The strings stumble around with grace while the piano paints the milky way in impressionist fashion (it also sounds like Television’s “Guiding Light” but way ahead of schedule). “Jagger’s falsetto in the verses of the closer “Moonlight Mile” may annoy you a bit, but let the track play and you’ll find a lush, delightful song to watch the night sky along with. It’s like ‘yeah, we also got a string ensemble, in case you care’. Notice how they even manage to give room for some strings near the end and how they don’t frame their presence like it’s a big deal. The tempo is actually very relaxed, and that chorus – which they sing together as a band because, hear me out, unity is important – sends you decades back into the sixties (Jagger was a genius when it came to coming up with generational mantras, and this is another). “Sway” sounds like it almost could be a ballad, but they keep the distortion up throughout. “I think it’s very appropriate for such a lustful song like “Brown Sugar” to be followed by a wistful one like “Sway”. Jagger doesn’t have a great hook at hand but I still love his attitude of implicitly recognizing things are so fucked up there’s no point in thinking anymore, so he just gets to end the song going ‘Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!’.” Watts’ drums are at their most square ever, and yet they still sound awesome.

Big guitar-doubled-with-bass riff, sassy brasses doing stuff that isn’t totally predictable, and another guitar in the left channel soloing non-stop. It is good nonetheless because all the ingredients are there and they pump the enthusiasm up. “Bitch” is another of the aggressive rock ‘n’ roll cuts and it doesn’t quite get to the point of being a “Brown Sugar”. Here are all of Sticky Fingers’ songs ranked.ĭon’t miss out on the TIMELESS Rolling Stones music below! Click to experience the power of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards! The album is inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame and included in Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

The cover was expensive to produce and damaged the vinyl record, so later re-issues featured just the outer photograph of the jeans. The original cover artwork, conceived by Andy Warhol and photographed and designed by members of his art collective, The Factory, showed a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zipper that opened to reveal underwear fabric. It is Mick Taylor’s second full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album (after the live album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!) without contributions from guitarist and founder Brian Jones, who died two years earlier. Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and eleventh American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1971 on their new, and own, label Rolling Stones Records after previously having been contracted by Decca Records and London Records in the UK and US since 1963.

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