Title: Overrated
Product review: The common critical line is that "Tattoo You" is a comeback from the Stones' mid-70's decline and their last great studio album. Simply put-pure unadulterated bunk. Apart from the classic (if overplayed) "Start Me Up", the lovely "Waiting on a Friend", and the churning funk of "Slave," this is a collection of Stones-by-numbers, songs where the band is merely going through the motions. (As a side note, isn't it interesting that the best songs on the record date from their supposed mid-70's "dreck" period, yet the newer tracks are filler?) It's inconceivable that anyone could consider such babble as "Little T&A" or "Neighbors" classics, especially when compared to underrated earlier tracks like "If You Can't Rock Me" or "Crazy Mama." And the ballads are tepid one-dimensional MOR, especially shocking from a band capable of the beauty of "Winter" and "Time Waits For No One." Skip this overhyped mess and start with their 70's classics.
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