Getting Picky About 'Sticky Fingers'

Beggars Banquet is my favorite Stones album.
But I like all their 70s albums quite a bit, Sticky Fingers included.
I agree, Can't You Hear Me Knockin and Moonlight Mile are 2 of the best tracks.
The other best track: Sway

 

I really love that tune, so count me as another fan.

 

Considering how disjoined the sessions for Sticky Fingers were, it's amazing it's as great as it is.

 

Heh, George and I are acquaintances going long, long back. I'm one of the most prominent commenters there (under my real name, obviously -- easy enough to find if you Google) from back in the '90s/'00s. Wow that was forever and a day ago.

 

Haha - small blogosphere indeed. Starosin’s Stones writing is really, really terrific. Researched, well written and with original thought. I binge read ‘em.

That said, some of his reviews on other artists he doesn’t like can seem like almost arbitrary polemics. Like Christgau, but far less pithy!

 

Not anymore

 

Sticky Fingers continues to be the best album by The Rolling Stones, 50 plus years running now. Period.

 

Sticky Fingers is the apex of recorded entertainment. It is the best album in world history.

 

I add Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You to that run of albums. Love ‘em both, imperfect though they may be. I reach for both before IOR&R and Black and Blue (both of which I like).

I usually regard Sticky Fingers as peak Stones, and place it (personally) ahead of Exile.

 

so I bumped a thread from March with the exact same comment I made on March. Ooops.

 

I love it, one of my fav songs on the album.

 

It’s a great album, but I prefer Exile On Main St., Let It Bleed and Beggar’s Banquet.

 

Not mine… no, no, no.

 

After reading the forums some years ago and then finding one of the early desired US pressings and even though the record I have has a few songs that only play VG, I listened to it last month. I really enjoyed the rockers on it. Then the sound and style of I Got The Blues tries to fit in but it also kind of sticks out a bit. I should have rephrased that. I admit I kind of started and then skipped past Sister Morphine and did the same with Dead Flowers. I can't remember if I made it through the memorable Moonlight Mile.

 

Man, I love this album, the music and the Andy Warhol wrappings around it. What a statement!

 

probably tied for their second-best album

 

Hey, I like my Stones funky.

 

But there are limits...

 

'I can not handle this kind of negativity...'and yet you are HERE?!?!?....hehehohohaha!!!!!!!

 

And your gravity fails, negativity don't pull you through

 

Never cared for the cover (or for Warhol), but I kinda do like the alternate cover...

 

The Spanish Inquisition.

 

My brother has the intro riff of Bitch as the ringtone for his wife.

 

Sticky Fingers is as great today as it was when it was released.

Still the best Stones album, among many great albums