B&B was an important trasitional album with the group exploring Philly soul/funk/pre-bop jazz/reggae, plus Jagger as 3rd guitar, but on SG the influences (add punk) coalesce in a fresh new Stones sound utterly different from the early 70s Stones. New blood, hungry for their props after 3 years of middling reviews, once again in the wake of near catastrophe (Toronto), they strip down and deliver.
I remember the debut of this album very well....I love it. The guitars sounded different, I can't explain it, but the opening of Beast of Burden, and Just My Imagination, Shattered.....sounded so fresh and new. I saw them on saturday Night Live and they played three songs off the album (maybe two, I can't remember). John Belushi spoofed the song Shattered on a Samurai Delicatessan skit and Garret Morris commented on Some Girls in a news editorial, he said, "Mick, just exactly where are these black girls that want to f*uck all night? Can you give me a phone number?" Great album, it reacqauinted me with the Stones during my college days when I was starting to get into "New Wave" bullshit music...thank god for rock and roll
some girls was one of the great come backs of all time.it was the music of some girls ( miss you, beast of burden) that made me such a huge fan in the first place.
Lies,Respectable and When the Whip comes Down are great f-ing rockers. Love this album! Too bad SNL was a downer(Mick's voice being blown out during rehearsals). Man, rehearsals must have kicked ass!!!!!!!!!!
Koen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I love this @#$%&' album! > > > > > > who doesn't? > > > > Hessballah.... > > How do you know ?
Trust me....I know
"It's Good To Be Here, It's Good To Be Anywhere"-Keith Richards
"Halloween Is Every Night Of My Life"-Keith Richards
To me this is one the most 'in your face' rock and roll album I have ever heard. I love Exile but Some Girls is my favorite by an inch. Respectable is just pure rock and roll....always a pleasure to listen to......
equal if not better to Sticky Fingers for me, and a close second only to Exile
Its a sentimental favourite for me as it was the first 'new' Stones album after I started following them.
So, to me, that era means more to me than the late 60s/early 70's as I was simply too young then to remember it.
Love the sound, love the 'look' they had that year, love the shows and everything else that you can associate with the Stones and 1978. And Jagger's lyrics were never better than they were on that album.
Here's my special memory of the night the radio stations got Some Girls:
The main LA rock stations--KLOS and KMET got the album and started playing tracks from it. All night. If one took a break from the Stones, they you could switch to the other station and catch another new Stones track.
I was listening in my car, on the way to the Santa Monica Civic to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (2nd album had just come out) Opening act was David Johansen (who had just put out his first solo album). Johansen puts on a Soviet-style cap before "Lonely Tenement" ("This next song requires a hat of a socialist nature!") Petty encored with "I Fought the Law."
AFTER that show, went to the Whiskey to catch the late show headlined by Rockpile! (Nick Lowe came out wearing a green suit with question marks --not the leotard-- like Frank Goshin wore as The Riddler. Someone yelled, "The Joker!" Close.) Edmunds was tearing it up. Killer show.
And on the way to and from these gigs I was hearing these fantastic new tracks by the Stones.