Some Girls

Feel It
$9.98
Juliana Hatfield began her solo career with an album of jangly indie-pop music, 1992's "Hey Babe". As time passed, her sound developed more of an edge, more arrangements, and more density, really culminating with the release of a pair of albums in 2000, the introverted and delicate "Beautiful Creature" and the aggressive and direct "Total System Failure".

After a couple studio sessions and assembling a "best of" album (which, oddly enough, was largely unreleased material), Hatfield returned, this time with a band featuring Heidi Gluck of the Pieces on bass and Freda Love, her old bandmate in the Blake Babies, on drums.

The album represents a return to the jangly pop of "Hey Babe", and is almost a logical successor to that, but adds both a maturity and a depth borne of confidence, particularly in the vocals. The arrangements are significantly thinner, adding an openness that's been missing from Hatfield's music. And the music is catchy, to say the least], recalling the Velvet Underground's "Loaded" in many senses.

Standouts cover a lot of moods-- from jangly pop ("Feel It", "The Prettiest Girl") to electric pop (standout "Necessito") to countryish acoustic pieces ("You Don't Know", also featuring a fantastic feedback-driven solo from Hatfield) to a blast of a cover of old blues singer Robert Johnson's "Malted Milk".

But in the end, while its a lot of fun, its a bit too pop, a bit too sparse, a bit too polite. It's a good record, but its lacking in something.

Some Girls
$17.98
Can't believe they are still playing at age 70! Oh Well, the ol' boys are sounding pretty good on this CD. If you like the stones this has a lot of top songs on it. Although I never knew it before but "when the whip comes down" has to do with being gay or a fag. Check the words out for youself. Not sure what to think of that one! Was mick gay? Or maybe ron wood? I think Mick and David Bowie got it on one time back in the 70's.(gossip mag)

Some Girls
$13.98
I remember cranking this up the summer of 78' when I graduated. I think "Shattered" was the one that got us the most. Then Lucy made them take her likeness off the cover which made the original LP cover a collectable. I have the remastered CD version from years ago that replicates the LP which slides into the open end of the plastic jeweled case. Dont know if they do it that way anymore for this one. Other Stones CD's are just LP replicas which is fine by me now that I can store them and keep the original safe on my shelf.

Crushing Love
$17.98
This didn't blow me away the first time I heard it, but I ended up listening to little else for a month or so. It's got something. The lyrics are smart and funny, the music just offbeat enough to creep under your skin. Recommended.