Rolling Stones - Dirty Work [Flac Cue][TntVillage]

Artist...............: The Rolling Stones
Album................: Dirty Work
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1986
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) & Acer CD-R/RW 4X4X32
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 58 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: TntVillage

Ripped by............: leonenero on 11/05/2014
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Tracklisting
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1. One Hit (To the Body)[04.44]
2. Fight [03.10]
3. Harlem Shuffle [03.26]
4. Hold Back [03.53]
5. Too Rude [03.13]
6. Winning Ugly [04.33]
7. Back to Zero [04.00]
8. Dirty Work [03.53]
9. Had It with You [03.20]
10. Sleep Tonight [05.14]
11. Key to the Highway [00.32] Bonus Track By Ian Stewart.

Playing Time.........: 40.02
Total Size...........: 245,88 MB

In March 1986, The Rolling Stones' cover of "Harlem Shuffle" (their first lead single from a studio album not to be a Jagger/Richards original since the earliest days) was released to a receptive audience, reaching #13 in the UK and #5 in the US, though it did not receive the same amount of exposure as previous hits.[citation needed] The follow-up single "One Hit (To the Body)" was a top 30 hit and featured a revealing video of Jagger and Richards seeming to trade blows.

Dirty Work was released a week after "Harlem Shuffle," reaching #4 in the UK and US (going platinum there), but the critical reaction was less than enthusiastic.[citation needed] Some reviewers felt the album was slight in places, with weak, generic songwriting from Richards and Wood and puzzlingly abrasive vocals from Jagger.[who?] Some felt Jagger was saving his best material for his solo records, though the critical reaction to those releases was muted as well.[citation needed] Dirty Work's critical standing has only marginally improved over the years, perhaps because it lacks any favourable hits.

However, in 1986, Robert Christgau called Dirty Work "a bracing and even challenging record [which] innovates without kowtowing to multi-platinum fashion or half-assed pretension. It's honest and makes you like it."In 2004, Stylus Magazine's "On Second Thoughts" feature assessed the album as "a tattered, embarrassed triumph, by far the most interesting Stones album since Some Girls at every level: lyrical, conceptual, instrumental." The re-evaluation of the album finds that despite its change of style to a then current 80s-style production and experimentation, the album features "the most venomous guitar sound of the Stones' career, and Jagger's most committed vocals."

Keith said every song on this album was structured so it could be played live with a view to touring to support the album, before Mick decided he wasn't going to tour after all.(As mentioned, Mick later cited his concerns about Charlie's health for not doing so.)

The album produced a hit for the Rolling Stones, their cover of "Harlem Shuffle", and featured a number of guest appearances, including contributions by Tom Waits, Patti Scialfa, Bobby Womack, and Jimmy Page on "One Hit (To the Body)".


This album is dedicated to Ian Stewart. "Thanks, Stu, for 25 years of boogie-woogie".
An unlisted and uncredited excerpt from "Key to the Highway" (Big Bill Broonzy/Charles Segar - 0:33) closes the album. It was played by Stewart, who died shortly after the recording sessions for the album had ended.