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One of Stone's Best Albums
My favorite Stones album has been Exile On Main Street for a while. After listening to this one, I'm not so sure. That one is a great collection with every song being good, and with it's length, I still have to give Exile the slight edge.
That being said, this is right up there with that album. The only difference is that this one has some of the Stone's best songs ever, including some that are ignored on their greatest hits collections. Sure this one has great standards like Brown Sugar and Wild Horses, but 2 songs that are usually ignored on best ofs are Can't You Hear Me Knocking and the underrated Bitch. Those two songs deserve the notoriety that goes with their best songs ever. Knocking is an excellent song through and through including a cool instrumental outro that'll drive you nuts for days because you can't get the cool riffs out of your head. Same with Bitch's main riff. Bitch just plain rocks. The rest of the album is pretty good. Sway, You Gotta Move, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile, and I Got The Blues are all better than average songs, and Dead Flowers is a cool song that's crossed between Creedence and Bob Dylan.
With little or no filler, Sticky Fingers has what it takes to be one of the best albums of all time. It has great songs and shows once again why Jagger and Richards are one of the best songwriting combos ever. I slightly prefer Exile over this one, if for nothing else, it's album length. But how can you argue with any of their tunes on this one? Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, and Bitch are four of their best songs. So this one should definitely be in anyone's collection, whether you're a die hard or casual fan. Even if you have 40 Licks (by far their best Greatest Hits compilation), this one should be in your collection because of the omissions of Knocking and Bitch on that double album.Read full review...
Two recordings together - what a deal!
I had to re-buy December's Children because my vinyl copy was skipping, and got the pleasant surprise of Sticky Fingers with it for no more money than just the one album. While it is funny to have two such distinct and different recordings together, it's interesting to see the difference just a few years made with the Rolling Stones' style. Both recordings are products of their times, however, without undue influence from what other bands were doing, such as in "Her Majesty's Satanic Request" and "Between the Buttons", both of which come off as silly in retrospect.
Both were together - what a deal!Read full review...