rank the songs on STICKY FINGERS

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.

yep, they’d definitely fit nicely next to each other on a playlist. and you could throw “may this be love” on there too

seriously you guys should check out this new outtake set. i bumped a different rs thread but no traction. https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?2,2805669

I don’t love putting songs that are that close together on mixtapes but it’s cool, kumbaya

xpost Have been digging through those outtakes. A reall treat though I don’t all of them are Stones trax ( Jagger solo maybe on some?) and my ears tell me some of the vocals seem ... new-ish on lots of them.

*I don’t think

this is the consensus of the iorr folks about what's on there: https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?2,2805935

cool! Thanks

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How come you taste so good?

(Because you cost £6.95)

The Rolling Stones are giving us ANOTHER way to get sticky fingers.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking Doorbell: £99.95

How come you taste so good?

(Because you cost £6.95)

This legit cracks me up, I've been sitting here giggling for like five minutes

uh oh. genuinely considering buying a mug.

I kind of want the "she's so cold" blanket but luckily it's out of my price range.

Could I interest you in a "She Was Hot" air fryer?

I'd like a silver train train set.

Get Off My Cloud parachute £595

Soul Survivor Go Bag $24.95