Every Rolling Stones album ranked, from worst to best

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Set us as preferred In 1975, 31-year-old Mick Jagger told People magazine that “I’d rather be dead than sing ‘Satisfaction’ at 45.” The Rolling Stones’ frontman is still very much alive, despite having performed that song in concert hundreds of times since then, most recently in 2024 during the band’s “Hackney Diamonds” tour.Jagger was 80 at the time.“Time waits for no one,” as the Stones once sang, but apparently that doesn’t apply to the “World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.” To paraphrase the group’s first Top 10 U.S.

hit in 1964, time is on their side.Yes, it is.Consider the fates of the British Invasion superstars who emerged from England alongside the Stones in the 1960s.

The Beatles broke up in 1970.The Kinks dissolved in 1996.

The original Animals imploded in 1966.The Who called it quits in 1982 but has reunited repeatedly, including for its recent North American farewell tour.

And then there’s the indestructible, indefatigable Rolling Stones.With the partnership of Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards still front and center, the Stones will release their 27th studio album, “Foreign Tongues,” on Friday.

Over the decades, they have produced classics such as “Exile on Main St.” and “Some Girls,” mediocrity like “Steel Wheels,” and abominations such as “Dirty Work.” We rank the group’s six-decade studio output from worst to first.All albums are the U.S.

editions.27.‘Dirty Work’ (1986)Never has an album cover so captured a band’s mood.

“Dirty Work” features a photo of sullen, unsmiling Rolling Stones looking like they’d rather be anywhere else.The music reflects that disinterest.

Apart from the cover of “Harlem Shuffle,” nothing here is memorable.It’s no surprise that the Stones nearly broke up during this period.26.

‘Undercover’ (1983) Th...