Sticky Fingers

I’ve got this super conservative Christian friend who goes on and on about two things: (1) why a dude would fuck another dude in the ass, and (2) how cool Mick Jagger is. I imagine he has this album cover as a poster on his wall, stares up at it in confusion, and hates himself.

To me, Sticky Fingers is exactly what the second half of the Rolling Stones career and their overall brand represent: hedonism and energy. From the provocative cover to the musicianship at hand.

At its core, it's straight hard rock. It's one of those albums that condenses what the age-old genre of "r o c k" is all about. In what I deem to be Mick Taylor's (yes, Mick Taylor!) recording masterpiece, we have 46 minutes of fire that began on Let It Bleed and was sculpted here. Their African-American influences are even more prominent here, with a lot more soul and southern swamp influences present.

Again, the A side triumphs over the B side in terms of sheer power. It's hard for anything to beat the run from "Brown Sugar" to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (which showcases Mick's lead guitar prowess), but side B has some of their more underrated cuts. "Sister Morphine" is a great haunting experience, "Dead Flowers" is a nice country blues composition, and "Moonlight Mile" shows the Mick Twins are a very formidable tandem that works as well as the Glimmer Twins duo.

Sticky Fingers is the Rolling Stones at their peak. After this, their music would become overtaken and overshadowed by excess, which screwed them over from an artistic side. Still, we're left with an amazing catalog that only a few could ever reach.

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I have a love/hate relationship with the Rolling Stones and this is Love Love Love all the way. Instead of the poppy posturing of their later work, it is innovative, heartfelt and epic. From the incredible Brown Sugar to my favourite country-tinged Dead Flowers, lovingly covered by Townes Van Zandt, it is an absolute pleasure.
Shout out to my brother, huge Rolling Stones fan, who has this on vinyl with the actual zip!

This is just front to back bangers even if lyrically Brown Sugar is just fucking strange approach to taking about slavery

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Pretty good rock, great guitar! 3.5/5

it's good time rock n roll babey

I really really really don't like the rolling stones and I fear the amount of rolling stones left on this list

It's a good album.

This album is thoroughly mediocre. I am surprised anyone cares about it considering it came out after actually good and innovative albums like Arthur and The White Album

wow, to be honest im not the biggest rolling stones fan, but this album really did smth

Wild Horses is my favourite … and the rest is pretty good too.

Muss ich sagen, dass ich tatsächlich etwas mehr erwartet habe

The Good: An Andy Warhol inspired cover!
The Bad: That we need to be looking at a bulge…
The Ugly: The Bulge… seriously…

So, according to those who know, this is considered the best Stones album out there… Oddly enough, and potentially just pointing towards my terrible taste in music, my favorite Stones album is Goat’s Head Soup, and album that by those who know is considered exemplary of the Stones just churning out another album…

Anyway, should we listen to Sticky Fingers before we die? Yes. Are the Stones a great band? Yes. Should we get annoyed by Mick’s fake southern accent that he abuses too often? Yes.

It is for the latter that I am removing a point.
Also, the lyrics to Brown Sugar…

4*

Fantastic, bluesy, great riffs, top jams.

The Stones at their bluesiest best!

refreshing & rocking. probably was a breath of fresh air with all the art rock head assery happening around the time.

One of my least favorite Stones songs (Wild Horses, featuring Mick's annoying phony drawl) followed by one of my favorites, Can't You Hear Me Knockin', featuring one of the best guitar riffs in all rock music, along with the incredibly satisfying jazz breakdown/jam session at the end.

Lots of drugs on this one, and Brown Sugar is simply disgusting - gotta try to ignore the lyrics. You Gotta Move is great, as is Bitch, but the Stones get kind of lazy now and then when they lie down in a druggy haze and toss off some country or blues tropes. It's really pretty sloppy, but the guitars are always great, as is the superb Charlie Watts.

My favorite Goo Goo Dolls song is their cover of "Bitch" with someone else singing.