Sticky Fingers

“Sticky Fingers” by The Rolling Stones (1971) Since this is one of the greatest albums of all time, I’ll take a different approach here. This album is one with which I’m very familiar. I know it by heart. My older sister bought it for me when it first came out in 1971, and, since my record collection was quite limited at the time, I listened to it thousands of times. It became a very important part of my musical, cultural, and spiritual formation, although I didn’t realize it at the time. For those who have never listened to this music as an album, it might only be familiar through the tracks that became hits, such as “Brown Sugar” and “Bitch”. Or those who are keenly attentive to music may be familiar with other songs such as “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”, or “Sister Morphine “, which have entered the cultural consciousness of the 21st century. But as an indicator of the influence of this album, one should observe that every song on the album has a separate Wikipedia article of its own. That’s saying something. This album qua album should be listened to from start to finish. Rock ‘n Roll. Decadent and dirty. Crystallized toxic masculinity with only a hint of redemption. Now, to understand this album, let me take you back in history (1970): Meredith Hunter was dead. An 18 year old African American, he was killed by Hells Angels member Alan Passaro on December 6, 1969 in front of the stage at the “Altamont Free Concert”, featuring The Rolling Stones. Hunter had pulled a gun, and Passaro stabbed him five times in the back (later acquitted of murder on the grounds of self-defense). The Stones were performing the misogynistic “Under My Thumb” at the time. How would The Rolling Stones respond to this terrible event in their next studio album? Artistic humility and lamentation or supercharged indifference? You be the judge. Brian Jones was dead. The quirky, talented, inventive, and unstable founder and multi-instrumentalist for The Rolling Stones had died in July 1969 (at the age of 27). Lead guitarist Mick Taylor took his place. That is the number one reason why this album is great. Lead singer Mick Jagger, drummer Charlie Watts, and bassist Bill Wyman knew that the replacement of Jones would make or break the band, so they were highly motivated to excel on this first studio album with the new lineup. How to integrate Mick Taylor to a well-established rock ‘n roll band? It was an artistic and existential challenge, and the Stones were up to it. Now Keith Richards, rhythm guitarist, worked with Taylor to ‘roll’ him into The Rolling Stones’ unique sound of ‘weaving’ lead and rhythm. The chemistry between these two became magical. I probably listened to this album several hundred times before I began to get an inkling of this. Listen closely and you’ll hear it. Richards/Taylor. Rhythm/Lead. That’s the music of this album. The rhythm section (Charlie Watts on drums and Bill Wyman on bass) provides quintessentially steady, if inelaborate tempos and grounding throughout. Keith Richards provides suitable chord structure and underpinning of the melodies in his execution of rhythm guitar. Vocally, Mick Jagger is a mess. But that’s the point. His deliberately exaggerated flaws in his vocal stylings, chaotic diction and tone, loose approach to pitch, and sometimes random exclamations are all calculated to produce the intended effect—adolescent male angst (however far out of touch he is with his own). In “Brown Sugar”, misogyny and racism are wrapped into one hard driven musical wallow with a rollicking beat. In the lyrics, the Anglo narrator reflects on the cultural roots of his present day sexual infatuation with a young Black woman, connecting it back to the sexual liberties of white male slave owners, and further back to the violent sexual domination by white slave traders over their helpless victims. It was the musical answer to the question, “Why is sex with black women so appealing to white men?” (Answer: the screams). It was recorded December 2-4, 1969. Then the Stones were ‘off to Altamont’ where they performed this song live, musically presiding (not incidentally) over the scene where a white man killed a gun-toting black man in front of the black man’s white girlfriend. Now put all that together, bro. The message of “Sway” is that evil, even demonic attacks of depression can only be conquered by love. Set in a bluesy environment, the music is accentuated by the weaving of two guitar lines: bottleneck slide (Taylor) and electric rhythm (this time by Jagger instead of Richards). The song ends with a masterful slide guitar solo by Mick Taylor and an effective string background as it fades. A beautiful and under-appreciated anthem. On “Wild Horses” a serious listener (with headphones) can get a sense of Taylor and Richards ‘weaving’, especially in the first verse, with Richards on twelve string acoustic in the right channel, while Taylor provides blended lead and licks on slide acoustic in the center of the stereo mix, adding overdubbed color (with the lower four strings tuned an octave higher) in the right channel. It becomes a tender setting for the message of devotion a man to his woman in the midst of her suffering. Notice the emotional progression from the insensitively nasty in “Brown Sugar” to hopefulness in “Sway”, and then on to deep compassion in “Wild Horses”. On “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”, we hear more ‘weaving’. Listen for Richards on the right channel and Taylor on the left channel. At 2:42, Taylor drops out for Richards to set up the remarkable Bobby Keys tenor sax solo. Taylor and Richards both provide underlying colorings to the sax, followed (at 4:40) by an iconic Taylor guitar solo, with Richards providing rhythm support, until Keys rejoins (at 6:00) for a fine jazz romp to the final splash cymbal by Watts. (If you wanted background music to a collage of scenes of mob violence, this would do nicely. And that is exactly what Martin Scorsese did with it in “Casino”. Chilling.) The last two minutes of the track, it is reported, were unplanned. The musicians were unaware the tape was still rolling. God exists. With “Bitch”, we have uninhibited nasty rock, enriched by a sassy horn section over more ‘weaving’ by Richards and Taylor. The musical setting and lustful lyric provide a suitable vehicle for Jagger’s raw vocals. These words depict a driving passion for the beloved that is reduced to autonomic reflex (“like a Pavlov dog”). For God’s sake, woman, throw the dog a bone. “I Got the Blues” is a dirge-like blues ballad, guaranteed to lower your blood pressure after “Bitch”. Again, with beautiful horns, and some exquisite Hammond organ soloing by Billy Preston. And speaking of blood pressure, “Sister Morphine” is a track that could send you to the hospital. A haunting minor key lament of a drug addict’s agonizing withdrawal, addressed to his longed-for but absent Sister Morphine. Mournful tone on the Richards’ strummed acoustic, with accompanying electric slide, this time by the incomparable Ry Cooder. In his delirium, the song’s protagonist is possessed of a sudden terror (“What am I doing in this place? / Why does the doctor have no face?”). If this song doesn’t produce a shudder, you’re already dead. And speaking of dead, the next track, “Dead Flowers” is a piece of lazy passive aggression, presented in a funked up country mood. Jagger’s narrator can’t contain a mocking disdain for his former girl who has apparently moved up the better life, leaving him in some basement “with needle and a spoon”. Vocals with an exaggerated affected southern accent highlight the mockery. The only hint of redemption here is his (vain) hope to someday put roses on her grave. Why am I skeptical? The final song on “Sticky Fingers” is “Moonlight Mile”. Painfully slow, a man living “on the road” longs to be home with his beloved. Fine acoustic and electric guitar work by Taylor. The expansive string arrangement over a gut wrenching piano brings his hope to an almost victorious conclusion, punctuating the powerful bridge before softening at the very end, bringing this song, and this album, to a melancholy conclusion. In its creative conception, the lyrics (as well as the cover art, dangling tongue logo, and other marketing strategies) are unabashedly lascivious and drug-centered. But they are tempered by reflections of darker and even dangerous moods—a perfect concoction for exciting the libido of most every 16-year old American male (like me at the time), who imagined that it was his own picture on the cover. “Sticky Fingers” by The Rolling Stones is, of course, a classic. 5/5

Did not enjoy any of it. I actually looked at the other reviews and there is a guy who wrote a freakin soliloquy about how amazing it is and I just dont see it, crazy how different two people view the same thing. He does say his sister bought him the album in 1971 so a bit older and definitely the time of life that this stuff makes an impression, but still, cannot believe this is held up as some kind of amazing rock album. Led Zepplin eats their lunch in every conceivable way.

Is that a banana in your pocket or is that Keith Richard's guitar? This album stands erect over many flaccid albums of the day. Super-bluesy and tons of great guitar riffs. Everyone talks about Jagger, but KR is the real engine behind this band. There's no doubt it's his schlong on the cover.

The Rolling Stones come back again to knock one firmly in the middle of the park.

I tried my best to maintain my America-does-it-better/UK-hating 1001 persona. I tried telling myself "they also made Exile and Let it Bleed, and you can't give out 5 stars to 3 Rolling Stones records, that's too generous." I failed on both fronts. Some of the prettiest songs they've ever written (Moonligh Mile). Some of the most problemmatic (Brown Sugar). Some of the best jams (Can't You Hear). Some of the dirtiest blues besides Exile (You Gotta Move). All wrapped up in cover art from Andy Warhol with a functioning zipper and tighty whities inside. A+

I’m tempted to bring this down a star because the lyrics to “Brown Sugar” are so fucking cringe-y. It’s comforting to know that Jagger has since said he doesn’t really know why he wrote those lyrics like that and would censor himself now. The rest of this album is tight as all fuck though. The drums on “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” are perfect.

I was once an avid listener, and am still a big fan of, classic rock. Surprisingly, I have never been a fan of The Rolling Stones who are commonly considered one of the top 2 or 3 classic rock acts. It’s not that I didn’t like them, but I tried an album or two of their’s a couple times and they just never clicked with me. In recent years, I’ve been on an electronic and alternative kick. So it’s refreshing to get some classic, classic rock today and give the Stones another shot. Side note: I am fully expecting the Pretentious-Ass to comment on the bulge in Jagger’s pants on the album cover, including an in-depth analysis of what statement is being made and why the words “sticky fingers” lead you right to it. The saxophone solo in Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is right on. And the sound of the guitar in the solo just after the saxophone is sublime. And how about the bluesy, slide guitar on You Gotta Move? Mmmm hmmm, I’ll take a side order of that to go. I’m also loving Bitch, especially the brass section. The whole song feels like I’m cruising down the highway, which means we’re going somewhere. I have good things to say about pretty much every song on this album. I’ve seen The Big Lebowski maaaaaannnnyyy times, and thus, I am an ardent fan of the soundtrack. So I was quite familiar with Dead Flowers, which I love. I did not realize however, that Dead Flowers is a Rolling Stones song. So I was quite pleased when it showed up on this album. I must say that having heard the Townes Van Zandt version so many times prior, I prefer it. So I listened to the Stones version then the Van Zandt version … then the Stones version … then the Van Zandt version again. On the Stones version, Jagger is putting on some kind of American country accent that is, well awkward. From Van Zandt, the accent sounds authentic. Then I busted out the GuitarTab app and found the chords. Within 30 minutes I was playing along with the Stones belting out “dead flowerssssss”. I used to “play” (more like fuck around with) guitar often a while back, and I don’t think I ever played a song along with the artist, let alone in 30 minutes. It was a 5 star experience for sure.

I don't see what people see here, it's alright I guess? I've tried before with they're greatest hits and some songs like Beast of Burden are great. But mostly it's bland. This album has wild horses and brown sugar - which are playing, rest are forgettable

Familiar with the album, but haven't listed to it in a sitting for a long time. I gain more respect for Keith Richards as I get older. Always thought he was a little overrated, but I appreciate him the more I listen. Brown Sugar brought back memories of riding in my father's truck when I was a little boy. Can't You Hear Me Knocking is my favorite track. It stood out amongst the rest. I appreciate the bluesy rock of a lot of the tracks. This period of Let It Bleed and Exile On Main Street is about the only Stones I've delved into and enjoyed.

well, this was a surprise, for sure. when i was a kid, i was definitely a beatles guy, rather than a stones guy. i - at the ripe old age of like 7 - had decided mick was just kinda sleazy - and that stayed with me for a loooong time. anyway, that impression helped me to never really love their music. but there are definitely songs of theirs i do love, and i've found some new ones for that list on this album. moonlight mile, bitch, and you gotta move - all tracks i'd never heard, even though brown sugar had been played into oblivion (and did little to change my picture of mick). once again, the tracks that i love get the least play on the album, which makes me think i'm probably not a huge fan of their overall sound. but speaking of sound, holy shit keith richards, man. it's not just that he can play that thing, the sound he gets out of it is amazing. i'm re-committing myself to leaving a better world behind when i go, for him and willie nelson to inherit.

Leans too hard into the blues portion of blues rock, way too much gratuitous noodling over what would otherwise be nice, concise rock tracks.

Top to bottom this might be one of their best. Starts off super strong, some solid deep cuts, not the most mind blowing thing in the world, but a lot of fun, some cool bluesy sounds packed through it

I don’t know what it is about the Stones, but there’s something missing from their music that keeps me from loving them. Like, the songs here aren’t bad, the musicianship is very good, but there’s some intangible quality missing from it all that keeps their songs from really capturing me. Maybe it’s that, for a band who has often been called “The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World”, a lot of their songs kind of meander and don’t really have the energy level or edge that you’d expect out of a band with that moniker.

Hey you guys ever heard of The Rolling Stones?

Brown sugar. That guitar riff. Amazing song. I love everything about it. Jaggers swagger really coming through on the vocals. Wild horses is tragically good. Love the melody and how this one moves. Cant you hear me knocking. That riff. Makes you want to get out your air guitar. Love it. Richards smashes this track. but damn son, that sax solo - Quality. Followed by the very bluesy solo. Absolutely banging tune. loved bitch. got a real set of balls to it. Then i loved how i got the blues slows this record down. Moving into sister morphine very nicely. The guitar on this track is great. Dead flowers is a belter. Take me down little suzie!! Cracker. But what a way to finish the album. Keeping with those slow soothing melodies in the last few tracks. Moonlight mile is so good. Bravo. A classic for me.

God-tier album.

Just good old fashioned bluesy rock n roll. I love it when it's good and timeless

I need this album after the last week or so. I am returning from Mexico and a 5/5 album was needed for my first day back at work. What a start with Brown Sugar. Such a good song and guitar riff. Wild horses is one of my favourte songs and Sister Morphine is so under rated. This is a top top album. Favourite song: Wild horses Least favourite: All top tracks Album artwork: Iconic cover

10

Great album

Sticky Fingers is a perfect, total package of an album. In my mind when I think about classic albums, this is one of the first ones that comes to mind. It’s everything an album is supposed to be. It was built for long haul listening, for hours and hours of listens and re-listens, and arguments with your friends over the best tracks, and figuring out the lyrics, while you contemplate that cover. Right, that cover. It’s got to be one of the most daring album covers of all time. It’s alluring in its way, but entirely too much. It’s the Rolling Stones of album covers. But that’s just the cover. Dare to look inside, and it’s a real gift. From track one, this album is on fire. That moment the needle drop takes you into that first riff on “Brown Sugar” is one of the most consequential of all time. I can’t think of a more appropriate song to kick off an album, except maybe “Hells Bells” on Back in Black. It’s a strutting, unrepentant masterpiece of a rocker that doesn’t lose a bit of its power, even as our perceptions of the song might change over time. To be clear, I think our perceptions should change of it over time. You can appreciate a song and still critique it. The album has plenty of that sultry, dirty blues, the badass sound that the Stones more or less invented, exemplified in "Bitch" and "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." But then there’s the other stuff, the deeeep Stones of “Sister Morphine,” “Moonlight Mile” and “Dead Flowers.” They aren’t afraid to go dark when they need to, or to hint that there’s some vulnerability hiding under all that bravado. Most of these songs are straight up classics and a joy to listen to. There are a couple of weak ones, but this was an easy 5. Fave Songs (all songs from most to least favorite): Moonlight Mile, Brown Sugar, Dead Flowers, Sway, Bitch, Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Sister Morphine, I Got the Blues, You Gotta Move

great album, aside from brown sugar having the most suspect lyrics of all time. weird drug induced trolling or something, i dunno. nice to hear stuff from them that isn’t just Greatest Hits

Un très bel hommage des Rolling Stones envers le roi de la couillasse, j'ai nommé Bruce Springsteen. Je pense que je n'apprends rien à personne en disant que le lundi est un jour particulier dans mon entreprise puisque c'est le jour où nous nous faisons livrer des panières de fruits frais. Et justement, en ce lundi matin, n'ayant pas beaucoup de travail, je décidai de manger une poignée d'entre eux en écoutant les Rolling Stones. Laissez-moi maintenant vous partager une difficulté à laquelle je suis confronté pour que vous compreniez là où mène cette anecdote. Étant astreint à recevoir des appels téléphoniques de clients, seules quelques options s'offrent à moi pour justifier le fait de m'absenter un instant de mon bureau. Sachant que le statut "va se chercher un café" ne figure pas dans le menu déroulant, je choisis systématiquement "restroom break", ce qui fait que le logiciel m'affiche comme étant aux toilettes environ trois heures par jour en cumulé. Ce qui m'amène à la mésaventure dont je voulais vous parler. En revenant de la cuisine après avoir jeté mes trognons de pomme et peaux de clémentine, je fus interpellé par mon patron devant tout l'open space: "Alors ça va la chiasse, espèce d'énorme porc ?" Croyez-le ou non, mais je fus extrêmement gêné par cette réflexion.

En tant que directeur officiel du club des détraqueurs des Rolling Stones, je me retrouve bien embêté devant cet album de plutôt bonne facture. Je décide donc d'accorder la note de 4/5 dans l'anonymat je l'espère le plus total.

It's raw. It's raucous. It's feral. It's sleazy. Much of "Sticky Fingers" captures The Rolling Stones at their peak, strutting through blues and country as though they own it, staying just the right side of gimmicky. There are some very famous tracks here in the form of "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses", but there are some unsung heroes here (or, unsung as any song by one of the biggest bands of all time can be). "Moonlight Mile" and "I Got The Blues" are gorgeous ballads. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is one of their best jams with a searing lead guitar performance from new member Mick Taylor. The horns in "Bitch"! The dizzying coda of "Sway"! The jubilant singalong of "Dead Flowers"! It all combines brilliantly, swelling up just like whatever our young cover star is hiding under his jeans. So why not the five stars? However catchy that opening riff might be, however danceable the instrumental feels, those lyrics to "Brown Sugar" were not okay in 1971 and they never will be. No amount of boomer nostalgia should change that, and in fact they're a key reason I can't go celebrating this as a perfect album. Also, "You Gotta Move" does nothing for me and "Sister Morphine" is eerily atmospheric but really brings the pace down. And finally, I'm waiting for "Exile On Main Street". One year on from here, it's where they'd really take off.

Brown Sugar - Nice Instrumentals, cool intro to the album I can see why its the most listened song in this LP according to spotify, one bad thing about it though is the trumpets in the end sound really off and theyre quite annoying (could be my shitty headphones) Sway - Love the guitar, seems like the instrumentals are always on point, would love for the vocals to be a little louder, could use some better songwriting but the guitar hooks you into the track so its fine. Wild Horses - Again the guitar/instrumentals are the highlights of this track, Sonically sounds really good very nice performance, again i wish the vocals were louder and not so quieted down. Cant You Hear Me Knocking - Okay now I understand this album isnt meant to be about lyrics as much as it is for the instrumentals You Gotta Move - I swear this is a famous meme, like one of those racist ones LOL. *Abdi ate the Nutella* Bitch - Same thing with the instrumentals and stuff dont wanna repeat myself I Got The Blues - Really good track stands out from the rest with its slower pace, seems like this is the theme of the 2nd half of the LP. Sister Morphine - Oh yeah I prefer the 2nd half of this album way more, Dead Flowers - Yeah the whole thematic of the album went over my head till like the 6th track, this track in particular has Americana written all over it. I KNOWW YOURE THE QUEEN OF THE UNDERGROUUUNDDD Moonlight Mile - A decent send off track, my right ear enjoyed that intro. Overall: This album clearly captures the blues and the soul concept more into the 2nd half which is in my opinion the better part of the album. On a second listen i kinda realised the "lower" volume of the vocal is actually a sylistical choice now and it really makes sense. Ending notes: My fav tracks are I Got The Blues, Sister Morphine, Dead Flowers, Wild Horses and Cant You Hear Me Knocking. Will it be a re-listen in the future? Im not really sure but it was a nice album to listen to. Final Score: 3.5/5 P.S I feel like any of these songs belongs to one of those GTA San Andreas radio stations

The world seemed divided between the Beatles girls and the Rolling Stones girls. As a fan of '70s rock, with a rather alternative style and a rather "rebellious" look, I thought for a long time that it was the Rolling Stones who were going to win me over. I would have been a frenzied groupie, ready to throw myself half-naked backstage. The years go by. For five years running, The Beatles are in the top 5 of my Spotify wrap. No Rolling Stones in sight. Finally, I'll probably be sitting quietly in front of the living room table with my hair in pigtails and an ecstatic smile, ready to let out a high-pitched scream as soon as Paul McCartney takes over the family radio Save: Moonlight Mile, a distinct alt country song

This is the fourth stones album I got. I think this is the best one. Still don't like them though

The first time they sounded like impressions of themselves. Licks and riffs made to measure and in all the expected places. At times, it's downright flat. 'Wild Horses' is a sentimental drag. Their 'Hey Jude'. 'Brown Sugar' is great music but not a great song. The subject is fine, it's the treatment--which has none of the mischievous, nuanced irony of 'Sweet Little Angel' or 'Downhome Girl'--that makes it offensive. Just a straightforward song about enjoying raping slaves. Ick. 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' and 'Moonlight Miles are phenomenal--the former a gauntlet for anyone who thinks they can do this thing half as well as the Stones, the latter perfect in its slippery, uneasy beauty. 'Dead Flowers' comes close to those two--maybe the only song that recaptures the grotesque role-playing of Beggars Banquet. An album overrated for interfering the world-beating run from that one to Exile, but not even close to their level.

Not their best.

Not a huge fans, a couple of decent tracks the rest was hard going.

Cocksucker Blues. That's not me talking, it's a documentary about them.

my grandpa's company manufactured the zippers on the original album cover

I was not expecting to like this album this much. It’s bluesy without being self indulgent, and every song has something special. Gosh and I forgot how much I liked Moonlight Mile! What a great album I’m glad I heard it in its entirety before I died.

What's not to like? Classic Stones, at their best.

great album, they're really growing on me, despite their rolling nature

It has some of the greatest moments the Rolling Stones ever created making it an essential part of their discography.

Wild Horses is in the running for best song of all time. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is in the running for best guitar riff of all time. Moonlight Mile - pretty sure it’s the best album closer of all time. I dunno if I’ve ever listened to this record front to back but it might be my favorite Stones album now that I have.

4.5/5

A classic. Doesn't get much better than this

This was a solid release for The Rolling Stones. It’s a great blend of their earlier hard rock and blues rock, with some folk and country influences mixed in. The production is polished in some ways but still has a raw, gritty edge that brings out the stripped-down essence of rock and blues. The use of piano and saxophone is another standout feature, adding a soulful, laid-back feel to the album.

If you could only listen to a single Stones album, it might as well be this. Quintessential.

In my opinion, the best Stones album. The run of Brown Sugar to Can’t You Hear Me Knocking may be the best ever four song start to a rock album. Ending with Dead Flowers and Moonlight Mile? Perfection.

The Stones at their best in my opinion. Great range of songs from ballads, to blues tracks, to straight fucking rockers.

This album is fantastic. So many classics and no duds. The Stones at their best? I think probably. What’s wrong with it? Nothing. It’s great. 5/5

This is pretty great. A lot of noodling that I probably wouldn't appreciate in a full-on jazz record, but the bluesy style saves it for me. Nice.

They’re one of the most famous bands of all time for a reason. Wild Horses is arguably a top 25 song of all time.

Rating: 10/10 Masterpiece, one of the greatest albums of all time and probably the Rolling Stones' best work. A true culmination of the band's best elements, this album has incredibly groovy blues rock songs and slower emotional ballads that are all stellar. A true classic. Favorite songs: pretty much all of them. Worst song: You Gotta Move.

This record is just amazing. Love the whole atmosphere, sounds and guitar riffs / solos. Would listen to this again and again.

This album could consist of only the opening guitar riff from Cant You Hear me Knocking followed by Alvin and The chipmunks singing Baby Shark on repeat and I would still have a hard time giving anything less than 5 stars.

Sticky Fingers is the Rolling Stones' ninth studio album, and is regarded by many as their best work. This was their first studio album without Brian Jones, and with Mick Taylor, who has joined the band for their previous release, the live album "Get your Ya-Yas Out." This album is of impressive range, in part due to a number of guests on the recording. The album includes ballads, like "Wild Horses," and chart-topping rockers, like "Brown Sugar." The band still embraced their reputation as the "bad-boys" of rock, see "Bitch," and their early, blues-based recording, like "I got the Blues." In addition to the famous tracks, there are the surprises in the deeper cuts, like "Moonlight Mile." This range is one of the arguments supporting the band's claim to be the world's greatest rock & roll band.

Objectively perhaps their best. I’m more likely to listen to Some Girls if both are in front of me, but I recognize that this album as a whole is better overall.

Starkes Album von den Stones. Ich habe leider nur die CD und nicht die Platte mit dem legendären Reißverschluss-Cover

The best Stones album, maybe. Between this and Exile you can’t go wrong.

Superb. “Moonlight Mile” is one of my favourite Rolling Stones songs. I wasn’t familiar with the album, but I loved every track.

Enjoyed this

classic for a reason

Cool

Almost finished the album but was always going to give it a 5. Dad was saying that more a collection of great singles than album but I don't think that really matters. Brown sugar, wild horses, sister morphine, dead flowers and moonlight mile are top tier. 4.7 rounded up.

Unreal

Classic stones, some great tracks, what's not to like?

Gran disco

Timeless!

Great

While the album cover may be iconic, I'm not a big. I am, however, a big fan of this album. So many bangers it's hard to imagine where Martin Scorsese's career would be without the impactful tunes of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "Bitch." Then add combo the iconic "Brown Sugar," and "Wild Horses," you just can't really argue that this could easily be their best studio album. Absolutely incredible.

Woaw

Pretty awesome, can’t you hear me knocking is the bees knees.

I have loved this album since forever ♥️♥️♥️

There’s a reason the majority of the songs on this album are all time classics. Bitch and Can’t You Hear Me Knocking are standouts. Moonlight Mile is a lush & soulful closer. Brown Sugar is a victim of cancel culture but the times they are a-changin’

Side one is as rip roaring as the Rolling Stones get. Side two slows things down a bit. But there's no fat here at all. As consistent as any Stones album with some outright gems in both the rager and ballad camps.

Classic album with a great range of tracks what a rythym section

It doesn’t may if you like the Stones or not, if you even kind of enjoy Rock and Roll, this album is a classic. So many absolute beasts of songs.

Man, the Stones really were unstoppable from 1968-1972. They weren't shy of exploring various flavours of rock, country, blues, and more, but the balancing act was absolutely perfect on this album. All members are in fine form and more than half the album is A-tier or above. Consider the sheer hookiness of 'Brown Sugar'. The understated beauty of 'Wild Horses'. The unique and epic jamming on Can't You Hear Me 'Knocking'. Their now-honed-and-perfected authentic country-roots sound on 'Dead Flowers'. The swagger (and killer horn session) of 'Bitch'. The hauntingly melancholy of 'Sister Morphine'. The beautiful introspection and strings on 'Moonlight Mile'. The sleazy cover of 'You Gotta Move' is probably the only weaker track that isn't great in isolation, but as an interlude closing out side A it works great in context. On it's own I don't know how to give it anything but top marks. But in the context of the albums on either side of it, it also firmly makes the case for The Rolling Stones to have one of the best four-album runs in music history.

Mi disco favorito de los Stones. No sé si objetivamente será el mejor, pero es el que (valga la redundancia) objetivamente disfruto más. Todas las canciones tienen una producción espectacular y se extienden de formas creativas con un sonido único que sólamente podría emanar de unos Rolling Stones ya maduros. Mis canciones favoritas del trabajo son "Bitch" y "Can you hear me knocking". Antes, como fiel fanático de The Beatles, no me gustaban los Stones; hasta que un amigo me recomendó este LP y cambié de parecer totalmente, así que encuentro que es una buena partida para cualquiera que se quiera meter a la discografía de los legendarios rockeros. Por favor escuchar, un esencial del imaginario musical inglés y mundial.

Discazo. Arranca arriba con Azúcar marrón. Muy buenas las menos conocidas Sway y Can't you hear me... Sumados los ya clásicos Wild houses y You gotta Move que corresponden con estilos bien distintos. De las siguientes a mi me destaca Sister morphine. Y Dead flowers es una canción que tiene que tener todo lo que tiene que tener, estribillo, interpretación, vocalización. Claramente, un gran disco de principio a fin

The soundtrack to every Martin Scorsese film. In all seriousness, this is such amazing piece of art from start to finish which ends with one of my favorite Stones songs - Moonlight Mile. 5/5

Amazing Exciting, corrupt, tuneful.

Great album!

My old boss gave me the original album with the working Zipper.... and I don't think really appreciated the stones till much later in life.... Wild horses and brown sugar two of my favorite tracks from the stones... I appreciate them so much more now than 50 years ago... that album sadly is not with me any more.

Still have the vinyl & it still gets a 5.

This album is already on my personal list of top 20 or so albums, so no surprises here. But always good to go back and revisit a familiar favorite. Moonlight Mile is one of my all-time favorite songs. 🎶”I got silence on my radio. Let the air waves flow. Let the air waves flow.”🎶 5/5 Highlights: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking You Gotta Move I Got The Blues

In the late 60's early 70's the Rolling Stones released in quick sucession Beggars Banquet (1968), Let it Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Mainstreet (1972) which forms the highlight of their repertoire. Of this complete tour de force Sticky Fingers is in my opinion the top. Not only because, unlike on some of the other albums, there is not a skippable song to be found here, but also with the masterful flow this album has. Starting off uptempo with 'Brown Sugar' it then slowly settles to the ballad 'Wild Horses' via the slow rocker of 'Sway', then to pick up again with 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking.' And a highlight of this album is the heartbreaking and terrifying 'Sister Morphine', with the electric slide of Ry Cooder. Possibly the Stone's best song. This is the Stones at their best

there was a time I thought it would be like this every day

My dad was a big Rolling Stones fan so no doubt I was listening to this in the womb and it's music is imprinted into my stem cells. The whole album is good (even the country-ish songs) but there are two songs on this album that I find outstanding. Can You Hear Me Knocking - starts off with a bang with that guitar riff. Then there is this part where it transitions into a sax groove, then it starts to sound like a Santana song, then everything is thrown in a blender and ends with a single beat. I was curious about the saxophone so looked the song up in Wikipedia. Apparently, it was only supposed to be the first few minutes, but they kept jamming thinking that the recording was over. The second half was a happy mistake. I think that demonstrates what great band/musicians they were. Second song is Bitch. Rocking rock song and again with horns!

There may be better Stones albums, but this is definitely a good one. Most of the youtube songs were 2008 remasters, and while I don't have the originals to compare to, the remastering probably contributed to my enjoyment to give it a richer sound than the typical early 70's mixing had.

Includes classics like Brown Sugar and Wild Horses - super solid all around

The Stones at their sharpest, nastiest, sweetest, heaviest, and best. Let’s just try to forget the words to that first song. Best song: Wild Horses

A really good album.

The truth is, I don't really listen to a lot of classic rock anymore. It just doesn't blow my hair back like it used to, but god damn, the Stones were just the best pure rock band ever and no amount of time seems to change that.

Perhaps the Stones’ best album? I literally don’t hear a bad cut on it and the opener brown sugar is as strong opening as they ever had and for the Stones, that’s really saying something—highly highly recommended.

Six stars !

The best of the Stones, easily. 4.5 stars

One of the Holy Quadrangle of Stones albums

“Wild Horses” is one of the GOATs

One of my favorite albums of all time — a classic.

10/10

Probably the best Stones album and my second favourite album to drink 1000 beers to. Dennis Leary has this bit where he says he wants to open a bar called O’Leary’s that only serves Budweiser and Bushmills and only plays the Stones and that’s what I think of when I listen to this album.

4.6 Quintessential stones

Yes, Mick and Keef, I can hear you knocking …

Great album, the Stones were at their peak.