'Before they make me run' is a true classic

I think there is no song that personifies Keith quite as much as this. The rest of the album is great, miss you and beasts of burden are obviously classics.



But the lyrics and the delivery of "wasn't looking to good, but was feeling real well!" that keith lays out before the refrain.... Great stuff. The only Keith song that's potentially better is Salt of the Earth.

Arguably The Stones' finest hour of the Ron Wood era

The Rolling Stones' Some Girls was originally released in June of 1978 on the band's own Rolling Stones label in conjunction with Atlantic Records in the US.

By 1978 the established rock music scene(art rock, regular rock, hard rock, heavy metal and country rock and what not) was being hijacked on by Punk, Disco and New Wave. Bands like The Who, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and The Eagles amongst other monster rock bands were now considered Dinosaurs. The Rolling Stones throughout the 1970's had all of their studio albums 1971's Sticky Fingers, 1972's Exile on Main Street, 1973's Goats Head Soup, 1974's It's Only Rock and Roll and 1976's Black and Blue hit #1 on the Billboard album charts and sell millions. The former two albums(SF and EoMS) are regarded as classics whilst many fans did not like the latter three albums(GHS, IoR&R and BAB).

Many were questioning if lead singer Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood, bass player Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts were washed up but when they unleashed Some Girls, the band was once again relevant.

we kicked this album off with the chart-topping hit Miss You which was a rock song with a disco beat and was a great number and had a great sax solo from Mel Collins. We follow with a straight ahead rocker When the Whip Comes Down which is a great song. Then we follow with a rocking remake of The Temptations' 1971 ballad Just My Imagination(Running Away With Me) which turned a sappy ballad into a great rocker. The title cut keeps the rocking machine rolling and was the most controversial track on the album as some people like Jesse Jackson and what not labeling The Stones racists because of some of the lyrics, what ignorance. The song is a satire on how girls want more things than the the next girl it was tongue in cheek! We end the first half with the punk rocker Lies which is another great rocker!

We then kick off the second half with the country rocker Far Away Eyes with Mick singing like a Jimmy Swaggart type preacher tone and is a funny song. We then go back to rocking with Respectable with this Chuck Berry meets The Ramones type rocker. Keith takes a turn singing on his own Before They Make Me Run which is a great rocker and a nice song. The Top 10 hit Beast of Burden follows and is a great number and would become a live favorite. We end the album with the New Wave meets punk rocker Shattered which is an awesome song and we get to hear Mick sing in every tone, deep, normal and scream. The track would become a conert favorite as well.

I think Some Girls is arguably the band's best album of the Ron Wood era and it rivals with 1981's Tattoo You as the best Stones album of the Jagger/Richards/Watts/Wyman/Wood lineup. I was impressed when I first heard this album in October of 1989 when a buddy lent me the cassette and I liked it so much that I got the tape a few weeks later then eventually bought the remastered CD.

Some Girls would become The Rolling Stones' best selling studio effort with over 6 million sold in the US alone and hit #1 in the summer of 1978(one of only two great rock albums to top the charts in 1978).

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Some Girls

By 1978, both punk and disco had swept the group off the front pages, and Some Girls was their fiery response to the younger generation. Opening with the disco-blues thump of "Miss You," Some Girls is a tough, focused, and exciting record, full of more hooks and energy than any Stones record since Exile on Main St. Even though the Stones make disco their own, they never quite take punk on their own ground. Instead, their rockers sound harder and nastier than they have in years. Using "Star Star" as a template, the Stones run through the seedy homosexual imagery of "When the Whip Comes Down," the bizarre, borderline-misogynistic vitriol of the title track, Keith's ultimate outlaw anthem, "Before They Make Me Run," and the decadent closer, "Shattered." In between, they deconstruct the Temptations' "(Just My) Imagination," unleash the devastatingly snide country parody "Far Away Eyes," and contribute "Beast of Burden," one of their very best ballads. Some Girls may not have the back-street aggression of their '60s records, or the majestic, drugged-out murk of their early-'70s work, but its brand of glitzy, decadent hard rock still makes it a definitive Stones album.