October 16, 2011

Well, the wait is over. Universal Music has revealed the complete details for the November 21 reissue of the Rolling Stones’ 1978 Some Girls across multiple formats. Following in the footsteps of last year’s Exile on Main Street set, Some Girls will offer a number of previously-unreleased songs, recently completed by the Stones, as Jagger told German network ZDF last month: that “I’ve just been in the studio finishing some outtakes from 1978 … They’re going to be released [on] a rerelease of Some Girls. So these are going to be some 10 extra tracks from that time [that] were never released.

Some of them had no vocals, so I had to do the vocals again. I did the same thing on Exile on Main Street.”

Actually, the number of songs is 12. And the good news is that all 12 songs will be available not only in the expected Super Deluxe Box Set, but in a “standard” Deluxe Edition, as well as and digitally. A vinyl LP will replicate only the original 1978 Some Girls line-up:

• CD “Deluxe Edition” includes remastered original album and 12 bonus songs;
• CD “Super Deluxe Edition includes both discs, above, plus a 7-inch single of the remastered “Beast of Burden” b/w “When the Whip Comes Down”; a book; a postcard set, a photo print by Helmut Newton; and a tour poster;
• Digital with remastered original album and 12 bonus songs; and
• Vinyl remaster of the original album only.

In a refreshing move that echoes the treatment of Exile, the Stones have commendably assured that the core audio material is available in both the Deluxe and Super Deluxe forms. In other words, the only audio content you’re missing with the 2-CD edition is a single replica of “Beast of Burden” b/w “When the Whip Comes Down.”

No doubt collectors and casual fans alike will be anxious to revisit Some Girls. The chart-topping album remains the band’s biggest-selling album in the United States, and was the Rolling Stones’ first to feature Ronnie Wood as a full member of the band line-up. It’s a more accessible album than Exile, and includes the classics “Beast of Burden” and “Miss You” as well as fan favorite “Shattered” and even a raw, greasy Motown cover of The Temptations’ “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me).”

The album’s success proved that neither disco nor punk could stop the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world! When the Stones’ answer to disco, “Miss You,” was released as a single, it topped the Billboard chart. “Beast of Burden” placed in the Top 10. “Shattered” ranked a respectable No. 31. (How odd to mention the deliciously down-and-dirty “Shattered” and “respectable” in the same sentence, no?)

The sessions for Some Girls began in October 1977, and concluding in March 1978. Although Mick Jagger himself cited the melting pot of New York music as the inspiration for the album’s sound, its tracks were recorded at EMI’s Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris. The band reportedly recorded fifty new songs, some of which ended up on follow-ups Emotional Rescue (1980) and Tattoo You (1981), while still others have languished in the vault or have been leaked on bootlegs until now.

The expanded Some Girls reissue will follow the release of the concert film Some Girls Live in Texas 1978, previously announced to arrive on DVD and Blu-Ray from Eagle Rock Entertainment on the same date of November 21. Deluxe versions of the DVD and Blu-ray releases will include CDs, and the film will be shown for one night only in cinemas in October.

November 21 is the date to mark for Some Girls in all its various incarnations.

The Rolling Stones, Some Girls (Rolling Stones Records COC 39108 – reissued Universal Music, 2011 –Deluxe/Super Deluxe/Vinyl)

CD 1: Remastered Original Album

1. Miss You
2. When the Whip Comes Down
3. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
4. Some Girls
5. Lies
6. Far Away Eyes
7. Respectable
8. Before They Make Me Run
9. Beast of Burden
10. Shattered

CD 2: Previously Unreleased Songs

1. Claudine
2. So Young
3. Do You Think I Really Care?
4. When You’re Gone
5. No Spare Parts
6. Don’t Be a Stranger
7. We Had It All
8. Tallahassee Lassie
9. I Love You Too Much
10. Keep Up Blues
11. You Win Again
12. Petrol Blues

The vinyl edition contents are identical to Disc 1.

The digital edition contents are identical to Discs 1 and 2.

The super-deluxe edition contains both discs as well as a single:

1. Beast of Burden
2. When the Whip Comes Down

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Looks like an interesting set.

i'm all over this. can't wait

I got "Exile..." I'll get some version of this also. One of my favorite albums

Can't believe the extended version of "Miss You" wasn't included

[Edited 10/16/11 22:56pm]

funkpill said:

Can't believe the extended version of "Miss You" wasn't included

I know,huh? That definitely should have been included.

hot damn

this is bittersweet

I already spent a high amount of money ONLY one year ago, when I bought the remastered version, I didn¡t know they planned to release a special edition ...

I mean, it was clear that special edition of Exile was in the works...

so I feel happy/cheated...

Identity said:

diggin it

The Stones Dress Up "Some Girls"

November 20

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When the Rolling Stones began jamming at a Paris rehearsal hall in October 1977, disco and punk were wrestling for cultural dominance and threatening to annihilate rock's mainstream giants.

Like every trend before and since, neither intimidated nor impeded the Stones, who surfaced in 1978 with chart-topper Some Girls, a sharp, diverse batch of rock, R&B, dance and country that won over a new generation and remains the band's best-selling album (6 million-plus).

It returns Monday as a remastered, expanded reissue in deluxe, super-deluxe and digital editions. (Some Girls Live in Texas '78, on DVD and Blu-ray, is also out Monday.) Along with classics Miss You, Shattered, Beast of Burden and Respectable, the set offers 12 previously unreleased tracks that were unearthed this year.

"Some have been out in bootleg form," says Mick Jagger, 68, who searched the vaults with producer Don Was. "There were a few surprises. Some songs were more finished and just had to be mixed. And some didn't have any lyrics or were very fragmentary. Some were too demo-sounding, and I just threw them out."

The songs that were 'left over'

In fleshing out the tunes, "we kept everything in context," says Keith Richards, 67. "You don't want to fool around too much and pretty them up with digital extras. Leave it in its own time."

The Girls reissue, which follows last year's celebrated repackaging of 1972's Exile on Main Street, introduces rocker I Love You Too Much, a cover of Hank Williams'You Win Again, obscure B-side So Young, twangy No Spare Parts, harmonica-laced Keep Up Blues,Tallahassee Lassie (featuring John Fogerty) andClaudine, inspired by French chanteuse Claudine Longet, who was accused of killing her ski-champ boyfriend, Spider Sabich.

"Unlike Exile, there was a lot more left over," Richards says. "Claudine should have been on the first one, but we had deadlines."

Timing isn't the only reason songs didn't make the cut.

"In the case of the countryish ones, if you'd put them all out on Some Girls, it would have been a country album," Jagger says. "So we picked our best one, and also the one that was finished. You should finish them all, but that's not what happens. You concentrate on the 10 or 11 you've got, and the others fall by the wayside."

Miss You, a nod to the disco era, sprang from Jagger's love of dance music and the New York club scene. Richards didn't object.

"Disco is just another funk beat," he says. "None of us dreamt of making a disco album, but if you can come up with a primo disco track, that would be our input. And Miss You made it."

Not pumped about punk

As for ascendant punk rockers, who both jeered and imitated the Stones, "all they could do was be a bad copy of me," Richards says with a gruff laugh. "I loved the energy. They were coming on as strong as we did 10 years earlier. But my problem with punk, man, is they can't play. All they got is attitude and nothing else."

Jagger is similarly dismissive.

"Punk was such a short-lived phenomenon," he says. "Record labels were trying to hop on it, (but) it wasn't a big commercial success. You're hard put to name more than two American punk bands."

Girls stirred controversy for salacious lyrics and a cover that depicted the Stones in drag alongside pictures of famous women.

"Some girls weren't so happy," Richards says, referring to Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch and others whose likenesses hadn't been legally cleared, requiring a recall and redo. "We didn't ask them. We should have been more gentlemanly."

He and Jagger are game for more reissues, within reason.

"We had this idea that we'd reinvigorate certain albums by finding other songs recorded in that time that would hold up," Jagger says. "That sounded like a better idea than doing mindless compilations."

Richards adds: "If there's something interesting that helps to understand the album, let's do it. Otherwise, I'm not one to rehash stuff. We do have so much in the can. We've been around a while, you know?"