If you still havent heard the Stones-this ought to be your starter!
If you’ve heard the Stones before-didnt like them-but still havent heard this one-do it quick-you are in for a surprise!
Sticky Fingers is a landmark in the long winding history of Rock and roll and there are no two opinions about it!
The album kicks off with perhaps one of the most famous Stones songs ever-Brown Sugar-
With a rocking rythm and a shrieking horn section with Billy Preston leading it on...
Brown Sugar sets the pace off for the entire album- And not once does it falter
Brown Sugar is followed by Sway, a vastly underated song, a Mick Taylor showpiece featuring perhaps the best guitar work on any of their albums
The song often makes you wonder how vast an influence Taylor had on the greatness of this once-mediocre band!
’’Can you hear me knocking’’ with a 5 minute coda where Taylor on the guitar and Preston on the sax, indulge in almost Santana like jam, The pounding Bitch, the spine chilling Sister Morphine which is a drugged out cry (Or hissss) on the turmoils of drug-abuse, ’’I got the blues’’-the best Stones Blues song...Sticky Fingers is head and shoulders above any other album of that period
Also featuring are the ballads Wild Horses, Dead flowers and Moonlight mile
The melodic string-based moonlight mile is perhaps one of the most glorious album-finishers of all time-beautiful!
(Well there’s no use talking about Day in the life-that’s comparing mortals with another plane of existence!)
1 Brown Sugar ()
2 Sway ()
3 Wild Horses ()
4 Can’t You Hear Me Knocking ()
5 You Gotta Move(**)
6 Bitch ()
7 I Got the Blues ()
8 Sister Morphine ()
9 Dead Flowers ()
10 Moonlight Mile ()