When the POLL Comes Down: The Stones' "Some Girls"

dig this

But I don't see things in terms of years — the Sixties, the Seventies — it's just a journalistic convention.

the basic things

this record still siren calls all my most kneejerk cheeseball wastrel instincts

like to lay around all afternoon and eat cheeseballs you mean

that is not a terrible way to spend an afternoon

any daypart basically

been thinking about the songwriting of the earlier 70s albums lately, esp. 'sticky fingers', and i was struck by how many of their songs seemed to start over every 2 bars or so, probably due to being written around riffs, but to hide that fact through a lot of very musical interplay from the band, with people always playing around the main block determined by that riff rather than right in it, so that the songs always just seem very restive. nothing with the very stodgy architectonic feel of ~~~songwriting~~~ you can get from 70s rock. or more conventional pop songwriting's blocked-out feel. when they switch to definite 4-bar forms or something else, it becomes obvious that they do it not just because of the prosody in the lyrics, but because they opt for harmonic structures that make for more conventional rises and falls to mark out the bars.

which is maybe one of the many thrilling things about 'miss you', the basic cell is 4 bars and it's got this incredible boiling billowing motion to it because of the harmonic structure and because of the disco bass arpeggiating all over the place, but it's still being used the way they tended to use their 2-bar cells in an earlier period, with the guitars especially using the space created by the empty fourth bar after the 3-bar riff to make the song like a five minute rubato that still has that charlie watts motor underneath

One of the discoveries of the last twenty years is how many of the riff rockers were actually written by Mick.

Co-DJ'd a fan afterparty for this weekend's Stones concert. One of the turntable needles was acting up, skipping/skating/sticking on perfectly fine records and such, and of course one of the places it got stuck was on that line during "Some Girls".

woke turntable

^^I still laugh about that. It was a Kanye sample waiting to happen.

Reviving because I was today years old when I learned about the CBS version of the album cover from the '80s.

https://images.recordsale.de/600/600/therollingstones-somegirls(41).jpg

Ah:

A third version of the album cover with the hand-drawn faces from the original Valmore ad was used on the 1986 CD reissue.

Re-upping the reference to the videos from their live in texas '78 show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYvy3kBYN4Q

sexandsexandsexandsexandsex

shmatteshmatteshmatte

...some kind of fashion

Jumpin' Jack Flash on that Texas show is really hot.

I actually have this show on Blu-Ray, and the picture quality is stunning. (It was shot on film and they still had the camera neg well-preserved.) Worth owning, especially since I usually see used copies for less then $10.