The Rolling Stones

Generally regarded as a creative low point for humanity, It's Only Rock 'n Roll does offer fans that strange sensation only the Stones can give. The title cut rules. "Short and Curlies" doesn't.

It's Only Rock 'n Roll is a decadent album because it invites us to dance in the face of its
own despair. It's a desperate album that warns at the end of one side that "... dreams of the
nighttime will vanish by dawn," and on the other that a Kafkaesque "someone is listening,
good night, sleep tight." It's a rock 'n' roll album because it's so goddamn violent. At its
simplest level the album deals with the psychosis of being in a rock 'n' roll band... More >