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"Some Girls" is freaking spectacular, from top to bottom, inside cover to outside cover, to the threatened lawsuits, to redone covers, the singles, the radio play, the extended dance mixes, the live tour they played for it, to the variety of genres of music on it, to the humor, the vibe, the rock, the roll, the sales, the outraged feminists, the punks, ballads, rockers, the life and times... Some Girls is one of the best albums of all time... and still can never remember their names, but you know what kind of eyes she got

I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, "You know you always have the Lord by your side"
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord

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All the Pathé-Marconi albums (Some Girls - Emotional Rescue - Tattoo You - Undercover - Dirty Work) are great. They all have this feeling of a band playing together and most of the time the songs are good. That's the Stones at their best IMO.
Dirty Work could surely benefit from a remix with less emphasis on the drums.
Possibly the weaker of them is Tattoo You because of the way it was done.

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jambay
"Some Girls" is freaking spectacular, from top to bottom, inside cover to outside cover, to the threatened lawsuits, to redone covers, the singles, the radio play, the extended dance mixes, the live tour they played for it, to the variety of genres of music on it, to the humor, the vibe, the rock, the roll, the sales, the outraged feminists, the punks, ballads, rockers, the life and times... Some Girls is one of the best albums of all time... and still can never remember their names, but you know what kind of eyes she got

I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, "You know you always have the Lord by your side"
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord

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its a good album if a little overrated, but an important album at that time as it showed the stones could compete in a very competitive environment with much younger musicians which were influenced by a younger audience.

respectable
shattered
some girls
far away eyes
before they make me run

are the 5 best on the album

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Monsoon Ragoon
TY is much better IMO

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jambay
"Some Girls" is freaking spectacular, from top to bottom, inside cover to outside cover, to the threatened lawsuits, to redone covers, the singles, the radio play, the extended dance mixes, the live tour they played for it, to the variety of genres of music on it, to the humor, the vibe, the rock, the roll, the sales, the outraged feminists, the punks, ballads, rockers, the life and times... Some Girls is one of the best albums of all time... and still can never remember their names, but you know what kind of eyes she got

I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, "You know you always have the Lord by your side"
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord

Lovely post!

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TY is much better IMO

Yes indeed.

If you´d consider SG, TY & ER a trilogy, ER would be the best.

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HMS
IMo, ER is much more creative than SG.
It has better songs throughout, the only outstanding songs on SG are Beast Of Burden and the title track, everything else seems rather so-so or subpar to me.

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jambay
Every Stones album and Stones song has had someone somewhere rag on it as being "not that good". Like that time that one person said ""Jumping Jack Flash" is not that good of song". It is not even worth debating... it is just a bunch of opinions, none of them worth more than another... which is why there is Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate ice cream.[/quote

Excellent point. Taste is subjective, and one man's crap is another man's treasure; who has the right to judge?

"Gonna find my way to heaven ..."

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jambay
Every Stones album and Stones song has had someone somewhere rag on it as being "not that good". Like that time that one person said ""Jumping Jack Flash" is not that good of song". It is not even worth debating... it is just a bunch of opinions, none of them worth more than another... which is why there is Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate ice cream.

Excellent point. Taste is subjective, and one man's crap is another man's treasure; who has the right to judge?

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I listened to the SG album on the way home from work yesterday and on the way to work this morning. I was struck how powerful that string of two-chord riff punk-ish songs are, throughout the album (songs like Lies, WTWCD, Respectable, even SG and the ending of Just My Imagination), but then the hits like Miss You and Beast of Burden are nothing like that... Very polished and radio friendly (but no less great). The entire album is just a superb listen, with the volume up. I remember I bought the LP when I was about 10 years old (1982-ish) for $.99 at a yard sale! It was my fourth Stones record. But what struck me this morning is that a mere 8 years after the release of SG, the Stones released DW, an arguably not very good record with dreadful mixing and production. DW, though, followed a similar format, with Harlem Shuffle as the first single sounding virtually nothing like the rest of the record. I have always felt like DW could have been another huge seller like SG had it just been a better performed and produced record. The songs-- especially One Hit, Fight, Had It With You-- are perfectly rolicking guitar-driven Stones songs, if you take out the stupid loud drums and out-front throaty vocals. And tracks like Back To Zero and Winning Ugly could have been more along the lines of Miss You if it weren't for the silly 80's synthy speudo-funk/dance intent. I so wish there could have been a remixed version of DW that I could listen to and actually enjoy. Anyway, SG-- it's such a great listen on a spring day with the volume up in the car. Cheers.

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Monsoon Ragoon
TY is much better IMO

Yes indeed.

If you´d consider SG, TY & ER a trilogy, ER would be the best.

It isn't a "trilogy" at all, because TY was cobbled together mostly from studio leftovers from the past decade, and the fact that the outcome was so much stronger than the last album of (nearly) all-new material - ER, of course - is telling and a clear indication that the Stones new-found creativity with SG was already beginning to dry.

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Monsoon Ragoon
TY is much better IMO

Yes indeed.

If you´d consider SG, TY & ER a trilogy, ER would be the best.

It isn't a "trilogy" at all, because TY was cobbled together mostly from studio leftovers from the past decade, and the fact that the outcome was so much stronger than the last album of (nearly) all-new material - ER, of course - is telling and a clear indication that the Stones new-found creativity with SG was already beginning to dry.

TATTOO YOU was not mostly cobbled together from studio leftovers, it is entirely put together from studio leftovers.

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kowalski
All the Pathé-Marconi albums (Some Girls - Emotional Rescue - Tattoo You - Undercover - Dirty Work) are great. They all have this feeling of a band playing together and most of the time the songs are good. That's the Stones at their best IMO.
Dirty Work could surely benefit from a remix with less emphasis on the drums.
Possibly the weaker of them is Tattoo You because of the way it was done.

I don't know if I'd agree that TY is weaker. We can say that now because we know it came from so many diverse sessions, but at the time they certainly had me fooled. I thought it sounded like a very cohesive work and was surprised to find out how it was cobbled together...

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HMS
IMo, ER is much more creative than SG.
It has better songs throughout, the only outstanding songs on SG are Beast Of Burden and the title track, everything else seems rather so-so or subpar to me.