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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 129989
Released: July 26, 1994 |
| Our Price: $5.23 |
| Used Price: $2.34 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Dirty Work Track Listing:
1. One Hit (To the Body)
2. Fight
3. Harlem Shuffle
4. Hold Back
5. Too Rude
6. Winning Ugly
7. Back to Zero
8. Dirty Work
9. Had It with You
10. Sleep Tonight
11. Piano Instrumental
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered reissue of the veteran British Rock band's 1986 album.
Dirty Work Reviews:
Underated album ages well 
2009-11-20 - I bought this album in CD format to fill out my Stones collection. As I listened to it, I thought that, while it isn't the best that the Stones have done, it's a lot better than the critics give it credit for. Accept the Rolling Stones for what they are--no frills industrial strength hard rock--and it becomes a rather enjoyable album.
1986 The Rolling Stones record on CD. 
2009-10-23 - Not the best Stones record, but worth checking out, nonetheless. At this point in time Heavy Metal was really flourishing, perhaps that was a reflection of where music was going in general. So, perhaps this Stones record could have been easily overlooked and lost in the shuffle, the Harlem Shuffle, that is.
The Rolling Stones Stripped Down 
2009-09-06 - The sound on this is mostly straight gritty rock n roll. A great illustration of this is "Had it with you". Probably one of the strongest tracks on the album. It sounds like youre sitting in a small club getting a direct hit by drums,guitars,and Micks harp. No overdubbing here just straight forward rock. The first single "Harlem Shuffle" really sounds like a sound track for a strip club. It just has that feel with the beat and sex drenched lyrics. The album ends with "Sleep Tonight" Keith's lead vocals double tracked on some spots and I think Mick on backing. A really really nice ballad. Everyone has there opinion and I think the low scores are not warranted but to each his own.
Not Bad For A Distracted Effort
2008-11-12 - Though Mick was absent from much of the sessions to work on his own solo album and Keith and Ronnie did the bulk of the work, Dirty Work is quite underrated. Sure, the synthesizer sounds extremely dated, but "Fight" is raw and memorable, "Too Rude" is a lovely Keith/Jimmy Cliff duet, Keith's "Sleep Tonight" is a warm invitation to wintertime clinical depression, and "Harlem Shuffle" of course glides along nicely and was a U.S. #4. It sounds as if they could have been on the verge of integrating the '80s sound to the Stones brand of grittiness if they hadn't been at each others throats, disbanded for three years, and truly gone "Back To Zero."
Headed for the heartbreak, headed for the blues... 
2008-09-16 - `Dirty Work' is my least favorite Stones album ever and it's not even close. And I actually like it better then when it first came out! The whole thing just sounds forced which when you read the history of the recording that seems to be the case exactly. Mick Jagger sounds like he couldn't be bothered and his lyrics and vocals just plain suck. Keith and Ronnie soldiered on and in the past that seemed to work but the songs just aren't good enough. One good decision that Mick made was not to tour behind the album which in hindsight was genius. There are good songs and after a couple of plays you can get into them but then you have to brainwash yourself into forgetting the band's immense legacy which of course is impossible. "One Hit" is a good song; probably the best but wouldn't be filler on `Some Girls'. "Harlem Shuffle" is a joke and an embarrassment as a single release. I like "Too Rude" and "Sleep Tonight" both sung by Keith who begins to sing on more than one cut per album which would continue into the present. "Dirty Work" and "Had It with You" aren't terrible but God....again Mick is the problem! Avoid `Dirty Work' unless you are a Stones completist, even `Emotional Rescue' is classic compared to the album that almost broke up the band.
