'Well I'm telling you they never got it right / Until they put out Undercover of the Night'

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The Rolling Stones' November 1983 single release 'Undercover of the Night' represents the shining pinnacle of their illustrious career.
Though there are many lesser gems in their earlier canon (and arguably some since?), all of these songs pre-1983 are merely building blocks towards this, the perfect summation of their ouvre.

Discuss.

― friend of the Stinky Munchkins (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 October 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Boringly enough I like "Satisfaction" best.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 16 October 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like, after "Hang Fire", you could tell that they were only just getting started.

And once "She Was Hot" came out, everything melted inside me.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 16 October 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Undercover is great. I love the single and the album.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 17 October 2003 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"too much blood" is my fave off undercover. title track is good, too. but neither is their best ever -- not even close.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Friday, 17 October 2003 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

these days i'm leaning more towards "time waits for no one".

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 17 October 2003 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon Price started this thread while moonlighting from the onetouchfootball forums. I'm convinced of it.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

http//:www.stinkymunchkins.com

― another friend of the munchkins, Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Those stickers on the album cover were kinda fun - not as much fun as the "Sticky Fingers" zipper or the "Satanic Majesties" 3-D thingy, but more fun than the "Exile" postcards and "Dirty Work" red cellophane.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 November 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Too bad they couldn't teach Mick to pronounce "desaparecidos."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 November 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I love the stones and have all their 60s and 70s stuff and tattoo you, yet have never heard this record. I always assumed it was shit. Am I wrong?

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 11 November 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

"Undercover" is one of their better late period singles. I'll give you that. But not more than that. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Well yes but my name is don, and I'm standing on Bridges To Babylon.

― don, Friday, 12 November 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago)

I do believe the the title of this thread is completely correct.

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:11 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.stinkymunchkins.com

― another friend of the munchkins, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

OPO Rolling Stones: One Hit To The Body

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I love "Too Much Blood" even though none of the Stones play on it (gotta love Sly & Robbie); and "She Was Hot" is a fine companion piece to "She's So Cold." The rest is meh.

My love for Dirty Work is well-documented.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

I agree with the premise of this thread.

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 05:58 (five years ago)

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