some girls

The Rolling Stones got back to basics, embraced punk and disco, and had their biggest success with the sarcastic swagger of this controversial classic.  After three albums ('Goat's Head Soup', 'It's Only Rock and Roll', and 'Black and Blue') of working with lots of guest musicians, the band decided to focus on their core lineup.  Richards remembers:     "It was a deliberate idea of Mick and I to strip the band back down to basics. And also, it was the first full album that I was doing with Ronnie, so we were all feeling our way in that respect. We were just getting into each other's way of playing on this stuff. To me, I remember it as a load of fun, but I'm sure some other people might have other ideas [laughs]."

Jagger looks back:   "The inspiration for the record was really based in New York and the ways of the town. I think that gave it an extra spur and hardness. And then, of course, there was the punk thing that had started in 1976. Punk and disco were going on at the same time, so it was quite an interesting period. New York and London, too. Paris—there was punk there. Lots of dance music. Paris and New York had all this Latin dance music, which was really quite wonderful. Much more interesting than the stuff that came afterward."

The band had signed a new deal with EMI and were able to record at their Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris.  The Glimmer Twins produced the sessions which featured Mick Jagger on lead and backing vocals, electric guitar, piano on "Faraway Eyes"; Keith Richards on electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Before They Make Me Run", bass guitar on "Some Girls" and "Before They Make Me Run", piano on "Faraway Eyes"; Ronnie Wood on electric, acoustic, pedal steel and slide guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar, and bass drum on "Shattered"; Charlie Watts on drums; and Bill Wyman on bass guitar, synthesizer on "Some Girls"; with Sugar Blue on harmonica on "Miss You" and "Some Girls"; Ian McLagan on electric piano on "Miss You", and organ on "Just My Imagination"; Mel Collins on saxophone on "Miss You"; and Simon Kirke on congas on "Shattered".

During the recording Richards was dealing with the legal aftermath of a drug bust in Toronto, Canada and was still using heroin:    "Oh, man, yeah. I mean, I think that's what actually made it more fun. Once I was in the studio, I could forget all the several indictments that were hanging over my head [laughs]. Just send them away. That's what music can do, I guess. At the same time, I was never particularly concerned about the outcome of any of these things. I just felt that the people wouldn't put me in jail, you know? [Laughs]...There might have been a sort of 'better get this in before they put you in' [laughs]. There's nothing like the possibility of going to jail to really get you going... this was my last record on that stuff. It was an experiment that went on too long. But I was almost on the tail end of it when we were cutting this album. Although I've never felt ... it's kind of like when they talk about Charlie Parker and that saxophone players would go on the stuff because that's what they thought made Charlie Parker so great. It doesn't [make you] play any better. It just gives you a different point of view on things. And the biggest point of view is to get the hell out of here [laughs]."

'Some Girls' went to number four in Austria, three in the Netherlands and Sweden, two in France and the UK, and number one in Canada and the US. It became their biggest selling album, going platinum six times over.   








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"Miss You"  became an international smash hit, going to number eighteen in Italy; thirteen in Austria; twelve in Germany; eleven in Norway and Switzerland; eight in New Zealand; six in Sweden; three in Belgium, Ireland and the UK; two in the Netherlands; and number one in Canada and the US.    Charlie Watts reveals:  "A lot of those songs like 'Miss You' on 'Some Girls'... were heavily influenced by going to the discos. You can hear it in a lot of those four-to-the-floor and the Philadelphia-style drumming."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJlhBGMiis



I've been holding out so long 
I've been sleeping all alone 
Lord I miss you 
I've been hanging on the phone 
I've been sleeping all alone 
I want to kiss you 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Well, I've been haunted in my sleep 
You've been starring in my dreams 
Lord I miss you 
I've been waiting in the hall 
Been waiting on your call 
When the phone rings 
It's just some friends of mine that say, 
"Hey, what's the matter man? 
We're gonna come around at twelve 
With some Puerto Rican girls that are just dyin' to meet you. 
We're gonna bring a case of wine 
Hey, let's go mess and fool around 
You know, like we used to" 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Oh everybody waits so long 
Oh baby why you wait so long 
Won't you come on! Come on! 
I've been walking in Central Park 
Singing after dark 
People think I'm crazy 
I've been stumbling on my feet 
Shuffling through the street 
Asking people, "What's the matter with you boy?" 
Sometimes I want to say to myself 
Sometimes I say 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh 
I won't miss you child 
I guess I'm lying to myself 
It's just you and no one else 
Lord I won't miss you child 
You've been blotting out my mind 
Fooling on my time 
No, I won't miss you, baby, yeah 
Lord, I miss you child 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Aaah aaah aaah aaah 
Lord, I miss you child 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hic-dnps6MU




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMuGvaIntRA




"When the Whip Comes Down"  




"Imagination" (Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong)





"Some Girls"  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92sEgZSmPbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D57RhqHK8Vg





"Lies"  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvDJyVbOQt8




"Far Away Eyes"  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyK1bZZ7E-s



"Respectable"  hit twenty-three in the UK and number eighteen in the Netherlands.   Jagger says:   "I was banging out three chords incredibly loud on the electric guitar, which isn't always a wonderful idea but was fun here. This is a punk meets Chuck Berry number..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptDz5BwAgXQ








"Beast of Burden"  Richards says it "was another one where Mick just filled in the verses. With the Stones, you take a long song, play it and see if there are any takers. Sometimes they ignore it, sometimes they grab it and record it. After all the faster numbers of 'Some Girls', everybody settled down and enjoyed the slow one."  It charted at number eight in the US.




I'll never be your beast of burden
My back is broad but it's a hurting
All I want is for you to make love to me
I'll never be your beast of burden
I've walked for miles my feet are hurting
All I want is you to make love to me
Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I'm not too blind to see
I'll never be your beast of burden
So let's go home and draw the curtains
Music on the radio
Come on baby make sweet love to me
Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I'm not too blind to see
Oh little sister
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, girl
You're a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty girl
Pretty, pretty
Such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl
Come on baby please, please, please
I'll tell ya
You can put me out
On the street
Put me out
With no shoes on my feet
But, put me out, put me out
Put me out of misery
Yeah, all your sickness
I can suck it up
Throw it all at me
I can shrug it off
There's one thing baby
That I don't understand
You keep on telling me
I ain't your kind of man
Ain't I rough enough, ooh baby
Ain't I tough enough
Ain't I rich enough, in love enough
Ooh! Ooh! Please
I'll never be your beast of burden
I'll never be your beast of burden
Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be
I'll never be your beast of burden
I've walked for miles, my feet are hurting
All I want is you to make love to me,
Yeah
I don't need no beast of burden
I need no fussing
I need no nursing
Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be




"Shattered"  went to number thirty-one in the US.  Ron Wood plays bass on the song.



Shattered, shattered 
Love and hope and sex and dreams 
Are still surviving on the street 
Look at me, I'm in tatters! 
I'm a shattered 
Shattered 
Friends are so alarming 
My lover's never charming 
Life's just a cocktail party on the street 
Big Apple 
People dressed in plastic bags 
Directing traffic 
Some kind of fashion 
Shattered 
Laughter, joy, and loneliness 
And sex and sex and sex and sex 
Look at me, I'm in tatters 
I'm a shattered 
Shattered 
All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout 
schmatte, schmatte, schmatte -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue 
This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered) 
Work and work for love and sex 
Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success 
Does it matter? (Shattered) Does it matter? 
I'm shattered. 
Shattered 
Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered 
I'm a shattered 
Look at me- I'm a shattered, yeah 
Pride and joy and greed and sex 
That's what makes our town the best 
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street 
And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah 
I've been battered, what does it matter 
Does it matter, uh-huh 
Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered 
Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up 
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough! 
You got rats on the west side 
Bed bugs uptown 
What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered 
My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan 
Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers 
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh 
Shadoobie, my brain's been battered 
My friends they come around they 
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter 
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter 









'Some Girls'
full album:



Miss You (0:00)
When the Whip Comes Down (5:20)
Just My Imagination (10:15)
Some Girls (15:25) 
Lies (20:36) 
Far Away Eyes (24:20)
Respectable (29:15) 
Before They Make Me Run (32:50) 
Beast of Burden (36:50) 
Shattered (41:50)
BONUS TRACKS
Claudine (46:20)
So young (50:27)
Do You Think I Really Care(54:16)
When You're Gone(59:12)
No Spare Pants(1:03:37)
Don't Be a Stranger(1:08:40)
We Had It All(1:13:19)
Tallahassee Lassie(1:16:46)
I Love You Too Much(1:19:56)
Keep Up Blues(1:23:39)
You Win Again(1:28:30)
Petrol Blues (1:32:04)
So Young (Take)(1:34:14)






'Some Girls' tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i61nf0zWfUs


1. Let It Rock 0:00:52
2. All The Way Down 0:03:12
3. Honky Tonk Woman 0:06:57
4. Star Star 0:10:29
5. When The Whip Comes Down 0:14:25 
6. Beast of Burden 0:19:28
7. Miss You 0:25:48
8. Imagination 2051-2428 0:34:08
9. Shattered 0:40:35
10. Respectable 0:45:43
11. Far Away Eyes 0:48:58
12. Love in Vain 0:54:44
13. Tumbling Dice 0:59:30
14. Happy 1:04:01
15. Sweet Little Sixteen 1:07:23
16. Brown Sugar 1:10:28
17. Jumpin' Jack Flash 1:14:07