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| Tattoo You | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Rolling Stones
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 81853
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 946337675224
EAN: 0094633767522
ASIN: B000AM6OLC
Release Date: August 30, 2005
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Condition: BRAND NEW, CUTOUT FACTORY SEALED!!
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| Tracks:
| • | Start Me Up | | • | Hang Fire | | • | Slave | | • | Little T & A | | • | Black Limousine | | • | Neighbours | | • | Worried About You | | • | Tops | | • | Heaven | | • | No Use in Crying | | • | Waiting on a Friend |
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 Raucous rock and stirring ballads March 21, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Tattoo You contains some raucous rock 'n roll and a couple of beautiful, soulful ballads. Although not considered to be amongst their very best albums, there is enough here to make it a worthwhile purchase.
The opener, Start Me Up, is the Stones at their high powered best with its killer riff and insistent rhythm, whilst the melodic Hang Fire with its impressive vocals comes a close second. These were big hits and can be found on many Stones compilations.
The bluesy Black Limousine and the reggae-influenced Slave aren't bad either, but ballads like Tops and Heaven fall somewhat beneath their high standards. This may be forgiven though, since the closing number, the poignant Waiting On A Friend sees them at their soulful best. It's a moving ballad on a par with earlier great moments such as Wild Horses and Dead Flowers from 1971s Sticky Fingers album.
Overall Tattoo You is thus an uneven work but the aforementioned highlights more than make up for the few tepid and uninspired ballads. I give it four stars but that is judging it by the high standards of their own work.
 Newly Remastered CD = Excellence December 29, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought the LP version of this album the DAY it was released and played it on my Technics turntable again and again. Now, 25 years later, listening to this newly-remastered CD version made me realize just how wonderfully produced the album was for its time. Maybe some of the songs aren't as memorable as those on BB, LIB or Exile, but one thing's undeniable--the sound quality never got better than this for the band. The 1980s would bring a lot of production opportunities that the band and its producers were probably right to try out at the time, but with mixed results. So this is (fittingly) the last great album of the 1970s Stones . . . That's right, since most of these tracks were written (and occasionally even recorded) in the 1970s, so if you've never heard anything from the album besides the 2 - 3 big hits, fear not. There's no "Undercover of the Night" or "Winning Ugly" types of filler here.
This is the real deal, and if you have the chance, listen with headphones to get the best audio experience for the band's best-sounding album. Bar none.
A Delicious Record, Windows Notwithstanding June 11, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm a Mac person, love my iBook to death. Got an iMac with a big hard drive, got it stuffed full of Rock and Roll. I don't like Windows almost as much as I don't like disco. So it was a great groan I had, followed by a long sigh, when I realized that the Greatest Group on Earth again sold out. This time to Microsoft when they allowed them to use this song to advertise the Start button or whatever it is they call it in Windows. Anyway, that not withstanding, it's just a powerful rock song, as is "Hang Fire" and "Little T & A." "No Use in Crying" is a song I play often, but the album's closer "Waiting on a Friend," is my favorite on this record. It's just a delicious song on a delicious record. This album opens with a bang and closes with a swoon, can't get better than that. Oh well, they made this record long before Windows was invented, so it really shouldn't bother me that they allowed "Start Me Up" to be used years later they way they did, but it kind of does.
The Last Great Rolling Stones Album September 25, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't believe the negative reviews. Tattoo You is one of The Rolling Stones' greatest albums! Some say that Exile on Main Street is the last great Rolling Stones album, others say it's Some Girls, but Tattoo You is really the last one to have songs which have remained unsurpassed.
Unlike Some Girls and Emotional Rescue, there's not a trace of disco on this one. Infact, the album could be considered a sequel of sorts to Sticky Fingers. Many of the songs mirror ones from that album. Instead of 'Brown Sugar,' we're given 'Start Me Up,' which was the Stones' best rock single since then. Instead of 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking,' we're given 'Slave,' a jam that also features a superb blend of guitar and saxophone. Indeed, the sax makes its most triumphant return here, courtesy of the great Sonny Rollins and Bobby Keyes. Instead of 'You Gotta Move,' we're given 'Black Limosine,' and so on. Also like Sticky Fingers, Tattoo You features just as many rockers as slow numbers.
To dismiss Tattoo You as simply an album of out-takes is ignorant. It delivers in a way that no other Stones album has been able to since, partly because it is the last one to have that "classic Stones" sound. In addition, it can't be denied that great talent went into the tracks. Tattoo You features no less than 4 amazing gutiarists - Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Wayne Perkins, and Mick Taylor. The book "According to the Rolling Stones" even lists Pete Townshend among the credits. Perkins does an awesome guitar solo on 'Worried About You' and Taylor appears on 'Tops' and 'Waiting on a Friend.'
Considering what came after it (Undercover, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels), it's no wonder that Tattoo You is considered the last great Stones album. Steel Wheels is better than Undercover and Dirty Work, but not great. Voodoo Lounge, while not a complete failure, is littered with filler and Bridges to Babylon has hip-hop overtones in spots. Only until A Bigger Bang did the band finally release an album that was fairly consistent in quality. Tattoo You is definitely worth buying and I also recommend Still Life, an underrated live album from their 1981-1982 tour.
ONE LASTING IMPRESSION June 15, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although never less than the most visible of rock bands, the Stones were in the midst of a commercial resurgence that began with Some Girls in 1978. Tattoo You (1981) remains the last album of the Stones' classic period and for good reason. Not only does it contain their last true classic song in "Start Me Up" but it also has the tender "Waiting on a Friend", the melodic pop rock of "Hang Fire" and Keith's ode to his newfound love in the catchy "Little T&A". "Start Me Up" was unavoidable on the radio but it's highest charting position was number 2 for several weeks never quite hitting number 1. There was only one song during this time that received more airplay than "Start Me Up" and this song prevented it from topping the charts. Anyone know what it is? I'll tell you at the end.
Upon release the album was divided into a rock side and a ballad side and the first half contains some of the punchiest rockers the Stones have done but the ballad side contains a lot of material that we wouldn't normally get all in one place on a Stones record...and the ballads are gorgeous ("Worried About You", "Tops" and the ghostly "Heaven"). I remember not liking "Heaven" very much and one day in the summer, after a long day at the beach with my then girlfriend, we began our ride home. The sun was going down and we were driving in my convertible over the bridge that takes you over the water and back to 'civilization'. "Heaven" began to play and the whole atmosphere of the song just reflected the whole moment. The evening sun beating down upon the ocean as we crossed over it with the top down on a warm summer evening. That image is forever tattooed in my brain when I hear that song. It captured the moment as perfectly as any song could.
Critics of this release often cite that the material was a patchwork of leftovers and new songs that they put together for an album. This may be true but the Stones are not the first band to do this. Elo's "Do Ya" was written before ELO was even formed, Van Halen did "House of Pain" on 1984 when that song predated their first album in 1978. The list goes on...Hey, if you wrote the song, you deserve to use it. Sometimes the timing just isn't right.
That being said, if you're new to the Stones this is a good place to start. It's got more of an MOR feel to it than any of their other records and the main reason why casual fans seem to prefer it to their other recordings, even the classics. The Stones always had hits, but they were never as commercial on one recording as they were here. Commercial doesn't always mean 'better' but in this instance, it's timeless rock that they haven't been able to top since.
ANSWER: "Private Eyes" by Hall and Oates
Yeah, I know..but nobody ever said life was fair...
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