rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

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.

It's an insular little advance, but Keith learning the open G tuning (from Ry Cooder, right?) was like the apple falling on Newton. So much of the greatness of this Stones run is due directly to open G (and the songs, of course). As a guitarist, there is little less fun than tuning into G and learning, like, 20 Stones tunes that are stupidly easy, but only in that tuning (and sometimes with a capo, too). I can only wonder what it was like at the time, or even in the '80s, when you were an aspiring guitarist trying to learn these not terribly difficult songs, and wondering why you never sound like Keith. "Jumpin Jack Flash," for example, as recorded, is maybe ... open E? Regardless, it's a mess of guitars and tunings, which is why even the Stones never played it the way the way they recorded it.

Hey, since we're talking about this era in general, too, anyone else notice a connection between "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and the Velvet Underground. Was Mick tuned in to the VU? Because it's a song about copping drugs that uses essentially the same repeating chords as "Heroin," iirc.

To this day, like in that Rolling Stone interview re "Moonlight Mile" published a couple weeks ago, Jagger sounds uncharacteristically wistful about the Taylor years. Note this response in 1995:

What about the contribution of Mick Taylor to the band in these years?

A: I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now. Neither Keith nor [Ronnie Wood] plays that kind of style. It was very good for me working with him. Charlie and I were talking about this the other day, because we could sit down – I could sit down – with Mick Taylor, and he would play very fluid lines against my vocals. He was exciting, and he was very pretty, and it gave me something to follow, to bang off. Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed.

What do you think?

A: They're all interesting periods. They're all different. I obviously can't say if I think Mick Taylor was the best, because it sort of trashes the period the band is in now.

He can't bring himself to admit his true feelings, although, also out of character, he admits that Taylor wrote the music for "Moonlight Mile" (and got no credit).

Yes. It was actually Stray Cat Blues that was a nick off Heroin, though.

xp Josh

Same '95 interview:

A: We made records with just Mick Taylor, which are very good and everyone loves, where Keith wasn't there for whatever reasons.

Which ones?

A: People don't know that Keith wasn't there making it. All the stuff like "Moonlight Mile," "Sway." These tracks are a bit obscure, but they are liked by people that like the Rolling Stones. It's me and [Mick] playing off each other – another feeling completely, because he's following my vocal lines and then extemporizing on them during the solos.

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

My favourite Stones album, without a doubt.

"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)