My 50 Favorite Albums (continued)

1978. 

The summer before my senior year in high school.

This record comes out.

It hits the turntable and the funky disco groove of Miss You comes blaring out of the speakers. 

I don't think I took it off the turntable for months.  And I never have stopped putting it on the turntable, the CD player, the laptop, the iPod, and now the blog.

This is probably not the best Rolling Stones album.  I put Exile in that slot.

But this is the record where the intersection of their greatness and my current awareness met.

I love every single song on this record and always will.

Comments

[BlogDog]

man ... you are right on about this one. This has to be one of the very best albums of all time. I was a little but younger than you when Some Girls came out, but when I got to the album (and I do mean the vinyl version) about 6 years later, I couldn not take it off the record player. 10 great songs in one place! Like you, it is now owned on CD and played regularly on the Rio

[Tony Alva]

Sticky Fingers was my baptism into what is now all out idolitry for this band. It took me a while to get into this one on account of being such a rabid disco hater in the 70's. In my musical awakening, one of the things that struck me about this record when I started giving it a second listen was how the Stones practically challenged the hacks of pop music to produce a stlye they couldn't highjack. You want to play punk? Fine, here's "Respectable" now shut up. You want four on the floor disco, Here's "Miss You". Country Farce, Here's "Far Away Eyes". These along with a bunch of other pure rock-n-roll numbers to prove to the hacks that no matter how you dress it up, it's all rock and roll baby.

In addition to this validation, 'Some Girls' is like a photograph of NYC during that era. I used to think I felt that way because, like you, I lived in the area when these tunes were on the charts, but it doesn't take long to realize that these guys were becoming New Yorkers in their own rite.

It is a great record, one that can be played front to back. 'Before They Make Me Run' is my fav...

[Bob Struble]

killer

[jackson]

I was confident, I know Fred loves this record, and how could one not? Ah, shadoobie......

[bskeels]

Some Girls is, in fact, a great album. Too bad it is, sadly, their last album that rises above even middling.

With others showing that it is, indeed, possible to do serious quality work in their 50's and 60's (Dylan, Solomon Burke, Delbert, Ry Cooder, just to name a few), what't these guys' excuse? I'm sorry, they did some of the greatest music on the planet up until '78, but they've been lazy for going on 28 years by now.

[Bradley]

I had a summer job at Whistler the year this album broke. First time away from home and my own pad. Played album endlessly. Band proceeded to wander artistically.

[jackson]

Bskeels is dead wrong about the Stones post 'Some Girls', 'Tatoo You' has some of my favorite songs (Worried About You, Waiting On A Friend, Little T&A), not to mention some real good stuff on 'Bridges To Babylon', I am sick of hearing that the Stones have been washed up for twenty odd years, it's untrue. And not every Dylan record in the past twenty-five years has been his best effort. The Stones make records and tour today because they want to, they don't need a fucking excuse, they are the fucking STONES! Lazy...... where's your fucking album bskeels? Huh? Didn't think so.....