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Some Girls
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Vinyl, January 1, 1978
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Track Listings
| 1 | Miss You |
| 2 | When The Whip Comes Down |
| 3 | Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) |
| 4 | Some Girls |
| 5 | Lies |
| 6 | Far Away Eyes |
| 7 | Respectable |
| 8 | Before They Make Me Run |
| 9 | Beast Of Burden |
| 10 | Shattered |
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Few 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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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 3.54 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Virgin Records Us
- SPARS Code : AAD
- Date First Available : February 6, 2007
- Label : Virgin Records Us
- ASIN : B000000W5P
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #75,188 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #168 in Classic Rock Supergroups
- #1,421 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,682 in Blues Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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HOWEVER, the medium on which they sell it is ABSOLUTELY nasty and will not burn to Itunes, will not play on my Sony (PC) CD player, nor will the copied files upload or play on Windows Media Player, Media Jukebox or Itunes. So you buy the music and do not get to use it.
Programs won't even play the MUSIC purchased on this album from a networked drive that does recognize it. This MUSIC is in some kind of toxic format.
DRM control on this MUSIC appears to be here for the protection of those starving artists. Nonetheless, I'd sure like to use the music that I paid for. This was my last Amazon/Stones purchase. Why buy MUSIC that you can't use the way you want to use it?
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SPITZEN KLANG !
By this point in their career, there is nothing left of the reckless seriousness of Gimme Shelter; they are left apeing their former selves, with decreasing conviction. Some Girls has been praised for stopping the slide, effectively - and it is true that there is more energy and focus than in their three previous releases. Still, when they sound lazy here, they sound lazy. There is none of the lovely rude layabout laziness of Exile On Main Street on Some Girls. Instead, there is an inability to bring songs to a close when their time is done coupled with an inability to finish songs that lack both light and shade and are simply murky.
One or two songs are finished, however. The title track has rightly been criticised for being sexist, and the line about black girls is inexcusable of course - and that is the entire point of the song, which in four minutes of gratuitous obscenity almost rescues the album from mediocrity. It is a successful piece of masculine posturing, like Under My Thumb and Dear Doctor and the rest of them. Beast of Burden is also funny and swings; it is one of the very rare instances of Jagger messing around with his voice that actually works.
Miss You is also finished, but is a little over-exposed and cannot bear the weight it carries at the front of the record. Nonetheless, the line about the Puerto Rican girls is a hint of what Jagger could have sounded like more often at this point, had he put his mind to it. He sounds amused and enthused, like the kind of friend who wants you to get into trouble because, in a weird way, it would be good for you. To be frank - and most people wouldn't own up to this - I prefer Dance, the opener of Emotional Rescue, to Miss You, even though it is obvious that Dance is actually an attempt to repeat the success of Miss You as a faux disco number.
When the Whip Comes Down also has great lines and, like the title track, almost drags the album over the boundary line into something punchy and great. But too much else is lightweight, particularly Lies and Respectable but most of all Faraway Eyes, which can't help but make you think with longing of Dead Flowers and Country Honk and that other great country joker, Dear Doctor. Likewise, the rather tired and draggy Temptations cover only serves to remind you of the great soul covers on the mid-60s albums, particularly Mercy Mercy on Out of Our Heads. Shattered has been revered for sounding like a response to punk, but like Respectable and Lies it doesn't really go anywhere. On an album of stronger songs, Before They Make Me Run would be happily lowkey. As it is, there feels to be something lacking from it. There is a sad resignation to the riffing, as if the guitarist knows his best days are over and this is just a footnote to a great career.
That said, this album certainly contains it fair share of really good songs: Miss You, Beast of Burden, Respectable, Far Away Eyes for example. It’s an album to have a good time to on a hot summer day, with not a Mr D in sight, nor any other being in need of Sympathy. (And Charlie is especially great throughout).
In my opinion the Virgin Records remaster 1994 CDV2734 is the best. Later remasters are I think rather heavy handed.
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