rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

As posted in the US Tour announcement today on FB:

The tour will also coincide with the Rolling Stones re-release of Sticky Fingers on May 26 in North America, and May 25 in the rest of the world, by Universal Music. Sticky Fingers, one of the most revered albums from the Rolling Stones, is set to enthrall a new generation of fans in 2015. The 1971 classic features timeless tracks such as ‘Brown Sugar,’ ‘Wild Horses,’ ‘Bitch’ and ‘Dead Flowers’. Sticky Fingers 2015, with its iconic zip cover, will be unveiled in a variety of formats. The deluxe editions include a generous selection of previously unreleased Stones studio outtakes from the Sticky Fingers sessions and stunning live performances from that time. These sought after tracks have never been available until this release.
Recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and Olympic Studios in London, and produced by regular confidant Jimmy Miller, Sticky Fingers was released just before the Stones became tax exiles in the south of France, leaving Britain after a sensational farewell tour. It also featured some of the most ground breaking design in rock history, with its famous working zip on the front cover and artwork by Andy Warhol.

Having just attended last night's glorified DVD projection of Led Zep concert footage ('Fathom' theater 'events' ... of course Peter Grant era branding company was called 'Superhype' - indeed!), which seemingly was out just to promote the 40th anniversary 'Super Deluxe' Physical Graffiti box set, color me surprised.

Calling it a Zip Code Tour because the cover of yr album 40 yrs ago had a zipper on it is some cold-blooded laziness, even for the Stones.

Dead Flowers
Sway
Wild horses
Moonlight mile
Can you hear me knocking?
Bitch
I got the blues
Brown sugar

You gotta move

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrsToLa3XEo

I refuse to put You Gotta Move last for anything!

Jagger discusses the composition and recording of "Moonlight Mile" at length:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/mick-jagger-and-moonlight-mile-1432735648

oh man I love Dead Flowers so much - where is that version from? doesn't quite have the laid back swing of the official version. I've always liked to think of it as future old rich asshole Jagger singing to young junkie asshole Jagger

I believe that "Dead Flowers" is a live in the studio run through-- the official lit is calling it "The Byrd's Version" because Taylor is playing a 12-string or something.

Wow, in a defiant turn against the tide, Target's exclusive edition of the CD earns its exclusivity by including a redemption code for a VINYL copy of the O.G. album 'to be delivered to your own door'.

oh my god this album is so good.

so, i dunno. maybe something like:

Sway
Moonlight Mile
Wild Horses*
Bitch
Dead Flowers
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Brown Sugar
You Gotta Move
I Got the Blues
Sister Morphine

*i might prefer gram parsons’s version, actually, but you can’t fuck with this

alt version of Dead Flowers upthread is interesting. Guitars are out of tune and vocals are flat, and Jagger's southern affectations are more conspicuous and excruciating than ever, but somehow this still rules

Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Dead Flowers
Sway
Moonlight Mile
Brown Sugar
Bitch
Sister Morphine
You Gotta Move
I Got The Blues

Rolling Stones 1968-1972 is the most unfuckwithable run in music history

Sway
Moonlight Mile
Brown Sugar
Dead Flowers
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Wild Horses
Bitch
You Gotta Move
I Got the Blues
Sister Morphine

Ha, same top two and bottom three as amateurist's

Rolling Stones 1968-1972 is the most unfuckwithable run in music history

I love the stones and have no problem with hyperboles but even without going very far from their times and genre, Stevie Wonder's 72-76 is arguably even more unfuckwithable !

Rolling Stones 1968-1972 is the most unfuckwithable run in music history

Music does not get better.

it just gets sick and dies

Or in the Stones case, it just gets weaker

Sway
Moonlight Mile
Wild Horses
Dead Flowers
Cant You Hear Me Knocking
Bitch
Brown Sugar
Sister Morphine
I Got The Blues
You Gotta Move

wanted to just list Sway over and over tbh

i mean all the songs are great but Sway

jesus

any of these:
moonlight mile
can't you hear me knocking
sway

followed by this:
you gotta move

then any of these:
wild horses
brown sugar
dead flowers

then these:
i got the blues
bitch
sister morphine

bitch is a jam tho! the horns slay me

they're all jams! my bottom three, anybody's bottom three, slay most other band's careers.

This is the first time in a long time that I've put on a deluxe reissue and been just blown away by the album itself, to the point where I've put off listening to the bonus stuff. Usually it's the other way around.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking at the top, Wild Horses at the bottom only because I've heard it too many times. And yeah, at the moment I'm thinking this might be the best rock and roll album ever made.

three least favorite: blues, morphine, wild horses

substitute "...Knocking" and yeah

i dig knocking! replace which one?

Replace "Knocking' with "Sway."

replace everything with sway

I wish the outtakes on the new edition were better. It seems they put the best versions on the original album. (Imagine that!)

wild horses just gets me, i've heard it so many times but it's so beautiful - harmony chorus cannot be fucked with

also ~keef~ high harmony <3

you can hear Keith's voice clearly on the outtake of Brown Sugar with Clapton. Probably the best moments of the track.

spoilers man, i'm still stuck on disc 1 lol

keef on any harmony pretty much gives me life though, love him

fuck

i got the blues would be a top 3 song on another album but SF is such a monster it ends up second last on my list

how can that be

also i just redeemed for my vinyl sticky fingers

i have no working turntable rn but hey

salivate like a Pavlov dog

proposal: a group time travel excursion back to the roundhouse 71

i want to see them in concert once in my life but i also want to go back and see them like this

fuck

Veg, have you ever seen Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones? Obviously not the same experience, but it's the same lineup (Stones + Hopkins, Keys & Price) live in a big hall in Texas on the Exile tour. Very cool.

i have!! <3 it

i want to go there too

This is due soon. Seems a bit on the short side (the CD is an e.p. fer fuck sakes), but hey more live '71 Stones.

i've watched some youtubes clips of this show, fierce as fuck
can't wait to see the whole thing

i think wild horses is maybe the only stones song that's ever made me tear up. not every time i hear it or anything, but it's definitely kind of an anomaly in their catalog.

mick's delivery sells it so hard. even the acoustic version on the bonus disc made me think, like...there could be zero music & i think it would still get me

yeah that is def one of his all-time greatest vocal performances. i don't think any other singer in the world could put it across quite the way mick does.

The account about how they cut it in True Adventures of... is--like the rest of the book--amazing. Richards pulling the chorus out and Jagger adding lyrics on the last day in Muscle Shoals simply because they had the time and inclination to cut "one more song"...Jim Dickinson being drafted to play piano because simply he was there, and then being mad about having to settle for a tack piano because the house grand wasn't in tune with the band.

If I remember correctly, Keith doesn't play on "sway", does he ?
Nowadays, my favourite track would be "knocking" or "dead flowers" but "Brown sugar" and "horses" are still amazing!
The only one I never liked is "you gotta move".

I think Keith plays on Sway. It's him in open G tuning and Taylor in standard tuning. You can tell Keith's part by the way he plays the root chord, F, way up on the 10th fret. Taylor adds the sus2 on the Bb when Jagger sings "Fiiiind."

The song features a bottleneck slide guitar solo towards the middle of the song and a dramatic outro solo performed by Taylor. Rhythm guitar performed by Jagger was his first electric guitar performance on an album. The strings on the piece were arranged by Paul Buckmaster, who also worked on other songs from Sticky Fingers. Richards added his backing vocals but provided no guitar to the track

Oh wow! I stand corrected.

lolita is like this too, i think

the culture is kind of shit in a lot of ways (sure so am i as a product of it). there is racism in moby dick (in a vaguely similar semi-knowing kind of way) and calling that out isn't the same as wanting to burn it or being unable to understand nuance and complexity or whatever. the kids who don't like huck finn aren't wrong or stupid or unable to understand what it's trying to do either, they just know it's not good enough. if that's cancel culture then i'm all for it

"Moonlight Mile" is the greatest closing track of the era, minimum.

i still prefer exile, but nothing on that is as good as dead flowers

"Loving Cup" is.

"Sister Moonlight"s sometimes too affected for me to enjoy until Ry Cooder's solo slaps my face.

frankly they peaked with she's a rainbow / 2000 light years and i wish they (and other psych bands) hadn't felt the need to retreat into the rootsy bluesy manly rut they've largely been stuck in since 68

i love that stuff too but i disagree

idk they got pretty swishy with the rock-disco stuff later in the decade. I wish they'd recorded an album's worth of "Let Me Go" and "When the Whip Comes Down"s.

"am i rough enough?"

"Waiting on a Friend" was their last great song.

Rolling Stones 1968-1972 is the most unfuckwithable run in music history

Best four-album run in rock history, hands down.

frankly they peaked with she's a rainbow / 2000 light years

I'm glad you're speaking out with such frankness, but, as much as I love "She's a Rainbow," that strikes me as absurd.

rootsy bluesy manly rut

One of the things that makes Beggars Banquet my choice for best Stones album is that they retained a lot of the psychedelic haze that was soon cleared away by Mick Taylor, saxophones, and the whole barroom ambience.

stripped is good, imo

their best disco is dance part 2 (if I was a dancer)

Hearing "CYHMK" on the radio just now, and zoning in on Charlie in particular: was this the first time the Stones really got Funky in the pure James Brown/Dyke & The Blazers sense?

One day I woke up to find