Sticky Fingers | 
 enlarge | Artist: Rolling Stones
Label: Virgin
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1518
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 724383952526
UPC: 724383952526
EAN: 0724383952526
ASIN: B000000W5N
Release Date: August 15, 1994
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Brown Sugar | | • | Sway | | • | Wild Horses | | • | Can't You Hear Me Knocking | | • | You Gotta Move | | • | Bitch | | • | I Got The Blues | | • | Sister Morphine | | • | Dead Flowers | | • | Moonlight Mile |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
"Sister Morphine", the heart of guitarist Mick Taylor's first full studio album with the Stones, doesn't get brought up as often as "Brown Sugar" or "Wild Horses". But it's one of the most vivid, horrifying songs about drug abuse ever recorded--as Mick Jagger sings "from my hospital bed," the ringing guitars of Taylor and Keith Richards build to full catharsis behind him. On that and lighter songs like the countryish "Dead Flowers" and the rocker "Bitch", Charlie Watts establishes himself as rock's prototypical drummer. He's creative and propulsive and knows how to swing, but he never overwhelms the song or the other Stones. --Steve Knopper
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
Whoah! June 30, 2008
Black Mask
This is it! This album is a distillation of all the hard-ons in the universe. This is the blueprint of rock. Rock's DNA. It's all here; blues, country, electric, lust, violence... Rockers, start here.
Rock, blues, ballads July 20, 2007
Pieter (Johannesburg)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This landmark 1971 album gave the Stones a massive hit with Brown Sugar. Together with Bitch and the extended jam Can't You Hear Me Knocking it is one of three powerful rock songs while the rest of the album contain soulful, bluesy or country-tinged ballads.
These ballads are all rather dark and brooding, from the melancholy Wild Horses to the unoriginally titled but moving I Got the Blues and the chilling Sister Morphine, whilst Dead Flowers with its country flavor has poetic lyrics and an addictive tune.
The album concludes with the yearning Moonlight Mile, a final unforgettable track. This mix of melodious ballads and power rock make Sticky Fingers a masterpiece and one of that decade's top albums by the greatest rock band of all time.
I am just living to be lying by your side - just another moonlight mile, on down the road February 24, 2007
Moz (Birmingham England)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Despite most of the world believing "Brown Sugar" is one of the best Stone's tracks ever I think it's about the weakest track on this album, This niche in the Stone's catalogue where Mick Taylor bought his Sway to bear doesn't derail the juggernaut but does divert it into some more thoughtful areas. 'Moonlight Mile' is seminal (what - no Keith?) and 'I got the Blues' a realisation of their roots - Billy Preston's masterful. Ry Cooder on "Sister Morphine", Nicky Hopkins on "Sway" - the additional musicians on this album take it into some great places, plus Ian Stewart, Paul Buckmaster and Bobby Keyes. Some great drumming from Charley on here too - often overlooked but very much a key part of the sound on here.
Never gets old January 17, 2006
S. Roberts (London, United Kingdom)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Similar to the above reviewer, my interest in the Stones began when I got to go to a concert on their Voodoo Lounge tour in 1993. I wasn't 13 though, I was 8... baby-sitter cancelled, what can I say? Anyway, this is just a sensational album, from the always catchy Brown Sugar, followed by Sway, and the excellent intro to Can't You Hear Me Knocking? Dead Flowers is amusing with it's cynical lyrics, and it's hard to find a more wrenching track than Sister Morphine. Buy it. Now.
Here Come The Seventies November 16, 2005
John Heaton (Budapest, Hungary)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
The Stones now reach a level with this album (1971) where it is very difficult to criticize even one track. Even 'You Gotta Move' which is the obvious weak link here fits the album perfectly, and in context is quite enjoyable. For the rest of the album, we have a closet of Golden Wonders. And I'm not talking about Crisps. The opener 'Brown Sugar' is no less than the best Rock Dance Number ever committed to vinyl. Forget the live versions. This is the one. 'Sway' finds the Stones at their swaggering best. Quite an album track. 'Wild Horses' is utterly infectious. Up there in the Top 3 ballads this band ever recorded. And that means better than 'Fool To Cry' (1976) or even 'Waiting On A Friend' (1981). That good. 'Can You Hear Me Knocking' is an extended jam featuring Mick Taylor and Keith combining on on some quite superb guitar. It goes on a bit but is pretty compelling for the most part.I Got The Blues' is an incredibly moving slow blues number with great organ support from Billy Preston. Compare this, for example, to 'Coming Down Again' from Goat's Head Soup'. They only matched this style of track on 'Let It Bleed' (1969) with 'Love In Vain' or 'No Expectations' from 'Beggars' Banquet' (1968). 'Sister Morphine' is a brilliant piece in its atmosphere. Depressing maybe, but quite brilliant musically...and pretty hard hitting lyrically. 'Dead Flowers' is wonderful relief to all this gloom, classic tongue in cheek Country and Western Jagger. Nice guitar. And then we come to the closing number 'Moonlight Mile' which is utterly superb. In every way. Lines such as 'with a headful of snow' are perfectly evocative. And the melody and Jagger's vocal delivery are quite incredible. Not a single but a classic all the same.
Rarely have this band produced an album of such consistent brilliance.
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