rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

love Nicky Hopkins on Sway, too

Jagger just SELLING the lyrics with this insane delivery

otm-- had never connected my love of this song to my dylan superfandom before but i think they're related

LL's transcription--

"one day i WOKE up to fiiiiiiiiiind/right in the BED next to miiiiiine"

--also a clue

CIRCulaaaaar tiiiiiiiiiIIIIIME

I love that "Sway" has strings...by Paul Buckmaster!

ok then, it doesn't really matter if sway is a ballad or a jam or whatever but i am so much more impressed by the phantastic "can't you hear me knockin'" which definitely is a jam. that killer blues riff which gives me the zz top feel, the amazing saxophone solo, its' jazzy improv vibe, the cool santana guitar sound later on, almost 7 minutes without a second that bores me. it is the best of the early seventies coming together there, just wonderful. i don't really care so much about jagger's singing, somehow i don't hear his voice anymore as it is so ubiquitous as i have heard it so many times. anyone else who prefers knocking to sway?

i listed CYHMK above Sway on my list upthread. both are better than great.

anyone else who prefers knocking to sway?

Me, by miles!

VG otm Sway is the Stones doing what they do like no one else

though Moonlight Mile is beautiful and like almost nothing else they did

"Moonlight Mile" is Taylor's loveliest moment on a Stones single, and my favorite use of Buckmaster strings.

Sway is the Stones doing what they do like no one else

Incidentally, a friend gave me the Joel Selvin Altamont book for my birthday and I'm finally getting around to reading it. It had never even occurred to me how removed the Stones were from the rock scene, particularly in America. By 1969 they hadn't played the U.S. in 3 years and were practically broke (the American tour was explicitly to refill their empty coffers), and they were desperate to sort of break back into America, which culminated in the Altamont disaster. Clearly the band came out the other side intact, but having this album start out the new decade didn't hurt. I wonder what might have been if they followed the '60s and Let It Bleed directly with Exile?

sway is a great song i am sorry you are having trouble with your hearing

There are people who don't like Sway? I'd argue that its #2 placement practically makes the album.

even if that was true it would not be a sufficient condition to make it a good song. though i think the whole exile on main street double album is where they are really doing their own thing.

― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, April 25, 2019

really no choice but to FP for this. you'll thank me when you sober up.

exile’s great and I love it with my whole heart, but it’s the succinctness of Sticky Fingers that appeals to me in my old age

really no choice but to FP for this. you'll thank me when you sober up.

don’t tuomas me lol

in the early days of ilm you could bust balls for challops

weird that some people cannot accept different opinions. in the early days of ilm there used to be that sentence "a frightening consensus is building up". times have changed.

Yup, unfortunately.

Anyhow, I re-listened to this album last night and one thing that struck me about 'Sway' this go-round is how superb the bassline is. Wyman really brings home the goods on that one. Love the strings and vocal performance, too. Watts' drumming gets really ropey at times, particularly in the middle section with several fluffed fills and seemingly forgetting what song he's playing at one point.

this is funny:

The songs on Sticky Fingers varied from the brilliant to the rather average and forgettable. "Sway," which sways on the border between a lazy midtempo number and a ballad, falls into the latter category,

Cant you hear...
Bitch
Brown sugar
You gotta move
Sway

Everything else

Moonlight mile makes me think they were trying to do a song like Hendrixs may this be love but not matching it.

"Moonlight Mile" is better than any Hendrix song.

'Moonlight Mile' is amazing but nah.

yah

I mean, "Can't You Hear Me..." as top of the list is a Stones I don't hear, but it's all good

ANY Hendrix song?

I like a bit of hyperbole, but even comparing it just with ballads, ie angel, drifting, little wing, castles made of sand, nah.

Cant you hear is just low key brilliance. That riff alone.

Tempted to poll 'Moonlight Mile' vs, say, 'Machine Gun' or '1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)'.

1983 is better than anything the stones could hope to do.

Electric ladyland is better than exile. That could be a cool poll.

Don't know if I'd go that far but it's a respectable stance.

xp nah I'll take Exile over Electric Ladyland.

Are You Experienced? over Exile though.

I'm not wired to appreciate Hendrix, I've realized.

Are you experienced over let it bleed and beggars. EL vs Exile is a good old fashioned double album contest.

Then poll it! I've started enough of 'em in my time.

Tbh for me, I'll take get yer ya yas or a good live bootleg over any proper stones studio album.

BS
Sway
Knockin
Beetch
Moonlight
Other shit

There must be ways to find out

In this poll from 2011, which featured some other classic rock double albums besides Electric Ladyland, Exile won in a walk. Lots of missing albums from that poll though. (Trout Mask Replica and The Band s/t come to mind). Might be interesting to do a more complete one.

best big iconic classic rock studio double LP of the 1960s and 1970s

This is a sticky fingers thread

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wild horses = little wing, they even resolve with a similar 3 chord sequence

mystified by the assertion that “moonlight mile” was an attempt at writing a hendrix-style song, hendrix was never one for sweeping orchestration. the guitar does heavily use the pentatonic hammer-ons that jimi loved so much

“little wing” and “wild horses” are in the same key, that’s all (well, hendrix uses the relative minor). the I-bVII-IV change that they share is an extremely common rock progression

there's no reasoning with hendrix stans...

Moonlight Mile reminds me of Van Morrison and nothing else, but I think that's more Van imitating Moonlight Mile than the other way around?

I just found myself comparing the drums on MM and may this be love.

Lord what was I thinking, they’re completely different songs with only one thing in common, should not be mentioned in the same sentence. I must have caused such chaos in the universe!!!

You sound unhappy. Calm down. It is just a comparison. You will come across this many times in life.

Really though, play the two next to each other and they actually flow well together. That is all.