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Nov 23, 2011Cagey as ever, the Stones hide which of these are full-fledged outtakes and which are recent refurbishments very well, but ultimately it doesn't matter: this is a tremendous expansion of a classic album by every measure.
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Nov 23, 2011This set feels like two complete albums-Some Girls One and Some Girls Two-and the sequel nearly manages to match the original's vital power.
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UncutDec 12, 2011The proof is in the music; it sounds juts great. [Jan 2012, p.98]
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Q MagazineDec 22, 2011A second disc continues the upbeat mood of the main album. [Jan 2012, p.135]
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Dec 8, 2011This edition has 12 outtakes, most of which have been hoarded on bootlegs by Stones fanatics for years. Some of the bonus tracks are nearly as hot as the originals.
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Nov 23, 2011The tracks themselves--tidied up from demos with the help of producers Chris Kimsey and Don Was--are no disgrace.
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Nov 29, 2011Some Girls showed that the Stones could pull off the old magic using some flashy new tricks.
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Nov 28, 2011It shows that the Some Girls era was, and remains, one of the most productive of the Stones' career.
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Nov 23, 2011The dozen unearthed tracks here [are] the outtakes of the outtakes. [2 Dec 2011, p.77]
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Nov 23, 2011It all adds up to probably the best Stones album since... well, since Some Girls, actually.
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Nov 23, 2011Though the additions don't enhance the original album's legend, nor do they diminish it any more than the fact that the band sagged once again into artistic complacency after its release.
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Nov 29, 2011Sure, the original album may still tickle your testes and get you off, but this boxed set is nothing more than a handjob without a happy ending.
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Nov 23, 2011The remastered discs sound great.
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Nov 23, 2011The Stones mined its [sessions] results for years to come, creating little else of value otherwise and entering the nostalgia-act phase of their career, effectively making Some Girls the last gasp of credible new music by the self-proclaimed World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band.
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Nov 23, 2011Interesting to see that a few of the unused songs from the period (1978) push the released material for quality.
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Mar 13, 2012Where the regular album is musically quirky and lyrically either risky ("Some Girls," "Far Away Eyes") or generalized ("Respectable," "Beast of Burden," damn right "When the Whip Comes Down"), the bonus disc is musically classic-Stones and lyrically small-scale.
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Sep 9, 2023Overrated **** only old people would ever want to listen to or hipsters who want to seem more interesting than everyone else.
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Jan 26, 2023
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