Stones Album Review-Sticky Fingers
Ok, I admit that the Stones have always been my favorite rock band. My love affair with them lasted from Out of our Heads all the way up to Some Girls. From there it is hit and miss but I digress. We are discussing Sticky Fingers.
We start off with Brown Sugar a rocking and dirty song that is one of their greatest hits. More importantly, what wouldStones Album Review-Sticky Fingers
Ok, I admit that the Stones have always been my favorite rock band. My love affair with them lasted from Out of our Heads all the way up to Some Girls. From there it is hit and miss but I digress. We are discussing Sticky Fingers.
We start off with Brown Sugar a rocking and dirty song that is one of their greatest hits. More importantly, what would you expect from them. The band, for the most part, were mired in drugs and all sorts of debauchery. They wrote what they knew about and had experienced. I imagine their trips to Chicago and other areas where Blues legends played in bars, gave the Stones an opportunity to learn a thing or two about Afro-American history/culture. Mixing in some stabs at the establishment and the continuing uptightness about inter-racial relationships. All in all it says a lot or it can say very little.
Sway-cut two side one. Wow, a missed gem, spectacular in the mix, with great drumming by Charlie, and of course Taylor’s nice solo at the end. I mean have any of you not had that demon eye that’s got you in its sway? And has anyone of you not experienced redemption with a smile from someone lying next to you and pushed that demon eye away.
Wild Horses-hmmmm this can swing both ways. Is it too sentimental, is it trite or is it a weary, drug ravaged band seeking to find a place to finally rest for a bit of time…until they get up and do it again. I think of Nellcote and the debauchery, drug abuse, and general insanity. Let’s not forget that the police were on their back in France too. So they had to boogey. A good one and Mick’s singing is clear and impassioned.
Can’t You Hear me Knocking-this is a throw away. I hate this song.
**** cares what he says in this one….its the music that rocks and keeps the feet tapping.
You gotta move and I got the blues are them paying homage to those they respected/learned about music.
Now we get to some real meat….Sister Morphine (ah sweet cousin cocaine) and the great hypnotic guitar play. Excellent and ahead of its time in its depiction of the troubles that accompany drug abuse.
Dead Flowers, one of my all time favorite Stones cuts….how can a person deny that this is them….you’ll find me in my basement room…with a needle and a spoon…and another girl to take my pain away…..oh how many did they capture and lose before they finally got the ones they wanted….and there were plenty of needles and spoons with the band at this time….and roses on the grave!!!
Moonlight mile-beautiful stirring and again the draining exhaustion of that rock and roll life…”when the wind blows and the rain feels cold…with a head full of snow…with a head full of snow…the sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind….just another mad mad day on the road….I am just living to be dying by your side…..”so, IMHO, all this song does is sum up what this whole album is about…weariness, drugs, loneliness, and just want to be home with the one I love…..and it closes the album….
Unfortunately, for them, this period of settling down would not come and only get more intense as they became Exiles from All of Anywhere…..… Expand