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STICKY FINGERS
 

Released - 1971, on Rolling Stones Records. Produced by Jimmy Miller.

Personnel:

Mick Jagger - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Percussion.
Keith Richards - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals.
Mick Taylor - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Acoustic and Slide Guitar.
Charlie Watts - Drums.
Bill Wyman - Bass, Piano.

Additional Personnel:

Nicky Hopkins, Bobby Keys, Billy Preston, Jim Price, Rocky Dijon, Ry Cooder, Jack Nitzche, Paul Buckmaster, Ian Stewart, Jim Dickenson.

(Click on song for lyrics and song personnel)

REVIEW

Another strong album put out by the Boys. Lots of great ballads found here with "Wild Horses" being maybe the best one of the bunch, and "Moonlight Mile" coming in a very close second, if not perhaps, even a bit better; this one's got to be the Stones most underrated song ever. "Dead Flowers" goes down as their most splendid country ballad ever, and many Stones fans would rank "Sister Morphine" as one of their best too, but not myself, for whatever reasons, it just never hit the spot for me. Bobby Keys blows the best sax that ever landed on a Stones song on "Brown Sugar", perhaps the best rocker on the album. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is another winner, it starts off with one of  Keith Richards'  best ever guitar riffs and by the time it ends, Mick Taylor's guitar solo takes over with a fine, almost jazzy feel to it. Sticky Fingers is also Taylor's top all around effort with the Stones, his guitar is the main sound you hear on this LP, and his playing just shines all over the album. And what about Mick Jagger? Well here on Sticky Fingers we just might hear his most solid all around vocal output, and that is a strong statement when you considered all of the great Stones albums he has sang on!

- Keno 1998

*Old Ratings vs. New Ratings

The old ratings that you see here were from back in 1998 when I first rated the album for this site. Since time does change one's point of view, I decided to listen to and rate the album again, doing so in early 2005. Also note that I did not look at the old ratings from 1998 until after I placed my new ratings here, looks like I love this album just a bit more than I did back then. But I see that is the case each time I rate a Stones album over again, after several years have passed. They are still growing on me after all of these years!

Biggest gain in the ratings song wise goes to "Bitch", the latest to join my "ten ratings" club, and it joins along with "Sway" and "I Got The Blues" in getting there. For the longest time I've known these songs were tens, and I knew I had to re-rate this album, since I've been playing it nonstop for the last two years or so; and I can't say that for my other two favorite Stones album's, Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. I do play them a lot, I just don't play them as much as Sticky Fingers, and because of this, that was one of the reasons I decided to re-rate all the albums at this time. Sticky Fingers is now my favorite Stones album, officially! Cool!

- Keno 2005

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