Sticky Fingers

[Vincent Vega]

Would any others here agree that Sticky Fingers is the best Stones album? While Exile On Main St. is a classic and a definative Rock N' Roll album, I believe Sticky Fingers to be the Stones best. With songs like Brown Sugar, Sway, Can't you Hear me Knockin', Bitch, You Gotta Move, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile and Dead Flowers, almost all of this album's songs are classic. One of the few albums where there's really no filler. Anyone else agree?

This would be my top 5 Stones albums, what's yours:

1) Sticky Fingers

2) Exile on Main St.

3) Let It Bleed

4) Beggar's Banquet

5) Some Girls

Edited August 18, 2008 by Honky Chateau

[Randy Lahey]

Sticky Fingers is my favorite album of all time.

[Midnight Rambler]

Exile baby.

[Scrubs]

Would any others here agree that Sticky Fingers is the best Stones album?

Yessir.

[Dead Flower]

Sometimes I think it is. Sometimes I think Exile. Whaeva.

Moonlight Mile might give it the edge.

[vicious]

i prefer exile but this is a close second

[SolidSnake]

Would any others here agree that Sticky Fingers is the best Stones album? While Exile On Main St. is a classic and a definative Rock N' Roll album, I believe Sticky Fingers to be the Stones best. With songs like Brown Sugar, Sway, Can't you Hear me Knockin', Bitch, You Gotta Move, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile and Dead Flowers, almost all of this album's songs are classic. One of the few albums where there's really no filler. Anyone else agree?

This would be my top 5 Stones albums, what's yours:

1) Sticky Fingers

2) Exile on Main St.

3) Let It Bleed

4) Beggar's Banquet

5) Some Girls

for me Exile on main street is slightly better.

it could definitely be their best though, it's way too dark though.

[ChineseDemocracy2004]

I like that album, i've been listening too it a lot recently. You're right about the songs, every one of them has some quality about them but having said that i couldn't listen to 'You Gotta Move' over and over and over.

[luciusfunk]

Definitely a great album, but their best? I can't say.

[Powerage5]

Sticky Fingers is to the Stones as AFD is to GN'R. Probably one of my top 5 favorite albums.

[Zint]

Sticky Fingers is one of the best albums ever...period!

[chicagocoma13]

I like Exile the best

[Becket]

I like Exile the best

I like Sticky Fingers best, but Exile On Main St. is a close second.

[Ions]

Would any others here agree that Sticky Fingers is the best Stones album?

Yessir.

Yes.

[wasted]

I listen to Undercover the most.

[Shuffle]

One of their best and one of the best of all time. My favorite Stones album is Beggars Banquet though.

My top 5:

1. Beggars Banquet

2. Exile On Main St.

3. Sticky Fingers

4. Let It Bleed

5. Aftermath / Some Girls

[Lithium]

Sticky Fingers is a perfect album, there's no argument there. It's a part of probably the best line of albums ever made, including Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup. It sat the standards for the gritty, sleazy feel that music adopted later, with bands like Guns N' Roses and Mötley Crüe. Its influence is, to put it mildly, enormous, especially with little details like the controverisal bulge-cover.

Its strength, and what it basically is known for among album-oriented music-listeners is how well the songs are put together. Whether or not it's intentional or not, I think only Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Co. can answer. You've got the ones that the two aforementioned bands really take influence from, the ones that defined sleazy rock, like "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "Brown Sugar", the calm, sort of mellow ones, like "Moonlight Mile" and "Wild Horses", and the ones where their blues-influences really shine through, like "I Got the Blues" and "You Gotta Move" - and they all match each other so well, it's nearly frightening!

My favourite song, at least in 2008, is "Moonlight Mile". About six months ago, I saw the last episode of the first part of the sixth season of The Sopranos for the first time, where "Moonlight Mile" is playing in the background when Phil Leotardo walks towards the wire room with his comàre and the whole thing explodes. Before that, you know, I liked the song and all, but it wasn't really a standout track to me. After seeing that Sopranos-episode six months ago, I've listened to "Moonlight Mile" 573 times, according to iTunes.

Although I loved that album to bits and pieces, I've got absolutely nothing bad to say about it, it's still in the shadow of the work of genius that is called Exile on Main St.. Only in a few select cases, double albums are rarely all killer, no filler. Together with absolute masterpieces and magnum opuses like London Calling, Tommy, The Beatles (White Album) and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Exile on Main St. is one of them.

On Exile on Main St., the Stones mix everything they did before recording it, much like The Clash did with London Calling. They play around with honky tonk-country, some people even think it's the closest rock music has ever come to country music, except Gram Parsons-era Byrds. They even experiment with a little gospel, and those who read my posts often enough in this section knows how much I love it when artists like this experiment with different types of music.

They mix the blues with country, which is rarely a bad thing to do, if you ask me. Take the blues feel and put some country rhythm in there, something The Rolling Stones are masters at, and you've got yourself a great song.

Exile on Main St. culminates in the epic "Shine a Light", where the gospel they have been playing around with really steals the show, like it did three years earlier, on Let it Bleed.

And the thought of this perfect masterpiece having been recorded in a little portable studio is just overwhelmingly bizarre. It is definitely one of my all time favourite albums, perhaps even in my top 20. Missing out on this album is like missing out on sex.

Here's my top ten Stones albums:

1. Exile on Main St.

2. Sticky Fingers

3. Let it Bleed

4. Some Girls

5. Beggars Banquet

6. Aftermath

7. Goats Head Soup

8. Out of Our Heads

9. Between the Buttons

10. Black and Blue

Edited August 23, 2008 by Lithium

[wasted]

I like Exile more than Sticky Fingers cos it's more of an experience, each time you listen to it it changes.

But Sticky Fingers is more of a the perfect pop rock album. Almost too perfect. They set up a bit of an esembly line with later albums basically becoming more pop.

Some of the distortion or incomprehensble lyrics on Exile make me go back to it more often - the raggedness of it. It's like a spirtual experience to go from Rocks Off to Soul Survivor.

[Ant]

I always found Sticky Fingers to be the most consistent of the bunch.

[sweetness]

its definetly up there

[Pico]

Just bought this. I hope it's as awesome as you all say it is.

Or there will be hell to pay.

[Guest Satanisk_Slakt]

My top 5:

1. Exile On Main Street

2. Sticky Fingers

3. Let It Bleed

4. Their Satanic Majesties Request

5. Beggars Banquet

Edited August 27, 2008 by Satanisk_Slakt

[Lithium]

My top 5:

1. Exile On Main Street

2. Sticky Fingers

3. Let It Bleed

4. Their Satanic Majesties Request

5. Beggars Banquet

I don't get your love for that one, man, it's a poor man's Sgt. Pepper's.

Just bought this. I hope it's as awesome as you all say it is.

Or there will be hell to pay.

I can pretty much guarantee that it will not be a disappointment.

[Guest Satanisk_Slakt]

I don't know, I've always loved it, since I can remember. I don't get why you don't like it.

[ChineseDemocracy2004]

I just listened to Exile for the first time and i can definitely say that Sticky Fingers is better imo anyway but there's some standout tracks on Exile too, perhaps that album will grow on me over time.