And what an album it was/is....My second Stones album after Black and Blue...Still a classic album IMO...One of my favorites....I remember buying the original and then the cover had to be changed

Funny, I listened to it today without realising about it. Weird...

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i feel old, too....but, then i am old. not as old as the ancient stones, but still....

I taped that album on two sides of a Maxell XL90 and listened to it over and over again, all through the summer of '78, in a beat up Dodge Challenger I drove in my college years. I'm on my third Dodge Challenger (a beautiful resto with a kick ass sound system and a carbon footprint that would give Al Gore a much deserved heart attack) and one of my favorite listens is still my own "Some Girls" CD mix with the long "Miss You" substituted at the front and "Everything's Turning To Gold" tacked on at the end.



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I got one with the original cover. Bought it when it came out. I was a tender 21 at the time, playing in a road band. That's when we learned the "new single from the Stones". The disco crowds ate it up.

I remember being 19 and racing down to the record store the day it came out. My copy had the original cover of course. Ahh...the great feeling of the Stones being back, with a big new single constantly on the radio, and incredible playing from Keith & the new guy.

A couple of pals stopped by and I told them at the front door that I had "Some Girls" in my rec room. They pushed past me in a hurry to have a look, but I think they were little disappointed.

My first Stones album, then saw them live for the first time the following month.

I remember that day like it was yesterday...

Got off work, bought the album and went over a friends house for a first listen.

We were happy that day.

june 10 first date of the tour in lakeland florida stones never played there again......

It's unbelievable...what an album......

and also unbelievable that it only has been 14 years between "No. 1" and "Some Girls".

I mean, 14 years, that's from "Voodoo Lounge (1994)" to "A Bigger Bang" (2008)....

Jesus, I disappear, chase a stupid dream already failed before, crawl into bed, back out, rediscover life, head back to the board, AND GET IT HIT WITH THIS? COME ON GUYS LMAO ARE YOU TRYNG TO DEPRESS ME AGAIN? Has it really been 30 years? THIRTY FRIGGIN YEARS??No wonder yesterday after climbing 5 flights of stairs my right knee started to ache! Thank goodness the xanax is in the other room and maybe better up the lexapro dose hahahahhahahha!

All joking aside, I remember eagerly heading home with the album and getting side tracked by a phone call. It is all too clear. "Party Tonight." Later, new album still in plastic, off with a terrific girl I loved whose face I can see and name I forget for some cheap wine, sinsemilla, and was it qualuudes or placidyls??
is it any wonder those minor details get blurred? Well there we are, about 6-8 of us in an old farm house, well weathered, candle lit (bright lights would not only affect our mellow mood but expose the wonderful feeling for what it was, a bunch of firked up kids) and the album goes on and the volume is cranked. Absolute flat affect and response. There was even debate, side 2 or not? I do remember the album quickly replaced when over by Dylan's Blood on The Tracks.

Maybe the album was too aggressive for the mix of intoxicants that night. It did not go on my list of must plays right away. Still, I trudged off to the 78 Cleveland show, which to my mind is still the WORST Stones event I have ever been to, and was treated to a bad short show largely composed of songs I really did not know or apprciate. Suddenly my Avaatars had feet of clay. I did not listen to the album much after that for quite a long while.

And for many years I accepted it as a CLASSIC because somehow everyone else said it was. Honestly though, it was not until the Handsome Girls boots came out that I ever began to really grasp what was going on. Now I have heard Miss You so many times live it has lost its luster, but I can start at song two and listen to the whole album straight through and apprecaite today the bands raw return to Rock and Roll. Challenged by the PUNKS, they rose and in some ways recreated themselves. It has taken me many years to understand finally what all the talk is about, but I do, I do.



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The BEST Rolling Stones album.Very good sound, fine mix.Lots of great guitar works, hypnotic harp (Sugar Blue).CLASSIC!!!

Some Girls was the first Stones album I bought. I loved Miss You and bought the album soon after it came out - in the original cover. I was 11.

Since then I've had a fixation with it. I think I must have about ten different vinyl pressings of it (red and orange vinyl, Japanese, US etc etc), five different CD versions, and a whole bunch of related bootlegs. It's not their last great album, nor is it - arguably - their greatest album, but it's my favourite one.

I bought the original cover LP the day it came out, and the 12in Pink Miss You - first 12 in single I bought; first pink record since I was 5 years old; and what a great exteneded version of Miss You....I can still remember the department store where I bought it!

Its the one album I play regularly

Man what a summer it waas. Hard to believe its been 30 years already. This is still one of my favorite albums. Ahhh, Tracey... wonder where you are now....

The album regardless of the stuff posted in books was actually released on Monday, June 5. Yes, release dates were on Mondays years ago....Not only was the album played in full on Boston radio stations that day, but I remember getting it at the Harvard Coop that morning.

WoW - is it already 30 years since my friend's father burst into his room and shouted "TURN DOWN THAT RACKET"!! (well -he said it in Danish - but besides that)

Let's drink to that

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Its the one album I play regularly

.......could not have said it better.

A minor and completely palatable masterpiece. It is fun, high class crap with a certain feel, but crap nonetheless. You "get it" right away. Be doing something else when you put it on because it is not worth a close second listen. There is much less going on there than meets the ear. Unfortunately, it is by far and away the high point of the Woody era.

awesome..awesome....awesome album....always playing tracks at work....there sick of me around my desk but i don't care...can't get enough.

Good effort, Some Girls, but I always skip over so many tracks, Miss You, Beast, etc. Cant hold a candle to Beggars, Bleed, Ya Yas or Exile, though.

JR

your correct about exile JR ...must admit not too much stuff i don't like...so i can't disagree much..

I love it... ;-) One of the few perfect albums for me.

I noticed they played on average 8 songs from the record on that tour. Great set lists.

your right skipstone...great gigs

The guitars were good on the LP. They were on fire.

oh for sure b-n-b........my fellow campers this weekend r gonna hear it many times.

....a review from one of their harshest critics.



The Stones' best album since Exile on Main Street is also their easiest since Let It Bleed or before. They haven't gone for a knockdown uptempo classic, a "Brown Sugar" or "Jumping Jack Flash"--just straight rock and roll unencumbered by horn sections or Billy Preston. Even Jagger takes a relatively direct approach, and if he retains any credibility for you after six years of dicking around, there should be no agonizing over whether you like this record, no waiting for tunes to kick in. Lyrically, there are some bad moments--especially on the title cut, which is too f*cking indirect to suit me--but in general the abrasiveness seems personal, earned, unposed, and the vulnerability more genuine than ever. Also, the band is a real good one--especially the drummer. (Grade - A)

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