Album
Some Girls
1978 · Rock
166 collectors on Gatefold own this
Some Girls is a Rock album by The Rolling Stones, originally released in 1978. On Gatefold: 442 pressings tracked, owned by 166 collectors.
About
<i>Some Girls</i> wasn’t so much a return to form as to content. Exhausted by the sprawl of the early ’70s, the band sounded lean again, a bar act scaled for arena audiences. (The band’s surprise show at the tiny El Mocambo club in Toronto under the name The Cockroaches a year prior, in 1977, was a neat metaphor: Not only were they stripping down, they were making clear their intention to survive drugs, legal hassle, cultural change, nuclear holocaust, and possibly time itself.) Even the album’s title—<i>Some Girls</i>—called back to a younger, more restless Rolling Stones: riding around the world, doing this and signing that, just trying to make some girl. (Keith Richards, never as nasty as Mick Jagger but still tempted by the bon mot, joked that it was only called “Some Girls” because the band had forgotten the girls’ names.) Well, the girls got made, but the band was still around. The sound was tougher, more immediate. Fewer session musicians and synthesizers, more handclaps. Engineer Chris Kimsey arranged amps in a tight semicircle to mimic a club stage. Jagger’s fascination with disco (“Miss You”) and punk (“Respectable,” “Shattered”) appealed to the moment, but they also refreshed the project the band had been working on for 15 years: marrying working-class music from both sides of the racial divide. And where Jagger could treat you like a dog and make you like it (“Miss You,” “Respectable”), Richards—responsible for “Before They Make Me Run” and the worn love of “Beast of Burden”—was tender and loyal, the guy who’d been through the wringer and was happy just to be alive. A few years earlier it seemed like the band was settling down. With <i>Some Girls</i>, they were winding up.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Miss You
- A2When The Whip Comes Down
- A3Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
- A4Some Girls
- A5Lies
Side B
- B1Far Away Eyes
- B2Respectable
- B3Before They Make Me Run
- B4Beast Of Burden
- B5Shattered
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Rock & Roll
- gritty
- rowdy
- urban
The 14th British and 16th American studio album, recorded 10 October 1977 – 2 March 1978, originally released 9 June 1978 on Rolling Stones Records.
This was the first album with Ron Wood as a full-time member, though he had contributed on some tracks on the band's prior two albums, It's Only Rock 'N Roll (1974) and Black And Blue (1976).
The cover of the original album was die-cut with peep holes so that the faces of the band members and other female celebrities pictured on the inner sleeve showed through. Shortly after the initial release, the original cover was withdrawn due to legal issues and a newly designed inner sleeve without the celebrity faces was issued. Other later releases were made without peep holes and with hand-drawn sketches on the cover.
There are at least 15 known variations of the cover/inner sleeve:
- Uncensored (with celebrity faces) or censored ("Pardon our appearance.... under construction") inner sleeve.
- Jacket die-cut with peep holes or without.
The uncensored and censored versions were released with different variations of the colour bands on the cover.
1) Green-Yellow-Blue-Red (bright colours)
2) Yellow-Blue-Red-Green (bright colours)
3) Blue-Red-Green-Yellow (bright colours)
4) Red-Green-Yellow-Blue (bright colours)
5) Yellowish-Bluish-Reddish-Greenish (pale colours) ("Some Girls" title print in red)
6) Reddish-Greenish-Yellowish-Bluish (pale colours) ("Some Girls" title print in blue)
Some later releases are not die-cut (i.e., without peep holes). There are two known versions with hand-drawn sketches and with these colour bands:
7) Green-Yellow-Blue-Red (bright colours)
8) Yellowish-Bluish-Reddish-Greenish (pale colours)
Furthermore, a 180 gram release without peep holes and with a photocopied cover of a censored version has been released Some Girls (Europe 2010) (opens in a new tab).
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bill WymanBASS BASS GUITAR, SYNTHESIZER BASS, HARP, SYNTHESIZER
- Charlie WattsDRUMS DRUMS, TOM TOM DRUM
- Ian McLaganELECTRIC PIANO, ORGAN ELECTRIC ORGAN ELECTRIC PIANO
- Keith RichardsACOUSTIC GUITAR BACKING VOCALS ELECTRIC GUITAR
- Mel CollinsSAXOPHONE PERCUSSION
- Mick JaggerBACKING VOCALS ELECTRIC GUITAR ELECTRIC GUITAR, HARP, LEAD VOCALS, BACKING VOCALS, PIANO
- Ron WoodBACKING VOCALS ELECTRIC GUITAR ELECTRIC GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS, PEDAL STEEL GUITAR, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, BASS GUITAR, BASS DRUM
- Simon KirkeCONGAS PERCUSSION
- Sugar BlueHARMONICA BLUES HARP HARP
- The Rolling Stones
- Tim HinkleyELECTRIC PIANO
- 1 JewPERCUSSION
- 1 MoroccanPERCUSSION
- 1 WaspPERCUSSION
- Chuck LeavellPIANO SOLOIST, PIANO
- Don WasBASS
- HassanPERCUSSION
- Ian StewartPIANO
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