Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
This was the Rolling Stones first album after leaving Decca Records where they had been since 1963, and switching over to the newly formed “Rolling Stones Record Label”.
Drug soaked, heavy, with amazing guitar by new member of the group Mick Taylor, this marks the end of the Peace and Love era. The album starts off with the heavy hit “Brown Sugar”, with great horn backing. That is followed by Sway, a rocking song with Mick Jagger's screaming voice, and an awesome solo at 1:45 in. Sway is followed by Wild Horses, a heartbreaking acoustic track with Jaggers voice really shining. The next song is one of the hardest rocking on the album – Can't You Hear Me Knocking, with a great riff and seething vocals before it becomes an awesome jam session that could have been right in place on a Santana album.
The next song, You Gotta Move, is awful. I'm glad that it's only 2:34 because it is truly annoying... But that's remedied by the next song, Bitch. Bitch has a lot of heavy guitar and is nice to hear after the previous song which sucked. The horns are incredible on this fun rocker. I Got The Blues follows, and it is a great blues track. The next song is Sister Morphine, which was originally written by Marianne Faithful, Mick Jagger's girlfriend. It is deeply personal, and slightly disturbing, with haunting guitar.
It gets a bit brighter now with Dead Flowers, a funky rocker, but not too much... The lyrics are depressing, and are generally attributed to heroin addiction. The guitar is quite good though. The album closes with Moonlight Mile, a soft, dark, ballad with stirring lyrics, and very good piano and acoustic guitar.
This is definetly one of the Rolling Stones best albums, and is much darker than their previous albums, which is a refreshing change. I highly suggest this album.
Peace Out,
Avi
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