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intereact!The Rolling Stones
Retail Price (not our price): $17.98
Release Date: 1994-07-26
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com essential recording
"Sister Morphine," the heart of guitarist Mick Taylor's first full studio album with the Stones, doesn't get the airplay of "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 Knopper2) Amazon.com
Only a peak-of-their-powers Stones could manage to overshadow one of their very greatest albums by surrounding it in their studio chronology with Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St.. Sticky Fingers, however, is anything but an also-ran. Offering some of the band's most inspired twists on their basic approach--"Sway," the midtempo rocker that would sound orchestral even without Paul Buckmaster's climactic string arrangement; the gorgeous closer "Moonlight Mile"--this also rocks like the demon they had lived to face another day after Altamont. And, as if to prove their minds were still as dirty as their music, its keynote is "Brown Sugar." --Rickey Wright
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) nothing but 5 [Rating: 5 out of 5]
how any one! can give beggars,exile,sticky or let it bleed anything but five stars are mad!sticky fingers is a great album..thats the problem with stars etcsome people would give a new u2 album five stars and they havent produced a decent album since achtung baby and that was in the same league as goats head soup!apart from the big tunes brown sugar etc sway is a great song.2) Sticky Fingers [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Vintage Stones,excellent cd for anyone familiar with the music of the 60's era. . .3) Another classic from the Rolling Stones at their peak [Rating: 5 out of 5]
What a streak for the Rolling Stones. Over a few years, they had five classic albums in a row, "Beggar's Banquet," "Let It Bleed," the live "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out," "Exile on Main Street"--and "Sticky Fingers." Those of us who have been around awhile might recall what is missing from the CD--Andy Warhol's concept of the zipper on the album cover. Oh, well. Anyhow, this is another classic Rolling Stones' work. The sound is different from "Beggar's Banquet" and "Let It Bleed"; it seems closer to "Exile" in its sound (at least to me).The CD starts off with one of the Stones' finest songs, "Brown Sugar." Just another salacious song or social commentary? Or both? The guitars open this off with a fine riff and chunky guitar licks (acoustic and electric). Bobby Keyes on sax also plays well on this cut. These words start off the song:"Gold Coast slave she bound for cotton fields,Sold in a market down in New Orleans."A great rock and roll song."You Gotta Move" was one of blues artist Fred McDowell's best known works. The Stones provide a blues sensibility in this version, although their later live version is more compelling--and better blues. Nonetheless this version isn't bad. It's interesting to compare the Stones' version with McDowell's. Key lines:"You may be high,You may be low.You may be rich,You may be poor.But when the Lord gets ready, You gotta move.""Sister Morphine" is a slower song, featuring spare (but effective) guitar work. This is rather poignantly sung by Mick Jagger. One line that always catches my attention:"The scream of ambulanceIs sounding in my ears."On this cut, Billy Preston plays organ, Keyes is on sax, and Price on trumpet. Nice sound.The album closes with "Moonlight Mile," a slow, almost dreamlike and hypnotic song. An interesting tune indeed!Other fine tunes abound, such as "Sway," "Wild Horses," and "Dead Flowers."One of the terrific albums in the "winning streak" put out by the Stones at their peak in playing and creating music. Well worth listening to.4) SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK N' ROLL ! (Sticky Fingers is the quintessential Rolling Stones album) [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Let's party! The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers (1971) epitomizes the phrase "Sex, drugs and rock n' roll" probably more than any other studio album in the history of rock music. Nearly every song references sex and/or drugs, and it's all terrific rock n' roll. Classics abound, and this was right in the middle of that 1969-72 period that was the band's finest hour. It opens with the lusty and rockin' Brown Sugar, and what a take they got on this! Rarely does a band cook like this in the studio, but Brown Sugar is a perfect example of rock n' roll making magic. And you gotta love that great sax solo! The rock-star-in-heat anthem B*tch rocks as hard as anything The Stones have ever done, and Wild Horses is their greatest and most eloquent ballad. As you listen, you can almost feel the sorrow and regret sadly mixed with absolute devotion.I know I dreamed you a sin and a lieI have my freedom, but I don't have much timeFaith has been broken, tears must be criedLet's do some living after we dieIt's an extraordinary song, and a perfectly rendered performance. Can't You Hear Me Knocking is a cocaine buzzed, street prowling rocker with extended guitar and sax solos, and it sounds fantastic. The guys pick up the acoustic guitars for the blues You Gotta Move and the minor-key withdraw nightmare Sister Morphine (which includes some fine slide guitar by Ry Cooder). The Stones go needle-and-spoon country rock in Dead Flowers, and get bluesy again with the aching I Got The Blues. Sticky Fingers is a classic, one of the band's best, and probably the most pure and intense Rolling Stones album there is.5) The Stones start the 70s with Sticky Fingers. [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Add Sticky Fingers to the list of my five favorite Stones' albums. Released in 1971 after the infamous Altamont Speedway concert (on December 6, 1969) and the 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, Sticky Fingers not only contains two of the band's best known hits, "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses," but is arguably the band's most drug-drenched setlist. (At least half of the songs mention drug use.) The cover art for Sticky Fingers (including a working zipper) was created and photographed by Andy Warhol. The album also features the first use of the Stones' "Tongue and Lip" logo. Ian Stewart, Billy Preston, Ry Cooder, and Jack Nitzsche all lend their helping hands to the album. Tracks include:1. Brown Sugar (1993 Digital Remaster) (3:50)2. Sway (1994 Digital Remaster) (3:52)3. Wild Horses (1993 Digital Remaster) (5:44)4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking (1994 Digital Remaster) (7:15)5. You Gotta Move (1994 Digital Remaster) (2:34)6. Bitch (1993 Digital Remaster) (3:37)7. I Got The Blues (1994 Digital Remaster) (3:54)8. Sister Morphine (1994 Digital Remaster) (5:34)9. Dead Flowers (1994 Digital Remaster) (4:05)10. Moonlight Mile (1994 Digital Remaster) (5:56)G. Merritt