rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

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

He kinda mumbles the rest.

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“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)

which is a songwriting faux pas, and i'm sure the reason it's not a classic is because it's more exciting when it's the first time.

but damn, "complicated" throws it all together again and it's so good. 1967, before they slowed down

*taps the sign* this is a sticky fingers thread, pal

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.

I do know what you mean, and it's extremely effective in the first part of the scene. But I love how it continues; it has to. For one thing, it would seem awkward if it just cut off at some point, but it bolsters the rest of the scene, and the way the scene emphasizes the end of the song -- or vice-versa -- is perfect. I should point out, though, that I always loved the whole song.

brown sugar is an evil, amazing song. best on the album, along with moonlight mile. heroin and coke, with the numbness and adrenaline switching places which is intriguing. like the coke song was written on heroin and the heroin song was written on coke.

y'all actin like the majestic tempo of this record is a problem...

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feeling like Annie Wilkes itt, have you all got AMNEEESIA etc

Masterpieces: Sway, Moonlight Mile
Great song, good jam: Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
Great riff, middling song: Brown Sugar, Bitch
Nice: Dead Flowers
Nice but too long: Wild Horses, Sister Morphine
Dull: I Got the Blues
Bad: You Got to Move

I knew someone who had the Spanish version of this, which trades "Sister Morphine" for a live Chuck Berry cover.

brown sugar is the worst song ever written & the band should have been forcibly disbanded for making it

you got to move is second worst just for that vocal

as a stones-disliker i think wild horses and can't you hear me knockin' are pretty good songs

throw the rest in the middle somewhere, they're not great or terrible

as far as overrated rock classics go i'll still take exile

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I'm in the minority but I like the Santana part of Can't You Hear Me Knocking!