Some Girls
| The Rolling Stones
Some Girls
Some Girls is the 14th British and 16th American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released in 1978 on Rolling Stones Records. It reached number one on the Billboard 200 album chart, and became the band's top selling album in the United States, certified by the RIAA as having six million copies sold as of 2000. It was a major critical success, becoming the only Rolling Stones album to be nominated for a Grammy in the Album of the Year category. Many reviewers called it a classic return to form and their best album since 1972's Exile on Main St. -wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
well, if you want to survive the Seventies and enter the Eighties with something more than your bankbook and dignity intact, you’d better dredge up your leftover pride, bite the bullet and try like hell to sweat out some good music. Which is exactly what the Stones have done.
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AV Club
Some Girls showed that the Stones could pull off the old magic using some flashy new tricks
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Pop Matters
These are complete statements and, together with the album, reveal a high-water mark in the band's creativity they would never quite capture again.
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Uncut
The proof is in the music; it sounds just great.
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Paste Magazine
what you have here is a ridiculously strong collection of songs that any other band would have killed to release
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BBC
Some Girls was the best Stones LP in yonks
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The Escapist
the whole thing sounds crunchier and cleaner than many of their previous albums, but as for how they play, there's no change, and it's logical
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50 Third and 3rd
Some Girls is a piece of The Stones at their best
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Record Collector Magazine
it’s a genuinely-desirable salvo from the ever-rolling Stones cannon
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Punk News
when the band is on each other's nerves just a little, maybe they'll make an album as fast, fierce and angry as Some Girls
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Keno's ROLLING STONES Web Site
About the only thing missing from this LP is a good hard rock tune, but the tune "Shattered" comes real close to that.
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Billboard
And 40 years later, the music still doesn’t disappoint.
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Blank news
The Rolling Stones are at their best when they’re irreverent and downright distasteful – and that is the case with this recording.
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Entertainment Weekly
the substandard nature of blues-chooglers like ”When You’re Gone” and ”You Win Again” is doubly evident given their proximity to such stellar remastered highlights as ”Miss You” and ”Beast of Burden.”
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Anti Music
one of the Rolling Stones most striking, straightforward and superb records
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Icon Fetch
What sets Some Girls apart from their previous albums of the Seventies is the sound; their earlier records were mostly dense and muddy, while here the guitars are bright and crisp, and Charlie Watts’ drumming sounds like it’s been wrapped so tight that it might snap.
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Independent
easily their best since Exile on Main Street
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Super Deluxe Edition
I can see anyone who decides to buy either edition of this reissue, playing this disc frequently.
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Tristate Indie
an amazing album that has a little bit of something for everybody. The album dips in between an exceptional creative space allowing more expansion of multiple styles to identify the album as uniquely Rock & Roll
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Countdown Kid
when it’s going off the rails a bit, you can’t ignore it, and when it’s on its game, it’s thrilling in a way
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The AU Review
a sensational and now classic album that proved the lads still had it in them
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Backstage Auctions
Some Girls still brandishing its razor-sharp songwriting and explosive recorded performances
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The Second Disc
the album has avoided the “dated” stigma despite its pronounced nods at then-current trends like punk and disco
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
The songs are almost all very good, even excellent, but for the most part they don't move me at all.
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Only Solitaire
Overall, this album gives the impression of a 'special gift': it reinstated the fans' hopes in The Rolling Stones, started their 'silver age' and, even more important, solidified their status as Un-Old Farts among the newer generations.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Wow, it's hard to believe these guys could keep pumping out such great product after so many years.
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The Guardian
Some Girls suddenly arrested the Stones’ mid-70s decline, inspired in part by Jagger’s observation of New York at its creative zenith
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Robert Christgau
in general the abrasiveness seems personal, earned, unposed, and the vulnerability more genuine than ever
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Adrian's Album Reviews
good enough to be listened to all the way and to be quietly impressed with
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Don Ignacio
An album with a lot of great pop/punk/disco/new-wave/country/whatever songs on it. ... This album is highly recommended!
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Mark's Music Reviews
Their best since the glory days. And the album cover's kinda whimsical, too.
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