Me? Music junkie, need to shoot up on music. Hey it's better than heroine.. a CD is only £12 and you...
Me? Music junkie, need to shoot up on music. Hey it's better than heroine.. a CD is only £12 and you can play it millions of times. You see, makes sense!
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There is one word that best sums up every single aspect of 'Sticky Fingers' and that word be: Quality. Sniff the underpants of the back-sleeve, you're sniffing Andy Warhol, get the original vinyl edition and you can unzip the flies of the front-sleeve's jeans, and as for pressing the play button.. immediately you are carried away by the rolling wind of perfect rock and roll such is 'Brown Sugar'.
'Brown Sugar' is of course one of most loved Stones songs ever laid down and though it is pure and utter divinity the most remarkable thing is that here on 'Sticky Fingers' it isn't by any means a stand out track. The quality and consistence of this album is on a level that no human being should be able to achieve, and I dare say that this wouldn't have been possible without the fuel offered by the needle and snort. At the very fading death point of 'Brown Sugar' we hear Keith Richards say, "yeah," how perfectly summed. The song with task of 'Brown Sugar' follow is 'Sway' which includes some raw and hard lead guitar that sounds so fresh and real even today after the 70s went over the top. There isn't a single wedge of cheese on this album.
I won't bore you by telling you how great each song is individually, I don't have enough adjectives to avoid pretty much repeating
the same description for every track. I mean, 'Wild Horses' is sublime and every other song is too. One highlight worthy of singling out though is 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' which is a great song but becomes something much more. After the song is done the band carry on and break out into one of the finest jams I've heard laid down on an officially released album. Well, when it's flowing (whether it be the music or the drugs or in this case both) why the hell stop? It certainly makes my nipples stand right out. I'm told my nipple erections aren't as common as I presumed they were, but even if you don't usually have them.. you will have them during this. I hope. I know.
Guitars, acoustic and electric are smelted with the finest rhythm section in the world and a perfectly judged amount of support from the saxophone and the classic Stones horn section, it's all like the best trip you've ever had. And yet there is genuine pain on this album, the pains of rock and roll are all fully explored. The road is hard, rock and roll isn't an easy life. The drugs, the drugs are all that can get you through sometimes. It goes without saying that even things as wonderful as drugs have a negative side too. Oh well. This is an album of addiction, this is not just a one hundred percent musical ruby pearl thing but also it is a social document. It is fuelled by drugs and says to me that sometimes you really can get very positive results from drugs, yet of course there is always that flip side: the people they destroy. The music undoubtedly benefits from having Sticky Fingers here on 'Sticky Fingers'. Oh how I kill myself!
This is when the Rolling Stones were real, man, before the self-parody crept in. Now don't get me wrong, I adore seeing the Stones still rolling out on to the road, I hope they all turn into wheel-chair bound 90 year olds still going out touring. They're great. However, Mick Jagger has too desperately tried to cling on to his youth and the band has tried to be modern rather than concentrating on making great music in recent years. Actually, they haven't even concentrated on being modern, the word for their music post early 70s is probably: "product". The Rolling Stones product, the brand. How sad that is, for once without much doubt the Stones were the gosh darn hottest band on earth. My preferred future for the Stones would have been -as Keith Richards once suggested- that they become less popular to the point of only playing small grotty Blues bars. I would imagine they'd be once more the greatest band on earth if they were stuck in a hostile blues bar playing to pay for beer, drugs and women. And not making enough for hair dye. Mick.
Of the super-bands of that 60s movement The Rolling Stones were most likely the most talented. I don't believe that, but it's less confrontational than coming out with what I really mean: they were always much better than The Beatles in everyway. Perhaps they sometimes lacked a great songwriter, The Kinks had the legendary Ray Davis and The Who had the real-deal of Pete Townshend. The Beatles I believe had two over-rated songwriters and an underrated George Harrison. 'Sticky Fingers' however is perhaps one of the strongest Stones albums in terms of writing. 'Wild Horses' for instance is around about five point two times better than 'Hey Jude' for sure. 'Sister Morphine' may be seen as slightly melodramatic, I see it as sheer class. The Stones here have given up on trying to write socially conscious songs and have reverted to writing about what they know best, the things they do. (as it turns out they make fine music and take a lot of drugs.). It isn't up to Dylan of course, but it isn't as bad as McCartney either.
'You Gotta Move', I ought to mention, is a slow sparsely instrumented red-neck style blues number. It's good, but I wanted to mention it for this reason: I wanted to let all Kazoo owners out there know that this is ultimate track to play along to. Much fun in store.
Whatever.
'Bitch' - what a riff. I want to have babies with that riff. Funny you should mention that actually.. it is perfect music to make hard and fast loving to. Not that I'd know. Like bunny rabbits. Like the dirty rotten pigeons. Like Mick Jagger and young super models. Oh lord. What a world we live in. I can't help but feel Mick still cashes in on the fact that he once was part of a band that made an album as good as 'Sticky Fingers' - better it must be said then any of The Beatles' albums. The reason, as I said right at the very start, is quite simply Quality. To control quality was what made and still makes 'Sticky Fingers' one of the finest long players you can ever let your ears be graced by.
Quality.
How Sticky IS Sticky he asked. Very Sticky he answered. You're free to leave now.
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