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Some Girls
Deluxe ed., Deluxe Edition
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
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 |
Disc: 2
1 | Claudine |
2 | So Young |
3 | Do You Think I Really Care |
4 | When You're Gone |
5 | No Spare Parts |
6 | Don't Be A Stranger |
7 | We Had It All |
8 | Tallahassee Lassie |
9 | I Love You Too Much |
10 | Keep Up Blues |
11 | You Win Again |
12 | Petrol Blues |
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Thirty-three years after it's original release, the re-mastered, expanded edition of SOME GIRLS shows why the 1978 album has often been hailed as the equal of EXILE ON MAIN STREET. SOME GIRLS is both a time capsule and a timeless listen. It features the Stones at their tightest, toughest, at their most vibrant and vital. It's an all-killer, no filler, must-have album. It still packs a punch!
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Universal Music Group and The Rolling Stones are pleased to announce the release on November 21, 2011 of the re-mastered, expanded, Super-Deluxe, Deluxe and Digital editions of Some Girls, the groundbreaking album which introduced the music of the Rolling Stones to a whole new generation of fans.
Justly considered one of the finest works by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Ronnie Wood, Some Girls topped the US charts over three decades ago and remains the best selling album of their storied career. This new package will include some undiscovered gems that include tracks that have recently been unearthed from the Rolling Stones vaults by producer Don Was.
Some Girls is the Rolling Stones' most direct and diverse collection of material, from Mick Jagger's irresistible falsetto on the four-on-the-floor filler Miss You, their eighth US number one, to the country-flavoured Far Away Eyes via the Chuck Berry meets punk snarl of Respectable. And let's not forget the sensuous, Beast Of Burden, one of Keith Richards' finest tunes, which reached number 8 on the US singles chart, the garage rock of Shattered, the album's third US Top 40 entry, and the soulful swagger of the group's version of The Temptations' Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me), another timeless offering in their canon of classic Stones Motown covers.
Following the critical praise and commercial success afforded the re-mastered, expanded editions of Exile On Main Street, which matched the chart performance of the epochal 1972 album, and returned the Rolling Stones to their rightful place at the top of the British charts in 2010, the extensive reissue of Some Girls constitutes the next step in the band's ongoing relationship with Universal Music Group. This started in April 2008 with Shine A Light, the soundtrack from the stunning concert film directed by Martin Scorsese, and has encompassed the reissues of the Rolling Stones re-mastered, post-1971 studio albums, several live albums and classic compilations, and the exhaustive box-set Singles 1971-2006 earlier this year.
Some Girls holds a special place in the history of the Rolling Stones and demonstrates why they remain one of the most thrilling and influential bands of all time. The 1978 album features a Keith Richards' classic Before They Make Me Run, a signature song he stills performs defiantly to this day. Some Girls documented Mick Jagger's love of 70's funk reflected in Miss You, the dance track that wrongfooted many people, made the club and black charts, and made it okay for other mainstream acts at the time to `go disco'.
The 1978 album courted controversy because of Jagger's tongue-in-cheek lyrics on the title track, on Miss You and on Respectable, perceived as a retort to the punk and new wave groups who had borrowed so much attitude and copped so many anti-establishment moves from the Rolling Stones. Ironically, the furore around the elaborate Some Girls package, designed by Peter Corriston and featuring the band members in drag - a nod in the direction of the picture on their 1966 single Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? - and likenesses of Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Raquel Welch, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe that hadn't been legally cleared, necessitating a swift withdrawal and rethink.
Some Girls demonstrated the distinctive and definitive riffing from Keith Richards, with its abundance of unstoppable licks and majestic power chords driving the band into its brand new musical direction. This album not only defined him and his playing, but also defined a new era for the Rolling Stones, which Richards since described as a `sense of renewal'. Some Girls marks the only other time since recording Satisfaction where Richards used an effects pedal to `elevate' the sound.
The album cemented the position of guitarist Ronnie Wood, who had joined in 1975, and added his trademark slide and pedal steel playing to several of the album's most memorable tracks, including When The Whip Comes Down and Shattered. He also co-wrote the Shattered B-side Everything Is Turning To Gold. Some Girls also marked a move to the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris for the Glimmer Twins production team of Jagger and Richards. These factors helped what is arguably the group's most focused and dynamic album, driven by the sans pareil rhythm section of drummer Charlie Watts and bassist Bill Wyman. Some Girls featured fewer guest musicians than any Rolling Stones albums since 1971, but the contributions keyboard-player Ian McLagan, Wood's bandmate in The Faces, saxophone-player Mel Collins, and harmonica-player Sugar Blue - discovered busking on the Paris métro - made Miss You in particular sound brighter than ever.
Amongst many eagerly-awaited extras, the Super-Deluxe edition of Some Girls will include a stunning, previously unseen Helmut Newton photo session from 1978, an essay by esteemed author and journalist Anthony DeCurtis putting the album in its cultural context, and a 7" single of Beast Of Burden/When The Whip Comes Down in its banned sleeve.
Thirty-three years on from its original release, the re-mastered, expanded, Super-Deluxe, Deluxe and Digital editions of Some Girls show why the 1978 album has often been hailed as the equal of Exile On Main Street. Some Girls is both a time capsule and a timeless listen. It features the band at their tightest and toughest, at their most vibrant and vital. It's an all-killer, no-filler, must-have album. It still packs a punch.
SOME GIRLS - now bigger, brighter and better than ever.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.59 x 5 x 0.59 inches; 4.8 ounces
- Manufacturer : Universal Republic
- Item model number : CD278405
- Original Release Date : 2011
- Date First Available : September 15, 2011
- Label : Universal Republic
- ASIN : B005N95JA4
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #15,533 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #325 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #426 in Blues Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #597 in Hard Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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"Miss You", the tough disco single of a lonely man turned predator, is set to coherently-crafted music and becomes the runaway hit single of summer 1978. It's enlivened by Mick Jagger's nifty use of falsetto, Sugar Blue's blues harmonica delivery and Charlie Watts' insistent four on the floor backbeat. "Some Girls" itself acknowledges Mick's rundown as the womanizer he's been in the public eye. His stereotyping can be slightly exasperating but it somehow makes you wonder what he's put himself through. Again Sugar Blue shines on this slow-blues.
The Stones do the best interpretation of a Temptations song they've ever done. They remake the lovely r&b ballad, "Imagination" by transforming it imaginatively into a driving rocker.
"Far Away Eyes" is self-consciously goofy. Nevertheless, Mick takes chances with this complicated and amusing take on a preacher's phony promises. The humorous touches hit strongly with his country and western drawl. If he'd sung it straight, it wouldn't have worked. "Far Away Eyes' flirts closely into parody but you can't go wrong with that catchy chorus and newcomer Ronnie Wood puts in some powerful steel work. A favorite of mine.
"Lies" and "Respectable" aren't exactly punk but they're compatible with punk for its velocity and feel. Mick was sure to be absorbing the NYC punk scene at this time.
There aren't enough superlatives to describe the Stones' final troika of tunes on "Some Girls". But I'm going for it! "Before They Make Me Run" is Keith Richards featured track. It's country-rock in tone on the life he's observed and lived. He reflects on his upcoming trial for heroin possession in Toronto. The renegade that he is, Keith's never had anything against the vicarious.
"Beast of Burden" is deeply introspective and felt. The power dynamic in which Mick has lived is him at his most vulnerable. It picks up where "Blue Turns To Grey" and "Sad Day" left off but has over ten years of growth in it. That guitar intro of Keith's and Charlie at the ready is topflight Rolling Stones. And the guitar weaving between Keith and Ronnie makes it obvious why Ronnie is the perfect fit.
"Shattered" is a prime New York City anthem that gets at precisely the ambivalence so many residents feel and this would seem to include Mick himself. The Stones effortlessly adapt to New Wave textures. And with Charlie's pile-driving beat, the song brings any party to life.
"Some Girls" is the jolt in the arm the Stones needed and they take it all the way to the modern day. This mostly urbanized album is where the band hangs easier and proves that they can no longer be labeled old hat. The dual guitar interplay, the cooking bass never in the way of the drums and the rhythmic lead vocals make simplicity a virtue.
*Dedicated to Charles Robert Watts (1941-2021) - rock's greatest drummer and a classy person. RIP
After the mixed response to 1976's Black and Blue and the tour which saw guitarist Keith Richards get arrested for heroin in 1977 (while recording a live album) and their engineer Keith Harwood perished in a car crash after mixing the live document Love You Live (also a great album). Richards, as well as lead singer Mick Jagger wrote many songs to prove that The Rolling Stones would come back big and this was the first full studio album with guitarist Ron Wood. Some Girls was recorded in late 1977 in France and mixed in New York with Mick and Keith producing and Chris Kimsey handling the recording and mixing. Bass player Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts played well on this album as well (as I found out when I first heard it in October, 1989 after borrowing the original Rolling Stones/Atlantic cassette and then acquiring it in November, 1989 on Rolling Stones/Columbia).
We open with the #1 hit "Miss You" which is a disco rocker (unlike many disco songs, this had no strings nor synths) and features some harmonica by Sugar Blue and a nice sax solo by Mel Collins. Next is the rocker "When the Whip Comes Down" which just rocks and (like the track before it) had Mick, Keith and Woody all on electric guitars. Next is the band's reworking of The Temptations' "Just My Imagination" which the band turned a sappy ballad into a killer rocker with some modified lyrics from Mick and a key change. We follow with the controversial title track which is a bluesy rocker and just rocks (the lyrics may be Politically Incorrect but to Hell with politicians). We close side one with another rocker "Lies" which saw the band embrace the punk movement as well as the disco movement.
We kick the second half off with the country number "Far Away Eyes" which had Mick mocking a southern man in the vocal and this is country done right with steel guitars and hillbilly accent done perfect. Then it's another punkish rocker "Respectable" which just rocks (was not a hit but it rules). Next is the Keith sung rocker "Before They Make Me Run" which is an excellent song sung by Keith. Next is the Top 10 hit rocker "Beast of Burden" which is a great song and would become a staple for the band. The band's ode to 1970s New York and punk scene "Shattered" closes the album and what a great middle finger to the punk rockers who thought The Rolling Stones were dinosaurs.
The Some Girls album did very well hitting #1 making it the sixth Stones studio effort in a row to top Billboard (where it reigned for TWO WEEKS, remember Saturday Night Fever and Grease dominated 1978) and was the second Platinum album for the band (now their best selling US studio release at SIX MILLION). This remastered CD is excellent and it also has all original artwork restored and credits.
In 2011, the album was expanded as a 2-CD set with more outtakes from the Some Girls sessions and some having new vocals added like "No Spare Parts" which its vocals were recorded in 2011 and is an awesome song. "Claudine" sounds like early Elvis but I dig it. "So Young" is a great rocker and has new Jagger vocals for this set. "Do You Really Think I Care" is another winner which has some country elements but a great song. "When You're Gone" follows and is a great bluesy rocker again with a new Mick Jagger vocal. "Don't Be a Stranger" is another catchy song with various different stylings like blues harmonica, reggae drumming and country and rock elements. "We Had it All" has Keith on vocals and was recorded in 1978 with Keith's vocal from the period and a nice ballad. "Tallahassee Lassie" is a great rocker". "I Love You Too Much" is another great rocker. "Keep Up Blues" is a great bluesy rocker. "You Win Again" has new vocals from Mick and Keith and is a great country rocker. "Petrol Blues" is a short blues but excellent way to close this reissue. The digipak comes with a booklet with story on album's creation and photos and credits.
This album is highly recommended.
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