rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

"Sway"
"Dead Flowers"
"Moonlight Mile"
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (first 2-3 minutes; the part they use in Casino)

"Wild Horses"
"You Got to Move"
"Brown Sugar" (low ranking not a statement; just tired of it)
"I Got the Blues"

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (rest of the song)
"Sister Morphine"
"Bitch"

i always thought it was “demon wine” that got you in its sway, but then again i've always been bad at deciphering lyrics

ha! i didn't mean to put it last i guess! i was going through in order and putting them in tiers, and thought "let's put this near the bottom" and forgot to revisit

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight
Brown sugar
How come you taste so good?
Brown sugar
Just like a young girl should

well, i guess it was...1971...

there are a lot of songs featuring horny white men singing about having sex with people of color around that time, but that one seems especially tone deaf, and it also points to a kind of songwriting style for them (the kind that is most frequently played on the radio, like start me up) that is not my favorite

Peak Jagger, singing live to a backing track on TOTP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0Y3LUqr1Q

why do they still sing that song?

i'm not trying to me too the rolling stones, it's just like woooooooow at that one though. the very least they could do is stop playing it in the year 2021.

They still do it, but Jagger 'forgets' to sing the nastier parts.

but every verse is like that! and every chorus is like that! lol

let's see, which part should we excise here from verse 2

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doing alright
You shoulda heard 'em just around midnight

uh

how about verse 3

Ah, and I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no schoolboy, but I know what I like
You shoulda heard me just around midnight

oh

XPS Like every verse ends with "You shoulda heard 'em..." without the description of what you're hearing.

He kinda mumbles the rest.

genius.com commenter:

“Brown sugar” is also a reference to (brown) heroin, which Mick Jagger used liberally at the time. He is asking why heroin is so fun. So there is another layer to the song which is about Jagger’s complicated relationship with the euphoric, taboo, and deadly drug.

+10

brown sugar, right after that:

"got me craving the, the brown sugar, just like a black girl should, yeah"

um, yes but the black girl...heroin. drugs.

Most people don't know the words until they see them written out or are told what they are.

i just had a 3 hour text argument with my mom about why she won't get vaccinated because the doctors of the entire world are just faking the whole thing for money.

i will leave this here for now, because i can't do it

I mean, they could quietly drop the song and most folks wouldn't care as long as they get the other 15 expected hits in a show.

They didn't do "Beast of Burden" the last time they played here, and people were upset. Add it back in place of "Brown Sugar" and-Voila!-happy campers.

Or they could cover this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h50eAv9tjvA

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I thought that this thread was bumped because the cover model was suing.

We still don't know for sure whose package that is

and it also points to a kind of songwriting style for them (the kind that is most frequently played on the radio, like start me up) that is not my favorite

I've seen the rolling stones in their geriatry play "start me up" on television so many times that i always forget how good their 60's stuff is. Otm

I have learned that it's "that demon life has got you in its sway," not "that mean old life forgot you in its sway."

Until just now, I thought it was "evil eye"!

Yeah, me too!

demon life 4 ever

I thought it was “evil life” !

Can hear it now, I guess.

Charlie’s fills sound like he’s framing a house

I don’t remember the existence of this song “I Got the Blues.”

Ha, just like the first four posters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwOoM0tjon4

Okay, that’s pretty good.

”Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (first 2-3 minutes; the part they use in Casino)

They use the whole song in Casino! From the shot outside the Gold Rush to “They were 1500 miles away, and I don’t know anybody who can see that far.”

You're right, it plays through...You know what I mean about the break in the song, though, right? The first two minutes of the scene are great, then the meandering rest of the song takes over.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5CTEQ8SeIs

(Some awkward language, so I won't embed.)

I checked the original: the exact break is at 2:43.

ts brown sugar vs some girls

some girls without a doubt, both in terms of the music (better) and also the degrees of misogyny and racism (less, more normalized in an era of sleazeballs who get the benefit of the doubt 50 years later)

i promise i'm not trying to be annoying and that i love the rolling stones

lol no I totally agree. I can’t listen to brown sugar but still fw some girls. and stray cat blues. and star star…

Anybody FW the Little Richard "Brown Sugar" cover from later in '71?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ycG_jlqXc

On one hand it's disappointing because it's Little Richard AND "Brown Sugar", so it should be the greatest, nastiest thing ever, but it isn't. OTOH, Richard is game enough, and hearing the song arranged as a retro Soul number is an interesting reimagining.

damn, that's so good! his band feels like popcorn, playing that song. they're all hitting the beats and bouncing straight up, it's amazing

(Sugar sugar)

sticky fingers seems so SLOW now!

― professional anti- (Karl Malone),

man, feeling this! i cant remember the last time i spun sticky fingers, for some reason its just fell out of my regular stones rotation over the years. in my memory it comes SCREAMING out of the gate with brown sugar and doesnt let up... just put it on for the first time in i dunno when, and thought brown sugar was playing at the wrong speed at first, it sounded so slow. i must have gotten coked-up live versions of these songs stuck in my memory banks, replacing the originals

Between the Buttons

Between the fucking Buttons!

this ^

the bass on between the buttons is this scraping, insistent, evil thing

yes

like on Connection, a few songs in. holy moley

and the marimba on "Yesterday's Papers."

hell yeah, Between the Buttons is on fire when it starts

it slows down near the end. whaddya want?! go record some songs yourself!!

but the at the end, "Complicated", which is a perfect mixture of "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Satisfaction", and one of chuckie "two times" watts best performances

(the "bahs" of the chorus follow the rhythm of Satisfaction and the melody of Let's Spend the Night Together)