rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

Me too. It's a great track.

10th best song on Sticky Fingers >>>>>>>>>> 99.999% rest of shit ever recorded.

1. Keith joining Mick on the last verse of "Brown Sugar"
2. The strings at the end of "Sway"
3. The delicate 3-guitar intro to "Wild Horses"
4. Hearing Mick yell "Hey" down in the mix at the beginning of the jam part of "CYHMK"
5. The drums in "You Gotta Move"
6. The horn riff on "Bitch"
7. The emotional build-up in the last verse of "I Got the Blues"
8. Ry Cooder's slide solo on "Sister Morphine"
9. The "with a needle and a spoon" line in "Dead Flowers"
10. "YEAHHH...I'M COMING HOME" at the end of "Moonlight Mile"

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.

xps the song is expressing their disgust with slavery and imperialism much like stray cat blues is expressing their disgust with men molesting teenagers and under my thumb is expressing their disgust with patriarchal abuse and midnight rambler etc

I'm pretty sure all this was seen as fucked up at the time - that's what made it edgy - but BS is the kind of thing that would end a band in a just world and the half century of rock fans and critics defending and celebrating it is a repulsive spectacle

it's bad enough that I think of this album as one I hate even though I enjoy 80% of it to varying degrees

unlike the morally spotless avatars of rightiousness who exist today, the stones had the indecency to incriminate even themselves.

note how "scarred old slaver" in the first verse becomes "i" later in the song.

greil marcus thinking it through in real time:
https://greilmarcus.net/2014/08/06/rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-1071/

as a text it's certainly more generative than the average racist or sexist classic rock song and it does kind of give the game away- if white rock in general is the GOP then brown sugar is trump. but you don't have to hand it to them for nailing the ugliness at the heart of the genre so vividly

I see Greil provides another touchpoint for the "CYHMK" jam:

(T)he song rocks through its few minutes of glory like few songs ever have. If they eventually blow the performance by jerking the listener, as if someone had punched a button from WROK to WJAZ, into a pleasant and pallid excursion into what reminds me more of the Ventures than anything else, then again, this is part of their confusion and their inability to know what to do with their music, their talent, and their own best impulses.

xpost
and merging it with their most concise and powerful rocker into the bargain. i think it is a mistake to equate sexist classic rock with the GOP, thereby safely placing it "over there" and enabling anyone else to wash their hands of any inconvenient truths. but maybe that's why i'm persona non grata on the politics threads.

sure i'm complicit in racial capitalism and my repudiation of mick jagger is in part an attempt to distance myself from that unpleasant fact

is it hypocritical to find his wallowing and savouring of his position distasteful

short of abolishing myself or embracing the worst of reality the options seem to be to throw my hands up and say it's complicated or to bitch and moan about the worst excesses in the hope that they become harder to defend more generally and then idk

i'm not going to defend the song and i am sure there are many things about the stones' personal lives i do not want to know about. wyman's marriage to a teenager, for instance, was revolting, and i'm sure there would be more dirt if i dug into it. but i don't think that means i need to put away my stones records forever or anything. at this point these records are over 50 years old; dipping into them is like pulling out my copy of moby dick. they're just there, part of the culture.

the most insidious thing about them was probably the misogyny, actually. but like, understanding this aspect of their music and rock culture in the 60s and 70s helps explain the limitations and even the failures of the counterculture. i don't know what cancelling would accomplish at this point except whitewashing this history.

Greil's question seems apt:

The leer may be a parody, but is it still a leer?

And I think the answer is yes. The song in a way is a descendant of noir novels like Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me that trick you into rooting for a sociopath and then leave you wriggling on the hook to deal with your own feelings of guilt afterwards. Irony is no defense. I don't think the song should be defended. Its extremely toxic. Luckily its much easier to avoid now than I guess it was in the summer when Greil was writing that piece and it was blaring from every FM radio.

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)