Classic Albums: Some Girls by The Rolling Stones

Happy Dad’s day, I don’t think it’s world wide and only in Australia but you guys that are dad’s oversea can pretend too, OK? My dad was asking what he’s getting this year and if it was big? So he’s getting a blog post, not that he even looks at my blog because I say I’m blogging and he’s what the hell is that? Anyway The Rolling Stones seem like a great band for father’s day, my old man loves them too.

So if I was ask to pick just one Rolling Stones as my fave of all-time it would just have to be Some Girls. This was some what requested post by blogger at oliverstwist or well, just asked me that question just the other day and I didn’t answer then, maybe being a bit of an asshole or something but now I’ve wrote a whole blog post about it. Most likely the biggest band to be included in my list, so far.

This record called Some Girls is from the late 70’s and came out at a time when pretty much everyone think the Stones was past it with new music styles like Punk and Disco etc. No one care much about an old Rock band but to me it’s the greatest moment on record, I’ve listen to it way more that anything else they have done. I do dig the early Brain Jones more rocky Blues version of the band, maybe my dad fave part of the band or is it Mick Taylor early 70’s albums? I’ll have to ask him what his fave album is, maybe it’s just the greatest hits! They do some great hit singles but today I’m talking about this album from start to finish!

Ronnie Wood joined The Rolling Stones around this point, someone who after Mick and Kieth is who most people would think as a main man for the band is a pretty late comer to the party. I never dig The Faces much really, the band were he came from but Ronnie seem to give the Stones a big kick in the butt when he joined. Before they did slide into touring or nostalgic act like playing blues cover on the first new album in ten years last year but I guess they did start out in the 60’s covering old blues songs.

Some Girls is pure genius of an album, some call it the last great album by them released in mid 1978. So it’s just before the 80’s kick off which was a decade not very kind to this band but they did a few hits somehow! Anyway the Some Girls opener is one of their greatest hits ever with Miss You then following with When The Whip Comes Down, guess what that’s about? The great cover of the American soul group The Temptations and Motown legends’ Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) is an under rated jem, then the title track Some Girls and the perfect titled track Lies. Next up is what I would called the best single the Stones ever released but I doubt if everyone one else on the face of the earth would agree with me on that ridiculous pick, Far Away Eyes. Then three of four of next were released as singles at the time with Respectable, Beast Of Burden and Shattered to close the album but don’t think about skipping Before They Make Me Run because it didn’t get released as a single, it still a great track with the lead vocals by Keith as well. To me it’s just ten tracks of perfect rock n’ roll and yeah, my fave Stones album of all time. Which I don’t think anyone on earth will agree with me on this pick as well because of all the great stuff they did before this album but oh well, it’s just one person’s opinion sharing it on his blog now.

I was two years old when the record came so I have no memory of it at the time and I don’t remember my old folks owning this album, others yeah but not this one. When they started re-issuing all the albums in 2000’s/2010’s this in the one and only one I buy with the extras just to hear all the other stuff they recorded at this point. I think my fave bonus track is Jagger’s solo piano song called Petrol Blues but then the Country & Western covers of Tallahassee Lassie and You Win Again are amazing too, the songs behind their original C&W piss take with the girl with the…

   

Got to ask you readers now what is your fave Rolling Stones album? It not this one, is it? Or even if you wanna share just one/some of your fave track/s by them?

Some Girls track listing and times:

1. Miss You – 4:50
2. When The Whip Comes Down – 4:18
3. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) – 4:25
4. Some Girls – 4:40
5. Lies – 3:12
6. Far Away Eyes – 4:24
7. Respectable – 3:05
8. Before They Make Me Run – 3:26
9. Beast Of Burden – 4:24
10. Shattered – 3:43

All my Classic Albums posts are in that link or they’re all linked below too!

• Tales From The Australian Underground – Volume 1 & 2 by Various Artists
• Station To Station by David Bowie
• Unplugged In New York by Nirvana
• Rust In Peace by Megadeth
• Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs by Marty Robbins
• Henry’s Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Whatever You Love, You Are by Dirty Three
• Gala Mill by The Drones
• Black Monk Time by The Monks
• Ex Tropical by Lost Animal
• Work (Work, Work) by HTRK
• In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra
• The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd
• Songs Of Love And Hate by Leonard Cohen
• Warm Leatherette by Grace Jones
• The White House by The Dead C
• Silence Is Sexy by Einstürzende Neubauten
• Lulu by Lou Reed & Metallica
• Kaira by Toumani Diabaté
• Kings Of The Wild Frontier by Adam And The Ants
• Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth by Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males
• Aerial by Kate Bush
• The Future by Leonard Cohen
• Rock For Light by Bad Brains
• Last Splash by The Breeders
• Sex by The Necks
• Emergency Ward by Nina Simone
• Paradise by My Disco
• Batman by Prince
• Sings Christmas Carols by Mark Kozelek
• What Are Rock Stars Doing Today by Magic Dirt
• Love Of Life by Swans
• Big Name, No Blankets by Warumpi Band
• Blue Valentine by Tom Waits
• In The Pines by The Triffids
• Where Joy Kills Sorrow by Various Artists
• TV Sky by The Young Gods
• King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime by Faith No More
• Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog by Ed Kuepper
• Law Of Nature by Laughing Clowns
• (I’m) Stranded by The Saints
• Super Ape by Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters
• The Soft ‘N’ Sexy Sound by Dave Graney ‘N’ The Coral Snakes
• Mutiny/The Bad Seed by The Birthday Party
• Bahdeni Nami by Omar Souleyman
• Ascension by John Coltrane
• The Definitive by Blind Willie McTell
• Rid Of Me by PJ Harvey
• Horses by Patti Smith
• Vespertine by Björk
• Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall
• Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood by DMX
• I’m New Here by Gil Scott-Heron
• Charcoal Lane by Archie Roach
• In My Own Time by Karen Dalton
• Stay Sick! by The Cramps
• Primary Colours by Eddy Current Suppression Ring
• Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison
• Trainspotting by Various Artists
• After School Session by Chuck Berry
• Body Language by Kylie Minogue
• Bricks Are Heavy by L7
• Trailer Park by Beth Orton
• Arular by M.I.A.
• Moon Pix by Cat Power
• White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground
• Y by The Pop Group
• The Human Jukebox by Scientists
• The Shape Of Things by Pere Ubu
• Congotronics by Konono Nº1
• High Voltage by AC/DC
• Self-tilted by The Seeds
• His Best by Bo Diddley
• Embracism by Kirin J Callinan
• Benji by Sun Kil Moon
• Betty by Helmet 
• Late Registration by Kanye West
• Under The Western Freeway by Grandaddy
• What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have by Sarah Blasko
• Regret Is An Inevitable Consequence Of Life by Ricaine
• Tu-Plang by Regurgitator
• Hourly, Daily by You Am I
• In A Bar, Under The Sea by dEUS
• Gurrumul by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
• Twin Peaks by Angelo Badalamenti

Basically the idea is write a little about each of my fave albums but I don’t know why really I titled/tagged them all as classic albums? Please feel free to leave a reply about this one or any of them or all of them all, Thank you!

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