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What is one to do when they don't even follow their own rules? As most people do when something aweful slaps them in the face I am re-thinking my entire being, ha.
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The blues-howling behemoth gives the globe a good tongue-lashing The title says it all, really. In the 21st century the Stones seem more concerned with gracing the pages of the Guinness Book Of Records, rather than the same publishers' long-running compendium of hit singles. Having last troubled the UK Top Ten in 1981 with Start Me Up, Mick Jagger - one of music's most fertile business brains - has long since realised that today's pots of gold are more commonly located i... MORE
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When "Some Girls" came out in 1978, it completely took over the airwaves, with black radio and disco stations playing "Miss You", rock playing "Shattered", pop radio playing "Beast Of Burden". Some Girls was clearly the best thing the Stones had done since Mick Tayor left the band, the album covering so many genres, even the punks had to give it up for songs like "Respectable" and "Lies". But there was another gem on the record, a song that doesn't get too much airplay the... MORE
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I was driving back from Christmas shopping with my four year old daughter, _Some Girls_ playing on the stereo and about halfway through _Imagination_ she asked: "Daddy, is this The Stones?"...Absolutely floored me - my frequent discourses on popular music hadn't fallen on deaf ears!! There is hope for our youth... Of course now I'm left to struggle with whether or not the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) misogyny that pervades many Stones' tunes makes it appropriate... MORE
Both of these rock the hizzie, yo.
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Do you _really_ think Keith had all his blood switched out at that secret clinic in the seventies?
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With apologies to Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs lyrics...
You can blame Revup64's previous post regarding the question "Stones or Beatles?" Obvious I prefer the former. But Rev64 is right. Some Girls is hands down one of the best albums, and probably the best one of from the 70's on.
The album art alone is enough to win accolades.
