It's Only Rock 'N Roll 1974 Album

The Rolling Stones

This is the first Stones album where I can safely say - yes, listening to Tattoo You or Emotional Rescue would be a reasonably similar experience. It has some decent, yet fairly disposable up-tempo rockers, throwaway-type ballads, a few genre diversions here and there, but nothing that would tell you the Stones are anywhere close to the cutting edge of pop music anymore. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" is the track that has endured beyond the album, and truth be told, I really like it, too. It's fun, as a tongue-in-cheek take on the Stones' classic '68-69 period of stuff. "Fingerprint File" is really neat, too - a souped-up, funky trip that sounds like it could play in the background of a 70's TV cop show, or something close.