Mick Jagger-She's The Boss (1985)
Artist: Mick Jagger
Title: She's The Boss
Label: Columbia
Format: LP
Cat #: FC 39940
Year of Release: 1985
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1985
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ in original shink, original inner sleeve
Sell Date: 3/15/25
Sell Price: $2.89
Discogs Last Sold: 3/18/25 VG+/VG+ $3.00
Low: $1.88
Median: $2.94
Average: $3.50
High: $7.61
Current low price: $0.99
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 291
Have/Want: 3815/106
Where Sold: Sarasota, FL
Time it took to sell: 9 years
Where and When Bought: new Columbia Record Club selection of the month
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-
Sad To See It Go: No
Mick Jagger's solo debut (excluding "Memo From Turner" on the Performance soundtrack) was more like a completist obligation rather than an album I wanted to listen to in 1985. There were radio hits I knew from listening to WBCN. The title track that closes the album is probably my favorite. The biggest, "Just Another NIght," was never anything I liked too much. "Lonely At The Top" I forgot about and it kicks open the album credibly even with the 80's drum n synth. Jeff Beck & Pete Townshend play on it as well as Bill Laswell and Herbie Hancock and that's just the opening track. "Lucky In Love" with Sly & Robbie joining Beck is the other radio hit I remember from it's era.
Oddly enough, the song with 2.5 million streams, "Hard Night" I have zero recollection of. It's a decent Jagger ballad, but I wonder what made it so big over time. Mick had all-stars galore of both rock royalty, jazz, reggae and the underground all over this shiny pop album. It was a clear distancing from the Stones music but a bigger embrace of "Mick Jagger, Star Of The Rolling Stones." He was quarreling with Keef in the press at this time and it didn't seem like a reunion was gonna happen until it did with the next year's Dirty Work, which was an even more disappointing Stones record than this was a solo record.
It sounds better over time, but life is too short to listen to this repeatedly.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
The Rolling Stones-Around and Around (1964)
The Rolling Stones-Aftermath (1966)
The Rolling Stones-Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (1971)
The Rolling Stones-More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies) (1972)
The Rolling Stones-Made In The Shade (1975)
Living Colour-Time's Up (1990)
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