Six No.1 US albums in a row, and two extra to return. That was the monitor file for The Rolling Stones as of July 15, 1978, after they evicted Gerry Rafferty’s Metropolis To Metropolis from the highest of the brand new Billboard chart with Some Ladies.
Launched on June 9, Some Ladies was their seventh album chart-topper general and received one other large distinction. Longer than Sticky Fingers, longer than Let It Bleed, Aftermath, Exile On Most important St. or some other traditional Stones album, Some Ladies turned the longest-running studio album on the American chart within the band’s historical past.
The album was seen as a considerable return to type for the Stones, and went on to grow to be their first American studio launch to be nominated within the Album of the 12 months class on the following yr’s Grammy Awards. Gross sales soared to 6 million within the US alone.
Among the many many charms of Some Ladies was that it noticed the Stones renewing their mastery of a number of types. The four-to-the-floor rock pleasure of “Shattered” and “When The Whip Comes Down” was complemented by the floor-filling “Miss You,” the nation honk (reference intentional) of “Faraway Eyes,” the soulful temper of their Temptations cowl “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me),” and a lot extra.
‘An important album of the first order’
“Whichever way you look at it, this is an important album of the first order,” enthused Pete Silverton in Sounds, who notably loved the album’s lead hit, and Charlie Watts’ position on it. “There’s little question that the primary monitor, ‘Miss You’ is each the perfect and essentially the most adventurous quantity right here.
“Hell, what else can you say about a record which is not only the best dance record of the year so far (it even beats out the Bee Gees’ ‘Staying Alive’) but also has the second best drum sound on vinyl ever? (The best ever drum sound is of course on ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and you all know what happened to that).”
No ‘virtuoso clap-trap’
Keith Richards, for his half, was having fun with the complete fruits of the chemistry he had established on guitar with Ronnie Wooden. “The right kind of chemistry is there with Woody,” he informed Creem journal on the time. “Woody is made for two guitars but he just hasn’t had the chance to do it ’til now. His strength, like mine, is to play with another guitar player, not the virtuoso clap-trap.”
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Some Ladies spent two weeks at No.1 within the US and a mighty 82 weeks on the chart general. That simply beat the group’s second-best longevity file with a studio launch, which, maybe surprisingly, was with the 66 weeks spent on the bestsellers by the 1965 launch Out Of Our Heads.
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