The Album Review Club - Week #195 (page 1310) - A New World Record - ELO

Some Girls - The Rolling Stones

My homemade Stones Greatest Hits has 4 tracks from this album. "Miss You", "Respectable", "Beast Of Burden", and "Shattered". All well-known hits. This was probably the first album I remember hearing songs when they came out and not revisiting this after the fact.

I had heard some of the other tracks here and there, such as "When the Whip Comes Down", "Just My Imagination", and "Before They Make Make Me Run". Those and the other songs new to me were all fine, but repeated listens this past week didn't make me rethink which songs I had originally gravitated towards. I too enjoyed the humo(u)r of "Far Away Eyes" in being new to me, but it isn't something I'm going to be seeking out or regretting it was missed on the GH when wanting to hear something from the Stones.

I think a lot of the reviews prior touch on my feelings on this one too. While the tracks are varied in the genres addressed, I do find the Stones formula is on exhibit here, and while some hit, others not as much.

With the 4 tracks I'm particularly fond of, this lands as a 6/10 overall for me.
 
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The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

I like others have never really ventured past their best of/forty licks stuff - which is strange really considering how much i really love them.
Always have a 'home team' feel when it comes to the Stones, i was born in same hospital as Jagger and lived Dartford most of my life where the band grew up.
As mentioned, i just really enjoyed throughout - Blues/Rock, raw sounding and loads of swagger. Mad to think they've carried this tempo for so many decades. Watched them at Olympic Stadium few years ago and they were awesome.
'Miss You' for sure the 10/10 track but all the rest are solid 7/8.

so it's a high scoring 9/10 from me.
 
GornikDaze said:
Don’t encourage him!! He spent page after page boring everyone with his in depth knowledge of the keyboard ;)
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That reminds me, we haven't discussed the lack of synths on this one :-)

(Given his strange 80s dress choices, Mick strikes me as the sort of wrong 'un that would quite like a DX7. So I might actually give them an extra point for staying away the synths).
 
GornikDaze said:
Threespires and the Blue Moon Old Gits (if I’m included on guitar)
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Lol. Who would we have as a Bez type character? (Edit: answered by Coati)

Got to go and actually do some work for a few hours but remind me at some point to tell you a bit about the Ableton project I'm working on! Inspired by whoever it was said that literally anyone could knock out something like A Grand Don't Come For Free I'm writing a concept album based on a week in the life of BlueMoon. Some tracks are coming along better than others!
 
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So, do you think The Rolling Stones can make a fist of this music lark? Thanks to @bennyboy for the nomination - according to our rigourous review process, we've deemed Some Girls to be slightly better than The Budos Band, but not quite as good as Rainbow: 14 votes at an impressive average of 7.29.

It seems appropriate as I'm currently listening to Rush (and working, of course) that @OB1 is next up.
 
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