Sticky Fingers [Deluxe Edition]
by The Rolling Stones
  • Record Label: Polydor
  • Release Date: Jun 9, 2015
Metascore
100

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Q Magazine
    Jul 17, 2015
    100
    The world's finest rock'n'roll combo. [Jul 2015, p.119]
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  2. NOW Magazine
    Jul 8, 2015
    100
    The revelatory stuff is contextual.... One of the greatest rock records ever.
  3. Billboard.com
    Jun 25, 2015
    100
    Finally, a deluxe version of their 1971 masterpiece Sticky Fingers that includes a bounty of concurrent outtakes and live material, along with a companion DVD/CD release of a live-for-TV performance.... [Sticky Fingers itself] is indisputably one of the greatest albums of 1970s, if not the entire the rock era. The end.
  5. Pitchfork
    Jun 19, 2015
    100
    They were called the World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band for entirely too long, but if that designation ever applied it was here.
  6. Mojo
    Jun 10, 2015
    100
    It's the sound of a band at the absolute peak if its powers. [Jul 2015, p.100]
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  7. Rolling Stone
    Jun 10, 2015
    100
    The alternate takes in this reissue show how hard the Stones worked to sound so natural.
  8. AllMusic
    Jun 10, 2015
    100
    The real selling point to both the Deluxe Edition and especially the Super Deluxe Editions are the live material. The second disc is rounded out with five selections from the Roundhouse in 1971, killers every one, but they're eclipsed by the first official release of Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out on the third disc of the Super Deluxe Editions.
  9. PopMatters
    Jun 15, 2015
    80
    The remastered version on the reissued Sticky Fingers sounds better than ever, and it affirms that during their peak years, the Rolling Stones indeed were the world’s preeminent band.
  10. Record Collector
    Jun 10, 2015
    80
    It’s an all-killer-no-filler collection that sees the band benefiting from a bedded-in Mick Taylor’s influence and the colossal confidence that being...
  11. New York Daily News (Jim Faber)
    Jun 10, 2015
    80
    The alternate studio takes shoot us into a parallel universe well worth entering.

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User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 91 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 91
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 91
  3. Negative: 29 out of 91
  1. SirNilesIV
    Jul 15, 2015
    10
    "Well I'm talkin bout the Midnight Gambler!...the one who closes the bedroom door!"

    By far the best Stones album and, incidentally, the    "Well I'm talkin bout the Midnight Gambler!...the one who closes the bedroom door!"

    By far the best Stones album and, incidentally, the only album where Warhol was involved; the famous Lips were/are erroneously credited to him. If you own the vinyl from the 70's, it has a working zipper, and is the version I recommend buying; with that being said, this version is fantastic and is available on Spotify, iTunes, all the other new fangled services out there. In it, you'll be treated to, again, the Best Stones Album (TM), plus a pretty amazing live performance at Leeds College AND outtakes, demos, and the rest. So should the casual fan buy this? Um, no. It's *way* too much, if you just want to hear the album, which again, go by the 70's vinyl at a record store for $5. But if you love the album already, you should own this because it's basically a party in a bottle.    … Full Review »
  2. malosuerte
    Aug 30, 2015
    5
    It pains me to give this album a 5. The music itself is a 10, but the sound quality on this reissue is horrible. The mix is awful and it isIt pains me to give this album a 5. The music itself is a 10, but the sound quality on this reissue is horrible. The mix is awful and it is compressed. If you can find the old Virgin reissues from the early 90's pick that up.

    I guess the Stones do not care about the quality of these reissues as they have all been lackluster. It is a pity because their body of work is among the best in the history of Rock and Roll.    … Full Review »
  3. Andremax
    Jul 12, 2018
    9
    The album is very good, old, good and raw rock n' roll with tasteful pinch of blues, this it has no doubt. The extra material is veryThe album is very good, old, good and raw rock n' roll with tasteful pinch of blues, this it has no doubt. The extra material is very interesting, bringing album versions really different of the ones was released on album. The live songs are excellent Stones' songs and it got a lot of band's energy in stage. A REALLY extra material, not only waste-of-time and money with obvious same musics of every-time. Worthwhile.… Full Review »
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