1978 found Keith Richards starting to get clean and falling in love with a 22 year old model named Patti Hanson. While he continued to drink heavily at times, his worst addictive days were behind him.
There is a story about Hanson bringing the 36 year old Richards home to meet her parents. I have two daughters and can only imagine one of them walking through the door with Keith Richards.
Emotional Rescue, released in June of 1980, was more a victim of disinterest than anything else. Richards was recovering from addiction and carving out a new relationship, Mick was more into jet setting and vacations, Charlie Watts was breeding sheep dogs, and Bill Wyman was threatening to quit the band. In the midst of all this unrest the Rolling Stones recorded an album.
In many ways Emotional Rescue is a poor second cousin to Some Girls. The styles and musical textures are similar but the songs were not as strong. Overall this can be considered an average, at best, Rolling Stones effort.
I have always considered this release to be a little off kilter as the stronger songs were at the end of the album. I have the original LP and side two was played a lot more often than the A side.
“She’s So Cold” is an above average rocker with some frenetic drumming by Watts supported by Bill Wyman’s bass. “Emotional Rescue” would reach number three as a single release. It was another Rolling Stones disco effort complete with Mick Jagger’s falsetto vocal. I am not a fan of disco and particularly Stones disco, but this song was wildly popular in the dance clubs of the day. More telling though is the fact that it has never been a part of the Stones live act.
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Article comments
1 - JC Mosquito
For some reason, Mick's spoken part at the end of Emotional Rescue always reminded me of Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes.
2 - meaty
i tried so hard to like this album, but couldn't
it sounds like patched together outtakes & the band sound bored. i love mr perks bass on "rescue" she's so cold is good but i wouldn't recomend it 2 a mate
3 - meaty
in my opinion as well as countless others the
rolling stones never made a stone cold classic
when mick taylor left the band.
woody's great but to me he's the bassist from the faces but no one else could fit in the stones.
like he said to clapton "i gotta live with these guys" meaning keith + jagger, he's a perfect foil
for mj/kr
4 - thomasG
Grade B SOME GIRLS, yeah, but critic misses the wonderful trashiness of EMO. Watts' drums are mixed way up front - great feel - with bass pushed up too. Wood's bass on EMO RESCUE disco song is a great, tricky bass line, one of the best. The sloppiness doth abide and thrive. "She's So Cold" is sparse gold. "All About You" is too standard blues for this smash-up. Punk time musik from the guys who were the first punks.
5 - lingmeow
I have to differ with Ronnie Woiod being the bass player for The Faces. I'm loosin you , Stay with Me and many more showcase Woody's excellent guitar playing