{"product_id":"rollisomeg_2611","title":"Rolling Stones, The - Some Girls - Super Hot Stamper","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the Stones' last truly great album. AllMusic Guide gives it the same 5 star rating that they awarded Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, and Sticky Fingers. With hits like \"Miss You,\" \"Shattered,\" and \"Beast Of Burden,\" it's easy to see why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost copies are too thin and grainy for serious audiophile listening, but this one is a different story. It's not easy to find great sound for The Stones, so take this one home for a spin if you want to hear this band bring these songs to life in your very own listening room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot many copies have this kind of clarity and transparency, or this kind of big, well-defined bottom end. The sound of the hi-hat is natural and clear on this pressing, as are the vocals, which means that the tonality in the midrange is correct, and what could be more important than a good midrange? It's where the music is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat The Best Sides Of Some Girls Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe most Tubey Magic, without which you have \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c\/i\u003e nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%221978%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1978\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural tonality in the midrange -- with all the instruments having the correct timbre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo doubt there's more but we hope that should do for now. \u003ci\u003ePlaying the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above,\u003c\/i\u003e and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFullness Is Key\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the keys to getting this album to sound right is fullness. Many copies lack weight to the bottom end, which robs this funky music of its very foundation. Other copies suffer from lean, thin-sounding vocals -- do you think that's the sound Mick Jagger (or engineer \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22chris-kimsey%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Kimsey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e) was going for?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the qualities we found in short supply on the average copy were warmth, richness, sweetness and ambience -- you know, all that \u003ci\u003eanalog stuff\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe more of these qualities we found on the copies we played, the higher the grade we gave them (all other things being equal of course).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat We're Listening For On Some Girls\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmoother and sweeter sound with less of the grit and congestion that plagues the average copy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA bigger presentation -- more size, more space, more room for all the instruments and voices to occupy. The bigger the speakers you have to play this record, the better.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore bass and tighter bass. This is fundamentally a rock record. It needs weight down low to rock the way Chris Kimsey wanted it to.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresent, breathy vocals. A veiled midrange is the rule, not the exception.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGood top end extension to reproduce the harmonics of the instruments and other details of the recording, especially the studio ambience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast but not least, balance. All the elements from top to bottom should be heard in harmony with each other. Take our word for it, assuming you haven't played a pile of these yourself, balance is not always easy to find.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur best copies will have it though, of that there is no doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot only is it hard to find great copies of this album, it ain't easy to play 'em either, which is why this recording ranks high on our \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22difficulty-of-reproduction%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edifficulty of reproduction scale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou're going to need a hi-res, super low distortion front end with careful adjustment of your arm in every area -- VTA, tracking weight, azimuth and anti-skate -- in order to play this album properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've got the goods you're gonna love the way this copy sounds. Play it with a budget cart\/table\/arm and you're likely to hear a great deal less magic than we did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eVinyl Condition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMint Minus Minus is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of later pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic that is a key part of the appeal of these wonderful recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear it with less background noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eA Must Own Rock Record\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Demo Disc quality recording should be part of any serious rock collection. Others that belong in that category can be found \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22core-rock-collection%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolling Stones, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68093493313832,"sku":"rollisomeg","price":249.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/3415\/2295\/files\/stonessomegirls_720x_720x_webp_27335b33-6ca0-444d-838f-f04f447766d8.jpg?v=1752514522","url":"https:\/\/better-records.com\/products\/rollisomeg_2611","provider":"Better Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}