Sticky Fingers

Great cd.

More great music

Came on time good sound

Exile on Main St (which is a great record) often gets the plaudits but Sticky Fingers pushes it to a very close photo finish. Simply put, it is a great album with the Stones, perhaps feeling more confident and "sparky" with Mick Taylor now in the band, take on the blues, ballads, country rock alongside their more "traditional" Chuck Berry like output. Several of the tracks were recorded in Alabama and it shows - the remastered version of Wild Horses is worth the price of the cd alone. Furthermore, as we now know from his excellent autobiography, by now Keith had mastered his own form of open tuning and his playing throughout the album is simply magnificent. Perhaps they had been listening to early Santana because by track 4; Can't you here me knocking, they were in the mood for an extended "jam" session, a term later abused by "progressive rock" but in this context it demonstrates all of their talents to excellent effect. From the beginning "killer riff" from Uncle Keith through to Bobby Keyes saxophone and then finally in comes Mick Taylor with some fabulous lead guitar. This track is a true delight. Jagger sings well, Charlie Watts is his usual sublime mode of percussive economy and in so doing demonstrates what rock drumming is all about. However in the end great albums all need great songs; Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Sister morphine, I got the blues (with a fabulous organ solo from the late lamented Billy Preston), Moonlight Mile and arguably Sway are all up there with the best of the Stones canon. A fabulous record and the remastered version has finally done justice to the CD format. Highly recommended. I hope you enjoy Roger Bell

One or two changes had taken place in the Rolling stones,since their last album release - Let it bleed (a classic by the way),in 1969. New guitarist Mick Taylor succeeding the late Brian Jones,and no recordings of new material in two years.moving into a new decade - could they still cut it? With the anticipated release of Sticky fingers and lead single Brown sugar - they produced an all time classic single and album.Stones fans needn't have worried. Apart from the perennial rock classic - the said Brown sugar,The whole album is packed with uplifting,rock and blues gems; Bitch and sister morphine are just two prime examples of this.not forgetting the beautiful ballad wild horses too. Mick and Keith's song writing partnership,is maintained on sticky fingers,and the original co-production (by Jimmy Miller) and this 2009 re-master, are both excellent in sound quality. The musicianship and vocals from all main band members and session musicians eg;Billy Preston,Nicki Hopkins and Bobby Keys (he of memorable sax solo on Brown sugar),certainly make their mark on this truly excellent album. This package includes; previously unshown? Photographs of the band,with lyrics and recording credits. If you want to expand on the Sticky fingers experience: then expanded deluxe and super-deluxe editions are available.me - I'm quite happy with this original track listing version of SF,for the time being thank you.

What can i say about this one. Yes, I've got it late, very late, but having got more into The Stones recently, this is an absolute stone cold masterpiece! And where better to start than the anthem 'Brown Sugar', love those guitar riffs. Lyrically dark but so memorable with that great piano. Wild Horses has to be one of the best ever ballards that Macca never wrote, gorgeous country folk. Ending with the mesmeric 'Moonlight Mile'. Majestic with lush strings by Buckmaster. A truly great album.

The Rolling Stones have often been called 'The greatest rock 'n roll band in the world' and, whilst I wouldn't necessarily agree with that claim, for a few years, while Mick Taylor was in the band, they were up there with the very best. And Sticky Fingers is, in my opinion, their finest moment without a shadow of doubt. From the opening classic Brown Sugar to the sublime closer Moonlight Mile, there's not a single duff track in sight. If you only own one Stones' album, this has to be it!

Decided to explore some of the Stones back catalog and finally added this to my collection. Very happy to have done so, excellent songs, lots of stand outs and even the 'not so stand outs' are very listenable. A disk I expect to listen to over and over again and would certainly recommend. Most definitely the best Stones album I have heard.