Get your fingers stuck in to this! Oooooer! (Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones)

Member Name: rabbitina hole

Product:	Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
Date:	04/05/01 (221 review reads)
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Advantages: Lots.

Disadvantages: Nope.

1971, it seems a long, long way away for me – but if the music is anything to go by, I would have liked to have been there. The Rolling Stones were really, excuse the pun, on a roll at this point – album after album was just class.

From the powerful opening chords of radio friendly rock classic ‘Brown Sugar’ – to the mournful pangs of pain found in ‘Sister Morphine’ – all the way through the album is consistently awesome. Drug tinged and even slightly dodgy lyrics all the way through just embody the ragged bunch that comprised the ‘Stones.

On tracks such as ‘Sister Morphine’ – with an obvious drug reference – we feel the sorrow of addiction, and the pain that accompanies it.

‘Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams.
Oh can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last.’

This is one of the most masterful tracks I have ever laid ears on, and I wish the music could do my typing, alas it cannot. The same sort of tone is evident in tracks such as ‘Wild Horses’; embodying the lonliness and weariness of being on the road.

‘Dawn has broken another lonely night
Of too much bourbon and cigarettes
And not enough love’

It’s definitely a gloomy track, but that doesn’t make it any less compelling, esspecially at the end of a long night.

However, it’s not all about sorrowful drug problems, or lonliness on the road. Oh no, this is rock after all, we have tracks like ‘Brown Sugar’ and ‘Bitch’ – both of which are undeniably cool. ‘Brown Sugar’ is one of the best opening tracks I have ever heard, and really sets everything off with a bang, with trademark Stones acoustic guitar shadowing the electric. ‘Bitch’ is a nice change of tempo, and pretty groovy with the trumpet and s
ax accompaniment.

Tracks like ‘Can’t you hear me knocking’ also display Keith Richards rock riff mastery. And, although this was a line I read somewhere else – it was too good to pass up; ‘no guitarist has ever opened quite like Keith. He jumps out of the gate raucous, tough and cool, leaving no doubt who's driving this number’. That perfectly describes the opening of this track, you feel like you could bite in to that riff, and Mick Jagger does just that.

Basically, this is an album you should own. All the tracks- with their blues sensibilities, and their ragged rock personalities in strong evidence, make this a pleasure. It’s not a particularly long album, but all the bases are definitely covered, and this is surely one of the highest points of their long, illustrious career.

I don’t think I need to say anymore, the music’s all here – listen to it. Classic means classic and it stays like this – listen to ‘Moonlight Mile’ for one of the many examples of this that can be found here;

‘I'm riding sister and I'm dreamin'
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm riding sister and I'm dreamin'
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm riding down your moonlight mile’

I couldn't live without this album.

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