The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Revisited (2012)
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Revisited (2012)
Disc 1 1 – Brown Sugar (Eric Clapton Version) 2 – Sway (Single Version) 3 – Wild Horses (Pedal Steel Version) 4 – Can’t you hear me knocking (Mono Promo Version) 5 – You Gotta Move (Alternate Mix) 6 – Bitch (Mono Single Version) 7 – I got the Blues (Mono Promo Version) 8 – Sister Morphine (Alternate Version) 9 – Dead Flowers (Alternate Mix) 10 – Moonlight Mile (Mono Promo Version) 11 – Let It Rock (Mono Single Version) 12 – Cocksucker Blues (Unreleased) 13 – Brown Sugar (Alternate Mix) 14 – Wild Horses (Alternate Mix) 15 – Sister Morphine (Mono Promo Version) 16 – Potted Shrimp (Unreleased Instrumental) 17 – Dead Flowers (Live Marquee Club 1971) 18 – I Got The Blues (Live Marquee Club 1971) Disc 2 1 – Bitch (Live Leeds 1971) 2 – Brown Sugar (Alternate Mix) 3 – Sway (Live Glasgow 2006) 4 – Wild Horses (Alternate Mix) 5 – You Gotta Move (Alternate Mix) 6 – Let It Rock (Live Marquee Club 1971) 7 – I Got The Blues (Live London 1999) 8 – Bitch (Alternate Mix) 9 – Dead Flowers (Live Leeds 1971) 10 – Dancing In The Light (Instrumental) 11 – All Down The Line (Acoustic Version) 12 – Trident Jam (Instrumental) 13 – Sister Morphine (Marianne Faithfull Version ) 14 – Silver Train (Alternate Version) 15 – Alladin Story (Instrumental) 16 – Sway (Mono Promo Version) 17 – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (Live Toronto 2002) 18 – Moonlight Mile (Live Oakland 1999) 19 – Bitch (Philadelphia 1972)
Pieced together from outtakes and much-labored-over songs, Sticky Fingers manages to have a loose, ramshackle ambience that belies both its origins and the dark undercurrents of the songs. It's a weary, drug-laden album -- well over half the songs explicitly mention drug use, while the others merely allude to it -- that never fades away, but it barely keeps afloat. Apart from the classic opener, "Brown Sugar" (a gleeful tune about slavery, interracial sex, and lost virginity, not necessarily in that order), the long workout "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and the mean-spirited "Bitch," Sticky Fingers is a slow, bluesy affair, with a few country touches thrown in for good measure. The laid-back tone of the album gives ample room for new lead guitarist Mick Taylor to stretch out, particularly on the extended coda of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." But the key to the album isn't the instrumental interplay -- although that is terrific -- it's the utter weariness of the songs. "Wild Horses" is their first non-ironic stab at a country song, and it is a beautiful, heart-tugging masterpiece. Similarly, "I Got the Blues" is a ravished, late-night classic that ranks among their very best blues. "Sister Morphine" is a horrifying overdose tale, and "Moonlight Mile," with Paul Buckmaster's grandiose strings, is a perfect closure: sad, yearning, drug-addled, and beautiful. With its offhand mixture of decadence, roots music, and outright malevolence, Sticky Fingers set the tone for the rest of the decade for the Stones. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com
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