Tracks:
1. Miss You
2. When The Whip Comes Down
3. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
4. Some Girls
5. Lies
6. Far Away Eyes
7. Respectable
8. Before They Make Me Run
9. Beast Of Burden
10. Shattered
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Just listened to this for the first time a few weeks ago. There are a couple of trademark Stones tunes. Its a solid record that isn't quite as strong as their late 60s early 70s peak.
The Stones last really good album. Every song aside from "Far Away Eyes"are fantastic. I remember when it was released towards the end of my 8th grade in '78. Some great albums released that year by Van Halen & Bruce Springsteen & more.
After a slightly overrated misstep for an opener, the rest of this album is consistently excellent. Superb deep cuts in When The Whip Comes Down, Lies, and Before They Make Me Run and an unusual one two closing punch with the best hits of the latter half of the decade in Beast of Burden and Shattered.
Love the sleaziness of ‘Miss You’, they took disco’s propulsion but added more than a dash of Cockney sneering to the proceedings, absolutely essential party banger. Maybe the most New York song a British band ever produced, the shit is the VU at Studio 54. One of the few massive Stones hits that isn’t overrated. Shit is a ‘5am, everyone in the kitchen, whose line is it anyway?’ belter.
‘Beast of Burden’ also a great summer barbecue song. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
After a slightly overrated misstep for an opener, the rest of this album is consistently excellent. Superb deep cuts in When The Whip Comes Down, Lies, and Before They Make Me Run and an unusual one two closing punch with the best hits of the latter half of the decade in Beast of Burden and Shattered.
Mostly agree. I do enjoy Miss You, but it seems to have lost some varnish when I revisited the other day. But yeah, the deep cuts are great and the last two tracks raise the bar even more.
It's a really enjoyable album. Probably a bit more fun than the more classic Stones records for me.
The Stones last really good album. Every song aside from "Far Away Eyes"are fantastic. I remember when it was released towards the end of my 8th grade in '78. Some great albums released that year by Van Halen & Bruce Springsteen & more.
Actually..."Far Away Eyes" is proof that the Stones were at the forefront of what became alternate country. As strong as any track on Some Girls. I know that a lot of us from that time didn't want twang in our rock & roll...but for a lot more of us, this was our gateway to more Southern music. Ron Wood's pedal steel work is great, and Mick shows that he can sing country as well as anyone. This song is greatness.
And Some Girls is truly the last great Stones album.
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