The Rolling Stones: Ranking The Albums Best To Worst

4. Voodoo Lounge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXy_Bs_da3Q Date Of Original Release: 1994 Key Tracks: Love is Strong In which the Stones react to the rise of grunge by... doing absolutely nothing. The music scene had undergone seismic changes by the time this album came down the pike, but you wouldn't know it by this stodgy, traditional affair. The Stones doggedly ignore all the musical trends exploding around them and produce this workmanlike disc, of which only "Love is Strong" has enough of the old Stones swagger to merit repeat listening. This tour lasted forever and made wheelbarrows full of money, encouraging the Stones to continue to record albums.

3. Bridges To Babylon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2Zjwg7qJQ Date Of Original Release: 1997 Key Tracks: Has Anybody Seen My Baby, Saint of Me What is there that can be said about yet another late-period Stones LP? Not much, honestly. It's the second album in a row produced by Don Was, and as such continues the previous albums aesthetic mediocrity, with weak songs being buried in an ocean of overproduction. Some of the now-obligatory remixes released in this period by some fancy schmancy "electronica" DJ's manage to shock some life into these corpses of songs but that's hardly a recommendation. Even the much-ballyhooed (at the time) collaboration with the Dust Brothers on "Might As Well Get Juiced" is pretty nondescript. Really, you should know what to expect by now.