UNDERCOVER
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UNDERCOVER
Undercover is the 17th British and 19th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1983. After their preceding studio album, Tattoo You(1981), which was mostly patched together from a selection of outtakes, Undercover was their first release of all new recordings in the 1980s. With the advent of the MTV generation, the band attempted to re-invent themselves for a new era. It was the last Rolling Stones album to be released in Ian Stewart's lifetime.-Wikipedia
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
Well, let's just say that this album often sounds ridiculous for all sorts of reasons.
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Only Solitaire
Electronic and over-raunchy. The music gets lost behind these two factors.
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The Guardian
Most post-70s Stones albums seem rooted in a power struggle between Richards’ traditionalism and Jagger’s desire to stay relevant. On Undercover, Jagger won: a lot of the then-cutting edge 80s production falls flat, but when it does work, as on the hip-hop-influenced opener Undercover of the Night and Too Much Blood, you can really hear what he was driving at.
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Robert Christgau
But I'm such a churl I'm only grateful for good songs, and these are as tired and witless and nasty as the rest. Their worst studio album.
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Adrian's Music Reviews
excellent album that is just fun to listen to
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Don Ignacio
My first complaint about this album is the production absolutely BLOWS.
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Mark's Music Reviews
Weird how half of the album can be so fun, and the other half so pathetic, eh? Crazy world we live in.
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Rolling Stones
Undercover, their twenty-third album (not counting anthologies and outtakes), reassembles, in the manner of mature masters of every art, familiar elements into exciting new forms.
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Magnet Magazine
there are more than a few stunning moments throughout, and it’s, dare I say, the last quality studio album in the band’s history
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All Music
Even with all the careening musical eclecticism, what distinguishes Undercover is its bleak, nihilistic attitude -- it's teeming with sickness, with violence, kinky sex, and loathing dripping from almost every song.
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Blog Critics
I do not play this album as I do with many of the other Rolling Stones releases, and that is the most telling criticism
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Countdown Kid
The effort is always there (although you can hear it a bit too often,) but, save for an excellent one-two punch at the beginning and a decent closing duo, the focus wavers.
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Alan's Album Reviews
it’s a kind of middling Stones record
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Shabby Road
It’s the last album where the Stones sound like they were really trying, and that has to count for something.
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People
The production by Chris Kimsey, Jagger and Keith Richards is tight and inventive, while preserving the essential energy these 10 songs need to roll with the verbal punches. It’s a brazen batch of tunes; no apologies are asked, none are given.
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Alltime Records
The Rolling Stones are now starting to suck. Big time.
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