The Rolling Stones – Some Girls

My 2nd favorite Stones album, 1st being Sticky Fingers. There's a little bit of every Stones era of music (up to that time.) on it. You put it on and leave it on.

From '78, a nice rocker of a Stones album.

This early pressing is solid, with good dynamics and detail. No issues. 3.5 stars. Recommended.

This is one of the best stones albums with great dance songs to country rock to classic rock tunes

Hey all, trying to identify a value for this version as there's no sales history and only 2 for sale but from the same dude. It's a Canadian First pressing with faces. Some Girls is in Powder Blue and there is a C under the CAT# on the top of the label. Any past sales info or "real" current value?? Thanks https://discogs.sitiodesbloquea.com/The-Rolling-Stones-Some-Girls/release/13421480

Well after an exhaustive search I cannot find my copy on here. Seems to happen a lot with older records. My lp has all the faces, CCC etched in the A side groove and GGG in the B side groove. Additionally, there’s an insert with lyrics. It’s on RSR and it’s a US copy. Has anyone seen this version? Thanks in advance for any help

I was just noticing those color 2011 LP's and all the 2011 stuff and I'm thinking... Couldn't they put out a LP for disc 2 from the box set. Do the songs suck that bad. Honestly I can't stand digital much longer. My ears go back and forth from LP to CD my brain doesn't know what it wants. But the CD might be remixed from the 24 track but the one thing that I noticed that even digital now a days lacks is that lushness that vinyl has and any CD doesn't... It's like ok I have to bare these 12 bonus tracks on CD cause they won't put a 2 LP set with all these songs. But they put out 5 different color LP's.... I"M SICK OF COLORED VINYL AND NEVER SOUNDS GOOD. WHO CARES HOW NEAT IT LOOKS. SAVE THAT FOR A DISNEY RECORD.

I have some DMM Copper plate master disks of this album

Pressing help! I have what appears to be a variant of The Rolling Stones - Some Girls with run-out etchings ST RS 784079 C on side A & ST RS 784079 G on side B (STERLING TJ stamp on both sides), light/pastel pink/lime/yellow/blue sleeve but with "Some Girls" in blue instead of red. I've checked every US LP release with the 1st cover twice and do not find an exact match, only with the title in red. Inner sleeve has "COC 39108" in the upper right corner of the b&w side (although that photo definitely ain't Liza).
I wanted to check with the Stones experts before creating a new entry: am I overlooking a variation that already exists here or am I truly the first person to have this specific pressing?
Thanks in advance!

It's only rock n' roll, and I don't like it ...

For those growing up in 1978, Some Girls made a rather large impression on those nimble minds who couldn’t quite latch onto punk and saw nothing of themselves in disco, with the album, which was pretty much the solo project of Mick Jagger, selling over six million copies. Though for me, a fellow traveler who grown rather weary of The Rolling Stones by this juncture, saw Some Girls as rather unwelcoming, coming off as if I were on a subway platform, holding my breath, afraid to lean against the dirty tiled walls and dreading accidental eye , feeling as if something was going to be lifted from my pockets.

Long gone were the rewarding numbers that laced Beggar’s Banquet, Aftermath, or even Sticky Fingers, where Some Girls delivered a grouping of songs that got uncomfortably under my skin, irritatingly so, to the point where I just wanted to smooth on some hyrocortisone cream to release the itch. The album was nothing more than background party music played while sniffing cocaine, with everyone in the room filled with wide eyed jitters, incessantly talking nonstop to themselves or anyone who would listen, which is probably the atmosphere in which the album was recorded. And therein lies the dilemma, Some Girls sounds even more confusing than Exile On Main Street, it’s filled with all things unfamiliar, like a cheap dime-store paperback attempting to itself off as a first rate novel.

My bed was no longer a lumpy mattress on the floor, my tastes were now developed, I had a mind of my own, I knew good from bad, yet here I was, standing in the middle of a world filled with folks a bit younger than me who were not only willing, but anxious to jump down an over-rated rabbit hole with William Burroughs standing at the head of the line handing out pills which would inevitably get you stuck along one or more of the relentless twisting ageways that lead nowhere, revealed nothing and inspired even less.

There are those who will attempt to tell you that the album is infused with a great deal of humor mixed with a bit of country twang, but I didn’t hear that. Nor did I see this as the Rolling Stones’ assertion into punk, a concept that just caused me to roll my eyes saying right out loud to radio DJs of the time that “Some Girls was nothing more than an unfulfilled disconnected libido, a ticking time-bomb from the seamy side of town, plucked from the trash by a garbage collector and offered unto uptown art critics as some sort of brilliant outsider art.”

The only circumstances under which I could infer that Some Girls was a great album was if you were pissed off at someone, tossed it onto the turntable, turned up the volume and slammed the door behind as you left the room, as the lyrics to Some Girls pretty much manage to offend everyone … and please don’t infer that one can divorce themselves from the lyrics and just enjoy shouting the catch phrases.

Andy Warhol once said of his successful silkscreens, images that were ing his lifestyle, “What am I going to do for art now?” Some Girls is just that, an album created by celebrities, smacking all of those upturned faces in the audience, taking their money, though different from Andy Warhol, in that Mick Jagger & Company were no longer interested in the art, they were only interested in the money, and while on a downward spiral musically, taking a cue from those silly televangelists who just who keep asking for their audiences to send more, Rolling Stones’ fans seemed more than willing to do just that.

Because the nature of rock n’ roll is all about the lie, it’s a lie we desperately wish to believe in. The folks up there on the stage, they attempt to convince listeners that they are indeed what they seem, visionaries, revolutionaries, troubadours, spokesmen for the times. The Stones though, they are nothing more than dabblers, with their vision being like that of Mr. Warhol, about seeing what can be capitalized on and exploited. Yes, they were hippies, then they were satanic for as long as that was cool, they even attempted to become bluesy, they were disco for a time, even punk, but all of it was nothing more than a pose … a pose that we’ve bought into time and time again, with Some Girls being the slap in the face that woke me up. No longer can I listen to the Rolling Stones and infuse these new musical images with those colourful romantic trappings of the 60’s. When Brian Jones died, so did the Rolling Stones as we knew them, and Some Girls is proof that six million people can be taken for a ride, dropped off in the middle of nowhere and not complain.

Review by Jenell Kesler

Of all the amazing releases from The Rolling Stones, this is the one that gets the most airtime at my house. All opinions aside, this album marks an interesting point in their discography, bridging their southern, country sound with the pop rock sound that would ultimately define them for the next generation of fans. ittedly not for everyone, but a near perfect album, nonetheless.