Some Girls - Rolling Stones (The) (CD 1994)

I am not a huge fan of the Rolling Stones. I don t really care too much for this band s early work, and I don t too much like the stuff that the band cranked out during the past 15 years while Jagger and company ran an extensive feathering the nest retirement tour.

That being said, I will confess that there is one particular Stones album that I consider a treasure. I have an extensive music collection on various media: CDs, cassettes, LPs, MP3s and even 8-track tapes. I have, however, only two Rolling Stones albums... and Some Girls is the only album I have in CD format.... and it is the only Rolling Stones album that I truly care about.

This CD contains, in my opinion, the greatest single collection of songs that the Stones ever put out on one (non-greatest hits compilation) disk. The best Stones songs are all are here:

- Beast of Burden
- Miss You
- Shattered
- Far Away Eyes
- Some Girls
- When the Whip Comes Down
- Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
- Respectable

This CD is an excellent example of the Rolling Stones in their heyday... during the time of their greatest glory. (The album was released in 1978 -- in the days of Disco, in the pre-compact disk era.)

This is an essential album and without it I would consider my music collection to be incomplete. The glue that really holds this album together is the excellent drum work of Charlie Watts; the snotty, snarly vocal styles of Mick Jagger in his prime; and the raw, stripped, 3-chord bass and electric guitar stylings of Woods, Richards and Wyman. This album is a CLASSIC and one of my 100 all-time favorite CDs. The CD-inlay (album cover and liner notes) are also very interesting and worth investigating.

Mick Jagger (vocals, guitar, piano)

Keith Richards (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, bass)

Ron Wood (acoustic & electric guitars, pedal steel guitar, bass, percussion, background vocals)

Bill Wyman (synthesizer, bass)

Charlie Watts (drums, percussion)