To extract the essence of the golden age of music (60s to early 80s), you need only spend time on about 10 groups/artists, the top 5 of which must include Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and, of course, The Rolling Stones.

Marrow lies in the center, right inside the bones, and for the Stones that marrow is fittingly to be found in that middle period which includes 'Exile on Main Street', 'Get Yer Ya Yas Out', 'Let it Bleed' and 'Sticky Fingers'.

And of that marrow, the marrow is Sticky Fingers - without a doubt. While the other albums are all masterpieces, Sticky Fingers is so great that it is worth sending out into space to show alien life what the highest of Homo sapiens can create.

And it gets better - the marrow of this album is none other than 'Can't you hear me knocking', a masterful mini-rock-symphony that showcases brilliant composition, a solid, ever advancing and overwhelming avalanche of virtuosity that incorporates pulsating latin-jazz sounds that make even Santana's masterpiece 'Abraxas' seem temporarily lame.

This album is The One. Get it now, or you'll regret it forever.

If you are looking for a real stones album, not just hits, you won't regret this one. An album like this one assures stones fans as to why the stones have made it through all the years and lackluster albums. There is one reason more than any other that I reccomend this. Yes, wild horses is on here. And for any person wether or not you like, love, hate the stones, a person cannot deny wild horses, it is one of the few songs in this world that can always bring about feeling within, no matter how many times you hear it. There arn't many songs that can do that, personally I think it's magic can only compare to that of say....Van Morrison's "sweet thing". But if you have heard either one of those songs too many times, and want to feel what it was like to hear one of those songs for the first time..........all one has to do is listen to 'Moonlight Mile"...and you will listen to it over and over. It is a masterwork of a song. And if all of that's not your thing....."you gotta move" is a great song and the kind of song that makes you think and hope that with all the years behind them, the stones would just say....enough with the R.S. image, lets go make a really great blues album, go out on a high note and let everone remember us for being artists and not celebrites. I always hope that a new stones album means a throwback to the sound of "you gotta move", but it never does.

and I 've been listening to it since it was released in '71. Great tunes start to finish, from a time when the Stones were young, vital and peaking. The addition of Mick Taylor to the band at this time seems to have jazzed them up a little(new blood) and the songs show it."Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses", "Bitch", "Moonlight Mile" and my personal favorite on this disc-- "Sway"--,are all fantastic songs I never tire of hearing.Even the downer on this album--"Sister Morphine"--is still a great listen(and I love playing it on my guitar).Absolutely one of the five best rock albums of the '70's.

One of the best albums ever and the Rolling Stones are certainly one of the greatest bands ever.

how any one! can give beggars,exile,sticky or let it bleed anything but five stars are mad!
sticky fingers is a great album..thats the problem with stars etc
some people would give a new u2 album five stars and they havent produced a decent album since achtung baby and that was in the same league as goats head soup!
apart from the big tunes brown sugar etc sway is a great song.

Vintage Stones,excellent cd for anyone familiar with the music of the 60's era. . .

What a streak for the Rolling Stones. Over a few years, they had five classic albums in a row, "Beggar's Banquet," "Let It Bleed," the live "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out," "Exile on Main Street"--and "Sticky Fingers." Those of us who have been around awhile might recall what is missing from the CD--Andy Warhol's concept of the zipper on the album cover. Oh, well. Anyhow, this is another classic Rolling Stones' work. The sound is different from "Beggar's Banquet" and "Let It Bleed"; it seems closer to "Exile" in its sound (at least to me).

The CD starts off with one of the Stones' finest songs, "Brown Sugar." Just another salacious song or social commentary? Or both? The guitars open this off with a fine riff and chunky guitar licks (acoustic and electric). Bobby Keyes on sax also plays well on this cut. These words start off the song:

"Gold Coast slave she bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in New Orleans."

A great rock and roll song.

"You Gotta Move" was one of blues artist Fred McDowell's best known works. The Stones provide a blues sensibility in this version, although their later live version is more compelling--and better blues. Nonetheless this version isn't bad. It's interesting to compare the Stones' version with McDowell's. Key lines:

"You may be high,
You may be low.
You may be rich,
You may be poor.
But when the Lord gets ready,
You gotta move."

"Sister Morphine" is a slower song, featuring spare (but effective) guitar work. This is rather poignantly sung by Mick Jagger. One line that always catches my attention:

"The scream of ambulance
Is sounding in my ears."

On this cut, Billy Preston plays organ, Keyes is on sax, and Price on trumpet. Nice sound.

The album closes with "Moonlight Mile," a slow, almost dreamlike and hypnotic song. An interesting tune indeed!

Other fine tunes abound, such as "Sway," "Wild Horses," and "Dead Flowers."

One of the terrific albums in the "winning streak" put out by the Stones at their peak in playing and creating music. Well worth listening to.

Let's party! The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers (1971) epitomizes the phrase "Sex, drugs and rock n' roll" probably more than any other studio album in the history of rock music. Nearly every song references sex and/or drugs, and it's all terrific rock n' roll. Classics abound, and this was right in the middle of that 1969-72 period that was the band's finest hour. It opens with the lusty and rockin' Brown Sugar, and what a take they got on this! Rarely does a band cook like this in the studio, but Brown Sugar is a perfect example of rock n' roll making magic. And you gotta love that great sax solo! The rock-star-in-heat anthem B*tch rocks as hard as anything The Stones have ever done, and Wild Horses is their greatest and most eloquent ballad. As you listen, you can almost feel the sorrow and regret sadly mixed with absolute devotion.

I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom, but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die

It's an extraordinary song, and a perfectly rendered performance. Can't You Hear Me Knocking is a cocaine buzzed, street prowling rocker with extended guitar and sax solos, and it sounds fantastic. The guys pick up the acoustic guitars for the blues You Gotta Move and the minor-key withdraw nightmare Sister Morphine (which includes some fine slide guitar by Ry Cooder). The Stones go needle-and-spoon country rock in Dead Flowers, and get bluesy again with the aching I Got The Blues. Sticky Fingers is a classic, one of the band's best, and probably the most pure and intense Rolling Stones album there is.

Add Sticky Fingers to the list of my five favorite Stones' albums. Released in 1971 after the infamous Altamont Speedway concert (on December 6, 1969) and the 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, Sticky Fingers not only contains two of the band's best known hits, "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses," but is arguably the band's most drug-drenched setlist. (At least half of the songs mention drug use.) The cover art for Sticky Fingers (including a working zipper) was created and photographed by Andy Warhol. The album also features the first use of the Stones' "Tongue and Lip" logo. Ian Stewart, Billy Preston, Ry Cooder, and Jack Nitzsche all lend their helping hands to the album. Tracks include:

1. Brown Sugar (1993 Digital Remaster) (3:50)
2. Sway (1994 Digital Remaster) (3:52)
3. Wild Horses (1993 Digital Remaster) (5:44)
4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking (1994 Digital Remaster) (7:15)
5. You Gotta Move (1994 Digital Remaster) (2:34)
6. Bitch (1993 Digital Remaster) (3:37)
7. I Got The Blues (1994 Digital Remaster) (3:54)
8. Sister Morphine (1994 Digital Remaster) (5:34)
9. Dead Flowers (1994 Digital Remaster) (4:05)
10. Moonlight Mile (1994 Digital Remaster) (5:56)

G. Merritt

After listening to this whole album you will feel as though you've stepped into and walked through the rawness of life. The music exposes you to real, raw human emotion with small slices of debauchery, vileness and perversion. The album has such a humane earthiness about it by combining many different genres much of which originally was American Music such as; blues, gospel, jazz, country, bluegrass and rock. To get this experience I described the whole album needs to be listened to in one sitting.

You can't look at Mick Jagger as a singer but rather as a deliverer. He'll deliver the songs into your blood and bones making them teem with nastiness. If you purposefully can't make out all the words you will get the feel and aura of each song.

Sticky Fingers, 1971: the Stones at the peak of their powers, and an album that only gains in urgency and humanity with every listen. It may be THE definitive rock album.
It was a period when the Stones could record tracks over several years (the earliest is the Ry Cooder-assisted "Sister Morphine" from March '69) and make them cohere into an authoritative vision. The core of the album are three songs secretly cut from Dec 3-5,'69, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, away from the knowledge of thieving manager Allen Klein, and only hours before the tragic concert at Altamont: "Brown Sugar" (actually originally a riff Jagger devised while filming "Ned Kelly," and first played in concert at Altamont), the Fred Macdowell standard "You Gotta Move," and the timeless "Wild Horses," a conflation of Mick and Keith's feelings over their estranged loves.
The rest were summer of '70 tunes, each as pungent with their own rock/country swagger: "Bitch" (pulsing, hornet's nest Chuck Berry lines from Keith), "I Got The Blues" (excellent Mick vocal), "Dead Flowers" ('needle and spoon' hilarity), and "Moonlight Mile" (oriental stoned poetry). Mick's aching howl on the call and response verses of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and the brutish "Sway" is unparalleled. If you don't own this, get it. No one comes close to this kind of genius anymore.

The Rolling Stones turned out a mighty awesome album with their release of Sticky Fingers. The album boasts some great music that has stood the test of time; and just one listen proves it.

The CD track set begins with their incredible hit, "Brown Sugar;" this song is about interracial romance during the age of slavery--but it can refer to interracial romance in our times, too. The electric guitar, drums and percussion bolster the number and Mick Jagger sings this perfectly! I know you'll like "Brown Sugar" very much if you haven't heard it before. "Sway" has some great electric guitar; and "Wild Horses" is one of the most beautiful and tender Rolling Stones ballads ever. "Wild Horses" features Mick Jagger singing of how much he loves his woman. Listen for Keith Richard to join Mick on the chorus of this ballad, too. "Wild Horses" stuns me with its beauty.

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" rocks hard with great electric guitar; and "Bi***" rocks just as hard with great electric guitar and vocals by Mick Jagger. Keith Richard joins Mick again for the vocals on "Bi***."

"Sister Morphine" refers to the times people take drugs to forget their problems in life; Mick sings of how he needs morphine because "(he's) not that strong." Mick also sings about rehab when he's trying to get clean, too. Listen for some flawless electric guitar and great special effects!

The CD ends with "Moonlight Mile;" listen again for those great special effects and the electric guitar that bolsters the melody remarkably. Mick sings this to perfection and Paul Buckmaster is good on the strings.

The liner notes include great artwork and the song credits.

The Rolling Stones gave us many, many albums; but Sticky Fingers remains one of their best. I recommend this album for fans of 1970s rock; and people who want a complete Stones collection could never go without this album.

Rock on, Rolling Stones!

Argument after argument. Is it "Sticky Fingers" ? Is it "Exile on Main Street" ? Is it "Beggar's Banquet" ? Is it "Let It Bleed" ? Which IS the best Stones album ? Note for note , this gets my vote. But really , no one released a string of classics albums like this. UNBELIEVABLE (but true)

The Stones have better stuff, but this is worth listening to them. An album that shows their growth as a band.

WOW! WHO LIKES SUCH AWFUL TRASH SONGS LIKE BROWN SUGAR??? THE ROLLING STONES ARE DEFINATELY ONE OF THE WORST BANDS EVER AND THEY HAVE NEVER MADE ANYTHING DECENT EXCEPT START ME UP AND SHATTERED AND THEY SHOULD BE DISHONORED FOR MAKING SUCH AWFUL MUSIC ALONG WITH QUEEN U2 DOORS AND SABBATH. GET ANY METALLICA ALBUM INSTED.

I have mixed feelings about the Stones, but this album is just great, all the way through. The second half of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" could be mistaken for Santana. "Sister Morphine" is poetic and plain spooky, and "Moonlight Mile" is gorgeous. Sticky Fingers catches the band at their apex, well before they started to seem like a parody of themselves, but happily removed from the early stuff like "Ruby Tuesday" -- they seem to be right where they want to be, playing around with the sounds they love the most: country, blues, latin, Otis Redding-style soul ("I've Got the Blues"). If not their "best" (Let it Bleed?), still one of the great albums of that time. Any time, really.

I had this also when it first came out and like it better as a cd than an album. The recordings don't deteriorate on a cd like they do on an album. It is one of the Stones best albums/cds. I recommend this cd plus Let It Bleed and Beggars Banquet if you want the best of the Stones music.

This landmark 1971 album gave the Stones a massive hit with Brown Sugar. Together with Bitch and the extended jam Can't You Hear Me Knocking it is one of three powerful rock songs while the rest of the album contain soulful, bluesy or country-tinged ballads.

These ballads are all rather dark and brooding, from the melancholy Wild Horses to the unoriginally titled but moving I Got the Blues and the chilling Sister Morphine, whilst Dead Flowers with its country flavor has poetic lyrics and an addictive tune.

The album concludes with the yearning Moonlight Mile, a final unforgettable track. This mix of melodious ballads and power rock make Sticky Fingers a masterpiece and one of that decade's top albums by the greatest rock band of all time.

This is a classic album and is certainly in the top 100 ever made! My personal favorite cut is "Sway" I just love to hear Mick Taylor wailing away on his guitar until the fade out. Every cut is exceptional and there are a few hits on this album "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" mainly and "Bitch",but this album goes much deeper than those obvious cuts with the classic country "Dead Flowers" and "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" which rocks all the way to the jazz-like end! Every song is worth mentioning and this album should be in every music lovers collection.

As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" I am often ask to review and talk about various rock recordings from the 60's and 70's.

The Rolling Stones Mick Taylor period is a treasure chest that never empties. Mick was the most advantageous choice for the group. His leads, fills, and general sound pushed the band to new heights.

"Sticky Fingers" runs with the smoothest of engines from start to finish. The tracks are incredible examples of the Stones diversity and ability to excel. While the casual fan will gravitate toward "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses", don't deprive yourself of one of the most underrated tunes ever "Sway." Mick Taylor has his patent of excellence all over the arrangement of "Can't You Hear Me knocking."

Often the word great is used to excess but in this case it doesn't do justice!

Mick Taylor we miss you. A shame you left.

Be well always,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"

"Sticky Fingers" isnt just a great Stones album, but a great classic rock album as well. The only thing that I have to debate about this album is that I dont think its the best Stones record. The honor would have to go to "Let it Bleed" Now, I am in no way comparing this to "Let it Bleed" because that just wouldn't be fair, since every song on "Let it Bleed" is excellent, which makes it an easy five star effort. The reason I give this only four stars is that is falls just a bit short from perfect. I feel when you are reviewing Stones albums from this time frame, that you have to be a little more judgemental, since the late 60's/ all 70's time frame was the best for the band. They even had some early 80's solid albums, but no where near the musical effort as the earlier stuff. "Sticky Fingers" seems to fall a bit short with "You gotta move", and "Dead Flowers" which in my opinion seem to be blues songs that are forced, instead of the blues infused "Sister Morphine" , and "Moonlight Mile" which the band seems to flow more gracefully. I am sure there will be some that love those songs, but I feel that they are just a bit overdone, and they just arent very solid songs, if that makes any sense. Its still a great record from the Stones, but I feel that it just isn't pefect, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be in everyone's CD collection. ENJOY!

Their best album. And my favorite album of all. But one star goes away for not remastering this one as they have the CD's of the early years. Surely it is deserving.

Sticky Fingers is a great Rolling stones cd. Wild Horses is the best country song ive heard, Dead Flowers is good country too. Sway is a good western rock song Sister Morphine is a realistic look at iv drug use with great slide from Ry Cooder. Bitch is a catchy rocker For blues theres igot the blues and you gotta move. Can you hear me knocking? is one of the stones best the guitar sax vocal and backup vocal are clasic Rolling Stones. Moonlight mile is a good wrap up.

This is probably, next to Led Zeppelin 2, one of the best rock albums ever recorded. Want to conjure the devil for an afternoon of lust, just put on "Can You Hear Me Knocking?" or "Brown Sugar." Only "Rocks Off" from Exile on Main Street can approximate the feral craze of "Brown Sugar" and Richards' nasty guitar licks. "Sister Morphine" is just great songwriting, I'll never give up my copy of this gem.

Great album. Another one from the golden era 1968-1972, 'Brown Sugar', 'Sway', 'Bitch', all classics in their own right but the jewel is 'Can't you here me knocking', a true great. I truly suspect that Charlie Watts enjoyed himself the most on this track, mixing Santana style rhythms with jazz. All in all another brilliant album. Mick Taylor is so inspirational on this album, he's on top form and I think even Keith Richards admits that he learnt a lot from him.

my fingers are tremblin' at the keyboard here. these fellas careers probably ride on my review. I was not suited for this kind of responsibilty over the lives of others. anyway, here goes: great album. buy it if you don't have it. "moonlight mile;" one of the great songs of all-time. keith & ron are great nowadays, but i do miss mick taylor. he brought a dimension to this album that is lacking after his departure from the group. so there you go fellas. hope i helped get your careers going a bit. no need to thank me. i should be thanking you. a big thumbs up.

Wild Horses was written with junkie Gram Parsons who would die of an overdose soon after. It's a miracle they made it through this era, but all in all they left us this wonderful album that's still a personal favorite.

I'm going to keep this short. Everyone should listen to this album, sometime in their lifetime. This album changed the way I looked at the Stones, and music in general. Okay, I'm twetny-five, pretty young for a Stones fan, and honestly this is the first of their albums I listened to, all the way through. From start to finish, it's a gritty, down-to-Earth rock 'n roll album, much like it's immediate predecessor, Let It Bleed. It's full of classics, and like I said, it changed the way I look at music. Because of this album, I gave the Stones a serious chance and soon discovered Beggars Banquet, which is now my favorite album of all time, (So far) and Let It Bleed, (mentioned above) which is another excellent Stones album. Buy it, soak it in and let it consume you.
--Peace

Obviously one of the greatest Stones albums. Although their greatness has been known to be exagerrated, this album is a must.

Some highlights, song by song: Its hard to hear Brown Sugar or Wild Horses anymore, as they have been so overplayed over the years, but there is no denying that they are great songs. Bitch rocks hard; its the horns that take it over the top. The murky, monster guitar of Sway makes it one of the most powerful Stones songs anywhere. The song benefits from the slow tempo, which really adds a menacing bite to it. Charlie's drumming is particularly strong on Sway, because he has space to throw in fills all over the place. Sister Morphine seems a little overly decadent, or just overwraught, now, but I loved it 25 years ago.

In any event, the album is strictly canonical, you pretty much gotta buy it if you care about the history of rock. This was the Stones before they finally chose to settle for self-parody and hackdom. Highly recommended.

Along with "Let it bleed" and "Exile of Main Street", "Sticky Fingers" is one of the best Stones albums to come down the pike. If you were disturbed By Juke Box Hero's 1 star review - you need only read his other reviews. 1/100 to 1 star albums are rated at 5 Stars (Metallica and Foreigner) 5 Star albums are rated as 1 star. Obviously, this poor soul is trapped in a parallel universe ... or bizarro world ...

Des

STICKY FINGERS IS ONE OF THE BEST STONES ALBUM OF ALL TIMES.IT CONTAINS THE GREATEST ROCK SONG BROWN SUGAR WHICH IS AS GREAT AS SKYNYRD'S FREE BIRD,BOSTON'S MORE THAN A FEELING,QUEEN'S WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS AND PINK FLOYD'S ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL.THIS ALBUM IS MUCH BETTER THAN ANY OVERRATED DIRE STRAITS AND FOREIGNER ALBUM.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.AVOID ALL ALBUMS FROM OVERRATED BANDS LIKE DIRE STRAITS AND FOREIGNER.

PS:HEAVY FUEL SUCKS,WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU SUCKS.

I like their music, but can't watch Mick sing. This product was very good. In good condition, packaged great, no problems in receiving. Music is great too!

Sticky Fingers is a testament to the fact that the Stone's best album tracks are way better than any of their hits. From the sleazy opener "Brown Sugar" to the gorgeous closer, "Moonlight Mile", there isn't a single dull moment. I can't really do a track by track analysis(since every song is so good), but I can tell that this is essential to anyone's music collection. On
e of the best, period.

Is it just me or is the bass barely audible on Brown Sugar? I would love to hear that song with a louder bass. Can someone please make that happen?

ONLY AN IDIOT WILL DISAGREE THAT THE ROLLING STONES ARE AMONGST THE GREATEST.THEY HAVE PRODUCED NUMEROUS EXCELLENT ALBUMS INCLUDING THIS ONE.SO DONT BE A LOSER LIKE THE PREVIOUS REVIEWER.JUST BUY IT.