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 nonironic 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 lues. "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.
Picture this: it is a breezy night; the moon is low...you are rowing a light boat in the center of a vast lake somewhere in the exotic China. Not too far away from you is an archaic temple standing on an imposing cliff, obscured by some wriggly willows. And with each stroke of the oars, you marvel at the gleaming of the moonlight-reflecting ripples you make. That was exactly what came into my h...
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In _the Stones: The Acclaimed Biography_, author Philip Norman boldly stated that Jumpin' Jack Flash was "undisputedly the Stones' best performance on record." Well, if you grant that, this statement below is gonna be even harder to beat: Can't You Hear Me Knocking has the best riff that Keith Richards ever wrote. The crunchy, meandering riff sounds raw and full of venom, ranting just like the ...
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Heres another little tribute video I put together for one of my favorite directors: Martin Scorsese. I may redo it and add some more clips later on. Incidentally, Martin Scorsese is working on a new documentary film about The Rolling Stones called "Shine A Light". Cant wait to see it! I loved the Bob Dylan doc No Direction Home too.
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So I'm reading a Hendrix bio when all of a sudden out pops another classic Keith story...apparently after Keith's girlfriend at the time Linda Keith "discovered" Hendrix in a seedy midtown club and tried bring him to the attention of none other than Andrew Loog Oldham.....Oldham, though acknowledging Hendrix's talent, passed up on him becuase:"Keith was the kind of guy who might actually kill s...
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how did i miss this? anybody going? great opportunity to see them in a more intimate venue- when i walked by it looked like they're setting up for a video production as well
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really enjoyed sister morphine on my ipod today as i walked through the innards of the coliseum. made for each other!yesterday's walk through pantheon with j dilla was borderline morally shameful but i got off on the contrast. what can i say? unfortunately, most of my time has been trapped in my dark, dingy room looking at computer screen with window facing brick wall and going to meetings. bu...
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One of my favorite Stones' tracks. I had been wanting to post some live video of this, but after intermittent youtube searches and some research I now realize the band didn't actually play this live until 2002 and I'd rather not subject you to some recent Stones footage. And that's no offense intended boys...just the coolness meter ain't quite what it once was (...and I realize I just wrote tha...
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really enjoyed sister morphine on my ipod today as i walked through the innards of the coliseum. made for each other!yesterday's walk through pantheon with j dilla was borderline morally shameful but i got off on the contrast. what can i say? unfortunately, most of my time has been trapped in my dark, dingy room looking at computer screen with window facing brick wall and going to meetings. bu...
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Maybe MOGGERS I don't know have mentioned this, but I did not see any mention of the passing yesterday of Memphis / Mississippi based musician/producer/legend, Jim Dickinson. He was one of those quiet guys... you may not know his name, but you knew his work... the piano on the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses" --- Dickinson.... producer of Amy Levere --- Dickinson.... father of the North Mississip...
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This song never seems to get old to my hears, despite the fact that I probably sing it in my head atleast once a day.
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I heard this song again last weekend...I’m at the Bonfire on SE Stark. Maybe I’ve had three beers or four. Light beers. Pabst or Miller High Life. The cheaper special. I’m sitting on a stool in the billiard room. I’m only watching. A guy and a girl are playing eight ball. He shoots and knocks the four in with one solid clack and gazes up at her to flirt and taunt and call his next shot. He
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Heres another little tribute video I put together for one of my favorite directors: Martin Scorsese. I may redo it and add some more clips later on. Incidentally, Martin Scorsese is working on a new documentary film about The Rolling Stones called "Shine A Light". Cant wait to see it! I loved the Bob Dylan doc No Direction Home too.
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So I'm reading a Hendrix bio when all of a sudden out pops another classic Keith story...apparently after Keith's girlfriend at the time Linda Keith "discovered" Hendrix in a seedy midtown club and tried bring him to the attention of none other than Andrew Loog Oldham.....Oldham, though acknowledging Hendrix's talent, passed up on him becuase:"Keith was the kind of guy who might actually kill s...
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how did i miss this? anybody going? great opportunity to see them in a more intimate venue- when i walked by it looked like they're setting up for a video production as well
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Some artists are more than merely great. There are some artists that for a period of years, a period that is finite, consistently produced music that, it can be argued, far exceeded the work of their peers. For that brief period of time they were definitely Masters of the Form.One tongue. One set of lips. One titanic album, and the Rolling Stones had changed the course of rock and roll forever...
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couldn't drag me away. Wild horses, we'll ride them some day.
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In _the Stones: The Acclaimed Biography_, author Philip Norman boldly stated that Jumpin' Jack Flash was "undisputedly the Stones' best performance on record." Well, if you grant that, this statement below is gonna be even harder to beat: Can't You Hear Me Knocking has the best riff that Keith Richards ever wrote. The crunchy, meandering riff sounds raw and full of venom, ranting just like the ...
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Picture this: it is a breezy night; the moon is low...you are rowing a light boat in the center of a vast lake somewhere in the exotic China. Not too far away from you is an archaic temple standing on an imposing cliff, obscured by some wriggly willows. And with each stroke of the oars, you marvel at the gleaming of the moonlight-reflecting ripples you make. That was exactly what came into my h...
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...i am just testing something out. feel free to play the Rolling Stones classic, "Brown Sugar," asociated with this test post.thank you.
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| 1 Brown Sugar |
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| 2 Sway |
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| 3 Wild Horses |
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| 4 Can't You Hear Me Knocking |
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| 5 You Gotta Move |
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| 6 Bitch |
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| 7 I Got the Blues |
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| 8 Sister Morphine |
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| 9 Dead Flowers |
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| 10 Moonlight Mile |
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