The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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Artist: The Rolling StonesEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1994-07-26
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Miss You
- When The Whip Comes Down
- Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
- Some Girls
- Lies
- Far Away Eyes
- Respectable
- Before They Make Me Run
- Beast Of Burden
- Shattered
Free Music Notes for Some Girls
Free Music Review: A great comeback album
Hit: 5 Stars
After having produced five great albums in a row--Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out (A concert album), Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main Street--the Rolling Stones put out a series of lesser works. Each had some excellent songs on them, but they were pretty uneven, certainly not up to the standards of the "Fab Five" that preceded them. "Goat's Head Soup" had songs like "Angie"; "It's Only Rock and Roll" had the title song; "Black and Blue" had some good cuts, too. But nothing like those earlier albums mentioned above.
And then "Some Girls" came out and, for an instant, it was the glory days of the Rolling Stones again. Starting off with "Miss You," the CD begins strongly. Song after song appears, each strong and some "top of their game" songs. Among special cuts for me. . . .
Their cover version of The Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)" is terrific. The Stones have often done justice to the work of other songwriters and performers (e.g., many of the blues songs that they have covered over time compare well with blues greats who originated them), and this is another example. The lascivious "Some Girls" offended (quite understandably) many listeners, but it is also fine rock and roll.
Keith's obligatory solo, "Before They Make Me Run" is one of his better turns. One reviewer many years ago referred to this as his "non-apology" for his lifestyle. "Beast of Burden" is another terrific song.
And the CD closes with the rip roaring "Shattered." Compare with their earlier "Hot Stuff." The term "Shattered" recurs throughout this cut, illustrating their perceptions of New York. One line:
"Bite the Big Apple--don't mind the maggots."
Another: "Rats on the Westside, bedbugs uptown."
Hardly a Chamber of Commerce ad for New York City! But the song has the kind of life that drips from the tracks of those great five albums in a row. Great way to close the album! Yep, this is a real deal Rolling Stones album. Wish there were a lot more like this after its appearance in 1978, but most since then have featured a few terrific songs with a drop-off in excitement and quality after those (I have already reviewed one of the latter fine albums--"Bigger Bang" and I'll probably take a shot at a couple other choice efforts later on, too).
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A fresh, uncompromising attempt to incorporate 1978 pop techniques into the band's familiar sound, Some Girls opens with the disco sass of "Miss You" and closes with the self-destructive punk of "Shattered." (Both songs, especially "Miss You," with its distinctive Mel Collins sax solo, remain live showstoppers.) So the Stones declared credibility in the dance circuit without sacrificing their hard-rock reputation. Though the anti-love "Beast of Burden" and the stylishly slow "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" continue to rack up the most airplay, the obscurities stand up surprisingly well. Worth replaying: Keith Richards's rickety rocker "Before They Make Me Run." --Steve KnopperFew rock stars have played in the intersection of real life, image, and fans' imaginations as smartly (and comically) as Mick Jagger does on Some Girls. With the Stones again running at top pace, Jagger aims his gimlet eye at his and the boys' gossip-column lives (the Chuck Berryish "Respectable," the archly blues-wailing title track), his collapsing marriage (where was Bianca when Mick's pals were trying to hook him up with the "Puerto Rican girls who're just dyin' to meetchoo?) and the mores and modes of New York society in the Studio 54 era (practically everything here). Slot in Keith's lament "Before They Make Me Run," and this is one of the greatest Stones albums. --Rickey Wright
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