Getting Picky About 'Sticky Fingers'

In a reflection of how it was recorded, it's amazing there are something like 5 different piano players on the one album.

 

Personally it's my favourite song on the entire album. Absolutely masterpiece.

 

Morphine is basically a rewrite of Donovan 's Young Girl Blues.

 

All I know is Ry Cooder comes in at 00:57, and for the next 3 and 1/2 minutes, I’m just listening to the master on slide. One of my favorite Stones moments

 

I'm frankly surprised by the love for Let It Bleed. I think Beggars Banquet is better. Exile and Sticky Fingers being a very close first/second doesn't surprise me.

 

To me they had a better slide guitarist in the lineup at that time anyway.

 

Been relistening to Beggar's Banquet lately and it remains awesome.

 

One of the magic moments on vinyl that made Ry a legend.

 

I was always the Hot Rocks guy for the longest time. Came to love "Knocking" and "Moonlight" only later in the game. The first RS album I got as a teenager and still regard as their best is Beggars Banquet.

 

That’s the problem with getting old. You’ve heard/seen/done/ it all. What’s impressive anymore?

The Stones could land in a UFO in your backyard, kick into start me up, and halfway through the song you’d be checking your email. That’s the real reason we die, to make room for people who can still be impressed.

 

'It's Only Rock and Roll' is when the signs of rot started.

 

And got worse with Black And Blue.

 

Disagree.
Strong rebound.

 

You are most welcome to disagree, butI think that they rebounded with Some Girls.

 

'Some Girls' , much like Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks', is a good album that is overdrooled on.
When it was released it was hailed as some kind of a comeback. But a comeback from where? Had the Stones disappeared, whereabouts unknown?
'Some Girls' is good, not great. And it was followed by one of their worst albums.

 

Best of the MT years but it's no Black & Blue

 

It was good enough for me to enjoy listening to it. No such luck with Black And Blue.

 

Emotional Rescue is a really good album if you skip the title track. The first really bad album was Undercover (Too Much Blood is STILL their all time worst song)

 

I've got one...I'm impressed with it.

 

EM is like Some Girls part 2. While not as good, it's still very enjoyable in spots.

 

Both those songs are my favourite tracks on those albums. .

 

Black and Blue was released in the middle of Punk. The single Fool to Cry was the last song Punk Rockers wanted to hear from the Stones and there's a horrible fake reggae song and lots of soft R&B. It sounds much better now than it did on release.

 

No, it wasn't. It was released around the same time as 1st Ramones album, which by most people's reckoning was the 1st punk album, unless you count Stooges & NYD.

 

Okay, maybe Black and Blue was one of the albums that led to Punk. Some Girls (including the cover) was definitely a nod to Punk

 

Best Rock N Roll album of all time.