.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
No That Bad
A few things let this album down.
1.The ordering of the songs
2.The complete absence of any ballads what so ever.
3. Read more
Published 11 months ago by John
UNDERRATED UNDERCOVER
Obviously this album isn't as good as anything in their 1968-1972 golden era, and it's not as good as 'It's Only Rock'n'Roll', 'Some Girls' or 'Tattoo You'. Read more
Published 17 months ago by David P. Weber
Rubbish
Too much blood sounds like a phil collins reject song. Why did people in the 80s so like using horn sections.
Published 18 months ago by a
Incredibly under-rated standout album
I am not an ardent Stones fan, but more a listener who loved Miss You when it was out. That edgy slow groove of a track on Some Girls probably indicates the Stones sound I like. Read more
Published 22 months ago by J. Williams
Undercover
Stones album, nuff said;
I particularly like undercover, there is a drum beat that seems to echo and you have to listen really hard to pick it up but sounds awsome
Published on 3 Mar 2010 by M. G. Thompson
The Freshest Sounding Stones Album
The late sixties and seventies albums are considered the classics, but this is the most modern and fun sounding stones of the lot. Read more
Published on 20 April 2008 by B.A.S.
The last proper Stones Album??
Undercover is the last album before World War 3 hit the Stones in 1985. Consequently every album since Mick went solo has been deminished by an uneasy truce and with a few... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2006 by Anthony D. Littlewood
Good Stones 80's
A good rocky stones album which sounds very modern considering it's 20 years old . A interesting mix of blues , soul and rock making all songs on this album quite different from... Read more
Published on 19 May 2003 by Mr. D. Mccluskey
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