Sticky Fingers

My favorite Stones album, with great tracks from beginning to end. Brown Sugar is one of the best guitar riffs of all time, Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ is an amazing jam, and Dead Flowers is just COOL. Album is damn near perfect.

Real good

The Stones doing the Stones better than anyone else can do the Stones. Absolutely kick ass aside with a B side that drives and rocks to match. I remember when I first pulled this album out on vinyl. Magnificent cover had a working zipper and it didn't even match the quality of the album.

Love the Rolling stones :)

Classic

I haven't listened to a lot of Stones, but have always liked what I've heard. In larger doses, I'm even more impressed. I was already impressed by their longevity - for guys that go as hard as they do, to continue doing it through six decades is kind of ridiculous. And my goodness, the late 60s/early 70s were an incredibly prolific time for them, releasing an album every year. "Sticky Fingers" delivers with some bluesy brilliance throughout. With the number of songs the Stones were churning out, you'd think that there would be some clunkers best left for the eventual rarities collection. However, with the exception of "Dead Flowers" and it's weird accent, everything on "Sticky Fingers" is great. Why are your fingers so sticky, though, Mick?

Can't say bad things to this band. One of my favourite.

Such a great album, running the full range from swagger to introspection.

Muy bueno

Very very very Great, i never heard an album from the Stones and this is a great introduction to his music

A classic

It is a tough tie between this and Exile on Main St. as to which is the best Stones album, but both are certainly two of the greatest albums of all time. 10/10 Best Tracks: "Brown Sugar" "Sway" "Wild Horses" "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" "Bitch" "I Got the Blues" "Dead Flowers" "Moonlight Mile"

This is a great introduction into the Rolling Stones I thoroughly enjoyed this album.

<3 A great album. Great vibe. Bluesy, free flowing sounds and guitar riffs. Great songs. Incredible last two songs, brings forward a happy nostalgia, as well as bittersweet sadness.

My favourite Stones album. This is a Swaggering, bluesy rock and roll. And a staggeringly good one at that. A special album.

A top 3 Stones album. Every song is a classic

I´m not a Rolling Stone but I like it, I like it just can I say....

Wild horses is one of my favorites! Enjoyed listening to this

Excellent!

love this album. wild horses is my fav

Tätä levyä on tullut fiilisteltyä syystalvella ennen 1001-projektin alkamista. Monta hyvää biisiä on saatu levylle mahtumaan, kovaa menoa jo heti aloitusbiisin introsta lähtien. Brown Sugar, Bitch, Dead Flowers, huikeita biisejä!

The Stones at their best. This was in the middle of 4 of their best albums, and it’s up there as one of the best of those. Just perfect in every way.

I know just the most famous songs from Rolling Stones and this album is surprisingly awesome for me. All blues and rock were amazing here. Included in my favorites

great start to this listening list - simple, uncomplicated, not overly produced. Brings back memories of jamming to these on my kazoo.

I'm apparently handing out 5s this week. But c'mon, this album has so many great songs, and that album cover.

My favorite Stones album. Nothing but great tracks, and my favorite songs of theirs to boot.

Excellent album! Listened last night and I forgot how clear the guitar sounds. Can't you hear me Knocking is a great example and is a must listen on some headphones.

Loved it

Rock,Country,R&B, and the Blues.

Great soundstage, acoustic rhythm and classic feel!

+ Brown Sugar + Wild Horses + Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Classic. Already own, already love.

an album that inevitably i keep coming back to

Really vibey. Loved it

interesting

Great rock album.

Love it.

A little blues, a little country, and a little rocknroll. A great classic album by the stones.

Really enjoyed it, didn't expect some of trumpet and piano riffs

Excellent, was not new to me though

A Rolling Stones ( and music in general) grail

Many people have this as the best Stones album, but to me, it feels incomplete somehow. I think that in 1971, they were trying to answer the question, "Are the Stones more than the sum of their parts?" I'm not sure we need the answer to this question today as much as we did 50 years ago. This may be their most well-rounded album, but I'm not sure it's their best. Best track: Moonlight Mile

Didn’t care much for Brown Sugar, but really enjoyed everything else, especially the country cuts off the album.

A decade may have come and gone and a new one had just dawned (albeit in incriminating fashion) but The Rolling Stones were as powerful as ever regardless of how sticky their extremities were. The third of four album run that many of rock's purists still uphold as being the best period in the band's history (and any band's history for that matter), the Andy Warhol zipper assisted record once again showcased the Stones approaching a seemingly never-ending peak as they blended the sounds of country, rock, funk, and blues into a concoction that indicated that they've gone past the limited mindset that people still had of rock and roll. In fact, they'd gone beyond rock and had simply become another thing entirely and it's a thing that's still rolling to this day.

Legendary Side A. Much less into Side B. The slower bluesier songs definitely lose my interest. I guess I prefer the Stones when they're ROLLING. Idk about some of this lyrical content but just moving past it.I finished listening to this walking to work through downtown Ham and Sister Morphine has a specific feel when you walk past a homeless encampment with a half dozen folks all folded up from fentanyl. Fav track: Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Wild Horses.

Ah... the zipper album. The Jimmy Miller-produced Stones albums were the Stones at their pinnacle.

Part of the legendary ‘68-‘72 run by The Stones. I’ve always ranked this one right behind Let It Bleed and Exile.

another hood classic! i have long considered the stones as a singles band because every one of their albums have some fillers. this one too despite some of the songs being too good that the drawbacks of the existences of the fillers don’t matter that much. 4/5

embarrassingly, I've never read the lyrics to Brown Sugar. What an awful song. definitely negatively impacted the rest of the album for me. Wild Horses is too much of a meme song now for me to fully enjoy either. However, it's truly a great album despite the low points. 7/10

This album is a great listen!, I was surprised by it it also sounded a bit like country am I wrong? This is my first album coming back to this challenge and I love being surprised by it! <3

Pretty good. Kind of what I think of when I think of the Rolling Stones. Not groundbreaking or unmissable. And I figured it would be. I really liked this though.

My guilty pleasure album for sure. As cringeworthy as the lyrics on Brown Sugar are, it’s unfortunately a banger song. Almost every song on here bangs, I’m absolutely in love with the jam session on Can’t you Hear me Knocking, and overall I think this is their most consistent album in terms of quality. However, You Gotta Move pushed me to the edge. I wanted to put my head in my hands and cry when I heard Mick Jagger sing this in that accent. That song doesn’t feel right coming out of his mouth, not after he subjected me to Brown Sugar four songs ago. I’m leaving this at a 4 for now, maybe I’ll change my mind later.

Vintage ‘Stones. (You know what to expect here.)

classics are classics for a reason. The album is full of bangers. A surprisingly jazzy album, just overall an extremely nice album to have listened to. 4/5

I can think of a better word for "Brown Sugar" than cringe! That song is just so fucking stupid but once you get past it, the rest of album is pretty damn good

Yeah - this is good. No surprise really.

It's always fun to review an all-time rock classic, especially one that I haven't listened to all the way through for a good while. To many Stones fans, this is really part of the all-time high period the Stones produced musically speaking (the problem for me will be deciding which one gets the 5). I'm not a Stones fanatic, but I love all of the stuff they did from Beggars Banquet to Some Girls. I feel, given the reviews on here, it appears that people either overthink or don't think enough about what this album offers. How about great, diverse music, with rock, blues, R&B, gospel, lounge, jazz and more? How about fantastic guest appearances from Billy Preston, Bobby Keys (on sax), Ry Cooder, and more? How about that amazing, gritty, warm production from Jimmy Miller, making the band seem live and present in your very living room? It's all that and more. The lyrics are ironic and cocky: for instance, "Brown Sugar" is allegedly an ode to Marsha Hunt, Jagger's girlfriend at the time, but could also be about heroin given the title name; "Dead Flowers" is definitely about heroin, or is it a breakup? ; and "Bitch" is actually a pretty desperate song about wanting to get some, apparently redirected at Marianne Faithfull after her breakup with Jagger (the Stones and their girlfriends had a common tradition to constantly insult each other via art form). More importantly, the Stones are finally starting to develop the sound they always wanted to have, which was intended to be roots/blues/gospel/R&B based from the start of their career (but didn't really translate until the 70s). This is sex, drugs, and rock and roll reaching a new golden era. As the very long top review points out correctly (though he overanalyzes a bit), Keith Richards and Mick Taylor (on his second ever appearance with the Stones) had a wonderful dynamic here, bringing soulful and tasteful licks and collaboration here. I can see why the Stones were crushed when Taylor decided to leave in 1974. He really brought so much to their sound during his stint with the band. As much as Brian Jones's wacky presence is missed here, he was too dysfunctional for the band before getting fired and his untimely death (and this is coming from a band that still fought a lot at the time and did lots of drugs during these sessions). What I enjoy about this record is the diversity of sound - from the soulful, gorgeous "Wild Horses" to the feisty, loungy "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (one of the best rock outros EVER!) to the festive and dumb "Bitch" to the psychedelic, dark "Sister Morphine" (listen to that slide guitar work from Cooder!), it's clear by here that they had the last laugh in terms of surpassing their chops compared to other bands of their generation at the time. Even the non-hits are an absolute joy - I cannot find a weak moment on this album. Other than that, what else is there to say? Oh! The cover is hilarious for the time period - designed by Andy Warhol at the Factory but identifying the bulge remains a trade secret. Used to have a stupid zipper that actually destroyed the vinyl over time. This is a COOL, FUN record with juvenile AND adult songs and themes. Stop overthinking it. Stop trying to not enjoy it. Put on some nice headphones and bask in the noise and dynamics. 4.5 stars

Los Rolling haciendo de los Rolling. Me mola Brown Sugar Wild Horses Bitch I Got The Blues Dead Flowers Moonlight Mile

A brilliant album - maybe just misses out on top marks because it sounds a little dated now but I still love it. Especially the less well known gems.

Pretty good

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*

8/10. Desde el primer momento que vi que era un disco de los rollings super que sería bueno, y no defraudó. La consistencia de los temas es algo destacable, pero además hay muchos bangers que destacan. Lo que más me gustó fueron los solos y acompañamientos de la guitarra.

I hav a hard time distinguishing the different Stones albums from each other but this one is special. Until proven otherwise, this is my favorite 3.9

Fantastic, bluesy, great riffs, top jams.

All my stones album reviews begin with "I am not a big rolling Stones fan" and then i see I have rated 2 previous albums with 4's, so maybe I am a bit of a Stones fan..but it is more this soulful country influenced stones that i like, as opposed to the classic rock stones. On to the review: I own this album and rate it highly. One of their better albums in my opinion. it starts and ends brilliantly. First 4 and last 4 songs are superb. I prefer the Townes cover of Dead Flowers, but credit must go where credit is due, a great song. Wild Horses is fantastic, but I got the Blues is the standout track. 4 stars

Significant country/western influence. Outside of Wild Horses, I was not familiar with this side of the Stones.

Enjoyed it

Bra! Så många bra låtar på detta album: Wild Horses, Sister Morphine, Brown sugar, Moonlight Mile och Bitch. Galet! Jag gillar detta Rolling Stones. De var så coola! De var allt det som Beatles aldrig lyckades bli.

The Rolling Stones have always been a little bit of a strange band for me personally - widely considered one of the all time greats, with some of the best songs in the popular music canon, but without a truly great album to ground them and allow me to place them aside other bands. This is probably their strongest effort I've heard to date, mixing the effortless swagger and easy-going blues rock of their sixties output with some more adventurous songwriting - particularly with Wild Horses, a top 5 song of theirs. Brown Sugar's politics is very strange to listen to with a 2026 mindset, but the groove is undeniably fantastic, snf Moonlight Mile has some of the most tender and affecting guitar playing on it. It still suffers from a bit of filler, but a very easy four stars.

4/5

I don’t really need to say that the Stones deserve their due because they’re legends, but I can appreciate greatness. I would show their entire catalogue to an alien. It’s not always on the rotation, but you can’t argue how influential they are.

Starting to think that the Stones catalogue is spread out enough that no one album is going to be a 5 for me, but this was another solid entry with Brown Sugar, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and Bitch being my favorites.

A solid vibe. My stones experience is getting better with each album on here. I found this less blues by numbers than previously. Also more of that nice stones grove and more of the jamming feel (even if things still feel pretty pop.)

The Rolling Stones got so much better in the 70s - I think 60s blues just sounds so thin and they really loved only playing covers of like howling wolf. I don’t think I endorse all of the ideas and attitudes in this album but it’s really good.

Для многих это лучший альбом Роллингов. Я послушал его целиком впервые. Понравилось.

This seems like a classic but I am not super familiar with the Stones. I enjoyed this.

genuine surprise, i enjoyed it more than i expected; normally i really struggle with old rock. the first couple of songs didn't spark that much joy but i somehow got into it. great guitar solos. i wonder whether this website is actually changing my taste in music: maybe because it already got me a few old rock records (that i mostly was not a fan of), now it helps me appreciate the classics a bit more than before?

4.2/5

Rolling Stones. Good album to play in the background. Brown Sugar is a classic.

Heard some before; 4; I'm not the biggest Rolling Stones fan, but I've been trying to give them more of a fair listen recently, and this is probably the album I've enjoyed most. Very much straight-forward blues, and done with a very dirty, grimy sound in parts, but also enough variety to change it up and make for enjoyable pacing throughout. Everything sounds very tight, and I also really enjoy the drumming. Not really sure what else to say, except that I can see why this is such a highly regarded album. Favorite Track: Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Álbum de rock com elementos bem ricos de blues. As guitarras soam fantásticas. QoA Vesper.

This was a great return to their roots by The Stones. It must not have been easy to come up with this record, after the death of Brian Jones. But the rest of the band put out a top class record

8.5/10. Classic album that your uncles probably saw performed live in Dublin.

I believe this is the third time for this one on my multiple projects. My rating has remained pretty solid. Let’s see… Yeah. This time it’s almost a 5. Almost. I mean there’s hardly a dead spot. And it has so, so much. Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Can’t You Hear Me Knocking. It’s always the mid album that isn’t as clear for me. That mid section until Dead Flowers. But then Dead Flowers brings me back strong to finish with Moonlight Mile. So this album is a 4. 4 Boolean: True. I do believe this is my favorite Stones

Classic

Lo escuché varies veces y cada que lo escuchaba me gustaba màs. Estuvo brian john aqui?

I mean it’s good. Rock / country / dj sean it’s pre good!

Another great album from the Stones. Aside from the awful lyrics on the opener this is a consistently great effort.

"Brown Sugar" is an unreal opener, about as perfect as it gets for setting the tone of this album. With the exception of "Slow Horses" and the closer "Moonlight Mile," the slower songs didn't stick to me the way the looser jams or boogies do. This might be a reviewer cliché, but "Can't You Feel Me Knocking" feels like the sun this album orbits around. Those Latin drums are incredible. "Moonlight Mile" does seem to presage the 1990s/2000s Britpop explosion, so it's kind of fitting to bring this sonic collage of an album to a close with it. Don't you hear Oasis?

surprisingly chill , i thought it would be hard rock and roll

Some of my favorite Stones songs are on Sticky Fingers. Also, I love the Warhol album cover. Favorite songs: Moonlight Mile, Wild Horses, Dead Flowers

Second time for this one. Gave it a 4 before. Let’s see what it is today. I was surprised by Let it Bleed. Thought that was a WAY better album than it actually was. Really that album has two mega, mega hits and a bunch of trash. I realize with the Stones I can go in initially with nostalgia, knee jerk voting. So… Oh yeah, this is definitely a 4. I’m realizing this might be their best album as album. It’s pretty f*ing consistent. Wild Horses, the extended play on Can’t You Hear, Dead Flowers (always thought this was dark humor at its best), and then ending with Moonlight Mile. Yeah, it’s almost a 5, it just leans too heavily on blues tropes to pull it through for me to go all the way to 5. I know that’s not a fault for many, but… I think they’re lazy about it. Like other artists of this generation, Bob Dylan for one, I feel that at times they think because they have a handful of blues figures in their pocket that makes up for actually composing a song. Anyway, still a really good album. 4 Boolean: TRUE

Sticky Fingers is an album I hoped would absolutely blow me away and show me what The Stones are all about, but honestly it felt like a nice slow burn rather than an explosive and eye-catching project I thought it would be. I personally don't mind a slow burn album especially when it has stellar writing all across the board like with Moonlight Mile, Sway, and of course Wild Horses. This album is a lot calmer and more cool than I had initially expected but I soon came to enjoy that style as it was very easy coming and accessible rather than being full of "pump me up" tracks that feel suited for specific moments. I guess I never realized just how Blues The Rolling Stones were because all I was familiar with was their greatest hits and a lot of the more heavy and Hard Rock tracks like Start Me Up and even Rocks Off. I found Mick Jagger to be very emotional across this entire project and really move myself with his words and just how he expressed each note to perfectly fit the vibe of what this whole project was going for. I feel I should also mention the iconic album cover which is yet another favorite of mine thanks in part to Andy Warhol's very talented and foreward thinking visions. I feel like even with the cover Sticky Fingers looks like it would sound like a much more hard and simplistic project, but beneath the zipper and deep into the grooves of this project shows something much more vulnerable and far more noteworthy than any run of the mile Rock sound could ever accomplish. Sticky Fingers has already grown on me signifcantly in the time since I first listened and I expect it to continue to age like fine wine in my personal tastes as I slowly become more infatuated with what The Rolling Stones have to offer as a band. Nuff said!

Not the biggest Stones fan, but the sounds and tones on this are undeniable. Heck yeah

wild horse W

I liked it seems like it paced the road for future rock albums. Favorite Songs Moonlight Mile Wild horses Can’t you hear me knocking

Pretty good. Maybe their best.

Probably not my favorite of theirs so far, but a good one.

Good shit

4/5 - would listen to again

I mean it’s the Stones

Oh Stones... Tot nu toe vind ik het vaker niets dan dat ik fan ben, maar we gaan het gewoon weer checken! Het begint wel met een echte rockplaat met Brown Sugar, en deze ken ik zowaar ook! Hoor ik nou een saxofoon solo??? Ik snap de Stones denk ik echt niet. In mijn hoofd is dat DE rockband. Maar hun albums gaan van blues, naar rock, naar bijna funk? Er zit wel wat rock in hoor, maar het is vaak een soort mengeling van verschillende genres. Muzikaal zit dit album echt strak in elkaar. Het klinkt vaak wat meer funky dan de eerdere Stones albums die ik heb gehad, waarschijnlijk door de trompet. Valt me op dat de nummers vrij lang zijn, ze doen me soms bijna denken aan een soort jam sessies. Dit is echt positief bedoelt, de lange gitaarsolos zijn niet vervelend, zelfs echt vet gedaan en ook de andere solo dragen voor mij echt bij aan dit album. Dit was, voor mij althans, verreweg het beste Stones album dat ik tot nu toe heb gehoord. Misschien begin ik ze toch te begrijpen... FAVO: Brown Sugar, Cant you hear me knocking, SIster Morphine

Good

3.5. I liked this more than the other Stones album.

Wild Horses is one of my favorite Stones songs. A side of this is great, but B Side leaves something to be desired

Pretty classic Stones here. Love Wild Horses and Dead Flowers in particular. Some great riffs from Keith, and keyboards abound. Not quite "Exile" level for me but up there.

Brown Sugar / Wild Horses / Can't You Hear Me Knocking / I Got The Blues One of the better albums of Rolling Stones.

80

Bluesy, Rocky, nicely produced, great to listen to. Yep solid

Huh. All this time I had no idea Dead Flowers was a cover. I think I might still prefer the Townes Van Sandt version.

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

Probably my fav Rolling Stones album. Some proper tunes on there

No. 220 Bluesy, Rocky, nicely produced, great to listen to.

It's at the good end of the Stones' wildly unpredictable output. The two big singles on it are, by turn an all-time great bop in Brown Sugar, and Jagger managing to be wholly vulnerable but not overwrought on Wild Horses. In places, it's a little too countrified for my tastes, and it tails off a touch, but it's still a really strong showing from Mick and Keith and Co.

When I was younger, I preferred The Beatles and Led Zeppelin to the Stones. Recently I have changed my mind. Great shit.

Very good album probably one of their best very blues not pop yet nothing mindblowing.

I'm not typically a huge fan of the stones, but I liked this album!

Good album really shoots its shot in the first half then tapers out

Great album with great songs and a ton of nostalgia. I used to fall asleep to classic stones as a kid and this brought back those memories

Muthrfkr. Seems like forever I’ve been told these boys are number 2. Like over *everyone.* I never really heard it. It was alright, but really? Sooo great?? Bit overhyped imo. Don’t know how or why, but it was clear as a bell this time. What a great fukkn album.

los rolling no decepcionan

Mick Taylor stones is best stones, convince me otherwise. He brings a bit of energy to this lovely stew of blues, country and rock. The band have always been more than the sum of their parts but Taylor brings a real musicality. For me this is the height of their powers

I’d give this a solid 4/5, it misses out on 5 stars because it feels like there’s something missing that stops this from being really memorable, Keith Richards guitar work is phenomenal though

It was a good listen. They were never brilliant but theyre do what they do well

Obviously, it's good. I just don't find it *that* good. With maybe the exception of Can't You Hear Me Knocking - I love that one. The sax player is my favourite member.

Po hitrem pregledu sta mi dva komada poznana - valjda je med njimi prvi, "Brown Sugar". Čist kul komad. "Sway" slišim prvič, všečen. (A, glih gledam na wiki, da je Billy Preston tud na temu albumu - men osebno najbl znan po tem, da je z Beatli sodeloval.) Ok, pozabila sm kok je "Wild Horses" hud. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" je dolg in hud? Oo, še en komad prepoznam, "Bitch", lol, pa glih zjutraj sm na glas nekomu komentirala, da ne poznam tega komada. Presenetljivo fajn? (K velikrat, tbh, se mi Stones komadi blendajo into one, ker majo značilen zvok.)

Some of the lyrics are dodgy, but I really enjoyed the music. There’s a nice country/bluesy feel to the songs. I love a good saxophone and I enjoyed the string arrangements that show up. The first song really puts me off, but then the rest of the album was a good listen. Fav song: Wild Horses Least fav: Brown Sugar

Not quite as good as exile on Main Street though it’s hard to beat that. Do not like this cover. Enjoyable songs throughout but some questionable lyrics. Wild horses is just one of my fav songs though and I can’t deny that. Specific rating - 4.3 Fav song - Wild Horses Least fav- brown sugar

Me gustó mucho, lo disfruté bastante siento que es un disco bastante diferente a lo que ellos hacen donde las canciones que son bastante nostálgicas, de igual manera no son tristes, sino que tienen bastante personalidad, no es el típico álbum sexy juguetón que usualmente hacen, pero me gustó mucho la mezcla de rock con blues

4.0 - Very Good

Okay. My memory of listening to this album has to be sometime after the 1990 something CD remaster. I was living with a few guys and one of them was telling me about Rolling Stones. At that time, the Stones were a different beast. A little too schlocky and cocky for me. A lot of cock rock. He encouraged me to listen to Sticky Fingers. He put it one on his CD system in his room by the kitchen. We listened, drank some of his scotch, and talked about famous album covers. Sticky Fingers with the zipper and Alice Cooper and the paper underwear. I heard the blues and roots influence on the Stones and didn't hear every cut. Luke, his Maine Coon cat found a corner in the backroom and yowled to get our attention. It was a memorable night. I gained a little appreciation for what the Stones were before they became that larger than life and semi-parodic band. This was the first time in a long while hearing this all the way through. Yeah, I get it. Roots, country and rock mixed together with sometimes boredom and sometimes soul. It makes for a good listen. Sister Morphine - great cut. I really enjoy so many of these songs. While it isn't something I would keep coming back to, I can appreciate what it is. 4 stars.

Has never been my favorite Stones record, but like the Stones in general I’ve come around on it over the years. I think we (or at least I) take these guys for granted, they are deeply subversive and fun musicians and songwriters. I mean, just look at Led Zeppelin (their contemporaries) or the future cock rock bands of the ‘70s and ‘80s and it’s a world of difference. Fantastic record, but their legendary run wasn’t over yet…

First ever Stones album listen unlocked. My frame of reference is Denis Leary's bit about his dream bar that played nothing but the Stones, and "Weird Al's" Hot Rocks Polka lol. More musically diverse than I was expecting, and all good. Great guitar work and riffs, notably Wild Horses. Keith Richards earned his status.

I really like this band. Not super fan of the singer's voice. But they definitely have an original sound. Would definitely listen to this again

I love the Stones—specifically *Sticky Fingers*. It was the first Stones album I ever listened to in its entirety, and I’m absolutely blown away—if only by those killer guitar riffs

what a relief having this normal album after The Residents yesterday

This list has taught me that the rolling stones were pretty good hey. I don't think it's quite for me, but it's hard to say they didn't have some great albums. Perhaps deserving of all those t shirts you see around!

이걸 듣고 있으면 내가 미국 서부에 온 기분이 든다 강렬하게 내리쬐는 태양빛, 끝없이 일자로 뻗어있는 고속도로, 그 사이를 하염없이 굴러가는 회전초, 그리고 그 길을 거대한 포드트럭타고 달리는 기분이랄까. 아, 허리춤에 데저트이글과 카우보이모자는 덤이다. 솔직히 내 취향은 아니지만, 노래를 듣는 것 만으로 이런 상상의 나래를 펼치게 해준다니 이 앨범이 얼마나 대단한지 몸소 깨닫는다

really cool to listen to this album and feel the roots of so many other musical styles

313/1001 The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ✅ It's been 313 days to finally get a Rolling Stones album and it's such a great album. Brown Sugar and Wild Horses are phenomenal tracks and I like tge bluesiness of the album. Yes, it's a little top heavy and some tracks don't quite work. Still great stuff.

This might be my favorite Stones' album thus far. Didn't love every song, but I thought collectively they meshed well together on the album.

A lot better than I expected

There is an old corny expression that a high school friend of mine liked to quote “the blues and country had a child and named it rock and roll.” This is the sound the Stones were going for. I like this record quite a bit. Brown Sugar has always felt lyrically problematic, but it’s a great song. Wild Horses is a great song, Bitch is a great song and really hits that particular Stones vibe. Dead Flowers is very country and very good.

Mick with the extra twang in his voice is fine but a lot better in smaller doses. As such, it took me a minute to get into Moonlight Mile. Other than that and the ever-furrowed brow over Brown Sugar (even though without the lyrical content it’s a super solid song) this is a pretty nice one.

The Rolling Stones are hit or miss me, but I really enjoyed this album. I’ve always thought of them as a very straightforward rock ‘n’ roll band, and what I liked about this album was how different some of these songs were. Brown Sugar is a great track that everyone knows, but I like Wild Horses and Can’t Touch Hear Me Knocking better. This album showcases them at their bluesy best. Lots of great playing on this record. Loved it. 4 stars.

The Stones never made a perfect record, but they made many excellent ones, and this is probably the most excellent (although Let It Bleed comes close). I’m a bigger fan of the rockers here, which are all brilliant, than of the ballads, which skirt the edge of eye-rolling sentimentality despite the group’s skill. Still, this is one of the highlights of 70s ultra-macho classic rock. Best track: “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”

Good album but not their best

oh yeah. licking the sticky right of my fingers

Rolling Stones é interessante, eu consigo ver que é bom, mas mesmo assim não me impacta. Não fico tipo "cacete que músicas boas, entrou na minha alma". Daria 3,5... Mas vai pro 4. É melhor que muito 3.

Favorite track(s): Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Bitch, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile Heard before Previous rating: 9/10

I love the Rolling Stones so I knew I’d enjoy this but there were a few album tracks I hadn’t heard that I actually really loved. Plus ‘Can’t you hear me knocking’ just makes me super nostalgic for playing guitar hero, all nice memories.

Really good, an honest to god classic! Bluesy, fun, and sentimental all at the same time.

Some songs I'd never heard before, and the ones I had are absolute classics. A particular favourite track I hadn't heard before was 'Bitch'.

Some good classics

Mick jagger est excellent, black sugar est excellente. Wild horses évidemment ! Ça donne une impression de force tranquille. Bitch est cool. Sister morphine !

Several songs here are woven into the fabric of American life, at least if you were a child of the 80s and 90s. Not sure I'll ever be truly passionate about their music, but it's easy to understand how people got there. That said, it's interesting seeing their footprint on American culture fade a bit over time. Can't remember the last time I saw a sincere Stones vs. Beatles argument, and I don't see their songs pop up in media the way they used to (save for just about every Scorsese movie). Stones vs. Beatles was always kind of a false binary anyway, but I was brought up to believe this was one of the two Most Important Bands Ever™, and that sentiment seems to be completely dried up at this point. There's a series of Beatles biopics coming in a couple of years, one a week for four weeks, each focused on a different Beatle. It's hard to imagine the market having an appetite for a single Stones movie, let alone one about Jagger and one about Richards. To some extent, that's happening to all of the classic rock stalwarts in the absence of monoculture (Bowie, Reed, Pink Floyd, and Zeppelin are all probably due for a biopic moment like Queen, Dylan, and Springsteen had recently), but it's still wild to experience since it was just unimaginable 20-30 years ago. Maybe that's just a shifting of who gets to create the canon now that magazines like Rolling Stone and Spin have less relevance than Pitchfork, and Pitchfork has less relevance than Anthony Fantano and a hundred young influencers on Instagram. Only speaking for myself, I don't feel the energy or passion to get my kids excited about their songs when they come up on shuffle, and they don't trigger my own nostalgia buttons, even though they soundtracked their fair share of it. It's probably a shame that I don't make much time for them anymore since the four-album run of Beggar's Banquet → Let It Bleed → Sticky Fingers → Exile on Main Street is hard to beat in all of music history. The songs are punchy, plaintive, fully formed; they're still aping the black artists who came before them, but they do so with complete command of the material. "Wild Horses" still captivates me, "Brown Sugar" still makes me want to move, and there is genuine experimentation on songs like "Moonlight Mile", and best-in-genre craftsmanship in "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (especially towards the end when they really get cooking). I don't know where this album or this band lives for me, but I was glad to revisit it. While I doubt I'll reach for it again without something like this project prompting it, I look forward to inevitably running into these songs again down the road.

Very enjoyable album with some of their best tracks

A really good classic album. I really considered giving this 5 stars but the end of the album brings it down a bit for me.

Not the best pacing. Starts strong then the vibes change near the end. I enjoyed the country but not in the middle of a rock album. No flow still brilliant individually.

Góð lög á þessari plötu. Einhvern veginn finnst mér skrýtið að gefa henni fjórar stjörnur en samt finnst mér ekki annað meika sens 🤔

WIIIIILLLLLLDDDDD HORSES!!!!

The music was really good but the lyrics were wild

Wild wild horses, couldn’t drag me away (from this album)

if you see me giving a 60s/70s english rock album below 3 stars, that's not me occassionally blindingly gorgeous - the organs in i got the blues, moonlight mile's strings, the entirety of wild horses

Easy 4. Contains perhaps my fave Stones’ song in “Wild Horses”. Iconic tunes and iconic cover.

I already loved “wild horses”, in this listen I also loved “you gotta move”, the whole album is very much a movie soundtrack, "moonlight mile" is a very good song to end an album, feels like an ending. liked this very much. the songs did not need those long solos, but that's just my short content brain speaking

7.5/10

Good.

Very good album!

good classic Stones. Enjoyed the lesser played songs.

Amazing combination of blues and folk/country. Lots of fun

El rock antiguo no es mi rollo pero aún así le doy un 8

Great tunes ranging from upbeat ones to meaningful ballads. Songs that stood out to me were brown sugar, wild horses and sister morphine. Interesting range of topics discussing darker sides of living in America

rock n roll. blues. catchy. classic.

The run of albums the Stones produced from Beggar's Banquet to Exile on Main Street forms their Imperial Phase - when their claim to be "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World" was not just indisputable, it was self-evident. Slap bang in the middle of it comes Sticky Fingers. The riffs are ear worms, waiting to attack. The playing is razor sharp. The cover art is appropriately sleazy. The guitar solos - particularly Mick Taylor's on Can't You Hear Me Knocking - are masterful. The songs are all brilliant. Well, almost all the songs. I fear we need to talk about the racist, misogynistic, sadistic celebration of slavery that is "Brown Sugar". Musically it's a glorious thing. But if ever the lyrics WERE appropriate (and that's doubtful) time has not been kind. Even the Stones have decided to stop performing it. So this would have been 5 stars, but pro slavery, misogyny means it loses a star. And that's being generous.

Ousado até demais. Não sei se é algo meu, mas acho que o contexto muda toda a importância desse álbum, me surpreendi logo com a música de início, onde gostei da batida, mas quando escutei a letra…respirei fundo. A capa já diz muito, né? Antes quando vinha em disco vinha com um zíper (descolado!), mas acabava arranhando então…valeu a tentativa. Quanto mais pesquiso sobre o álbum e a banda mais fico com um pé atrás sobre eles…por isso disse que o contexto poderia ajudar muito, pois na época foi algo totalmente rock n roll e disruptivo do padrão da época. Com polêmica de autoria (Sister Morphine de Marianne Faithfull) e fuga para França, Sticky Fingers me deixou confusa pela comoção em cima desse disco, e ao mesmo tempo me fez entender como a onda de drogas e libertação estava tão em alta nos anos 70, que isso era apenas um eco de tudo isso e que não era comum algo tão provocativo. Minhas favoritas foram: “Wild Horses”, “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” e “Bitch”.

Classic rock, very influential, so many bands sound like this today

Me gustó mucho. Este es el álbum interactivo con la portada diseñada por Andy Warhol. Canción favorita "Dead Flowers".

604/1001 2026.04.30 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Decent listen

Great, classic Stones album. Love "I Got the Blues" and "Moonlight Mile" on B side.

Nice album

Probably the best all around stones album I’ve heard from this list

Not bad

*75 Stor bule i boks = 4 mellemlange stjerner til de rullende sten. Det er høj klasse, men vi er ikke heeelt oppe og sige ding-dong.

På mange måder lyden af min barndom - jeg kommer fra et Stones-hjem :) Det blev dog aldrig rigtig noget for mig, men jeg er stadig mere eller mindre formet af det. Det er jo unægteligt nogle gigantiske numre på dette album, og selvom det ikke er noget, jeg selv sætter på, så må jeg anerkende betydningen og pay my respects. 3.9

4 stjerner bare for Wild Horses, det er simpelthen bare et klasse nummer.

Det er altså dejligt - endelig et album som man faktisk godt kan holde ud at høre et par gange

The Rolling Stones are obviously a massively influential band, and one of the most famous in the world, but this album is actually the first I’ve listened to from them. Wild horses blew me away, what a great song, and I’d never heard it before! The production helps keep the mood as well with each song like “Can’t You Hear Knocking”, the song is loud and quick as someone who needs a fix badly. Overall it has a pretty consistent sound, with some variance in structure, mood, writing, vocal style, and it really allows for an engaging and interesting listen.

Primera vez que escucho este album. La música en sí es muy buena ritmicamente, pero las voces creo que no siempre cuadraban bien con ella. Especialmente los coros no me terminaban de convencer (como en Brown sugar). Supongo que es un gusto adquirido. (Y sí, se que Mick tiene una voz particular. Y queda perfectamente con ciertas canciones, pero en otras no terminaba de encajar para mí. Se sentía extraño y las voces de coro en vez de ayudar empeoraban la situación) Ojo, no estoy analizando letras ni nada por estilo. Simplemente es como lo he sentido a la primera escucha. ----Favs: Wild horses, Bitch, I got the blues, Dead flowers----

I don't really know much about the rolling stones but they're pretty good here. Sound kinda like Geese in some ways with the guitar and such. I am liking the slower songs and the guy's voice is very expressive. wondering which one mick jagger is note: mick jagger is the guy whose voice i was praising earlier. awesome! fav tracks: Brown Sugar Sister Morphine Wild Horses

Three great songs (though Can You Hear Me Knocking should have been just half as long as it is…) but the rest are just okay. Favourites: Brown Sigar, Wild Horses and Can You Hear Me Knocking

The guitar….in this album…is insane. Good atmosphere - summery to me. Wild horses (ofc), I Got The Blues, and Sister Morphine are standouts here!!

Strong album by them! Not one I’d heard before but it sounded great.

Classic Rolling Stones record! Love this record, especially Side A with Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and Brown Sugar.

4/5 - A couple songs I knew and a lot that surprised me coming from the Rolling Stones

Cant you hear me knocking is one of my favorite songs ever

So this album makes me feel dirty. I mean it all starts with the album cover - yeesh. But I can’t help being a Stones fan. It’s like a dirty secret. So…

Never really listened to the rolling Stones. But is was very enjoyable, nice album. Very smooth, also really liked the sax/trompet sections

I loved wild horses and brown sugar

Another great classic!

Great album loved itt the beats omg the instrumental music amazing best heartbreak and karaoke kinda music I loved it

Dig this record

I’m not the biggest Stones fan, but I do like this one.

Awesome album.

I really like this album. 'Can't you hear me knockin'' is an absolute banger. I was a bit disappointed that, 'I got the blues' just missed for me.

Has taken me quite a while to decide on a rating for this one - I listened to it almost a week ago. Ultimately I was trying to decide on whether or not to drop it a star for "Brown Sugar", but I think I'm going to ignore that track on the basis that it was >50 years ago and the band have stated that they regret it. I have never previously given The Rolling Stones any attention, and I was expecting fairly generic dad-rock here, but I was pleasantly surprised. This album was actually quite interesting and genuinely enjoyable. Low 4.

I LOVE WILD HORSES

very good!

For a person who does not like the rolling stones , this album is really good. 4.5/5

La escucha del álbum empezó bien porque conocía el primer tema y me gusta. Me costó un poco enfocarme en sólo escuchar el álbum y no hacer nada más, eso sólo lo puede mantener por las primeras tres canciones aproximadamente. Después me puse a hacer un crucigrama o sopa de letras mientras escuchaba y lo disfruté mucho. Me gustan mucho los Rolling Stones y me gustó que varían el estilo de canciones entre rock más alegre entre comillas y algo más chill. Desde radio que me gusta esta idea de ir escuchando álbumes enteros para conocerlos a fondo y no sólo alguna que otra canción que es la más popular.

1. Brown Sugar: Sonido super rolling. Buen tema. 8/10 2. Sway: Normalita, ni me gusta ni me disgusta. 6/10 3. Wild Horses: GRAN BALADA, super tranka y supero rollinga. 9/10 4. Can´t You Hear Me Knocking: Buen tema, normal. 7/10 5. You Gotta Move: Onda old west, me suena de tiktok. Me gusta. 7/10 6. Bitch: Se me hace medio onda Beatles tambien, no tanto, pero si encuentro cositas. 7/10 7. I Got The Blues: Baladita super tranka. 7/10 8. Sister Morphine: De vuelta medio old west, me gusta un poco más. 7,5/10 9. Dead Flowers: Super country la siento. me gusta. 7/10 10. Moonlight Mile: Canción de trankas, baladita chill. 7/10 Nota General: Me gusta, banda histórica. Disco normalito, pero todas las canciones cumplen. Hay un par que me gustan un poco más. 8/10

13/05/26 vai ser 6 com ctz ah mano consigo ver pq fez sucesso, pra mim é bem pra ouvir de vez em quando como foram meio pioneiros de um rock mais mainstream sem ser os beatles não traz nada de novo para mim só uma pegada um pouco mais blues wild horses é vibes na real bem vibes pqp can't you hear me knocking tem uma guitarra bacana e esse tamborzinho fire fire fire e esse sax fire fire fire 7 minutos de insanidades insanas dead flowers é um destaque, e os antecessores definitivamente não são ruins aposto que tem cover no meio de novo eu já ouvi essa guitarra de you gotta move, provavelmente é cover mas pqp tá equalizado igual o cu ah mano n é um 6, é um 8 as músicas são boas sim, acrescenta um pouco mais do que eu esperava 8/10 / 4/5

Best of the Rolling Stones albums on the list so far

Classic rock “old school”. Good recording 44.1 / 24.

7 / 10 - klassischer blues rock - durchgehend sehr solide Favs: - Wild Horses - Bitch

It's rockin', and a lot of blues boppin'. I think this album displays the musical depth of the band and how diverse their influences are. Some all time greats and some others that don't quite live up to the reputation. It's still a good album that I can see myself coming back to.

Really enjoyable. Best one yet. Mick Jagger with some excellent vocals and some really well put together songs.

Top quality Stones album. Jagger does the blues very well in this album. The highlight of the album is definitely Wild Horses, but the rest (apart from You Gotta Move) is pretty great. One of their best.

Love it. Listened to it while gardening. More like Green Fingers am I right?

Another classic Stones album. Love this one, but it doesn’t hit the same highs for me as Let it Bleed or Exile. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Brown Sugar- 8/10 (idk why but the lyrics Make me feel super uncomfortable) Sway- 7/10 (3rd) Wild Horses- 8/10 (Fave) Can't You Hear Me Knocking- 8.5/10 (Fave) You Gotta Move- 8/10 (1st) B*tch- 9/10 (2nd) I Got the Blues- 9/10 (Fave) Sister Morphine- 9.5/10 Dead Flowers- 9/10 Moonlight Mile- 9/10 overall 8.5/10

I don't like the Rolling Stones much, but I do like a bunch of these songs. Sway and Dead Flowers are as good as they ever got.

Buenardo, bastante country para los rolling stones

Solid album, easy listening.

I have never listened carefully to a Rolling Stones album. I just knew the most popular songs and boy I gotta say this album was a very pleasant surprise. It was a journey through classic Rolling stone rock and Pink Floyd's progressive style. I loved this album, would recommend. Favorite song: Sway.

Wow, this is popular for a reason! Some amazing tunes here with some great instrumentation!

Très bon album de rock plein d’identité et qui reste dans l’esprit Rolling Stones qui arrive à toujours pondre des hits sans trahir les lignes directrices du groupe Entre tradition et modernité finalement

Loved it. Really good album

A strong rhythm and blues album. Great melodic.sounds. A classic.

Stones nästa bästa skiva. De har alltid starka öppningslåtar. Brown sugar tillhör absoluta toppskiktet i stenkatalogen. Dead flowers, Wild horses, Bitch, I got the blues måste också nämnas. En bra samling låtar. Väldigt höga toppar. Inte samma helhetsupplevelse som Exile.

Som en uppvärmning inför Exil. Här finns soul- och bluesförpackad rock av fint märke. För visst svänger det även om den där självklarheten vi finner på uppföljaren inte riktigt finns där. Det är lite mer ansträngt. Wild Horses, Sweet Virginias inte riktigt lika snygga storasyster, Can’t you here me knocking, ett blues groove a la CCRs keep on chooglin, I got the blues soulballad i staxtappning. Det finns gott om guldkorn.

Very bluesy. Some fantastic songs and a few clunkers. 3.5/5

8/10

Rv

Solid

I’ve probably only listened a handful of times so I’m still getting to know this album, it has some great hits on here and *Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?* is a particular highlight, and this album leans firmly into blues which is always good in my book. Maybe this could be a 5 star over time but I enjoyed the first half more than the second on this listen.

It's good

It took some doing but yes this is the Rolling Stones album I could listen to more than once. Well done.

Good bluesy album. Mick is a great blues singer.

Some good blusey stuff. Timeless quality.

For some reason I didn’t think this would be good but I liked a lot of the songs on here, especially the last one

brown sugar should slap can't get over the lyrics didn't realize the stones were so damn solid sway kinda slams wild horses is a great ballad can't hear me knocking too long bitch rocks B-side is nice and mellow could grow very attached to it with more listens

Klassiekerrr, goed van te genieten

I’m starting to feel like once you listened to one Stones album, you’ve listened to them all. Good thing for them they’re all consistently good. “Wild Horses” is obviously really well known, but the final track “Moonlight Mile” really stood out to me. Still, I’ve yet to find an album of theirs that transcends really good to great. 4/5

Love the blues rock, love the filthy sax playing, a couple of the songs in the middle of the record are a bit lack lustre, but overall great listen.

Pretty good, above average Rolling Stones. Falls short of a 5 IMO.

Amazing

2 of my favourite songs ever are on this album. Except not the Stones versions. 2 of the best covers that ever were. But I guess they wouldn't exist without the originals so credit where it's due. This was really good and enjoyable and I'd totally throw this on any time. Stones are some of the best to do it.

rolling stones halt, natürlich ist es nicht schlecht, wild horses ist peak und der rest gut aber nicht perfekt für mich

Better than the previous stones albums I had.

Never was a huge fan of the Rolling Stones even though they dominated the air waves when I was young. So I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed this album!

Brilliant album - some bangers, some classics and some filler.

One of their best.

Well, I'm not a huge fan of the The Rolling Stones, this was enjoyable. ★★★★

Pretty decent enjoyed. Only really knew Brown Sugar and Wild Horses and whilst they were the standouts it was generally strong

There's an undeniable beauty in this album: The guitar pushing, the drums slowing it down. So much I'm constantly afraid the songs would fall apart. The stones not caring for studio perfection. The jam session in "can't you hear me knocking". Them getting tired of drugs. The album cover and the fights who's crotch it is. But still - would I listen to this again? Dunno. I can’t stand The Stones enough to keep this in heavy rotation.

Love it so far

Good album all-around, with exceptional guitar work by Keith Richards and great drumming by Charlie Watts. I like the Rolling Stones, but this was not my favorite overall showing of their prowess, as I felt the songs were a little bit repetitive (especially Mick Jagger), but it was an enjoyable listen. I would give this album a 4.5/5, but, since I would only give two of the songs a 5/5 (Brown Sugar and Wild Horses), I'll give this a 4/5.

This had some really solid tracks on it, I feel like The Stones are about as good as 60s rock gets. I know Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were starting up around this time, but I think that it took them until the 70s to really find the footing, whereas these guys have been solid from the jump. Also just looked it up and this came out in 71, which kinda dampens this section of the review, but just pretend that's not true. Favorites: Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Sister Morphine

Pure Stones class

Impressive to be able to even play an instrument whilst ripped to the proverbials on that much gear, let alone produce such a solid rock album. Very tempted to give it full marks for Wild Horses, Brown Sugar and Can't you Hear me Knocking (what a standout turn from Mick Taylor) but maybe the drugs don't fully work on some other songs. A very fullsome 4*

The Stones are one of those bands that just flat out rock. The sound is always on point whether it’s with guitars, drums, horns, or tympani. I also believe the Stones are the South Park folks of the music industry that can get away with saying anything. Don’t believe me?? Read the lyrics to Brown Sugar and then remember it was written in the 70’s. Overall great listen and it reinforces my opinion that the Rolling Stones are a fantastic group that has withstood the test of time.

I don't think I've ever given the Stones a fair listen. Of course I know their hits, and I like them fine enough, but not a preference. My expectation of this album was "meh". Yet here I sit, a new fan. Enjoyed this far more than expected. Great groove, solid back beat rhythms, and nice bit of blues in the mix. Nicely composed album on the whole. Mick Jagger is the biggest surprise. I think of him as a caricature, but he was absolutely legit in his prime. I'm actually looking forward to more Stones.

C’mon, peak Stones. ‘Nuff said. And I’m not even that big a fan really.

Moonlight Mile <3

Classic Stones, bit of a golden period for them

I know very little about the stones other than by osmosis but Okay they can be pretty good

Album bien cool

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking remains one of the coolest songs ever written. The rest of the album was pretty good.

Eh kinda old, but easy to understand why it was so popular

Very good album but tbh you could shave like 30 seconds to a minute off every song

My rating 4.2. Great must if blues, rock, and country. Loved the horns and Hammond organ.

Classic Stones album, but I find their albums have excellent songs/singles supported by lots of filler. Liked Songs Added: Brown Sugar Wild Horses Bitch Dead Flowers

Maybe I said this when “Exile on Main Street” popped for me, but the “Beatles or Elvis” question always bugged me cause they both sorta suck and Rolling Stones is a better option than those two. I’m a Stones guy, and I say that without being a truly massive Stones fan. This record isn’t quite as good as Exile, but it’s not far off. But it’s still a good example of why that question presents a false dichotomy. Good music is good, and I’m not hating on the Beatles or Elvis (I don’t love either though), but there were always better options. The Rolling Stones were contemporaries, and were at least one of those better options. Sticky Fingers is a good example of why. 8.0/10

groovy

The band really stretch their wings trying a variety of styles and genres with quite a bit of success- jugband blues on "You Gotta Move," jazz fusion on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," country pop on "Dead Flowers," and singer-songwriter on "Moonlight Mile." Only problem is the horrid "Brown Sugar" to open- the most racist classic rock song ever written?

Come on... one of the greatest! Though on this listen, I noticed I was a little bored by a couple of the tunes. I think Let It Bleed might be taking the lead for me for best Stones album.

Not my favorite Stones album, but close. Brown Sugar, Wild Horses and Bitch are classics, but the rest all bring something to the table as well. A very polished album.

dang dude 4/5

Great album. Excellent guitar tone. Surprised by the instrumental middle.

My favorite Stones record. Incredible start with 4 all-time classic tracks. The B-side doesn't quite live up to the same standard, while still being solid. 8/10

It feels weird to rate such an iconic album at less than a 5, especially when this was one of my dad's favourite albums. Some of the songs are brilliant, unbeatable, and then the sleazy blues arrive to beat you over the head and you realise that this isnt truly a great album, just a very good one.

This was my first full listen and I quite enjoyed the vibe of the album especially with that awesome saxophone. Definitely would listen to again and want to own a vinyl record of it in the future. Favorite Track: Can't You Hear Me Knocking Least Favorite Track: You Gotta Move ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

One of the four “ sweet spot “ albums of The Rolling Stones. Not the best but a solid 4 stars

Brown Sugar - 4/5 Sway - 4/5 Wild Horses - 4.5/5 Can't You Hear Me Knocking - 4/5 You Gotta Move - 3.5/5 Bitch - 5/5 I Got The Blues - 4.5/5 Sister Morphine - 4/5 Dead Flowers - 4.5/5 Moonlight Mile - 4/5

iconic for a reason highlights: Wild Horses, I Got the Blues, Dead Flowers

i didn't listen to all of this bc i fell asleep but i like it

I will reiterate my assertion that the Stones are at their best when they're not playing blues songs. Unfortunately, that's about half of the tracks on their albums of this period. I was going to give this one three stars, but oh man the last three tracks (Sister Morphine / Dead Flowers / Moonlight Mile) are absolutely fucking brilliant. I'm going to have to learn these on the ole guitar.

Good album. My expectations were high the album just missed them. Listening to wild horses before the album made me expect all of the songs to be at that caliber but they weren’t. Still good listen. 3.5/5

“Dead flowers” is my fav

8/10 My mother has been a Rolling Stones fan since the 70s, so I would forever shame her if I didn't like this album. Luckily I do. It's among the strongest of the 70s rock albums I've heard; every song is distinct, with rising action and appropriate climaxes; and nowhere do they fall prey to hubris by focusing too much on guitar solos or the music over vocals or what-have-you. It even flows nicely, working well as an album. My only complaint is that I don't think there's really a stand-out track - everything is on the same (strong) level, but there isn't anything I particularly want to relisten to. I'm curious about whether other albums by this band are any better (by my standards). Luckily this list likely has 57 albums by the band, so I'm sure I'll find out in a few hundred albums...

I don’t get it, some really great stuff and some incredibly generic stuff.

Horns! Fav track: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

Always a banger. One of the best Stones albums

9/10

Great album second half was a bit weaker than the first but still had some good tracks

Very fun and bluesy record. It's not as out there as other albums, but it is very enjoyable, the songs flow very nicely and it has a couple of softer songs that blend well with the flow of the record. It's by the end of the 70s so the sound shifts a little. Very recommended!

this is a great album

Love it