Record Condition: Good to Great (very few crackles)Review: Some albums are good enough to make a grown man cry. From the get go, "Tattoo You" lays down the law and sets the ground rules for what is ultimately one of the best-crafted rock albums of its time. Perhaps it is of extra importance to me, seeing as how I was born the same year of its release, but this album got the world's attention for two reasons. One, it was the freaking Stones! Two, there is no pretense in this album trying to be something it was not, and where many aging rockers engage in drab collaborations and fantasy explorations, the Stones came back to what they do the best. They told a mass media filled with ex-disco strutters, new wave pretty boys, and yacht rockers to go "f" themselves, yet somehow kept the pop sensibility they never in their many years could tarnish. 9.5 out of 10. Delicious.
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