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I like the album but it's just covers so I can't give it any higher than a 3

I mean it’s fine, but there’s nothing original here. It’s just all covers. The songs are good the performances are entertaining, but that’s like me putting Weezer’s Teal Album on the list. Just because it’s The Stones doesn’t mean it needs to be here.

I'm sorry "The Rolling Stones", I think you're great, I really do, but this album of generally competent covers isn't it. A nice enough listen, but completely uninspired.

2.5 rounded down.

They obviously get better and more interesting, but this is still quite an enjoyable collection.

3.5/5

This isn't bad, but the only thing that makes this album important is that it's the debut album by The Rolling Stones. It's almost entirely covers, and none of them are bad, but they're also nothing to write home about either. It's a perfectly cromulent album of coversongs performed by a bunch of musicians who went on to create much more interesting and important music later on in their career.

I mean… how to rate this?
I love the Stones and I love the blues…so clearly I enjoy the heck out of this album… but these songs don’t really belong to them.

This should not be on the list.
Where the heck is Some Girls???!

Really not rolling yet when they released this

Day 59
This isn’t the worst album I’ve had so far but it is easily the most pointless.

This exercise is proving that there are actually not 1001 albums that you ‘must hear’. There’s probably 4 or 5 Stones albums that fit that descriptor better than this one. I’m convinced the author got to 900 odd albums then just threw in an extra couple by any big name artists.

Absolutely nothing here that isn’t done better elsewhere.

Pretty bland.

I enjoyed this. Bluesy rock that is pretty easy listening. 4/5

The best Rolling Stones album!!! Focused, passionate and played from the heart. So good, and I was completely unfamiliar with it. No notes as they say.

3.75

love the rolling stones, but this first endeavor wasn’t super interesting

I think I like early Stones more than their later stuff, but they definitely haven’t found themselves at this point. This was interesting to listen to, but probably not something I’ll revisit too often.

I’ll put this as diplomatically as possible: this is dogshit. If you take The Rolling Stones, a shitty, overrated band, and have them cover Buddy Holly and crappy 50s songs, you get this album. It is a bad album. A very bad album.

The musicianship here is solid but not outstanding, which is a problem when your album has one original song. Why did I need to listen to this over the many albums snubbed that were more deserving of a spot? The one original song, "Tell Me" was rather meh.

As a debut album, it's fine, solid album. But as the debut for one of if not the greatest and most influential bands of all time, it's also very interesting. All but one song on this entire album is covers, and the one that isn't in my opinion is the best, and most songs covered are RnB hits of the time. It's an insight of their style and influence all in one in a really great way. The album just might be fine, but in the times to come they will be much more than a "fine" band.

The more I listen to the Rolling Stones the less I consider them to be a hard rock band

Nice Anglicisation of the blues making it more accessible.

love early stones