rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

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...

THANK YOU

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

OK Millennial

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

Fucking Sway though

dead flowers is one of the greatest songs ever. the country twang is ridiculously fake, but "you know i could never be alone" is heartbreakingly real.

I love it, definitely the best of "Nick Jagger's Great Adventures in Fake Southern Accents"

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

It's great!

BOBBY KEYS!

IN MAH RAGGED.
COMP-AH-NEE

the whole album for me is “barefoot at midnight, drinking coffee mugs of red wine & smoking cigarettes” & pulling it apart track by track def bums me out more than a little

its not just songs, its a ~mood~

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

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, August 28, 2021 10:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i’m pretty sure you’re not in the minority here!

Mick Taylor rules.

I especially like when Prince borrowed it or did something similar in “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.”

Incredible contrast to the bouncy New Wave regular part.

Maybe he heard it once before that famous stage-booing incident.

i sort of live for that little blown note in the can't you hear me knockin' guitar solo. which he then makes up for by doubling down on the phrase and turning it into something good. kudos for them leaving that in.

"Knockin'" was a highlight of the last time I saw them. Iirc Ron had recently stopped drinking again, and he was sharper and more alive than he'd been in years. He took the solo, and he absolutely nailed it.

Someone should've written a song called "He Recently Stopped Drinking (Again)" for George Jones.

Sounds a wee bit more like a Gary Stewart song, but yeah.

the Knockin solo is a good one to learn if you’re a beginner player. Tasty, restrained, full of pretty standard hot licks

Sway sounds like it was recorded at about 10 am after a quick breakfast of toast, OJ, and coke

Lol

ha for real, it’s an ultimate hangover song yeah?

That rhythm guitar pounds away at ya

hard to think of a more perfect "songwriter tells you who they are" lyric than

Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground
For all my friends out on the burial ground
Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down

One of the things I find honestly pretty relatable about Jagger in this era is the way he's so clearly upset by the way his friends keep getting addicted to heroin and/or dying, but he's also someone with limited emotional bandwidth for dealing with this shit so at a certain point it stops registering as grief and just comes across as irritation.

that is SO well ptu

"put" too

Brown Sugar is such a jam, but I've always had some trouble with the lyrics, and recently playing/singing it with some friends we kind of had this simultaneous realization that we just did not feel good at all belting out stuff like "sold in a market down in New Orleans." And I think it's kind of dead for me now, unfortunately.

xp good insight, lily

You see that ambivalence too in something like "Heartbreaker", too, Jagger's outraged but there's a coldness about it.

well ptu is the new grebt

Writing a song about police brutality and child drug addicts and then titling it "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo"; mixed messaging.

"ACAB ACAB ACAB" doesn't sing as well.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N0A2b7nbdM

Live Hot Bitch

I guess Keith played lead on this track

morphine and wild horses are the two I’d probably toss. like I get why WH is a hit and central to RS “lore” (or whatever—Gram, etc) but yeah, those two I skip past.

I’d add I Got the Blues to that list but I saw em do it live in ‘99 and it was pretty cool.

Bitch is the most Memphis shit

like ‘02 Jack Oblivian doing a session at ‘68 Stax

Can't You Hear Me Knocking is one of Charlie's true moments of absolute drumming genius. The one-bar-late change is absolute godhead, and nobody knew when do to it like Charlie knew.

That Bitch live clip, wow. What a fucking band

Yeah, makes me not rmde at the "Greatest R&R Band" stuff.

the only reason to skip wild horses is bc you already know it completely in your bones.

it was randomly playing on shuffle the night we drove home after my father in law passed away three years ago & now i cry every time i hear it