Sticky Fingers

Can’t believe a clothes brand made such a good album

(4) it got to that one tiktok song and i was like OH SO THIS IS WHERE IT’S FROM and then the bit that sounds like a chorus line came up and i was like OHHHHHHHHHHH

This might be my favorite of the Stones albums we've had so far, but it's still a high three rather than a four. It seems to me the Stones aren't really an album band; there's always one or two great songs on each album, but also quite a lot of less outstanding work. Best consumed as a greatest hits package.

Better than Coldplay

I don’t really get the Stones. This was alright but nothing overly special and that’s always how I feel if I listen to them. Just doesn’t click with me

Oni su trčali da bi Ocean Colour Scene mogao hodati. Znam da je to obrnuto od prave izreke ali je tako. A OCS za mene trči. Tako da imam na mnogo čemu biti zahvalna Stonesima. I da, najbolje pjesme na ovom albumu baš vuku na OCS, a najgore jedva mogu slušati. Dakle, zlatna sredina sveukupno.

I never really liked The Rolling Stones, but it's an ok record I guess.

Ticks all the usual Stones' boxes:
- Hasn't aged well lyrically
- Has a few bangers
- Has lots of filler

3.0/5.0: Good

maybe the stones are growing on me. im liking each one progressively more

I figured the Rolling Stones would be on here eventually. Alas. The best part about the Rolling Stones is 'Ruby Tuesday'. The worst part is everything else. Lots of (blues?) guitar, second only to the Beatles in popularity, some concerning lyrics. This is their ninth album, which doesn't bode well for how many albums might be left of theirs.

Lowlight: 'Dead Flowers'

I don't like Rolling Stones albums, and I'm not sorry! They have many incredible songs, but they just didn't do albums well. Every one I've listened to has like 2-4 great songs and the rest is either trash or completely mid. I don't get people rating this album so highly. The 40 Licks compilation is enough for me.

Features some of my favourite Stones tunes. Some of the others aren't quite as great, but even the worst songs on here are good. Among the best Rolling Stones albums.

The intro to Can't You Hear Me Knocking gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. The crunchy guitar by itself, then later the bass coming in to accompany is one of my favorite passages of music. Not much gives me the stank face so fast.

Sister Morphine has slick guitar playing. Really enjoyed this track

Moonlight Mile is gorgeous

4.5

Pretty nice.

High 3/5

If I was asked what my favourite Rolling Stone album was, this probably wouldn't be it, but it's pretty damned good. That said, it's been a long time since I last listened to the Rolling Stones, so I don't think I even have a good answer to that question in the first place. I guess I'll figure that out once I have a few more Stones albums generated.

Favourite tracks: Sway, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, You Gotta Move, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile

One of the greatest albums by one of the greatest bands = 5 stars.

The top five star review on this album is by some misogynistic Republican Boomer who seems to adore the sort of "white guys do the blues" thing that drives me up the wall... and has several of my favorite albums in his one star collection. Based on the quality of that reviewer's taste alone, I suspect I'll be giving this two, maybe three stars. Three would be a stretch.

Cover art: juvenile, tacky.

I already know "Brown Sugar" is an atrocity going in - I'd give it one star by itself - so I'll just skip that and see what the rest of this album is like.

... yeah, it's full of that white guy blues crap. Not a single track on here I could actually enjoy. Nothing else as grotesque as "Brown Sugar" and I'm not angry about listening, so it's two stars. I reserve one star reviews for the albums I'm mad about having in my streaming history.

Anyway, I'm off to listen to one of the top reviewer's one star albums to clean out my ears. Fever Ray's self-titled album appeals to me today. 🎶

Another bit of a miss from the Rolling Stones, for me personally. At least it had some interesting moments like Can't You Hear Me Knocking and Moonlight Mile!

Hits galore. Brown Sugar doesn't play nice with modern sensibilities etc. Dead Flowers sucks unless Townes is doing it. Otherwise, you've gotta give it up. Never leaves my top 5 stones.

Top 1 star review guy's favourite album is by Incubus. Hilarious. Disqualified.

goodbye brian jones, welcome mick taylor. keith’s best partner i think. some of the best two guitar music out there. guitar heaven, this album.

brown sugar certainly wouldn't fly today. but what a song. lyrically, i’d like to think it’s got more in common with randy newman’s “good old boys” than it probably does. these guys weren’t randy newman.

sway is never the first song i think of, but it’s great. jagger is great. mick taylor’s slide is perfect for the stones. scuzzier than duane. his solo near the end trills and soars too.

wild horses is a great song, like, a really great song, but i usually skip it. part of that is classic rock radio overexposure and part is because i like my stones scuzzy. and also because

can’t you hear me knocking is next. and i can’t wait. i’ve got a thing for studio reactions that stay in songs. the stones have a few great ones (after marianne faithful’s voice cracks when she’s going ultra hard in “gimme shelter”, someone loses their shit and yells WHOO!). and here, during keith’s first run through one of the sickest rhythm riffs of all time, there’s a “guh!” halfway through and a back of the studio “yeah!” at the end of it. i swear to god i usually listen to the first seven seconds of this song three or four times in a row. there are a few more peppered in there. you can hear they were feeling this one.

this song was built for two guitars. or maybe two guitars were made for this song. worth listening on headphones for the mix. keith in your right ear, mick taylor in your left. perfect counterpoints.

you gotta move. you gotta include a faithful blues cover cuz you do it so good. this album's "prodigal son." works great after knocking. keith’s backing vocals.

bitch. drivin'. mick jagger really is an excellent frontman. another masterclass in how to use two guitars. the mix stays the same. keith on the right as the engine; mick left as the spitting flames; watts and wyman behind you, clacking on the tracks; jagger in your face, preening and mugging. lots of sax on this record.

naming a song "i got the blues" is funny. stones as stax. stones as the mg’s. mick jagger as otis redding. it's great. mick can't do what otis did but otis didn’t do what mick does. or did he? the stones are indebted to him. but he loved them too. satisfaction.

sister morphine. this thing is haunted. ry cooder, who plays his best guitar on other people’s records (beefheart, taj mahal), plays slide. his playing is ghoulish and note perfect. i think that’s a third guitar they use to make those haunted house sounds. by the time the drums really kick in at about 2:40, the engine is warm. a dark and very dirty song. murky stones at their best.

dead flowers. sunshine after sister morphine. country stones singalong. homies could write a song. hanging w gram parsons. dude was kinda in every band about this time.

moonlight mile. that's how to use strings in rock and roll.

filthy great record. love the black and white stones records. only thing missing is a keith-sung tune. but that doesn't keep it from a 5.