What makes Dirty Work a great record is it was the last album where they didn't give a damn about pleasing the masses. It's the last Stones' album that's rough around the edges. There aren't any Brown Sugars to be found, but it's not the turd everyone seems to like to think it was. They're also not playing catch up with Hair Metal here. There's '80s production, but there's no Disco, Dance or New Wave flavored songs. Voodoo Lounge and onward would see the Stones trying to recapture their early '70s sound, tailoring their songwriting and style to meet fan and press expectations-and to great success.ĭirty Work isn't a classic by any means, but more than any record, it's the Stones adapting to changing musical times, flourishes of '80s production, without jumping on any band wagons as they had with Emotional Rescue and Undercover. It's immediate follow up- Steel Wheels-while a great album, is a slick, polished, perfect late '80s adult rock record, and it pleased the masses. So, what is Dirty Work? IMO, it's the last Stones album that doesn't try to play it safe. Dirty Work could easily have been the Stones' final record had the allure of a massive moneymaking tour not allowed Jagger and Richards to forget the problems in their marriage. The band, which hadn't toured since 1982, wouldn't meet again until 1988, and would not tour again until 1989-The Stones were, for a time, broken up. No tour was done in support of the album, and the Stones' dove into their solo careers. It was recorded as the band was disintegrating in mid-late 1985 Founding member, pianist and the guy who kept things glued together, Ian Stewart, died during it's recording, and the relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards fully collapsed after several years of friction. The Stones themselves like to pretend it doesn't exist, excluding any song from it on any compilation discs. Dirty Work is probably the most maligned of all the Stones' albums.
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