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All rights reserved.Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones (The) (CD 1994)
The stickiness is primarily that of cocaine.Review created: 07/18/02
by: jeff_wilder78 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Classic Stones.
Classic Stones.
Cons:
Cons? What part of "Classic Stones" do you not understand?
Cons? What part of "Classic Stones" do you not understand?
Coming into the 1970s, the Rolling Stones were going through a sort of simultaneous high and low. On one hand they had released two classic albums (Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed) in the space of two years. On the other hand they had lost guitarist Brian Jones and had been host to the grisly murder at Altamont Speedway. What do you do in this situation? Well if you're the Rolling Stones you make another classic album.
1971's Sticky Fingers is that album. The album spun off three big radio hits and at least 8 of the 10 songs on the album have become Stones classics. The mood here is tense and druggy, in contrast to the chaos prevalent on Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. Many of the songs have a druggy feel to them and there is a sense of world-weariness throughout the album. If the previous two albums had been the sound of the world in chaos and imploding, Sticky Fingers was about sifting through the rubble.
Although I myself am not a drug addict and am not easily depressed, there are times where I can identify very much with what's on this album. Recently I went through a situation where I found myself very much in love with a significantly older woman. During that period I found myself listening to the song "Wild Horses" quite often and identifying with it very much.
Sticky Fingers opens with the rock classic "Brown Sugar". This song is definitely a definitive Stones song as it's loud, raunchy and in your face. Keith Richards and Mick Taylor's hard blues-rock guitar riffs mix well with the saxophone solo and Mick Jagger's leering vocals. You want a taboo song? You can't beat this one, for it has references to explicit sex, S&M, Drugs and so on.
By contrast, "Wild Horses" is an acoustic ballad (probably the best of its kind that the Stones ever did). The song begins with a carefully strummed acoustic riff. Mick Jagger sings the lyrics in a tender, emotionally affecting way. "Graceless lady/You know who I am/You know I can't let you/Slide through my hands/Wild horses/Couldn't drag me away". Jagger is apparently singing to someone who has taken a beating (possibly figuratively and literally) and offering assurances to her that he is right there. A definite classic here as well as proof that the Stones were not just a bunch of drug-taking rough boys.
Likewise "Dead Flowers" is probably the closest the Stones came to straightforward country. The song's country backing is far more rocking than anything the Eagles ever did. On the chorus Jagger sings "Take me down little Suzy/Take me down/The queen of the underground...You can send me dead flowers every morning/And I won't forget to put roses on your grave".
"Sister Morphine" is a slow druggy number (like its title suggests) that deals with being in a hospital bed and feeling the need to get some controlled substances into the body now, even though we can't. The finger picked guitar riff gives the song its ominous edge. Sister morphine/Turn my nightmares into dreams .
"B!tch" is a hard Stones rocker. Like "Brown Sugar" hard-hitting guitar riffs power it, while the lyrics are full of sexual innuendo that contrasts with the chorus that more or less says that love is a b!tch.
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is an extended song that (appropriately) recently received a revival of interest when it was featured in the movie "Blow". The song has some chunky bluesy guitar riffs that suit the songs lyric, which are about sex and drugs and other taboos that are common in Stones songs.
"You Gotta Move" and "I Got The Blues" feature the Stones doing their great renditions of classic blues. Meanwhile "Sway" is a straightforward hard rock ballad. Although it's kind of hard to make out what exactly Jagger is singing on this one, the song sounds like a template for what many hard rock bands were to beat to death over the years. Here in the hands of the Stones it still sounds good.
Sticky Fingers is one of the classic Rolling Stones albums as well as one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. Purely and simply it belongs in every rock fans collection
1971's Sticky Fingers is that album. The album spun off three big radio hits and at least 8 of the 10 songs on the album have become Stones classics. The mood here is tense and druggy, in contrast to the chaos prevalent on Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. Many of the songs have a druggy feel to them and there is a sense of world-weariness throughout the album. If the previous two albums had been the sound of the world in chaos and imploding, Sticky Fingers was about sifting through the rubble.
Although I myself am not a drug addict and am not easily depressed, there are times where I can identify very much with what's on this album. Recently I went through a situation where I found myself very much in love with a significantly older woman. During that period I found myself listening to the song "Wild Horses" quite often and identifying with it very much.
Sticky Fingers opens with the rock classic "Brown Sugar". This song is definitely a definitive Stones song as it's loud, raunchy and in your face. Keith Richards and Mick Taylor's hard blues-rock guitar riffs mix well with the saxophone solo and Mick Jagger's leering vocals. You want a taboo song? You can't beat this one, for it has references to explicit sex, S&M, Drugs and so on.
By contrast, "Wild Horses" is an acoustic ballad (probably the best of its kind that the Stones ever did). The song begins with a carefully strummed acoustic riff. Mick Jagger sings the lyrics in a tender, emotionally affecting way. "Graceless lady/You know who I am/You know I can't let you/Slide through my hands/Wild horses/Couldn't drag me away". Jagger is apparently singing to someone who has taken a beating (possibly figuratively and literally) and offering assurances to her that he is right there. A definite classic here as well as proof that the Stones were not just a bunch of drug-taking rough boys.
Likewise "Dead Flowers" is probably the closest the Stones came to straightforward country. The song's country backing is far more rocking than anything the Eagles ever did. On the chorus Jagger sings "Take me down little Suzy/Take me down/The queen of the underground...You can send me dead flowers every morning/And I won't forget to put roses on your grave".
"Sister Morphine" is a slow druggy number (like its title suggests) that deals with being in a hospital bed and feeling the need to get some controlled substances into the body now, even though we can't. The finger picked guitar riff gives the song its ominous edge. Sister morphine/Turn my nightmares into dreams .
"B!tch" is a hard Stones rocker. Like "Brown Sugar" hard-hitting guitar riffs power it, while the lyrics are full of sexual innuendo that contrasts with the chorus that more or less says that love is a b!tch.
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is an extended song that (appropriately) recently received a revival of interest when it was featured in the movie "Blow". The song has some chunky bluesy guitar riffs that suit the songs lyric, which are about sex and drugs and other taboos that are common in Stones songs.
"You Gotta Move" and "I Got The Blues" feature the Stones doing their great renditions of classic blues. Meanwhile "Sway" is a straightforward hard rock ballad. Although it's kind of hard to make out what exactly Jagger is singing on this one, the song sounds like a template for what many hard rock bands were to beat to death over the years. Here in the hands of the Stones it still sounds good.
Sticky Fingers is one of the classic Rolling Stones albums as well as one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. Purely and simply it belongs in every rock fans collection
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