THE ROLLING STONES: Doom And Gloom

Guitar/drums/bass-wise, this is easily the best Stones single since “Start Me Up,” but Jagger’s trite lyric sinks this into the depths of sad, septuagenarian hackery. He makes a few limp stabs at being topical and relevant before lazily falling back on the same old tired ticks and tropes  he’s been leaning on like a crutch since the mid-70s. After namechecking war, famine, flood, greed and ruin on the verses, the big resolve on the chorus is…wait for it…”Baby won’t you daaaaaaaance with me.” Jagger, please.