{"id":6045,"date":"2019-06-09T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2019-06-08T23:19:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T23:19:45","slug":"albums-released-on-this-day-from-the-rpm-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=6045","title":{"rendered":"From The RPM Collection – Albums Released on this day First Up The Rolling Stones & Goo Goo Dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ON this day in history some fairly iconic records got released over the years some pretty significant.\u00a0 first up in 1978 The Rolling Stones released their marmite record ‘Some Girls’\u00a0 now, some girls (and Boys) love it and some absolutely detest it thinking it was a step too far for the rock and rollers and they were pandering to the fashions of the day but if you take ‘Some girls’ out of the late ’70s\u00a0 there are many factors to this being the last truly great album by the band.<\/p>\n

Starting the album off with the Disco backbeat of ‘Miss You’ As Jagger does his best Noo Yawker as the whole record has a lower east side vibe happening, sure it might have been where Disco came from with the whole Studio 54 but time has worn well on the face of ‘Some Girls’ from the iconic artwork to the ragged fretwork of Richard and Wood this was the first album that Wood was credited as a full-time member of the band although he’d played on the previous two it was ‘Some Girls’ that he was “in” so to speak.<\/p>\n

‘Some Girls’ has sold a staggering 6 million albums to date and is the bands biggest selling album in the USA! it only managed 100,000 in their homeland of the United Kingdom.\u00a0 It managed to reach number one in North America And Canada whereas in the UK it only managed Number two (it was kept off the top spot by ‘Saturday Night Fever’)\u00a0 As for singles in ’78\u00a0 Brotherhood Of Man and The Smurfs both had more number ones than the Stones -think about that for a minute?\u00a0 the USA managed to save the bands cred when ‘Miss You’ went to number one which was their only chart-topper anywhere.\u00a0 As for other singles off the album, the controversial\u00a0 ‘Respectable’ didn’t even manage to break the UK top 20. Speaking of ‘Respectable’ Jagger had this to say,\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s important to be somewhat influenced by what’s going on around you and on the Some Girls album, I think we definitely became more aggressive because of the punk thing…”\u00a0 Besides ‘Respectable’ was and still is a killer tune regardless of where it charted.\u00a0 If you have a spare ten minutes check out the band performing it live on Saturday Night Live along with ‘Beast Of Burden’ and ‘Shattered’ its golden Rolling Stones TV.\u00a0 Not just Keith looks strung out Jagger sounds like he hadn’t slept in a few days at least and Wood is oblivious when Jagger licks his lips during the solo. ‘Shattered’ is classic Rock and Roll with an edge they were on form no matter what the critics said.<\/p>\n