Some Girls, the fourteenth studio album by The Rolling Stones, is at most in the subtop of the best the group has ever released. Yet this is the best-selling album ever by the British with which they regained their supergroup status in 1978, especially in America. Mick Jagger was well aware of the prevailing trends and focused thematically on New York, which in 1978 was not only a dangerous and
… decadent city but also a cultural melting pot of disco, punk and early rap. Styles that resonate on Some Girls, which mainly shows an old-fashioned raw band in rockers like Lies and Respectable. But also in the ballad Beast Of Burden and the disco pastiche Miss You, the guitars of (the just kicked out) Richards and Wood slash against each other dry and hard. Here's one of the best rock bands playing, without fuss or reservations. Lyrically, Jagger managed to cause the necessary controversies, with, for example, the gay adventures in When The Whip Comes Down and the title track in which women of many nationalities and races are judged on their bed performance. This re-release comes with a bonus CD, full of outtakes with even more dirty Stones-rock. (MR)more