Zack wrote on May 18
th, 2009 at 12:41pm:
Here's anything.
I will always love ER because it is the first new Stones album to come out after I became obsessed. In the time since SG, I had collected most of their catalog on vinyl, and in the summer of 1980 I was 16 and a full-fledged addict. I counted the days until it came out, the first time I did that for any album. I remember vividly another kid saying to me "have you heard the name of the new Stones album, Emotional Relief?" I figured out his mistake when the radio played the single, which I admit was a bit baffling and un-Stones like to me (that hasn't really changed).
So on the big day I was so excited I went to Price's Music Shop before school, and of course the store was still closed at 8 a.m. Went straight back after school and plunked down my $5.98 for the cassette so I could listen in my 74 Duster. I was very anti-disco at the time, having suffered the likes of the Bee Gees during my AM radio years, and was appalled at Dance Part 1. But loved Summer Romance, Let Me Go, Down in the Hole, and She's So Cold immediately. A bit disappointed overall, but it really grew on me. One of those albums that brings you back to a certain place and time, and for me, it's drinking 10 oz Budweisers next to the car in a cornfield (not much to do in rural Easton, Maryland back then). Actually, my current copy is still the CBS version. I may pick up the new one. Tonight, and every night.
This mirrors my memories quite uncannily (although I was 17). Some guy (ack) I played football with mentioned that he'd heard a new Stones record called something like 'Emotional Release' and it 'sounded like the fuckin' Bee Gees'.
I remember that it was supposed to have come out before Christmas 1979 ("wishful thinking on EMI's part!" Jagger said in a BBC radio interview which he did when it was released) and then kept getting delayed. In mid June I actually read in the Melody Maker that it was going to be delayed again because it contained a litigious song called 'Claudine' (which in retrospect seems a bit strange as that was recorded for Some Girls..maybe they got confused). So I was surprised a few days later to see the album - with the wraparound thermographic poster which I still have to this day - in a shop window.
Like you, it was the first Stones album that I bought immediately on release. I was a bit disappointed in it after 'Some Girls' although I liked Where The Boys Go, Let Me Go and She's So Cold the most. I thought the title track was embarrassing (I've since grown to like bits of it as I mentioned earlier), Indian Girl was horrid (I still dont like it) and All About You was dire (I love that one now, however). The rest struck me as solid enough without being anything special.
That BBC interview with Jagger was pretty good as I remember. They played 4 songs from the album (the title track, She's So Cold, Where The Boys Go and (I think) Dance), Mick explained the appearance of female backing singers on WTBG ('two or three teenage girls who live around the corner from me (in New York) and who wanted to be singers - I can't remember their names'), answered a question on whether he might make a solo record by saying "I've a load of songs the band probably wouldnt like, so I may as well go in to the studio and knock them off", mentioned that they would make another record very soon as they had so many songs left over (which they did) and when asked about the long term plans for a group who were pushing 40, said that they had no plans to quit but "I cant imagine us going on much further than.....
(I remember nervously holding my breath as he paused at this point)......1990"....
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