We're gonna bring a case of wine Hey, let's go mess and fool around You know, like we used to: The Rolling Stones - Some Girls poll

surprised that we have yet to poll this album

my vote goes to "Beast of Burden" without a doubt, it's just so perfect

between "Respectable" and "Shattered" for me though "Miss You" is just phenomenal, kind of your classic "can't believe there was a time when this song didn't exist" Stones tune

"before they make me run" is the sleeper on here.

wish I could vote for the hilarious tour routing in that ad

this is the last stones album where they're taut, trim at fighting weight. not a slack cut on it for my money. surprising myself by voting "miss you"

listened to this recently and it's held up, unlike tattoo you which i call "the last good stone album" and actually got dull the last time i heard it

I think the last time they sounded "vital" was "Undercover of the night" single. (and not "Undercover of the nighty" typo corrected in time)

in other breaking stones news I've decided that "angie" is one of mick's best vocal performances

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it's hard to imagine jagger coming up w/something like "undervcover of the night" now, I'll grant you that

between "Respectable" and "Shattered" for me though "Miss You" is just phenomenal, kind of your classic "can't believe there was a time when this song didn't exist" Stones tune

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this is completely otm

When the POLL Comes Down: The Stones' Some GIrls

Maybe the punctuation of this thread title (edited above) makes it unsearchable?

the 12" version of miss you is so completely badass - bass higher in the mix, more Sugar Blue. i know this must've been mentioned before

"Miss You" was one of the first songs I remember hearing on the radio...all the fucking time. WLS in Chicago must've played it no less than twice an hour when it came out. I love the song, but I actually prefer the single edit (I'm still caught off-guard when the saxophone solo comes in). Going with "Shattered."

"just my imagination" needs some love here too

i can still play the riff to "beast of burden" properly which i'm inordinately proud of

My favorite Stones album. Not a single duff track.

love the three-guitar attack and sound

"Before They Make Me Run" but every song rules

Recent bonus disc is almost as perfect. One of those rare "Why the hell didn't they release this??" moments.

Didn't know about the reissue until now--really want to hear this.

Yes indeed: the bonus disc is by far the best Stones-related one I've heard ("Do You Think I Really Care," "So Young," etc).

this is a trick question all these songs are the same song

One of those rare "Why the hell didn't they release this??" moments.

Probably because, "Hey, there aren't any vocals on this!" There's a fair amount of recent-Mick overdubbing on the bonus disc, but it doesn't stick out. It took me four or five listens before I figured out which songs had 2011 Mick and which had 1978 Mick.

One of those rare "Why the hell didn't they release this??" moments

xpost: well they had a boatload of songs to choose from at that point and i can see "claudine", "we had it all" and is it called "misty road"(?) not really fitting in on the original anyways. but those are fantastic tunes and were finished back in the day afaik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXq3r1Kq0Q

Both Jagger and Richards admitted recently that "Claudine" was in the lineup until the last moment.

listened to this recently and it's held up, unlike tattoo you which i call "the last good stone album" and actually got dull the last time i heard it

The rockers aren't as interesting, not when they recorded "Worried About You," which succeeds in the is-he-camp-or-serious mode in which "Angie" (to my ears) fails, and "Heaven," the weirdest vocal of Jagger's career.

Had no idea there was 2011 Mick on this. You sure you aren't confusing it with the Exile 'outtakes' from last year? Because those were definitely latter-day overdubs...

He's got a few new vocals here too.

aero and jbr both otm. may vote for "some girls" anyway.

I knew that about the Exile "outtakes" (which I haven't heard), but had read about new vocals on the Some Girls "outtakes" as well. Initially, I wasn't sure that it was true, because I'm not as versed in the details of Jagger's voice as I am in, say, Daltrey's. But after a few listens, the slightly-forced/slightly-strained sound of 2011 Mick made itself evident on "Keep Up Blues" and "Don't Be A Stranger."

Remember too that some of the other "finished" Some Girls outtakes got done up for Emotional Rescue & Tattoo You.

yes the thread title made this unsearchable because i tried and couldn't find the original p[oll

Boring, but gotta go with Miss You

I went with 'Beast Of Burden', absolutely love that track.

Shattered

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Shattered

Shattered

"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 20 red lights in His honor. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord."

I was gay in New York
and a fag in LA

remember driving in a car with some older gamer dudes that I used to hang with, so I musta been 12? "Miss You" was on the radio and these guys were so excited about the album, they were all talking about how the Stones were "good again" after the not-so-hot Black & Blue.

anyway, great record.

gamer dudes otm. i would rather listen to emotional rescue, tattoo you, iorar and most of undercover than b&b.

has there ever been a "serious" cover of faraway eyes -- a la, say, Townes Van Zandt's Dead Flowers? Don't know if it'd be do-able. But I do think it's interesting that Jagger is almost entirely unable to take C&W-flavored songs seriously. Obviously, Richards took it seriously -- those covers he did right before the Some Girls sessions are reverential.

Jagger copped to it in that long Wenner interview from '95.

i.e. he loves country but finds it hard to sing it with a straight face.

But, to think of an example most would overlook, he's got a song called "Biggest Mistake" on A Bigger Bang that has to my ears strong country overtones and is sung without tongue in cheek.

yeah, i remember that. then again, i guess one could argue that jagger never took the blues all that seriously. (which may well be the right approach).

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has there ever been a "serious" cover of faraway eyes -- a la, say, Townes Van Zandt's Dead Flowers? Don't know if it'd be do-able.

The Handsome Family recorded a pretty straight-faced cover of it about 10 years ago for Uncut mag Stones covers disc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsNujqZn9cA

just about right and mirrors the results of the first one

Xgau digs the Deluxe Edition

I love that bonus disc!

xps lolll

oops wrong thread tbh

Jagger sings country and blues tongue-in-cheek just about as often as the better country and blues specialists do: more about drollery than irony, but rolling with both (and more). As Leroi Jones quoted one of his friends, back when the young Stones were very American roots-dependent (even more than later), "At least they sound like English crooks." Which was the idea, esp when the Bea'les were still the cheeky chirpy schoolboys (even more than later)

this is worth your time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nWAXrmys5M

holy cats

I think the real raw guitar sound makes the record. The Stones records after Some Girls are just so spit shined and clean sounding and really the gunk part of their sound is big part of the appeal. There are good tunes and some great riffs after this one, but I think 'probably' Jagger kind of always kept pushing them to sound whatever was the production sound of the moment and once the studios got too good, they lost the grit and don't sound like a band in a room (even though some of that was fallacy on the classic records to some extent).

the harmonica at the beginning of 'some girls' always weirds me out for a second because i'm afraid i'm hearing john popper