rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

Yeah it's like beyond debate really, doesn't matter, Charlie was the drummer the Rolling Stones needed

While we're at it, Bill Wyman a massively underrated bassist.

Love Charlie but would never call him a metronome

Oh, no, not at all (see: all the times the Stones songs end up twice as fast as they began). But '70s on, he just started to groove. Fewer fills, etc. Much more of that trick he does, where he never hits the snare and the hi-hat at the same time. Which is what largely makes him look like a wind-up monkey.

http://michaelroyfisher.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/allow-me-to-explain-to-you-why-charlie-watts-is-important/

yeah i didnt mean it as a dis or that he's not creative, just reliability idk

i actually read bill wyman's book as a teenage stones obsessive and it is still prob the single most boring book on an inherently exciting subject i have ever read

bill is a fun vacuum

Oh, no, not at all (see: all the times the Stones songs end up twice as fast as they began).

Yeah and it's funny how that's supposed to be "wrong"... Like it seems sort of natural and musical for more rocking parts to pick up or for a song to gather steam

yeah, like classical music doesn't change tempos every few bars

charles mingus, good company to keep

"honky tonk women" best example I can think of acceleration of tempo

Isley Brothers' "Fight The Power" speeds way the hell up. Ditto Melanie's "Lay Down."

I'll take speedups over click-track precision any day.

the funny thing about the stones is that most of the times, live, they're an absolute mess when they start and end a song (I don't know about now, though, I mean in the old footage).
It's like they had never rehearsed these parts and everyone got in and out whenever they feel like it !

(iirc) According to Andy Johns, Charlie couldn't nail the breakdown leading into the coda (the stuff under the "You got to roll me!" part), so Miller filled in, and that's him for the rest of the song.

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He couldn't nail the balls-achingly simple drum pattern to 'Ventilator Blues' without having Bobby Keyes clapping beside him, either. Definitely wouldn't call Watts a metronome, he speeds up and slows down like there's no tomorrow, and his drum fills always sound like they're falling down a flight of stairs.

My fave SF/Stones cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzfy7aKB9oo

his drum fills always sound like they're falling down a flight of stairs.

how drum fills should sound imo (as long as they end on the downbeat)

why does the doctor have no face??!?

In an attempt to shock and provoke, I ranked brown sugar too low in this thread. This is the true order:

Dead Flowers
Sway
Wild horses
Moonlight mile
Brown sugar
Can you hear me knocking?
Bitch
I got the blues
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You gotta move

Sister Morphine after Wild Horses

I like "You Gotta Move"

I understand why it's there, some friction was needed after the groovy second half of can u hear me knocking, but i dont like it

Which is weird bc i like a lot of similar tracks on exile

You Gotta Move is so terrible, treeship otm

"Brown Sugar" is the 2nd worst song on the record.

The live version of YGM they did in the mini-acoustic set on the '69 tour is better

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

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hkdDAxctL.jpg

You gotta moo
You gotta moo
You gotta moo, chile
You gotta moo

How now, Brown Sugar

Wild Cows-es couldnt drag me awayyyyy

Sticky Udders?

sorry

Knocking / Sway / Sugar (tie)
Moonlight
Bitch
Morphine
Horses
Flowers
Move

Moo-light Mile
I Got The Moo's

is it "that demon-life" or "that demon, life"

Sway solo is so tasty

First time Jagger plays electric rhythm on a track.

played this for my one year old the other day and his mind was blown.

Moonlight Mile is the tune for me that years after having the record grew on me as a favorite. "Oh I'm sleeping under strange, strange skies..."

Paul Buckmaster's strings sound really good on Moonlight Mile too.

"that demon-life"

sway
can’t you hear me knocking
moonlight mile
wild horses
brown sugar
dead flowers
bitch
sister morphine
you gotta move
i got the blues

charlie watts is a fucking awesome drummer

wild horses
sway
dead flowers
moonlight mile
can't you hear me knocking
sister morphine
brown sugar
i got the blues
you gotta move

can't go wrong with any of the first 7 imo. and listening again, i got the blues is a bit better than i remember.

oh, and bitch slots in under brown sugar

sway
brown sugar
moonlight mile
you gotta move
dead flowers
bitch
wild horses
sister morphine
can't you hear me knocking
i got the blues

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

man none of us really like i got the blues--that organ tone tho!

I had it #5 and I stand by my ranking. If it’s good enough for Solomon Burke it’s good enough for me.

i really like every song on this record

'I Got the Blues' isn't bad, but it's on Sticky Fingers.

yeah i mean i have it 9th, such a great record. their 68-72 period is still the most mind-boggling stretch of musical greatness ever, to my ears.