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This is probably the best Stones album. In between each hot is a fantastic song that is too good to be a b side
A really blusey record
An absolutely classic Rolling Stone album with the defining RS sound stamped all over it. I never really listened to a full album of theirs before, so this was an interesting experience. It contains a few top hits of the band, especially Wild Horses which is a track that I have heard a lot before. What is interesting about this band is that you can still hear the big influence that blues had on the Rock & Roll genre. They also had an interesting guitar style with picked strings in the strums. Standouts: "Wild Horses" has just beautiful guitar. Great picked strumming with interesting extra notes sticking out, it both sounds more complicated and easier than it is.
Cool Album, with some great songs and also a few forgettable tunes.
Funky. More jazzy and bluesy than I thought it would be. Enjoy the lively instrumentals and tempo. Harsh vocals that are sometimes grating, but suit the genre. Rough and powerful.
A side is so killer and B side is fine. Wild Horses is their best song I think. 3.5
Yep!
Enjoyable, would buy LP
Sway and brown sugar are good
Fantastic
I think this is the first time I've ever listened to a full Stones album start to finish. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that there is good amount of variety in there, but every song stands strongly on its own. It's a shame about the lyrics in Brown Sugar. Despite them distancing themselves from it, it's still very much... out there.
Solid album, but I don't know what's wrong with me that I can't get into it. Greatest album of all time? Seems like a character ac. Like, I can't tell if Dead Flowers is a piss-take, they're high on their ability to plumb americana, or both. Not bad, just weird. The Stones energy is there across the album, even in the slower stuff, but I don't know if that's enough to make me go Wow! Unkind 3.
I like this typical Rolling Stones rock n roll
Quite bluesy, not the best album of the stones
pretty sick
Well this surprised me, I've kind of looked down my nose on the Stones mostly but this was a pretty solid 4 star album.
Never been a fan of The Rolling Stones. Paint It Black and Wild Horses are just about the only songs of theirs I can stand. There's no denying this is a classic album, but it's really not for me. 3 stars.
A great blues album with a little country mix. Really enjoyed it.
Really liked this one. Probably the best Stones album we’ve had so far.
Twi things that I believed to be true before starting this project: 1) saxophones on a rock album generally don’t work. 2) The Rolling Stones don’t have a killer album. This album changes nothing!
So yeah it’s Rolling Stones doing peak Rolling Stonsey things. What’s not to like.
4.5
This is unfair to this album to be honest. I was looking forward to the new Jane Remover record and that was in my mind alot of this listen. It's still good though. Honestly better than the last album I had by them. The one with the building on the cover. Yeeee that might not go over well to the aged sorry. It's got a few bangers. But why is can't you hear me knocking like a 6373 minute song? It just falls off the rails and turns into a jam, which is fine but I don't want to hear that jam everything I press play on that one. Solid rockers that feel less bluesy than the last record.
Amazing chill country-type album. Really enjoyed
Great album.
Muscle Shoals was good for the Stones. A masterpiece.
(29 known/59 new)
Classic Stones album with a few songs that I really enjoy.
Some real bangers on this one. I was obviously familiar with Brown Sugar and Wild Horses which are amazing, but didn't know Can't you hear me knocking so well. I love the riff and hook, which pays off well after the long meandering section in the middle too. Bitch has a great use of brass which surprised me a bit but worked well.
Love Wild Horses so, so much. The rest was kinda.... just alright.
- entspannt und moody, wenn auch mal wieder nichts für mich herausgestochen hat - insgesamt aber eine tolle Platte
Gotta be honest, that was some cool rock 'n roll.
Seconds stones album already? I thought exile was good. This was even better. Sister morphine was a song I’d never heard, but damn was it good! When you’ve heard people cover 6 out of the 10 songs, it must be good.
I really don’t understand how people like this
Felt a lot more melancholic listening to this than I would have expected. Maybe it's the album cover making me feel weird. But Wild Horses is a 10/10 any day, any time.
I don't know what I thought the Rolling Stones sounded like but this wasn't it lol. Like the sax in Brown Sugar and guitar in Sway. Vocals in Wild Horses kill it for me. Rhythm and sax in Can You Hear Me Knocking was solid and of course Dead Flowers is a classic. Just nothing that super stuck with me or stood out. It was good but not really good in terms of vocals, lyrics, or instrumentals.
Rolling Stones wie man sie kennt. Mir gefällt das Album sehr gut, eine tolle Mischung zwischen Rock, mit bluesigen Titeln, und dann natürlich die Klassiker Brown Sugar, Wild Horses. Entdeckung: Sway.
Zwei Riesensongs als Eröffnung, dann viel Rolling Stones. Manches besser anderes ok.
Good
This was decent, miles better than their debut Standout tracks are Wild Horses and Can't You Hear Me Knocking
OK, I'm not a Stones fan and probably never will be. But this record is supposed to be their best, oh my God. Aside from the fact that it's aged really badly—you only have to imagine Brown Sugar in front of your eyes and ears; almost every song sounds the same to me, and equally bad. I was always a Brian Jones fan, but unfortunately he's no longer with us, dead and buried. Now Mick and Keith are alone, well, almost. There's nothing innovative anymore, but that was to be expected. An absolute highlight for me is "You Gotta Move." I could puke. "Sister Morphine" is also completely out of date, and finally, "Moonlight Mile," man, I hate the "strings." And then the cover, where "little Mick" gets a hint of himself. Bad Boys, maybe they should have let it all hang out, or gone bananas. Stupid album, stupid band. Zero stars, or rather, one.
It's the Stones. They're good. This just ain't exactly my favorite album of theirs.
I mean it was alright, after listening to beggars banquet I was expecting to enjoy this a lot more than I actually did, it was just pretty standard bluesy rock with some random country thrown in which they seem to like doing for some reason. Brown sugar was good musically but the lyrics were just weird, wild horses was good, can’t you hear me knocking was a really good long song which had jazz in it which was cool, sister morphine was another highlight both instrumentally and lyrically. Rest of the songs were pretty mid to be honest, other than sway which I re listened to after, it’s also good which boosts my rating a bit. Overall 6/10.
Solid not much I would return too
I just like this time of music. Stand-out: Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Bluesy, moody, classic rock
Classic Rock. Not my style
I love the track 'Wild Horses'. I like the raw energy in Mick Jagger's voice, sometimes ugly but usually emotional. Keith Richards' guitar tone is awesome. The cover of this album is gross.
Just kind of gross.
The front half is stacked: "Brown Sugar", "Sway", "Wild Horses", "Can You Hear Me Knocking" are all great songs, and very consistent in vibe. Overall, Sticky Fingers is a very consistent album, (save the skronky blues song, "You Gotta Move"). There's a sense of nostalgia or longing that weaves itself through the songs. Probably my favorite Stones record.
Not as bad as I thought. Groovy and bluesy
SWAY
There are some stones albums on this list i haven't enjoyed. This is not one of them. This one is great. One of their best that I've heard Wild Horses is top 3 stones song. So good If this isn't the best Stones album, it's top 3. I like everything on it. It's gonna be a 5
Debated on 4.5 to 5 for a while before realizing I was intending to listen to the deluxe to check out the live sessions so another 5 in a row
Great album
70er Rock der Stones. Immer noch gut hörbar. 3/5
Hot damn. I was all set to give this 3 or even possibly 2 stars after the first listen. I've never been a big Rolling Stones fan, but was kind of expecting this album to wow me. And that first spin, it just didn't. There were a few songs I enjoyed here and there but it mostly was forgettable. But the second time around? I cranked up the volume and all of a sudden it was like a different album. Standout songs: Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile.
Good Album, nice riffs and some tunes I wouldn't have expected from the stones
I don’t know the Stones well by albums, just by their hits so this was a nice first album to begin the deep dive into a band that’s overdue for it. Favorite Songs: Wild Horses / Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
It is not lost on me they're good, but they don't make the jump. 8.5/10 Favorite Song: Wild Horses
7/10 I like the stones. Love them even. But this album was more top hits but less cohesion. Still a hood record but probs middle of the road for me among the stoned records. Favorite song: Brown Sugar
Not my favourite Rolling Stones record, but very decent, like the bluesiness
This is one of the four golden Stones albums (Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street) which are hard to separate so that they are almost a single work. They’ve outgrown Brian Jones’ conception of a blues band with a gift for kooky pop songs and become the full-throated sex, drugs and rock and roll band they were to remain, by and large, for the rest of time. Despite the famously dissolute recording process, during which Keef held court in his French chateau and occasionally deigned to make music, the whole thing holds together. Even Mick Taylor’s smart but slightly over-clean style couldn’t stop this humdinger of an album hitting the mark. Unzip it and get it on!
die sentimentale songs send no nice. die andere töne för mech alli chli ähnlich so voll nach 70er 80er club mässig oder wenn au immer ka. aber das esch wahrschinlich eifach s neue genre lose phänomen. bem 2te mol lose eschs schochli besser gsi. wild horses esch sehr schön imo und tönt recht andersch als die andere
Original notes got deleted. Clearly an important album which spoke to young people a few generations ago. Can't really get behind the Stones hype myself though am trying to acclimate myself to their sound a bit more. This album is defintely more pallateable to my ears than much of their other work. Feels a lot more sonically consistent and has a lot of great instrumental moments, especially when they just let the band do their thing and create an infectious jam. I can't say everything on here has aged well, especially lyrically. A few of the tracks drag a bit, and some of the vocal performances are a bit strange, especially those where he puts on an accent or a particular inflection. The pure rock tracks here have many moments of greatness, while the country inspired tracks don't really feel like they go anywhere interesting. Will not call myself a Stones fan, but had a decent time with this one. Can't deny it deserves to be on here. 3.5/5 Leaning more towards a 3. Fave track. Can't You Hear Me Knocking Least Fave track. You Gotta Move
Not my favorite stones album but this one still surprises me a bit with how rock n roll these guys are.
Finally a good fucking Rolling Stones album
Always a classic, was great to be reminded of what a gold mine the rolling stones are for a feel good listen
The Stones the way I like them! Not 1 bad song on this album!
wow it’s the rolling stones
Pre-listening thoughts: dear god more Rolling Stones. I feel like we just got one 😭 kind of needed a longer break but whatever maybe I’ll Stockholm syndrome myself into really enjoying them Post/during listening thoughts: okay I concede there are some bangers on here. I also want to say I don’t DISLIKE The Rolling Stones I just feel like their albums we’ve gotten have a ton of filler in a style their radio hits didn’t really dabble in so it was jarring. THIS is the goddamn stones album I was looking for (and Some Girls. Why isn’t that on this list????). It has a decent amount of their hits but also it doesn’t really feel like it’s filled with blues from a group that can’t make it super well. First three track run is really good stuff. 8/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: I don’t think so but if there is one stones album we’ve gotten so far that I’d recommend it would be this one Fav tracks: Brown Sugar, Sway, Wild Horses, Bitch Least fav tracks: You Gotta Move
This is probably one of their better albums. It's got a few really good songs a lot of filler.
With all due respect I hate The Rolling Stones. I won't deny they are great but their music is just pretty unbearable to me. Great Album by the way, I really wish I can get into it, but whatever song people claim to be great, I just happen to hate it, "White Horses" for example, I can't enjoy it, not a single bit, and I don't know why. I only like one Stones album and that's not this one. You can say their songs are masterfully produced but to me it's just weird they occupy so much time to convey such simple motif, like, it's quite unefficient. When you are taking up 5 minutes of my life, I expect some major metamorphosis. "Sister Morphine" is good though, for that song only, I'd like to gently put a 2.5/5 down here.
Classic
Actually a quite good Stones album. The lyrics are sometimes at least cringy and often nothing anybody would write today. The music with Taylor as the new lead guitar shows that the band is at the start of getting much better, resulting in the signature Stones sound that one recognizes even without Jagger's voice.
Excited to get this one
My new favourite Rolling Stones album. Well, bearing in mind they were already regarded as past it even in my teenage years why would I have ever bothered to listen a Rolling Stones album before now? This is therefore (at time of writing) my only favourite Rolling Stones album. It seems unbelievable that I'm in my 60s they're STILL going? At 90 odd. Or dead. Who knows. They only come out when the sun goes down. I love this album though. Aside from the superb Brown Sugar and even better Wild Horses the stuff-I-didn't-know is brilliant. Keef's solo on Can't You Hear Me Knocking. I had no idea! Outstanding. What? It's not Keef? It's Mick Taylor? Well fuck me - why did they let him leave? 5 any day of the week
A classic... but ... Jag har ju aldrig gått igång på Stones, förutom enstaka låtar. Alltså de kan vara brillianta, men det är inte tillräckligt ofta – ett typiskt greatest hits band. Detta är inte en greatest hits-platta! Trea (med lite plus)
Classic Rolling Stones. Some brilliant songs, some good songs.
I should probably like the Stones more than I do. Brown Sugar and Wild Horses are the high points here in a standard Stones set.
I keep expecting to like The Rolling Stones more than I do. Everything in their sound is stuff I like. I even watched a cover band in the park once and had an amazing time. But somehow everything outside of the big hits kind of misses, for me.
Its realllllllly old timey - kinda boring Not my vibe
The Rolling Stones at their very best with their ya-yas well and truly out, and swinging all over the place. It's loose, beautiful and swaggering - you can hear the heroin dripping out of every note. Favourite tracks: Sway, Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Bitch, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile
Honestly better than I expected. They’re pretty basic rock but it’s also good. I don’t think it’s one of the millions of rock albums you ever neeeeed to listen to but I did like it.
I think there was some good stuff on this album but I just didn’t really notice. All I could pay attention to was the massive bulge on the album cover. It was very distracting.
3.5
Love love LOVE this one, easily my favourite Stones album. Wait I just remembered Let It Bleed, in strong competition with Let It Bleed for my favourite Stones album.
it’s ok, most of it just doesn’t click with me. although , can’t you hear me knocking is super. 3
Не понял, в чём уникальность группы
This album is a monster.
Yeah just a classic basically Probably a 4 from my listening but I feel obligated to give it a 5
I understand why Rolling Stones are considered classic, very solid tracklist even if I would not put their songs on a playlist. I wouldn't say it is timeless but it is definitely the foundation for modern rock.
Never been a huge fan. Tried many times to listen to this band and see what others do, but can’t.
I can't wait to see what everyone else rates this album, because I was once again surprised by how much I enjoyed a new (to me) Stones album.
Great, good classic rock
Brilliant Album, one of their best.
Solid classic rock. 7/10
This was a fun album!
Solid album, several classic Stones bangers on it!
Some classics, and probably exciting in its day, but kind of wallpaper for me. Wouldn’t specifically choose to listen again.
I mean Brown Sugar alone pops this album into 3 stars, and Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and the rest bump it up to 4. Not sure I'll listen all the time, but a good one for the collection.
Surprising range, country, jazz, latin influences. Slow songs remind me of Floyd Best track - Can't you hear me knocking Last track Moonlight Mile a good closer
It was ok. Maybe I'm just not a Rolling Stones fan.
Very bluesy and nice in the ears, still no Beatles though 😆. The stones definitely stuck to their type of sound.
I like the music, but find MJ's exaggerated American accent grating. Wild Horses is the highlight track.
explode mick jagger
there are things i need to do to mick jagger. none of them positive
4/5
kind of a sad album, lots of rough topics. good music overall, but not my favorite of their albums
I've never been the biggest Stones fan, but "Wild Horses" might be one of my favorite songs from their discography. This album feels raw, polished and tight. There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said about them for decades. Being familiar with their songs, but not necessarily each album, it's hard to place where this one will compare against their others on the list - so I look forward to hearing more. We listen to this one a lot in our household.
Easy 5 stars. Ideally listened to as a complete album. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
That's gross.
They're ok, but I've never been able to digest the Rolling Stones. 5/10
Arrancamos el reto de marzo con un clasicazo de los Stones, tanto por su música como por su tapa, una de las más icónicas de la banda. El disco arranca con tremendo temón (Brown Sugar) y tiene otras canciones icónicas (Wild Horses, Can't you hear me knocking, Bitch) y joyas que no recordaba (Sway). Siempre en las raíces se encuentra algo. Hasta mañana.
Not a fan of The Rolling Stones, but the first track on the album started well enough, but by the end I wanted it to be over. When they are focused on pure rock, I think they’re a decent listen, but the country songs were straight garbage and ruined any chance of this album getting a 3
Not my thing but obviously quite good
A fun album and a definite classic!
Masterpiece
7/10. Dated but still relevant. Good find🤝🏽.
I will admit I’ve never been the biggest fan of the Stones, even though I have a few of their songs liked. This album did show some of their variety with slower songs like Wild Horses and the jazz solo part in Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, which I did enjoy. Jaggers rough raspy voice is fitting for the band but never especially stood out to me either.
Enjoyable. Could probably use a relisten.
This is a big improvement on their last album I heard (Aftermath). The songs here are much more fleshed out and personal, a small issue I had with the last record was that too many of the songs felt sort of generic sounding, but that is mostly mitigated here to a few tracks, I think this a great improvement, not perfect but a step up for sure. For a more in depth review, I thought the 1st half of the album dragged on a little bit with a few songs, which is a bad thing on a 10 song album, but the second half really shined and delivered some great stuff, I hope their later albums continue that when I one day listen to them. Rating: Great (4.1 Stars) Favorite Tracks: Wild Horse (Best Track On First Half), I Got The Blues, Sister Morphine, and Bitch.
Great album
Really good, with a few fillers stopping it from being a 5. Can you hear me knocking had 4/5 plays over the weekend. So close to a 5 but not quite 4.5/5
Oof this was great. Brown sugar and wild horses at the start are two absolute belters then holds its own throughout. Close to a 5/5
good stuff
Album #3 in a string of 4 straight killer albums from the Stones. In my opinion, it was their peak season of creativity and writing (1968-1972). Beggars, Bleed, Sticky and Exile. I assume this stretch coincided with founder Brian Jones getting ousted (then tragically passing away). Jagger/Richards took on the song writing and Jimmy Miller was hired for album production. All my favorite Stone songs come out of this period. I don’t know if any of the other 3 are on this list (I haven’t come across them yet) but should be. Exile is my favorite Stones album, but Sticky is a real treat and holds up. Beggars and Exile are 5 stars for me. Bleed and Sticky are 4 stars.
It was fine. Some nice bluesy stuff. Lots of typical stones stuff
This is a bit better than the last one I listened to (Exile On Main Street), but it’s still middle of the road for me. I surprisingly knew a few tracks from this album. Doesn’t make me want to try more of their discography. I’ll just wait until I get another one from the generator.
Duh.
Best stones album by a long shot. Cant believe it took me this long to listen to this
Enjoyed this
WILD HORSES!!!! yes i've heard this one before, nice to go through another listen. Prolly the first stones album that I heard I think thanks to wild horses
Never was a huge fan of the Stones. This okay and I really like I Got the Blues
Very solid album, with wild horses and brown sugar. Sister morphine is a great tune!
I've never been a fan of the Stones. Not that I'm in any camp, because the division is Beatles vs. Stones, but I've always liked the Beatles more, although it's not that I've hated the Stones a lot. What annoys me the most about them is Mick Jagger. Not only in appearance, but also his voice - the color, the diction (I don't understand half of the words he says), and I often think he's out of tune, dissonant and fake. I could be wrong, but that's how my ear perceives him. But the rest is top notch! Specifically, this album, if you abstract from his voice - there's not a bad song! So I literally enjoyed all the guitars (Keith Richards is a beast!), the riffs, the bass, and I really liked that they've inserted a lot of wind instruments into most of the songs (although it's probably just sax) which really surprised me positively. All in all, nice classic rock, without much experimentation with the music, and one of the best albums I've come across lately.
A 7
Solid rock album
Some bangers, but relys on nostalgia
Excellent. Favourite track is Brown Sugar, but the rest is great too 4/5
Good old rock and roll - Good instrumentals like guitar, drums, and saxophone
It was alright, not exactly my cup of tea. Brown Sugar is my favourite from the album. Towards the end of the album I got kinda bored...
Bienvenidos a los 70. Disco esencial. Brown sugar, Bitch, Wild Horses, Sister Morphine, la portada de Warhol.. 5/5
Yeah, this is a r&r masterpiece. It doesn't get tiresome like Rumors.
One of the best albums by one of the best bands to ever do it
Overall solid and enjoyable. Quality Rolling Stones at their best. Now Brown Sugar....its not okay, not right. Yes they stopped playing it, but Richards said, I don't get why they are mad its about slavery and hopefully we will get to play it again someday. So maybe it is and maybe we can bend that he is "trying" to make a political statement, but he never says that and never tries to explain the point they were trying to make. He just wants to play it again because its fun and that is the problem. Yes when this song was written it was a different time, and maybe it was more acceptable, but its not now. Say that, own up to the it, and say for that reason we choose to remove it from our sets, period...the end. I wanna give it a 4, but the response to Brown Sugar makes me take a star away.
Is this one of the best Rolling Stones album? I think it might be. Brown Sugar (great song, Sax should be louder in the mix), Wild Horses (written by the Flying Burrito Brothers), Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Bitch, I Got the Blues - All great songs! EDIT: Oh. I read the lyrics to Brown Sugar. I never knew they were singing that. Mick supposedly wrote this for his black wife? Or one of his several black mistresses? It's not exactly a love song. It does seem to glorify racial slavery in a sexual way... but sure we can say it's about heroin.
The Rolling Stones always leave me feeling unsatisfied. Their bluesy, whiskey soaked music feels like the morning after a night of binge drinking. That’s cool in your teens and twenties, but the older a person gets, the longer the headache lasts. This album has some great songs like Brown Sugar, Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, Bitch, and Sister Morphine, and yet still I feel like I’m missing some fuller overall experience.
So I've apparently never paid attention to the lyrics of Brown Sugar before. They seem...problematic, to say the least. But that aside, this is a solid Stones album. I enjoyed almost every song.
It's slightly odd listening to a British band blatantly commandeer southern rock and blues but it’s well done and is a very good album in all honesty. Highlight(s): Sway/Wild Horses/Dead Flowers/Moonlight Mile Lowlight(s): Sister Morphine
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Very good album
Very good album. Enjoyed the bluesy tunes and use of horns.
Second album proposé après un "Exile On Main Street" trop long et plein de remplissage. Ce second album est plus court, et contient au moins un hit que je connaissais (Brown Sugar). J'ai beaucoup apprécié "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" et ses très sympa chorus de sax et guitare. Par contre on a toujours du remplissage, je n'ai pas vraiment apprécié les morceaux plus lents ou très blues (comme "You Gotta Move" ou "I Got the Blues"). Il ne rejoindra donc pas ma collection, mais je pourrais le ré-écouter. =>3/5
Probably my least unfavorite Stones album. This was actually nice all the way through.
Stonesy Stones playing gritty overdriven blues with a solid groove and interlocking riffs, and some more soulful, expressive songs. Pretty solid all around. Catchy too.
Classic rock is classic but god damn. Those tunes stick to your ribs.
3 estrelas exclusivamente por wild horses. essa música é bonita d+ não tem base
pra que continuar a banda depois que um mano morreu tá ligado. muda de nome pelo menos po, acho paia demais. enfim, não guento mais rolling stones não. mas esse é até melhor que os outros pelo menos! me pareceu mais maduro, sei lá. achei bacana, apesar de tudo.
Vor allem die zweite Hälfte, in der es etwas ruhiger wird, ist sehr gut
Thanks for the leather Andy. You turned a good album into an eternal icon. Some classic songs and personal favorites. The Stones went back to their blues roots while incorporating what they learned from other tours and albums to finally reach #1.
I am once again docking a star because the Rolling Stones are fucking weird and gross about women.
One of the handful of acts where you can justify more than one album. And this is a good one. I prefer exile but many prefer this. They rock. They roll. They swagger. They strut. Wild horses will bring you to tears. Dead flowers. Bitch. Sister morphine. This is how you rock and roll. Emphasis on the roll.
When I think about my favorite album by a particular artist, the best measure I have to ask which album I am most likely to put on the turntable. Once upon a time, Let It Bleed was my favourite Stones album, but for the past twenty years or so, it is Sticky Fingers. I was introduced to it in the first share house I moved into when I left home. David C. was not a flatmate, but the boyfriend of one of my flatmates, and he spent a lot of time in our living room. He was passionate about this record and played it a lot. So, it gives me a nostalgic thrill of being 21 and out of my parents' house for the first time. And the sleazy, slightly transgressive edge to this record made it feel very appropriate for the ramshackle student terrace we were living in. There was a lot of music and drinking and not a lot of food. But that was OK, because we were young and wild(ish). What do I particularly like about this album? It's the Stones at the peak of what I like about the Stones; it's bluesy and countryish, and loose as fuck, but confident and focussed. it's got a great groove (check out the outro on Can't You Hear Me Knocking -- they are right in the pocket). It's sinister and rocking and dangerous and decadent and glamorous and groovy and darkly funny. The Stones can be dodgy in terms of their sexual and racial politics -- Brown Sugar and Bitch skirt on the border of being songs you really shouldn't play any more (along with Honky Tonk Woman and Under My Thumb). It's obsessed with drugs and it has the feel of a post-binge come down. But, dodgy lyrics aside, this is the Stones at their best. This is their first post-Brian Jones studio album, but extensive touring his Mick Jones well integrated into the band. The usual array of guest players (Nicky Hopkins, Bobby Keys, Jack Nitzsche, Ian Stewart, Ry Cooder, Billy Preston) are all on fire, and the band is honed to a knife edge from touring. My favorite songs on the album are Bitch, You've Got To Move, Can You Hear Me Knocking. I can listen to this any day of the week, very happily. Many people rate Exile on Main Street as the Stones' greatest album, but, for me, it's Sticky Fingers.
Das zehnte Studioalbum der britischen Rockband. Es wurde in den renommierten Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama und in den Olympic Studios in London aufgenommen. Das Album markiert einen wichtigen Übergang in der Musikkarriere der Rolling Stones, da es sowohl die Reifung ihres Sounds als auch ihre zunehmende Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Musikstilen zeigt. Die Band, bestehend aus Mick Jagger (Gesang), Keith Richards (Gitarre), Charlie Watts (Schlagzeug), Bill Wyman (Bass) und Mick Taylor (Gitarre), liefert eine Mischung aus Rock, Blues und Country, die in vielen ihrer späteren Werke wiederzufinden ist. Besonders hervorzuheben sind Songs wie „Brown Sugar“, „Wild Horses“ und „Can’t You Hear Me Knocking“, die zu den bekanntesten und markantesten der Stones-Karriere zählen. „Brown Sugar“ ist dabei ein unüberhörbarer Klassiker, der mit seiner direkten Energie und provokativen Texten auf sich aufmerksam macht, während „Wild Horses“ eine eher sanfte, melancholische Seite der Band zeigt. Die Produktion von Sticky Fingers ist charakteristisch für die Ära der frühen 70er-Jahre und wirkt gleichzeitig roh und experimentell. Die Gitarrensoli von Mick Taylor, insbesondere in „Can’t You Hear Me Knocking“, sind ein prägendes Element des Albums. Musikalisch gesehen kombiniert das Album die Wildheit und Direktheit des Rock mit einem gewissen bluesigen Gefühl, das die Stones über die Jahre geprägt hat. Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass Sticky Fingers eines der prägendsten Alben der Rolling Stones darstellt. Es ist vielseitig, experimentell und enthält sowohl energiegeladene Rockhymnen als auch introspektive Balladen. Die Mischung aus kreativem Wachstum und der Erhaltung ihrer Rockwurzeln macht es zu einem wichtigen Meilenstein in der Bandgeschichte.
hell yeah. catchy bunch
So bluesy.
7.5/10
Punktabzug für das hässliche Albumcover
Other than Wild Horses, none of the songs really grabbed me. Might revisit.
Good album, a really enjoyable listen some songs I'd heard before and some new ones as well
A day ago I told Simon this is my favourite Stones album, as it was one of the first of my dad’s CDs that I gave a chunk of time to, which is all quite funny as I barely remember half of this, yet it’s all still a punch to the heavens. Unusually, I prefer the polished one next to its scruffier sibling, “Exile”. My dad states Mick Taylor was a key force behind their best, and I can’t disagree.
My dad had the original with the zipper, which I played with absent-mindedly without really appreciating how pervy it was. One of the Stones' best and one I take for granted, knowing it all backwards since I was about 10. "Dead Flowers" is always welcome
Was pleased to have this! I really enjoyed it and had some of my favourite Rolling Stones on it. I really like Wild Horses in particular. Such great songwriting, cool and stylish. Put me in a good mood
Yeah that was banging. A really good variety of blues there
I will never understand why the Stones are so often mentioned in the same sentence as the Beatles. I mean there aren't any objectively *bad* songs on this album. They are all good! And a couple are great. But (to me) there is no real magic here. Just a lot of pleasant rock n roll.
I knew that this album would be good, but I didn't expect this. Wow wow wow. So many influences going on in this album and unknown tracks that just bannnnnnng. This will become one of my favorites in another listen I'm sure and is almost guarunteed to sound incredible on vinyl. 9/10 for now...
Big hits and dirty south jam sessions all in one album. Honestly I never listened to the album so hits are great but the album falls short 54 years later
One of my all time favorite songs is on this album. Wild Horses. The Stones are great. Bit of blues stealing going on, but nothing to admonish for.
One of the Stones best. If no the best.
Some of The Rolling Stones best work. “Dead Flowers” and “Moonlight Mile” will bring anyone down but in a good way.
Has it really been nearly a year since the last time my group got a Rolling Stones album? 363 albums... Goodness. Well, I suppose with a gap like that, it's time for a bit of a refresher on my relationship to the Stones. To put it basically, when it comes to the debate about who's better, I've always preferred The Beatles to The Rolling Stones. From their early beat boy bands stuff to their later experimentation and pop masterworks, The Beatles have always been more up my album. The Rolling Stones, meanwhile, have kind of always just been a British blues and rock band to my ears. A **very good** British blues and rock band, yes, but nothing I've heard from them has gotten terribly close to the music I've loved from The Beatles. I've supposed that part of it could just be I've just been exposed to The Beatles more than The Stones — a whole-ass ROCK BAND game versus one song in GUITAR HERO III — but I think the music has spoken well enough for itself. I've just generally never had much interest in diving too deeply into the Stones' catalog. Frankly, I've always considered The Beach Boys more a point of comparison against The Beatles than The Rolling Stones. But let's put The Beatles aside. This is 1971, and they, as a group, haven't been a thing for one or two years. Let's focus strictly on the Stones: it's been two albums since BEGGARS BANQUET. They'd since released LET IT BLEED and the live album GET YER YA-YA'S OUT!. ALtmont continued to have been a disaster. Brian Jones had passed. What do The Rolling Stones have going on here? Well, lemme keep LET IT BLEED in mind, 'coz I think that's an important piece of the puzzle. See, I read on Wikipedia that this album was a return to basics and that got me a little worried. After all, that's what BEGGARS BANQUET was, and I didn't find much special about that album at all — or was it? There's actually a key distinction that needs to be made: BEGGARS BANQUET was a return to **roots** after the clusterfuck SGT. PEPPER'S wannabe that was THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST. STICKY FINGERS, on the other hand, was a return to **basics**. To me, that reads like at most they just dropped a lot of the unique instrumentation from LET IT BLEED, and that they're still keeping whatever songwriting philosophy they had there. And trust me, that's worth a **lot**. LET IT BLEED is one of the few Stones albums I've actually heard, and it's the one among all of them I'm the most excited to revisit. After all, it has two of the best songs they ever made: "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want". Those are songs that went well beyond what the Stones normally did without going over the top like THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST did, and they're both absolutely amazing for it. On STICKY FINGERS I feel like, by choice and necessity, they had to scale back on the ambition a little, but only enough that these still end up being incredible rock songs. Seriously, the worst they get is the lyrics on "Brown Sugar", but if you can manage to find a way to look past them (and that could be hard, I know)... Goodness. Honestly, despite how much I've talked before, I feel kind of speechless about how much I like this album. I knew the Stones always had it in them for an album I'd like just that much (AFTERMATH and BETWEEN THE BUTTONS both feel just a bit short), but... **Thus much**? I mean, let me put it like this: when the keyboard solo on "I Got The Blues" happened, I hadda stop writing for a second and make that kind of lip-biting stank face that expresses "Aw, hell yeah — now **this** is the good shit." No other Stones album has done that for me before. That's a big deal. In the end, I'm very confident giving this the highest praise I think I could give any Stones album: this is on the level as some of the best Beatles albums. Maybe a bit towards the bottom end, given some of the absolute gems those boys have, but still, it's up there. And even again putting The Beatles aside, it's still one of, if not the best Stones album I've ever heard — we'll hafta see if LET IT BLEED can surpass it when I can get around to it again. Either way, let me give this thing a 5. In my eyes, the band's reputation has been completely recovered, and I look forward to whatever record of theirs gets tossed my group's way next. Let's just hope it doesn't take another full year, huh?
The Stones sure know how to rock, eh? 4.5 bumped down to 4.
I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5. Really, it’s only because the lyricism of “Brown Sugar” just gives me a bit of an ick, even though the energy on that track is fabulous instrumentally. That, and I think “Sway” was a little early in the album, and felt like a sort of artificial attempt to be bombastic so early on, and it just didn’t click for me. Should’ve been later in the album. Past that though, once this album really gets going on Wild Horses, it never stops – those last 8 tracks are a fantastic showcase of the Rolling Stones at what could arguably be their peak. This is only the second time we’ve gotten them on this list, and the first time in almost a year, so my experience with their repertoire is remarkably limited, but this is really good stuff. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & the rest of the band have never sounded better to me, and perhaps it’s because so much of this album is secretly deeply rooted in country, even more so than Beggars Banquet was. Look no further than Dead Flowers, which might be my song of the album, though there’s genuinely really not a bad choice; Can’t You Hear Me Knocking has that super cool 4 minute samba-inspired instrumental with the sax rolling, Bitch is just pure classic rock, I Got The Blues has a really nice spiritual vibe only accentuated by the organ solo, Sister Morphine is a great example of how to make drug addiction sound reprehensible (with great imagery to boot), and Moonlight Mile is just a stellar closing track. Ultimately, the highs of this album are really, really high, and that’s why I feel good about bumping this up to a 5, even if the first 2 tracks didn’t vibe for me super well. It’s a breezy 46 minutes (well, OK, more like 38 for me), and it just makes me want to get even more of the Stones – call me Thanos, perhaps. I enjoyed the hell out of that.
Probably should stop writing songs about slaves and pissing off women!!!
This was a great album. It a was jam from start to finish.
My favorite album of all time is “Exile on Mainstreet” and my love for that album bleeds over into an affection for this whole Stones era, even though I’m not a big Rolling Stones fan. Their song “Torn and Frayed” was such an apt way to describe the band at this time. Brian Jones - the heart of the first iteration of the band - was dead. They had been the biggest rock & roll band in the world for a decade but were flat broke. They had arguably just killed someone and maybe killed the peace and love dream of the 60’s as a whole. Half of them were hooked on hard drugs and the other half were drunk. They were wearing blousy shirts, sleeping all day and staying up all night and living in castles. And you know who does that? Vampires. They were just a bunch of drug-addicted vampires waving guns at Frenchmen and stealing other people’s music. It was a wild time for The Rolling Stones and I’m glad to be able to hear what came out of it.
ihan hieveen tylsää musaa. Rollareita.
Bluesy as hell, really enjoyed this one front to back
I've not heard much Rolling Stones before and wasn't expecting it to be that good, but I was pleasantly surprised. Nice varied music and lyrics.
Hmm...The Rolling Stones. Was sölli säge, ich mag halt the Mick Jagger nöd. Erstundlich bluesigs Album mit villsiitiger Instrumäntalisierig. Vergliche mit The Doors oder Janis Joplin isch s Album eigentli rächt brav. Brown Suger känntmer ja, aber s beschte Stuck für mich isch eidüütig Sister Morphine. Da händ sich Dire Straits glaub ächli inspiriere lah. Fazit: Bin positiv überrascht.
aah das isch de guet stones. brown sugar. boah gitarre töned soo geil. das macht jo uuuuhuere spass. YOU AINT GOT THE ANSWERS SWAY. schöön au schös giti solo. wild horses kenni, ha de song andersch im chopf aber okay. find de song schön aber chli vorhersehbar. cant you hear me knocking fuuuuck de gitarre tone. scheiss isch geil geile song. bitch nöd soo spannend. i got the blues laaangsam baallaade. sister morphine ry cooder time er isch en geeeile siech. moonlight mile chli lame. aber da album isch e vierrriiii. wennis besser wür kenne sicher e füfi. piano mega schö druf de jagger nervt mi chli, gitarresounds haaaammer.
brown suzar no cool! aber leider eie so hüfig npackts mi jz nöd gad wild horses LIEBI und wird für immer an bojack denke....horseman obviously cant you hear me knocking sehr geili gitarre seeehr geil!!! you gotta move relativ langwilig ok bitch und I got rhe blues hani 0 mitübercho will ich han müsse albumcovers ahluege hahahah dead flowers findi na cool wie liecht dass es tönt, und iwie recht NEIII TACKY STRIICHER FUCK ok de schluss mitem klavier und em langsame "beruhige findi schön bi moonlight mile aso jz losi na bitch und I got the blues hahaha bitch cooli blöser! s riff isch au cool, sber erinneret mich anes anders lied? mmmh ja geg de schluss hanis chli repetitiv gfunde I GOT THE BLUES HUERE SCHÖN OMG jo ich würd mich immernanig als stones fan bezeichne aber han e gueti ziit gha
Amazing! So fun, jazz and blues, rock and roll. My fave so far
Pretty good.
Wild Horses!
Very standard classic rock, some great hits. Ultimately not very interesting or exciting.
7.5/10. WTF, 1,001 Albums Generator??? Marianne Faithfull died yesterday, and you had the audacity to generate me a Rolling Stones album??? I mean, I'm aware that this is completely random, but still. I find this pick to be quite funny. Anyway, the album is cool, and it has a lot of great songs on it!!! :)
Only knew Brown Sugar and Wild Horses, but enjoyed the other songs. Nothing stood out from those two songs other than I got the blues. Enjoyed the use of sax throughout the album. Probably put it on again, but just for those few songs.
Classic
I’d probably give this 3.5 stars if I could—3 might be a bit harsh, but some tracks didn’t quite stand out to me. I can appreciate that this album was likely groundbreaking at the time, but listening to it 50 years later, it doesn’t feel as revolutionary. That said, I really enjoy the rawness compared to modern recordings. You can hear little imperfections—like a voice cracking or a guitar hitting a slightly off note—things that would be completely polished out in today’s production. That being said, a few tracks really stood out to me: - Can’t You Hear Me Knocking - Moonlight Mile - Wild Horses
This album is incredibly strong. The Rolling Stones have a lot of talent at building songs that just sound like they couldn't have been done any other way. Wild Horses is my favourite on the album. Great album to include on the list.
The album cover is gross and the first song is pretty cringey. There are like 6 Stones albums on this list which is probably too many. But I get it. The majority of the songs on here are so well crafted and the sound is dynamic. It is still crazy how some of the best Americana music is by a British group. I will probably give this one some more listens in the coming days.
Growly tenor sax from Bobby Keys. Just a bluesy southern American rock album.
Stones, yeah, they rarely click with me. Never for a full album. Some good ones here, but enough has been said about the dubious lyrics to Brown Sugar. May be one of their best, but for me they remain a singles band and rather a cultural phenomenon than a musical.
I can hear it's impact and quality; it's just not music for me. Still good though.
Great album
I always thought of Exile on Main Street as their classic, undeniable album but I think I’ve been underrating this one. Loved it.
The Stones are mid and you can't change my mind. Baffles me that they often get compared to the Beatles. I guess wild horses is a good song amongst these otherwise average, forgettable tracks.
This is the Stones in their best period, full of energy (Brown Sugar), great lyrics (Wild Horses, Dead Flowers), classic bluesy riffs (Sister Morphine), and amazing instrumentals - Can't You Hear Me Knocking is a straight f*%ng banger.
Me gustó pero siento que es muy country y algunas canciones me hacen sentir en el sur 6/10
I mean it’s alright like overrated af in my opinion. Jajajajdb la verdad no me gusto tanto Canción favorita: Brown Sugar Calificación: 6.5
REALLY loved this one, might be my favourite so far, a lot of inspiration from Country clearly, which is probably my least favourite genre but it was still fantastic
The rolling stones is one of the most iconic rock bands of all time, and even tho they're considered more of a singles band than an album band, this album is amazing. Way more varied than I would have expected. Solid with some highs, expecially int he first half, but overrall amazing
They were on a roll (pun intended)!
Brown Sugar is by far the best song on the album, but overall I'd give this a 2 stars.
Oh man, good album. Wild Horses is a classic, along with Brown Sugar and Can't You Hear Me Knocking. Realized I don't listen to as much Rolling Stones as I thought, so some songs were a pleasant surprise to me, like Dead Flowers. But some songs, while definitely not bad, kinda blended together for me, just didn't stand out nearly as much as some of their counterparts on the album. Definitely good, can't say I dislike any of the songs, but a couple might get skipped depending on the mood, you know?
The Rolling Stones are so incredibly versatile. I've heard this album before but they still had me guessing with each song. This is solid from start to finish and it's not hard to see why it's often regarded as their best album and one of the best rock and roll albums of all time.
I once read a review that took brown sugar down a notch for me noting the raunchy ass opening riff, then built upon with layers that added little - ie strummed acoustic guitar. They used it as a metaphor for the whole album but I disagree. That's a ripping sax. Mr. Watt's toms sound like withdrawal kicking in on sister morphine. Thats a helluva organ on the blues one. Billy preston!? Dead flowers nice stones funny country classic. Wild horses has some beautiful parts. I like the harmonics. They wrote good songs these ones. Muscle Shoals shit. Often you can tell keith and mick apart, but not always was I sure. Well placed guitar bits from both, making the old new again. They were good at blues, they were good at country. At country blues they seem nearly untouchable.
Kinda jam band type vibes but still those catchy stones guitar lines
Dad rock
3.5 solid rock album. Favorite songs song: can’t you hear me knocking and moonlight mile
Enjoyed this one, never listened to The Rolling Stones much
Enjoyed it more than Exile On Main Street. The songs are more detailed and musical. There are some nice balads on here as well. Would give it 3.5 if I could.
Okay, this one gets the 5. Other albums are okay - this one feels more cohesive. 5/5
First time I’ve listened to a whole stones album and was pleasantly surprised didn’t think it would be my kind of thing
Masterpiece. No notes.
All timer
There's not a whole lot you can say about this one. An iconic band in their prime. Brown Sugar, Wild Horses and Bitch are the well known songs and they hold up. A great album and a fantastic way to spend 46 minutes and 15 seconds. Also, I'm sure the album cover had a lot of people clutching at their pearls back in 1971. <Spın̈al Tap Joke Here>
Rolling Stones suffer from same issue as Queen, Greatest Hits-itus. However, this album is still full of silky cool, sexy rock n roll. Has brown sugar aged badly? I dunno
First half is amazing.
Very good album
This one was a rough listen for me. It was either pretty ok and somewhat uninteresting, or in the case of "Brown Sugar," extremely uncomforting. Overall, as far as studio albums go, this was not a good start to the Stones catalog. Probably a 6
This is obviously a classic. It’s crazy to think this was their ninth album, such a huge body of work for the Stones. This is quintessential stones, bluesy, rhythmic, rough and just super cool. The songs are fun, sexy, sometimes outright jammy (Can’t You Hear Me Knocking). The songs are great and have an amazing range from the balladry of Wild Horses, through the heavy dirge of Sister Morphine to the hard rocking riffs of Bitch. The stone showcase a range of songwriting and playing abilities. I love the production. It’s so airy and non compressed. Even though the music has an overall rugged feel, you can clearly hear everything and nothing is too in your face. Timeless classic from all time greats. Easy easy five stars.
Bueno, son los Rollings y eso debe bastar. Este álbum suena bárbaro, fieles a su estilo. No debe haber rockero que se atreva a herirlos.
Classic rock baby. I’ve heard all these songs a million times before. I wonder where they got this style from?
hate it
The best R&B band in the world. Absolute class. More like this every day please.
luuuuurv
Great album, first listen to the whole thing. Dead Flowers is a standout.
- No question. One of the great rock records. -
I liked this more than I thought. It's a 3. Basically I like all the slower laid back tracks. Brown Sugar and it's ilk I find really basic. Probably not their fault it sounds so generic as I guess they pioneered the default rock sound. Still a 3. Happy to listen through but won't put it on rotation.
This is one of my all time favorite albums.
Fantastic album.
Good
Don't think I consider myself a blues rock enjoyer, but some songs on here are great. Nothing I'd add to my daily rotation or favorites, but I'd pick up a vinyl to enjoy listening to it again.
I’d never listened to this album through but knew many of the songs already. It’s got some bangers
Classic Rock of the type I don’t typically love, but there were some surprises here and it’s a decent album. The little bits of sax in “Brown Sugar” are nice and the lengthy guitar solos throughout are appreciated. Mick Jagger is seriously a bad singer and is absolutely brutal on “Dead Flowers”. Standout track is “Wild Horses”.
Might be considered Rolling Stones beat by many but for me there are later albums that I think are better so have to give it a 4 star.
Jagger Swagger
A high point for the stones. Good all through.
good blues-based rock record, first one after Brian Jones.
With the exception of “You got to Move”, every song is really solid and super enjoyable. You can tell it’s early 70’s rock and roll, but the Stones make it iconic. I think this is my favorite Stones album but I’m no expert Best Song: Wild Horses Rating: 7.5/10 4 Stars
Perhaps my all-time favorite Stones album. The first half alone is amazing. the second half drags in some places or else I'd give it 5 stars. If there's 4 1/2, I'd rank it there.
A Stones album from their great days. The opener is one of the greatest rock songs of all time, but it's a shame about the lyrics (to modern ears). A good set of Stones songs with a bit of a country blues tinge.
A couple good songs, but mostly forgettable stuff. Very sleazy sound.
87/100. A great blues rock record. In my opinion, this is probably The Rolling Stones’ strongest album, packed with classic tracks throughout.
Classics like Wild Horses, can't you hear me knocking, brown sugar. +4
Classic record - song that I totally forgot about and love is Dead Flowers. I slept on the stones for too long - as noted earlier glad I got to see them live. Giving a 4 - not a 5 but I suppose good be if I gave this multiple spins and gave deep cuts a chance.
On one hand this has some of my favourite Stones songs - Can't You Hear Me Knocking; Bitch; Sway. On the other hand, it definitely has some filler; Sister Morphine is unlistenable. Still their best era, I think.
brown sugar- what the fuck. an annoying mix of appropriated honky tonk, rock & roll, and southern US history from a millionaire born in kent. sway- mick jagger has a really grating voice. when we talk about word chewing we should include him in that group. wild horses- a song that admits its about nothing i dont care enough to continue
Excellent. Classic rock and roll. Every bit of it.
Not a fan of The Rolling Stones so I didn't bother listening to this.
Can't go wrong with the classics
Goed album, geen skips, maar ook geen echt hoge pieken
Some great sounds, but some country jank. Still my favorite Stones album
Yeah, pretty good! Can't you hear me knocking was a favorite track
That’s a pretty banging album
It was fine, made me tap my foot a few times.
Cool album. Liked it.
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Never really listened to a Rolling Stones album before this but really enjoyed it. It has a great blues/rock balance. I bet it was incredible to see them play this live when they were in their prime. Listen out for the drummer’s signature fill that he seems to use in every breakdown.
I've always had mixed feelings about The Rolling Stones. They've been such a long-lasting legacy, it should take a really unique album of theirs to make this list, but unfortunately, this album is as unique as grilled cheese. Very bland rock that bores you more as the album goes on. Hell, the best song on the album is a cover song. Favorite song: "You Gotta Move".
Nem gosto de Rolling Stones direito mas esse eu me amarro
rockzim bom tenho de admitir
brown sugar feels a little fetishy, and misogynistic, and references to slavery while romanticizing/sexualizing the issue 1/10 sway, i like the riffs and the guitars, lyrics are meh, still romanticizing drugs IMO 5/10 honestly could not finish the album bc it is not my genre and i don't like the lyrics even tho the instrumentals are good.
My review dissapeared, I am sad :(. so i am not going to type anything anymore, i wrote a lot :( 3/5, 2 jojo referances btw
Natürlich ein Klassiker. Natürlich hohes Niveau. Natürlich die Rolling Stones.
Rock ‘n Roll. Decadent and dirty. Crystallized toxic masculinity with only a hint of redemption.
One question: Stones or Beatles? They are both great, both immensely important to the history of popular music. But deep down, you’re a one or the other kind of person. Gimme the Stones. This is the second to last album of the greatest four album run of all time. At the top of their game they could churn out all-killer-no-filler statements. This one has it all: homages to the music they loved and originals that take it all further. A perfect early 70s rock album from the time when they really were the greatest rock band in the world. Saved Songs: Sway Wild Horses Can’t you Hear Me Knocking (maybe the best stones song of all time!) Moonlight Mile
I’ve never listened to this album in full. Wild Horses will forever get me
Now THIS is a rolling stones album. Every track deserved to be there, and something about each one makes it a total standout. Good stuff. Fav Songs: Dead Flowers, Wild Horses
Not a Stones fan. Only song I knew was Brown Sugar which has some troubling lyrics ("Hear him whip the women, just around midnight" is this a song about Phil Spector? Sean Combs was only 2 when this came out so it probably isn't about him). The rest is alright but nothing more. So won't be revisiting this.
A classic by the stones with 3/4 top tier tracks. I still think they are a touch over rated but its difficult to argue with this
I love me some dirty blues rock
I've always had trouble understanding why the Rolling Stones have such a legendary status. Except for a few of their big hits, they sound completely mediocre to me. Wild Horses and Dead Flowers are great songs. The rest just sounds like filler. I've never listened too closely to the lyrics of Brown Sugar before, but now that I did holy shit...
It started out with some promising songs, but then corrected to the Rolling Stone Mean.
4.2
It's hard to believe the Rolling Stones are still performing and releasing albums with new material 60 years into their career. I thought that by 1980, they were over the hill and that was 45 years ago! The band's albums had many peaks and valleys, but definitely the strongest period was the late 60's/early 70's records with Mick Taylor in the band. Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!, and Exile On Main Street are peak Stones and in that era their best album was Sticky Fingers from 1971. Along with the "hits", Brown Sugar and Bitch, this record is filled with outstanding tracks that are solid, with no filler, with some of my favourite Stones songs of all-time that show-off the range and diversity of their music styles, Blues, Folk, Country, Soul, Jazz and straight-up Rock. Wild Horses, Dead Flowers, Sway, Sister Morphine and especially, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, which is a joy to the ears (wear headphones) with it's smooth instrumental interplay between Keith and Mick (the other Mick). An essential 5 star listen.
I've never understood that much hype about "The rolling stones". I mean, this is great album all in all, but it's not breathtaking. You'll get some cool saxophone moments in this rock album, some oldschool sounding blues and good guitar solos
Brown Sugar es mágica y Wild Horses probablemente una de mis favoritas de la vida
Good album, some great songs. There were also some songs I didn’t like at all.
Really good blues/rock mix on this album. A couple songs I could do without keep it from a 5 but overall a great one.
Really good Stones album. Great example of their southern blues influences.
Unimpeachable.
Dude! This was pretty darn good! I haven't really listened to the stones that much. This will be a great start for me to listen to many times. I really dug the blueys songs.
It was good. Really good. Great song after great song. Wild Horses, while still immensely popular, is extremely underrated IMO and one of the top few Stones songs of all time.
This was our 250th album. This album is kind of why I did this challenge. Never really cared for the Stones, but this album was pretty good, provided you don’t listen to the words of Brown Sugar.
Yeah I dig.
Good but not my genre