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Some Girls ... by far. And the Some Girls track is one of their all-time greats, imo.
I agree with you ... not even close. Tattoo You has great moments ... Start Me Up, Slave, Black Limo, Worried About You. But Some Girls is entirely great! Songs like Some Girls, Shattered, Beast, Respectable, Lies, Miss You blow away anything on TY.
Had to correct a small error on your post that suggested Lies was a good song... and I don't know if you noticed but you quoted your own post.
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Lies is a great rock song. Angry, bitter, and full of attitude. Great guitars, backing vocals and some great angry singing from Jagger. I dig it! Fits with Some Girls perfectly!
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Some Girls was a concentrated artistic statement. New material with the band playing it to the hilt. A collaborative creative endeavor, from the artwork, backing vocals, to the production. The songs were an explosion of creativity, which came seemingly out of nowhere. New York oozes out of the pores of Some Girls. With slashing guitars, biting lyrics, gallows humor, and some of Jagger's strongest vocals.
Tattoo You is good, but it is a hodgepodge of older songs, with a few newer songs thrown in. Jagger was steering this ship, and not a lot of collaboration like Some Girls. And the production is too bright, and crisp. There are some great songs on TTY, but Some Girls is a far more cohesive statement of rock n' roll.
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ryanpow
I don't get the hate for lies....fun lyrics, its catchy and has that really cool punchy ending...
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I don't get the hate for lies. While not the strongest track on the album, it fits in perfectly. Good playing by everyone in the band, fun lyrics, its catchy and has that really cool punchy ending. I think I said this exact same thing in another thread about this song, oh well.
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whitem8
Some Girls was a concentrated artistic statement. New material with the band playing it to the hilt. A collaborative creative endeavor, from the artwork, backing vocals, to the production. The songs were an explosion of creativity, which came seemingly out of nowhere. New York oozes out of the pores of Some Girls. With slashing guitars, biting lyrics, gallows humor, and some of Jagger's strongest vocals.
Tattoo You is good, but it is a hodgepodge of older songs, with a few newer songs thrown in. Jagger was steering this ship, and not a lot of collaboration like Some Girls. And the production is too bright, and crisp. There are some great songs on TTY, but Some Girls is a far more cohesive statement of rock n' roll.
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GasLightStreet
But overall... TATTOO YOU is their best LP since (enter EOMS or similar Big 4 LP title here) and nothing has surpassed it nor will.
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But overall... TATTOO YOU is their best LP since (enter EOMS or similar Big 4 LP title here) and nothing has surpassed it nor will.
You are sitting on the fence: which of the 'Big 4 LP titles' is Tattoo You the best since?
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But overall... TATTOO YOU is their best LP since (enter EOMS or similar Big 4 LP title here) and nothing has surpassed it nor will.
You are sitting on the fence: which of the 'Big 4 LP titles' is Tattoo You the best since?
Since The Big 4... how is that sitting on the fence? What's the last of The Big 4? That is what since says. Enter EOMS or similar ie one of The Big 4 here is... one of The Big 4.
Maybe I should've only said The Big 4.
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StonesCat
Some Girls is better, but I'd much rather listen to TY, if that makes sense.
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whitem8
Some Girls by leaps and bounds. Far more dangerous a record. More attitude, and less polished production. The band made a cohesive statement with all NEW material. Ron's finest moment with The Stones.
Tattoo You is ok. Too slick for me, and too many throwaway songs. And it collapses from the weight of the 80's production. Start Me Up...never thought it was a great song. Ok, but not the hard edged Stones I loved on Some Girls. Some Girls is more apocalyptic with punk New York and Curtis Mayfield funk overtones. And guitars. Glorious guitars up front in the mix. Their last masterpiece.
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nightskyman
Some Girls was the last in the 'canon' of great Rolling Stones albums. Anything after cannot be better than Some Girls.
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nightskyman
Some Girls was the last in the 'canon' of great Rolling Stones albums. Anything after cannot be better than Some Girls.
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Some Girls was the last in the 'canon' of great Rolling Stones albums. Anything after cannot be better than Some Girls.
All the following, in my opinion, yes, but with a presumption to propose a canonical verdict:
SOME GIRLS is the album that starts the 4th golden period of the band, comprising three of four consecutive studio albums, controversially most probably, not including the argueably more backwardlooking TATTOO YOU. In one perspective, also in my estimation EMOTIONAL RESCUE as musical creation surpasses SOME GIRLS and in its turn, more slightly, UNDERCOVER surpasses EMOTIONAL RESCUE. On the other hand, SOME GIRLS is the album of the three with the clearly greatest career redefining capacity at the critical time for the career of the Rolling Stones, when the second major wave of rock music, widely understood, from the '60s, was confronted with a major third wave, consisting of punk and "new wave" at the spearhead. In contrast, the reserved reception of UNDERCOVER made for an important halt of creativity of the band at a new critical point in time during the development of a split between a commercial "overground" and an "underground" of separate independent scenes.
This period's claim to be a golden one for the Stones may be sought both by virtue of the strength of those albums and by some unity in approach between the said albums.