10 Great Bands With One Terrible Album

The biggest enemy for any rock band is not really any of the labels. Although the suits that try to dictate whatever you do have made a lot of questionable decisions over the years, you can't blame them for wanting the best for you. No, the cruelest enemy for a musician is time, and that definitely caught up with one of rock's greatest bands in the '80s.

Then again, if you looked at the success of something like Start Me Up, you would have thought that the Rolling Stones were going to work their way into the next decade with ease, having that same retro rock and roll work just as well for the MTV era.

As the decade wore on though, Dirty Work is them at their most forgettable, even with all of the eye catching music videos. If you listen to something like Harlem Shuffle, Mick Jagger just sounds like a has been who's trying to fit in with what the youths are saying.

Don't just take this author's word for it though...take Ronnie Wood's. When talking about this album, Ronnie has always stood by the fact that it's one of their worst, attributing the inclusion of his songs as the prime example. As he told it, if he has a lot of songs on the record, that means that Mick and Keith's songwriting isn't working properly.

Compared to the kind of electric performances of the '70s, this is one of the first times where it felt like the Stones were living off of nostalgia instead of writing anything new.