20. Undercover (1983)

The last in a lengthy run of rejuvenated Stones releases between 1978 and 1983, Undercover is a difficult, troubling, and underrated album. Leapfrogging between musical genres with utter insouciance, including soul, dub, and straight rock, the band is once again able to make its creative wanderlust and differing interests into a virtue. The record is largely doom and death obsessed — “Too Much Blood” laments the violence that is the stock and trade of both daily news and contemporary culture. Undercover is not one of the great collections of Stones songs, but it is a sterling exemplar of their still revolutionary spirit.