i agree. "let it bleed" through "exile on main street" was definately their best period. bobby keys' sax contributed a lot to the success of the stones new direction during this wonderful period. "exile" was one of the best albums ever produced. "live with me," "can't you hear me knockinge" and "casino boogie" are very underrated and are still among my favorite stone songs.
1986, I'm 16 years old and I take some records home from my aunt's house to listen to. CS&N, Neil Young, , Big Brother, etc..etc..At the time I was listening to a lot of 80s metal. I put on Sticky Fingers and from the opening chords of Brown Sugar straight to the last note of Moonlight Mile, I literally just STARED at the needle tracking the grooves for all 46 minutes of this album and I was stunned by everything I heard, trying to make sense of every note I was hearing. That guitar solo on "Sway"?? What was this sound?? This was so different than what I was familiar with, but I didn't know what it was that stood out to me. Later on, I realized it was blues and blues rock, but it had a groove.....It had the ROLL that was missing from the popular music of the day. I'm now 52 and the Stones are my favorite band. This record literally changed my listening habits forever in the span of10 songs, I ditched my music collection of the time and set out upon this new path discovering everything Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf..etc..and I've been on this journey ever since.
well said. Nobody rolled like the stones. Nobody blended blues folk country rock soul and gospel so brilliantly. before or after. a weird alchemy that was really only there during the Taylor years. Keef acknowledged the Taylor thing and also that Charlie was why they rolled.
Yes! I can’t believe nobody thought to hip me to Exile when I was ate up with Appetite for Destruction in 89. I was in 7th grade and that album shook my world. It’s all the Stones and Sex Pistols.
This is an awesome channel. I'm a 71 year old male, and I find it fascinating that such a young person as yourself is so knowledgeable and interested in 1960's and early 1970's music. I have children, grandchildren and spouse who simply yawn when I try to share my love of this music with them. Your broad knowledge of the members of bands making the LPs, and facts about them, the instruments and engineering of the music, the situations revolving around the making of various LPs being reviewed, and many other tangential aspects, is awesomely amazing to me. I love talking about music to anyone who would listen to me (which is rare), so I hope you find enjoyment in the videos you make here. I lived life in the times these records came out (age 15 to 22). In living rooms with black lights, friends, joints being passed around, and the music ... always the music. Falling in love with the 8-track playing "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and later a broken heart alone listening to "Behind Blue Eyes." Always the music. And then, as my youth gave up its magic to the weight of adulthood, the music also seemed to go. The prior group of friends now gathered to drink and Numb out on quualudes, and the raw joy turned to cynicism. The music reflected this in disco and punk. But the vinyls were always there in the closet, even though they were forgotten to cassettes and CDs. And here you are, knowing more than me about the music that framed the most felt moments of my life. I truly hope this music brings you the joy it brought me.
I can remember the first time I got stoned I fell asleep to Moonlight Mile with 2 slices of pizza in the oven. Part of the Golden years success is the horn section, Jim Price, Bill Plummer and Bobby Keys
I’m 73 and saw all the great bands during the late 60s and thru the 70s. I watch a lot of record-review channels and find yours to be an original and eclectic version. Keep it up!❤️live🎶
I'm 60 years old and have been hearing (or listening) to this album since I was 8 yo. My parents got the album when it came out and played it incessantly through my childhood.
I'm listening to this album a lot these days again! And in my opinion, Moonlight Mile is the most accomplished music that they've ever done. All those soft parts and the high parts jell together incredibly!! Pure genius.
crossroader 71 they recorded "Moonlight Mile" as the sun was coming up at 6am. You gotta dig the 2009 remastered CD. Bob Clearmountain and Steve Marcussen did a great job. Bonus tracks on disc 2 are really good as well!
Satisfaction is the gold standard for the Stones. And rock and roll in general. Not withstanding Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Sympathy for the Devil , Street Fighting Man, Gimme Shelter, etc., etc…..Catalogue like Beethoven . But Yes, Moonlight Mile indeed special!
Wild horses couldn't keep me away from this brilliant review! It might be my favorite Rolling Stones album. Mick Taylor was an important component of Rolling Stones Mark II.
This is the second of your reviews I've watched. I was born in 1952. I was somewhat involved with the music scene later, staffing big shows as a medical volunteer for Bill Graham Events (HAFMC) for fourteen years. I was backstage at most classic rock acts you can name, including The Rolling Stones. It is really interesting to hear a Millennial reacting and reliving the Boomer years' music. Interesting because back then, very few people had much information on what was going on because it was happening, not a retrospective of history thoroughly researched and reported for decades. There was a lot going on and of course, the drugs made things fuzzy for a lot of people. Later, the joke became, "if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there." Some of the stories I know, other stuff not. Yet other things sometimes sound legendary, rather than factual. But your enthusiasm is fun to watch. I am glad you enjoy my generation's music.
Thanks for sharing, Abby. Growing up, I listened to the "Brown Sugar" single, which I inherited somehow from one of my older brothers. In college, I started hearing album cuts on my area classic rock radio station, then got a copy of the record from a fellow Stones fan. Phenomenal album. "Dead Flowers" is fun to cover, too. Speaking of covers, I enjoy The Sundays' dreamy cover of "Wild Horses" and Townes Van Zandt's stripped-down cover of "Dead Flowers," which I first heard when watching "The Big Lebowski" ("The Dude abides"). Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
Already commented under your let it bleed video. Wild Horses is a song that means THE WORLD to me. I even wrote my own short Story, titled Wild Horses, where i cope with one of the worst break ups i ever experienced back in 2019. Even if she never reads or listens to this short Story, I'm glad i wrote it, i even have it read by a professional voice actor and pressed it on see through 12'' Vinyl. I collected all the Singles of Wild Horses that i could find (Rolling Stones Magazine Germany did a 7" Single of the acoustic Version in 2015), but i also tracked down and bought the original Single, framed one of the Acoustic Singles and hung it on my wall, because this song is so special to me. It was my way of dealing with that loss of a person who was unable to love me the same way i loved her. Worst part was that we never cleared our closets out and never spoke ever since. I won't try to do so, she made clear she does not want any contact and i respect that, even if it was hard to do so. So yeah, that is what Wild Horses of All Songs means to me. It was also the song that i showed her when we spend our first night at her place. I put that song on, grabbed her hand and we danced so slowly in her living room, looked each other in the eyes and that was when i told her, how i felt for her. Where she realized how deep my feelings really were for her. I guess due to her mental health issues she got scared of that thing called love, because at first, she was so happy, kissed and hugged me and wrote me a deep felt emotional letter how special i was to her, and after a few weeks out of the blue she just ended it, didn't even wanna talk to me and ignored me knocking and ringing when i went to her place. That was the point where i realized i couldn't do anything about it and when i started to write the short story, never as an attempt to win her back, just as an attempt for my own well being, for my own peace. And sometimes when i listen to Wild Horses, in dark starry nights i think of her, what could have been, what she does right now and how she feels about it today. But i'll never try to contact her again, even though she is a special person and always will have a special place in my heart. That is my personal wild horses Story, my personal Wild Horses won't drag me away but also keep me from contacting her out of respect. Sometimes when you love someone you just know it's better, not to be in that persons life.
Would love to see you put together a segment for 'Exile On Main St." Tax Exiles/Nellcote saga is legendary..."the sunshine bores the daylights out of me!".
OMG! Same here, I fell in love with sway the first time I heard this album, and it's my all time favorite song from them to this day. Favorite Album as well!
In an interview for Vanity Fair magazine, the co-designer of the Sticky Fingers cover along with Andy Warhol, a man named Craig Braun, revealed the model on the front and back cover was a make-up artist at Andy's Factory called Corey Tippin. Craig said Andy shot a number of different models on Polaroid film for the Sticky Fingers cover, but Corey was ultimately chosen because he wore the tightest jeans. The idea for the inside "briefs" gatefold came after they shot the front and back covers and a different model was used, a man named Glenn O’Brien as Corey wasn't available at that time.
I just came across your channel and immediately fell right in love with it. It's so nice to see a young person with a genuine passion for the 60s and 70s!! I'm sure looking forward to Monday's vinyl show!! ☮❤☮
My favorite RS album. I love when the younger generation are into vintage rock/pop music. Sadly my teenage son doesn't listen to any of his dad's music from the 60s and the 70s. He thinks I'm a dinosaur. I wish I had a daughter or son like you.
My all-time fave Stones album is Exile.....and Some Girls is in the runner-up slot......but Sticky Fingers is in third place. As willfully sympathetic to the devil as only the Rolling Stones could be.....Sticky Fingers has undeniable classics (Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Bitch), killer rockers (Can't You Hear Me Knocking) stark deep cuts (Sister Morphine, I Got the Blues), fun country-ish tracks (Dead Flowers, Sway) and Moonlight Mile closes it all like a sarcophagus lid. Excellent album.....and yeah, the cover photos are fun. Great video!
I discovered your chanel like 4 days ago and now I am binging your videos. I am 23 and live in germany and I am so happy everytime I see people at my age who also like 60/70 music like Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones etcetc . By watching your videos I also get new ideas of which records I can listen to next :) So, thank you
I have 4000 records in my collection. Many Stones albums but I don't have a copy of this album. You sold me. I started out thinking how can you talk about 1 record for 25 minutes. Iwatched the whole thing. And I subscribed.
glad you enjoyed, and thanks for subscribing! there was also that time i talked about layla for 60 minutes and 1 second. 60 minutes because i love the album, and 1 second to prove a point
Abigail I've been back in to collecting records since 2017 and since them I have streamed countless music videos in that time. But this week I discovered your channel, and I thoroughly enjoyed the Stones Sticky Fingers episode. I learned a lot I didn't know about this album given the terrific research you do! You also make the videos incredibly engaging and very fun, and I LoL several times every video. I rarely Like videos, but yours I have both Liked and Subscribed, and I look forward to streaming EVERY SINGLE ONE of your Vinyl Monday videos! Thank you for all you do to enrich the vinyl collecting experience!
Subcribied just now. Impressed with all you know - you're so very young, best way to be! Found you on Hang Fire - great what Justin brings. Long time Toronto, Canada fan of the Stones at 16 in '66. Have seen them many times over the decades. Love the boys new album. Best band ever - forever!
Yup, STILL have my original copy purchased the day it was released at a downtown music store in New London, CT. I was 12 years old, and all the kids I went to school with were listening to The Jackson 5 & The Osmonds. Needless to say my classmates thought I was really, really weird.....
Very cool hearing your take on Sticky Fingers, so in touch w/its subtler nuances here in 2022 that you almost sound like you lived in the era. Or actually you get those nuances maybe more than many of us did then, what w/time (and your musical intelligence) distilling things. You said so many great things about Wild Horses; I would add that while it can be heard as Mick and Marianne's breakup song, and their troubles, I also hear it as Anita and Keith's stay-together song, after Mick and Anita's affair during Performance , Brian's death, drug issues, all the turmoil you mentioned the band (and their generation) were sort of emerging from. Then again at the time Keith said he wrote it for their son Marlon; many things can be true simultaneously lol. "Wild horses couldn't drag me away"...so beautiful. Thanks for another stellar Monday Abby! You're one cool cookie ♥
i put in the note that wild horses is about many things! really should've mentioned it was also keith and anita's stay together for the kids song. but at the end of the day you can't possibly fit it all in one video. (trust me, i've tried, that's how we got the 60 minute layla video!!) thank you so much for appreciating my very 2022 interpretation of this album! not everyone "gets it" so i appreciate those who do
@@abigaildevoe I hear you Abby, there are so many tangents you could talk about. As you said, everything connects. If I'd passed out some night in, say, 1975, and seen, in a vision of today, an Abigail Devoe video...well, that would have been a very groovy trip indeed. But lissen, Keith and Anita's relationship wasn't on the rocks in '71, that would happen later. Do I detect a slight bias 😉
I always learn amazing info about the bands and music that I love from your videos and the backstory of Wild Horses hit me like a ton of bricks. Thank you for all the research you do and for sharing your videos!
Love what you're doing. Just watched Beggar's Banquet and Sticky Fingers VM's. Great job! Also, I love that you gave a shout out to Margot Cotten. She is amazing!
Thanks for the great video. Sticky Fingers was the first studio Stones album that I got when is was brand new; it was the Summer before starting high school. I played that thing constantly all Summer long. It's still one of my favorite Stones albums. My 14 year old self didn't know what to make of You Gotta Move and Dead Flowers, but I grew to like them over the years, and DF is one of my favorite Stones songs now. Wild Horses is one of my favorite songs to play on guitar. Can't wait to see what's in store next Monday.
sticky fingers was my first stones album as well, besides a few compilation records (can't believe i didn't mention that in the vid, the things i forget!) dead flowers threw me off at first too, but i've always been into you gotta move. it's just so COOL
I got really lucky back in February of 1999 I think it was. I went to see Mick Taylor in Dallas at a small club. My friend that also went, or I should say one of them, had brought a real rare LP and he was hoping to get Mick to sign it if we had a chance to meet him. One of the crew members for Mick saw it and they struck up a conversation as we were standing outside waiting to get in. We literally were sitting at a table right in front of Mick for the concert and got some great photos. But after the show, Mick exited to his bus real quick. There was a line that had started up outside of the bus door but nobody was getting on or off of the bus. Finally a person or two got to go on and meet him. But then the guy who had spotted the album and was on Mick's crew opened the bus door and said he was sorry but Mick wasn't going to be able to meet any more people. But because of that album, and the guy saw us standing out there, he brought us right up on the bus where Mick was kicked back drinking with his sunglasses on. We got to talk to him, take some pictures with him, and I got him to sign my ticket. He really didn't smile until he saw the album and he seemed to loosen up a little bit. I think he was a little burned out on playing smaller venues and probably having people trying to meet him every few nights. But I thought it was really cool, and I wasn't even trying to get on the bus, to get pulled up there and get to meet one of The Rolling Stones past members. I wound up tracking down a bootleg of the show about 15 years later also. I think it was February 25th, 1999. You mentioned Robin Trower also. I got to meet him by pure accident after he played at the House of Blues in Dallas about 10 years ago. The same friend that had the Rolling Stones LP that got us on the bus to meet Mick and I went to the concert. I was standing up near the front row center stage really getting into Robin's playing. I was recording that show and he could see me clearly holding the microphone and doing it. He didn't care and he just smiled. So, after the concert ended, my friend and I decided to walk over to a restaurant maybe 20 or 30 minutes after the concert ended. And walking around the back side of the HOB, a door flies open and Robin Trower and two of his guys come walking out to a white Escalade limo parked by the curb. He just walked right out into where we were passing and nobody else was around. He talked to us for at least 10 minutes before his guys called him from out of the limo window saying we got to go. Of course I got him to sign my ticket too and he was the most laid-back, really happy and cool guy! I've had a few other planned and lucky meetings through the years but I'll save those for times when they fit with the video's 👍🎶👍
YES i missed your stories in these comments sections! from all accounts, yours included, i've heard robin is a real chill guy. as for mick t, it must be tiring being one of the better soloists of his time. great you got to meet him too - now i'll always picture him drinking with his sunglasses on inside that bus!
Check out the relationship Exile on Main St. has with Sticky Fingers. This double album combined with Sticky Fingers makes up a triple that represents the zenith of the Stones. Yes Beggars Banquet and Let it Bleed are a fantastic build up and Goats Head Soup is a fine record but the peak occurs at Sticky Fingers and Exile.
Abigail, Thanks for your excellent scholarship. I especially appreciate your sincere, earnest enthusiasm. Such a ray 🌞 in our current age of casual snark and empty irony.
It’s very interesting how you analyze an album from the personal stuff that was going on with the band. Most people just talk about the music and performances. Good job there. !! This album Sticky Fingers is peak Rolling Stones. With Mick Taylor as a full time member, the band plays some of the most riveting music of their career. “Sway” is one of my fav all time Stones songs. But after watching your video I played the song 3 times…I don’t think I ever noticed the strings. I have always been transfixed by Taylor’s incredible solos on that tune. I agree about Mick Taylor…he is a great guitarist. He and Jagger are the only guitar players on “Sway” . Keith added only vocals. But Taylor felt he should have been given a writers credit on this and some other songs. Since he didn’t … I heard that was one of the reasons he left the band after It’s Only Rock and Roll. Also Ry Cooder added some fine slide guitar on “Sister Morphene”. And I didn’t know that was recorded during the Let it Bleed sessions. I agree with your list of underrated guitar players. Roy Buchanan played a Telecaster so his sound is a little like Albert King…sort of light. But Roy was super fast…I loved his version of “Hey Joe” I doubt many who watch your videos would know who Danny Kirwan was . He was a great foil for Peter Green in the original Fleetwood Mac. My favorites are “Green Manalishi” and “Rattlesnake Shake” (at about 25 min) from Live At Boston (1970) now a 3 cd set. I hope you like the extra info…you may know it anyway…but it’s fun talking about music with someone who takes the time you obviously do in your videos. Rock On 🤘!!!
mick t is a wonderful soloist, a wonderful asset to any group he's ever been in! i've got quite a few pre-buckingham nicks fleetwood mac fans around here. my favorite work of danny's has always been dragonfly backed with purple dancer
Man oh man, I'm so far-gone I can actually tell what albums you have from LOOKING AT THE SPINES. I had to sell thousands of my albums years ago; I can get super depressed watching videos like this, but also it makes me happy to think someone like you got all my precious albums. PS: I had my Sticky Fingers zipper up; I never knew!
My favorite album of all time from any band. I was 11 when it came out, and I played it so many times over the years, that I wore out 2 vinyl copies and 2 CDs. But the thing is, after all those times listening to the album, I have never tired of it. It still sounds fresh to me. I love hearing reactions to some of these classics by young people on UA-cam hearing these songs for the very first time. I can only imagine what it must be like to hear Can't You Hear Me Knocking or Moonlight Mile for the very first time. Musical orgasm.
Is1959 definitely get the 2009 remaster of "Sticky Fingers". I bought the 2 CD set with bonus tracks. 15 bucks. It sounds like it was remixed. It's a remaster though. You knew already there were strings on "Moonlight Mile". But the remaster is "Oh Geez! The Strings!" Charlie's Drums on "Brown Sugar"? Phenomenal. Acoustic guitars in both channels can be heard crisp and full. You can hear the squeaks of Mick Taylor's and Keith's fingers as they go up and down the frets. Can't go wrong.
I'm a little late to this party, but as a native of Chicagoland, I remember our late, great, dearly departed Lin Brehmer of wxrt kicking off a music mix with Can't You Hear Me Knocking, and introducing it saying, "In the history of Rock and Roll, there are few greater introductory riffs than this....".....Goddamn right Love yer channel, great to see youngins appreciating the good stuff
Lucinda Williams has done an entire cd ofStones covers available on her website. now..beggar`s banquet,let it bleed, exile and sticky fingers ..any rock group would sell their souls to have released just one of those classics lps and yet the Stones did it , 4 in a row,,un-frikkin-real!!!LONG LIVE THE STONES!!!
Hi, Abby! Another great review of a great lp. I spent a lot of time jamming to this album on guitar when it came out. Years later, I played bass mostly (and some guitar) in various bands doing rock, blues, country and even bluegrass and gospel. But you absolutely hit the nail on the head when you said that a great band comes down to having a great drummer. They don't need to be flashing, just steady. Same thing with the bass. When you can get the bass player and the drummer locked in together, your band will be awesome! You know your stuff lady! 😘💕💕💕💕
wild horses is a song about a lot of things: breaking up with marianne (and mick realizing what it might've been like to lose her for good,) keith and anita staying together for the kids, and continuing on without brian. very bittersweet
You made me realize just why I love Sway so much. This whole album is very special to me. It always brings me back to being 8-9 years old in the '97 GMC Suburban with my dad's CD on repeat. Often he was taking me to drum lessons. And yes, I adored (and still adore) Charlie's drumming. His death hit me hard. I picked up a really nice later 70s UK pressing at a yard sale years ago (in NJ, naturally), but sadly the zipper was not down at one point. The rekkid ended up with a little bump which thankfully does not skip, but can be heard. It was so clean otherwise... Sister Morphine: gloomy drug song. Dead Flowers: cheery drug song right after it. Both are amazing. And I have also been known to enjoy a blue Am-Spir here and there. Alright, enough of my stream-of-consciousness rambling. Great video!
Hi Abigail. I have the original LP with zipper and a Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Half-Speed Master LP. I just bought the 2 CD remaster. The remaster from 2009 is absolutely amazing! Just finished hearing it tonight!
Thanks for this great video essay on what is and has been since its original release my absolute favorite Rolling Stones album. You did it justice and then some.
I knew you were going to say “Sway” changed your mind about the Stones, I even said it out loud right before you did. Also, thanks for doing these videos, you’re hitting all my favorites but the Stones are at the top. I used to do Stones covers when I played live, and I lived that lifestyle for a minute. You seem like an awesome chick with great fashion, I look forward to more!
If I could own only 5 albums, Sticky Fingers would be at the top of that list. I absolutely love this album. All of the musicians on this album are the perfect match up. I’m of the opinion that The Rolling Stones played the absolutely best in their entire career on the Sticky Fingers album!!!! Can’t You Here Me Knockin?, Moonlight Mile, Dead Flowers, Bitch, Sway, Brown Sugar, Sister Morphine, You’ve Gotta Move, I’ve Got The Blues, Wild Horses. I listed tracks in the order of my most favorite songs. Wild Horses is a great song but seams that it is always discussed first. I would never change up the Album’s song order….It’s perfect!!!! As a guitarist and lead vocalist, Can’t You Hear Me Knockin? is the best jam session I have ever heard! The only jam song I like as much is Jimi’s Voodoo Chile & Voodoo chile Slight Return by!!!!
I can’t think if they ever wrote about the Altamonte. Alan was such a prick. I’ve been pullin, speaking of album covers. I recently got out all of my old records and my god they sound great and in much better shape than I remember. It’s been 34 years since I had them out. Worsening tinnitus made digital unpalatable. Records and living out of a car chasing arch jobs can not mix. Love the vinyl on my aging ears on big 70 style 15” woofers…damn! Graham showed him the country love….stones stoled from everyone, contemporary to the masters but nobody could make it sound uniquely Stones! That is something to behold, even when they fein disco. What a run of albums from Beggars to Tattoo You! Bobby Keys…Nicky Hopkins, Mick Taylor and Billy Preston made so many of these recordings. Charlie and Keith really define the bed for Mick’s vocals and Bill was no slouch.
Strange Sticky Finger facts: The Spanish cover was censored. In it's place was a tacky photo of a jar of treacle with a mannequin hand coming out of it. Sister Morphine was also censored and was replaced with a live version of Let It Rock. As for Mick Taylor, in 2010 Mick was suppose to play a concert in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mick was staying at a little motel down the road from my record shop in Somerset. An ambulance was called. They couldn't get Mick out of bed. It transpired that he had double pneumonia and was in the local hospital for 10 days. It was kept hush hush for obvious reasons. It could have been the end of Mick Taylor but he pulled through!
@@abigaildevoe I couldn't agree more. Some recordings of what gets credited as Peter Green is actually Danny Kirwan. There is still a deep appreciation of Danny's guitar sound/technique, particularly among a number of current guitar players. Of course Peter Green was the first to notice. And Danny's songs !
I was 12 in 1971 when this came out, I remember because it's when I first tripped on a hit of purple microdot, of course I fell in love with it and took it for about 10 years, this album had some good tunes, that year there were so many great songs it was hard to keep up, but it did get it's share of radio play. Stay safe and good luck
A total masterpiece of an album. It was number one on both sides of the pond because another great rock & roll band had just broken up. There really golden period for me starts with Beggars Banquet all through to Tattoo You with a slight lull after Mick Taylor left. Mick Taylor is my favorite "Mick" in the Rolling Stones. His contribution, by far, was fantastic.
It has a real zipper in it? Cool. There isn't enough gimicks in vinyl these days. I liked the giant rolling paper in the Cheech and Chong record and The Heads even threw in one cannabis seed with each copy of their Coogan's Bluff 7" (seeds are not illegal until any amount of plant reaches above ground).
Listened to the whole album last night for the first time (had already heard brown sugar and wild horses) and i loved the variety of songs, new favourite of mine is dead flowers! 1971 truly gave such great albums. (also i hope you're gonna do a t rex vinyl monday someday cause i love marc bolan so much)
Sure enough groovin' now, y'all... stuff never gets old. Stones played Chicago about every three years & from '66 through the 80s I was always there... Sticky Fingers turned the Stones into a rock & roll revue... Moonlight & morphine can make sad memories too, but mention of Marianne Faithfull and Donovan (who adopted Brian's son) begs mention of Marianne's 1966 version of "Sunny Goodge Street" (which some might say was the first "60s" love song... ) Thank you...
1. I love this record. Still not burnt out on B. Sugar. I was 14 when this came out. I still remember coming home from the swimming pool sitting in the back seat of my parent's car. All most cars had then were AM push button radios. On top of the console was a single mono speaker. Windows rolled down and Sugar comes on, so da*n hot. Loved it. 2. Sweetheart, here in the South you are what we (guys) refer to as a "Honey". Trust me, that is a total compliment.
man that's such a cool memory to have with a stones song! i discovered you got the silver in a traffic jam on a road trip to nashville, WOW. and thank you so much!
Sticky Fingers is near & dear to my heart. One of the best albums that always got played at big parties. I saw the Stones on their Zip Code Tour in 2015 & I had an out-of-body experience when they played Moonlight Mile. The odds of getting that epic tune are astronomical. Keith Richards has absolutely no filter during interviews. LOL. He was asked about Sgt. Pepper's & he said it was a load of rubbish. A little harsh, but he had a great point: He asked the interviewer when's the last time you listened to Sgt. Pepper's & when's the last time you listened to The Rolling Stones. I listen to the Stones a lot. Their albums are in constant rotation for me. Once in a great while, I revisit The Beatles. I wore them out when I was young & I tend to have more fun listening to their earlier albums like Rubber Soul & Revolver.
Love your picks for under-rated guitarists and your deep love of 'Sway' which was an absolute favourite of mine from the very first listen in 1971 in the living room of my friend and later saxophonist in our first band
Unhinged Abbey today on a vinyl monday 🤪 Post Brian album which is a definitely a great album post Brian plus that cover is a fascinating one 👖 Well I didn't know Warhol had a hand in this cover 🖼
I haunted Record Lane in Lowell, MA in 1971, waiting until the Brown Sugar/Bitch single to come out. And it was beautiful, bright yellow label, red tongue, the songs fit right into my 15 yr old DNA at the time. And then, the mighty Sticky Fingers. I had to hide the album from my parents’ wandering eye. Saw the first Boston concert (July 18) on the 1972 tour. Fifty years later, I have multiple copies of the album: vinyl, SACD, box sets, cds. I still love it, and it still gets my rocks off.
This has long been my favorite Stones album, just an incredible release. I could not agree more about Mick Taylor, whatever became of him anyway? I hope you do an episode on Marianne Faithfull's "Broken English" album. I read her autobiography, she was a junkie living on the streets for a while.
mick t played guest solos for joan jett, and the grateful dead too. formed a band with bobby keys and nicky hopkins, had his own band for a while. but other than that he's been chilling and playing the occasional reunion show with john mayall or the stones! marianne's story is truly remarkable. if i get to covering broken english on this channel (would LOVE to) then I'll absolutely cover that chapter of her life
Dead Flowers is a great country song, I rate up with the best of any of them. When I listen to Can't You Hear Me Knockin' I always try to hear when Mick T. starts playing his guitar as a harp. Man, he is great on this album as is the rest of them.
Great video sticky fingers is my second favorite stones album the whole album is fantastic I'm doing a rolling Stones themed DJ night this Friday and I'm playing the whole album front to back that night great video
The kind of album that deserves its ranking on Best Ever lists, and always will. Music that will rock and roll people’s socks off in 2071, and 2771. Definitely their high water mark, and that’s saying something for this venerated band of 60-plus years.
Love your video, Abigail! A small(ish) correction: Marianne Faithfull did receive her financial share for Sister Morphine (the lyrics are ALL hers) from 1971 onwards, but no writing credit on the record cover until 1994. Why? Because at the time of Sticky Fingers' release she was still signed to a different label (Decca), to which the Stones and manager Allen Klein didn't want to pay royalties - they had just split from Decca and founded their own label Rolling Stones Records, distributed by Atco/Atlantic. Her own 1969-version of the song had been scraped by Decca only a few days after hitting the shops because of the problematic lyrics (especially delivered by a woman in these still very conservative times!). She herself has often spoken of Mick's generosity. He even held her hand, literally, while she recorded her version during the Let It Bleed sessions and recruiting Charlie Watts, Ry Cooder and Jack Nietzsche as instrumentalists. It also could be mentioned that Mick bought a small house (Yew Cottage) in the English countryside for Marianne's mom Eva in the late 1960s to be returned after Eva's passing. Marianne astutely offered Mick to give back the property after Eva's death in 1991 although Mick did not insist on this at all. A few days later she regretted her proud move because her son Nicholas who had grown up in that cottage and was very fond of it did not understand why she wanted to give it back. Alas, she phoned Mick again, clumsily pleading, upon which Jagger started ghosting her for a couple of years. 😬 I write this as a Faithfull fan, having read both her autobiographies (I'm just rereading her gorgeous second book Memories, Dreams and Reflections, from 2007). I love Marianne, she totally rocks and is an extremely cultured, well-read lady, and a unique artist. But I know from interviews with some of her contemporaries that she could be entitled and quite a hand-full or two. 😊
who’s on the cover of sticky fingers? (WRONG ANSWERS ONLY)
joe dallesandro
Justin Bieber. LOL.
Lou Reed
Bill Wyman
Mr. D
Great album from start to finish. I remember when it came out. The Mick Taylor years from 1969 to 1974 are my favorite.
Can't you hear me Knocking is like 3 songs in one. That Jam!
I love a lot of the Jones era singles and the later albums with him are good but Taylor years Stones are my favorite too.
Mick Taylor years definitely my favorite
i agree. "let it bleed" through "exile on main street" was definately their best period. bobby keys' sax contributed a lot to the success of the stones new direction during this wonderful period. "exile" was one of the best albums ever produced. "live with me," "can't you hear me knockinge" and "casino boogie" are very underrated and are still among my favorite stone songs.
Same here. Exile is my favorite
1986, I'm 16 years old and I take some records home from my aunt's house to listen to. CS&N, Neil Young, , Big Brother, etc..etc..At the time I was listening to a lot of 80s metal. I put on Sticky Fingers and from the opening chords of Brown Sugar straight to the last note of Moonlight Mile, I literally just STARED at the needle tracking the grooves for all 46 minutes of this album and I was stunned by everything I heard, trying to make sense of every note I was hearing. That guitar solo on "Sway"?? What was this sound?? This was so different than what I was familiar with, but I didn't know what it was that stood out to me. Later on, I realized it was blues and blues rock, but it had a groove.....It had the ROLL that was missing from the popular music of the day. I'm now 52 and the Stones are my favorite band. This record literally changed my listening habits forever in the span of10 songs, I ditched my music collection of the time and set out upon this new path discovering everything Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf..etc..and I've been on this journey ever since.
Ya, I get that too...also Chuck Berry/Jerry Lee Lewis style gets the blood flowing.
well said. Nobody rolled like the stones. Nobody blended blues folk country rock soul and gospel so brilliantly. before or after. a weird alchemy that was really only there during the Taylor years. Keef acknowledged the Taylor thing and also that Charlie was why they rolled.
Yes! I can’t believe nobody thought to hip me to Exile when I was ate up with Appetite for Destruction in 89. I was in 7th grade and that album shook my world. It’s all the Stones and Sex Pistols.
Yes Indeed well said
Sticky Fingers a masterpiece
This is an awesome channel. I'm a 71 year old male, and I find it fascinating that such a young person as yourself is so knowledgeable and interested in 1960's and early 1970's music. I have children, grandchildren and spouse who simply yawn when I try to share my love of this music with them. Your broad knowledge of the members of bands making the LPs, and facts about them, the instruments and engineering of the music, the situations revolving around the making of various LPs being reviewed, and many other tangential aspects, is awesomely amazing to me. I love talking about music to anyone who would listen to me (which is rare), so I hope you find enjoyment in the videos you make here. I lived life in the times these records came out (age 15 to 22). In living rooms with black lights, friends, joints being passed around, and the music ... always the music. Falling in love with the 8-track playing "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and later a broken heart alone listening to "Behind Blue Eyes." Always the music. And then, as my youth gave up its magic to the weight of adulthood, the music also seemed to go. The prior group of friends now gathered to drink and Numb out on quualudes, and the raw joy turned to cynicism. The music reflected this in disco and punk. But the vinyls were always there in the closet, even though they were forgotten to cassettes and CDs. And here you are, knowing more than me about the music that framed the most felt moments of my life. I truly hope this music brings you the joy it brought me.
This is my story too. What a wonderfully thoughtful comment.
I can remember the first time I got stoned I fell asleep to Moonlight Mile with 2 slices of pizza in the oven. Part of the Golden years success is the horn section, Jim Price, Bill Plummer and Bobby Keys
The key with Brown Sugar is Charlie playing his floor tom during the verses, pure genius
Once you're drawn in with the Stones, you're there for life.
I’m 73 and saw all the great bands during the late 60s and thru the 70s. I watch a lot of record-review channels and find yours to be an original and eclectic version. Keep it up!❤️live🎶
What's your top 5?
Sway is one of my all time favorites. Great album. Thx .
I'm 60 years old and have been hearing (or listening) to this album since I was 8 yo. My parents got the album when it came out and played it incessantly through my childhood.
Mick sings his heart out on Moonlight Mile. Maybe the best album closer in all of rock history.
I'm listening to this album a lot these days again! And in my opinion, Moonlight Mile is the most accomplished music that they've ever done. All those soft parts and the high parts jell together incredibly!! Pure genius.
I have it as the best song off the album, and 5th best overall behind Let It Loose, Sympathy, Gimme Shelter, and Beast of Burden.
Yeah moonlight mile and I've got the blues are stunning.. the whole lp is
Perfect way to end the album...
crossroader 71 they recorded "Moonlight Mile" as the sun was coming up at 6am. You gotta dig the 2009 remastered CD. Bob Clearmountain and Steve Marcussen did a great job. Bonus tracks on disc 2 are really good as well!
Satisfaction is the gold standard for the Stones. And rock and roll in general. Not withstanding Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Sympathy for the Devil , Street Fighting Man, Gimme Shelter, etc., etc…..Catalogue like Beethoven . But Yes, Moonlight Mile indeed special!
Wild horses couldn't keep me away from this brilliant review! It might be my favorite Rolling Stones album. Mick Taylor was an important component of Rolling Stones Mark II.
haha thanks! agreed, this is a mick t fan zone for sure
This is the second of your reviews I've watched. I was born in 1952. I was somewhat involved with the music scene later, staffing big shows as a medical volunteer for Bill Graham Events (HAFMC) for fourteen years. I was backstage at most classic rock acts you can name, including The Rolling Stones. It is really interesting to hear a Millennial reacting and reliving the Boomer years' music. Interesting because back then, very few people had much information on what was going on because it was happening, not a retrospective of history thoroughly researched and reported for decades. There was a lot going on and of course, the drugs made things fuzzy for a lot of people. Later, the joke became, "if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there." Some of the stories I know, other stuff not. Yet other things sometimes sound legendary, rather than factual. But your enthusiasm is fun to watch. I am glad you enjoy my generation's music.
My favorite Stones album. Can't You Hear Me Knocking has arguably the greatest intro guitar riff of all time. Key word ARGUABLY.
No arguing here.
Thanks for sharing, Abby. Growing up, I listened to the "Brown Sugar" single, which I inherited somehow from one of my older brothers. In college, I started hearing album cuts on my area classic rock radio station, then got a copy of the record from a fellow Stones fan. Phenomenal album. "Dead Flowers" is fun to cover, too.
Speaking of covers, I enjoy The Sundays' dreamy cover of "Wild Horses" and Townes Van Zandt's stripped-down cover of "Dead Flowers," which I first heard when watching "The Big Lebowski" ("The Dude abides"). Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
Already commented under your let it bleed video. Wild Horses is a song that means THE WORLD to me. I even wrote my own short Story, titled Wild Horses, where i cope with one of the worst break ups i ever experienced back in 2019. Even if she never reads or listens to this short Story, I'm glad i wrote it, i even have it read by a professional voice actor and pressed it on see through 12'' Vinyl. I collected all the Singles of Wild Horses that i could find (Rolling Stones Magazine Germany did a 7" Single of the acoustic Version in 2015), but i also tracked down and bought the original Single, framed one of the Acoustic Singles and hung it on my wall, because this song is so special to me. It was my way of dealing with that loss of a person who was unable to love me the same way i loved her. Worst part was that we never cleared our closets out and never spoke ever since. I won't try to do so, she made clear she does not want any contact and i respect that, even if it was hard to do so. So yeah, that is what Wild Horses of All Songs means to me. It was also the song that i showed her when we spend our first night at her place. I put that song on, grabbed her hand and we danced so slowly in her living room, looked each other in the eyes and that was when i told her, how i felt for her. Where she realized how deep my feelings really were for her. I guess due to her mental health issues she got scared of that thing called love, because at first, she was so happy, kissed and hugged me and wrote me a deep felt emotional letter how special i was to her, and after a few weeks out of the blue she just ended it, didn't even wanna talk to me and ignored me knocking and ringing when i went to her place. That was the point where i realized i couldn't do anything about it and when i started to write the short story, never as an attempt to win her back, just as an attempt for my own well being, for my own peace. And sometimes when i listen to Wild Horses, in dark starry nights i think of her, what could have been, what she does right now and how she feels about it today. But i'll never try to contact her again, even though she is a special person and always will have a special place in my heart. That is my personal wild horses Story, my personal Wild Horses won't drag me away but also keep me from contacting her out of respect. Sometimes when you love someone you just know it's better, not to be in that persons life.
Would love to see you put together a segment for 'Exile On Main St." Tax Exiles/Nellcote saga is legendary..."the sunshine bores the daylights out of me!".
I've been listening to this album since the early 80's, and have always maintained that "Sway" is hands-down the BEST track.
OMG! Same here, I fell in love with sway the first time I heard this album, and it's my all time favorite song from them to this day. Favorite Album as well!
Sway, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and Moonlight Mile in particular are superb.
In an interview for Vanity Fair magazine, the co-designer of the Sticky Fingers cover along with Andy Warhol, a man named Craig Braun, revealed the model on the front and back cover was a make-up artist at Andy's Factory called Corey Tippin. Craig said Andy shot a number of different models on Polaroid film for the Sticky Fingers cover, but Corey was ultimately chosen because he wore the tightest jeans. The idea for the inside "briefs" gatefold came after they shot the front and back covers and a different model was used, a man named Glenn O’Brien as Corey wasn't available at that time.
I just came across your channel and immediately fell right in love with it. It's so nice to see a young person with a genuine passion for the 60s and 70s!! I'm sure looking forward to Monday's vinyl show!! ☮❤☮
My favorite RS album. I love when the younger generation are into vintage rock/pop music. Sadly my teenage son doesn't listen to any of his dad's music from the 60s and the 70s. He thinks I'm a dinosaur. I wish I had a daughter or son like you.
My all-time fave Stones album is Exile.....and Some Girls is in the runner-up slot......but Sticky Fingers is in third place. As willfully sympathetic to the devil as only the Rolling Stones could be.....Sticky Fingers has undeniable classics (Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Bitch), killer rockers (Can't You Hear Me Knocking) stark deep cuts (Sister Morphine, I Got the Blues), fun country-ish tracks (Dead Flowers, Sway) and Moonlight Mile closes it all like a sarcophagus lid. Excellent album.....and yeah, the cover photos are fun.
Great video!
I love your rock ‘n roll soul. Fantastic trip down the rabbit holes, through the dead flowers, and sister morphine veins.
I discovered your chanel like 4 days ago and now I am binging your videos. I am 23 and live in germany and I am so happy everytime I see people at my age who also like 60/70 music like Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones etcetc . By watching your videos I also get new ideas of which records I can listen to next :) So, thank you
I have 4000 records in my collection. Many Stones albums but I don't have a copy of this album. You sold me. I started out thinking how can you talk about 1 record for 25 minutes. Iwatched the whole thing. And I subscribed.
glad you enjoyed, and thanks for subscribing! there was also that time i talked about layla for 60 minutes and 1 second. 60 minutes because i love the album, and 1 second to prove a point
You're not alone in being excited. The cover seems pretty excited too.
Abigail I've been back in to collecting records since 2017 and since them I have streamed countless music videos in that time. But this week I discovered your channel, and I thoroughly enjoyed the Stones Sticky Fingers episode. I learned a lot I didn't know about this album given the terrific research you do! You also make the videos incredibly engaging and very fun, and I LoL several times every video. I rarely Like videos, but yours I have both Liked and Subscribed, and I look forward to streaming EVERY SINGLE ONE of your Vinyl Monday videos! Thank you for all you do to enrich the vinyl collecting experience!
Your list of underrated guitarists is spot on!
I like how she says, "Here they are, all grown up." A brilliant album.
Subcribied just now. Impressed with all you know - you're so very young, best way to be! Found you on Hang Fire - great what Justin brings. Long time Toronto, Canada fan of the Stones at 16 in '66. Have seen them many times over the decades. Love the boys new album. Best band ever - forever!
LUV your videos Abigail!
Yup, STILL have my original copy purchased the day it was released at a downtown music store in New London, CT. I was 12 years old, and all the kids I went to school with were listening to The Jackson 5 & The Osmonds. Needless to say my classmates thought I was really, really weird.....
if there's anything i've learned in life it's if the other kids think you're really really weird, you might just be doing something right
thanks for the vid and all the research. can't wait to see what's next.
Very cool hearing your take on Sticky Fingers, so in touch w/its subtler nuances here in 2022 that you almost sound like you lived in the era. Or actually you get those nuances maybe more than many of us did then, what w/time (and your musical intelligence) distilling things. You said so many great things about Wild Horses; I would add that while it can be heard as Mick and Marianne's breakup song, and their troubles, I also hear it as Anita and Keith's stay-together song, after Mick and Anita's affair during Performance , Brian's death, drug issues, all the turmoil you mentioned the band (and their generation) were sort of emerging from. Then again at the time Keith said he wrote it for their son Marlon; many things can be true simultaneously lol. "Wild horses couldn't drag me away"...so beautiful.
Thanks for another stellar Monday Abby! You're one cool cookie ♥
i put in the note that wild horses is about many things! really should've mentioned it was also keith and anita's stay together for the kids song. but at the end of the day you can't possibly fit it all in one video. (trust me, i've tried, that's how we got the 60 minute layla video!!)
thank you so much for appreciating my very 2022 interpretation of this album! not everyone "gets it" so i appreciate those who do
@@abigaildevoe I hear you Abby, there are so many tangents you could talk about. As you said, everything connects.
If I'd passed out some night in, say, 1975, and seen, in a vision of today, an Abigail Devoe video...well, that would have been a very groovy trip indeed.
But lissen, Keith and Anita's relationship wasn't on the rocks in '71, that would happen later. Do I detect a slight bias 😉
I always learn amazing info about the bands and music that I love from your videos and the backstory of Wild Horses hit me like a ton of bricks. Thank you for all the research you do and for sharing your videos!
Love what you're doing. Just watched Beggar's Banquet and Sticky Fingers VM's. Great job! Also, I love that you gave a shout out to Margot Cotten. She is amazing!
Thanks for the great video. Sticky Fingers was the first studio Stones album that I got when is was brand new; it was the Summer before starting high school. I played that thing constantly all Summer long. It's still one of my favorite Stones albums. My 14 year old self didn't know what to make of You Gotta Move and Dead Flowers, but I grew to like them over the years, and DF is one of my favorite Stones songs now. Wild Horses is one of my favorite songs to play on guitar. Can't wait to see what's in store next Monday.
sticky fingers was my first stones album as well, besides a few compilation records (can't believe i didn't mention that in the vid, the things i forget!) dead flowers threw me off at first too, but i've always been into you gotta move. it's just so COOL
I got really lucky back in February of 1999 I think it was. I went to see Mick Taylor in Dallas at a small club. My friend that also went, or I should say one of them, had brought a real rare LP and he was hoping to get Mick to sign it if we had a chance to meet him. One of the crew members for Mick saw it and they struck up a conversation as we were standing outside waiting to get in. We literally were sitting at a table right in front of Mick for the concert and got some great photos. But after the show, Mick exited to his bus real quick. There was a line that had started up outside of the bus door but nobody was getting on or off of the bus. Finally a person or two got to go on and meet him. But then the guy who had spotted the album and was on Mick's crew opened the bus door and said he was sorry but Mick wasn't going to be able to meet any more people. But because of that album, and the guy saw us standing out there, he brought us right up on the bus where Mick was kicked back drinking with his sunglasses on. We got to talk to him, take some pictures with him, and I got him to sign my ticket. He really didn't smile until he saw the album and he seemed to loosen up a little bit. I think he was a little burned out on playing smaller venues and probably having people trying to meet him every few nights. But I thought it was really cool, and I wasn't even trying to get on the bus, to get pulled up there and get to meet one of The Rolling Stones past members. I wound up tracking down a bootleg of the show about 15 years later also. I think it was February 25th, 1999.
You mentioned Robin Trower also. I got to meet him by pure accident after he played at the House of Blues in Dallas about 10 years ago. The same friend that had the Rolling Stones LP that got us on the bus to meet Mick and I went to the concert. I was standing up near the front row center stage really getting into Robin's playing. I was recording that show and he could see me clearly holding the microphone and doing it. He didn't care and he just smiled. So, after the concert ended, my friend and I decided to walk over to a restaurant maybe 20 or 30 minutes after the concert ended. And walking around the back side of the HOB, a door flies open and Robin Trower and two of his guys come walking out to a white Escalade limo parked by the curb. He just walked right out into where we were passing and nobody else was around. He talked to us for at least 10 minutes before his guys called him from out of the limo window saying we got to go. Of course I got him to sign my ticket too and he was the most laid-back, really happy and cool guy!
I've had a few other planned and lucky meetings through the years but I'll save those for times when they fit with the video's 👍🎶👍
YES i missed your stories in these comments sections! from all accounts, yours included, i've heard robin is a real chill guy.
as for mick t, it must be tiring being one of the better soloists of his time. great you got to meet him too - now i'll always picture him drinking with his sunglasses on inside that bus!
You put so much into these videos and they are so cool and informative. Please keep them up ..brilliant .❤
wow thank you so much - really glad when people see all the work that goes into these videos :) will keep them up as long as i can!
I just purchased STICKY FINGERS today and I'm glad I did.every track ROCKS,I love it.
I just found this channel. Love it! ❤
Check out the relationship Exile on Main St. has with Sticky Fingers. This double album combined with Sticky Fingers makes up a triple that represents the zenith of the Stones. Yes Beggars Banquet and Let it Bleed are a fantastic build up and Goats Head Soup is a fine record but the peak occurs at Sticky Fingers and Exile.
Yup. You nailed it.
Abigail, Thanks for your excellent scholarship. I especially appreciate your sincere, earnest enthusiasm. Such a ray 🌞 in our current age of casual snark and empty irony.
It’s very interesting how you analyze an album from the personal stuff that was going on with the band. Most people just talk about the music and performances.
Good job there. !!
This album Sticky Fingers is peak Rolling Stones. With Mick Taylor as a full time member, the band plays some of the most riveting music of their career. “Sway” is one of my fav all time Stones songs. But after watching your video I played the song 3 times…I don’t think I ever noticed the strings. I have always been transfixed by Taylor’s incredible solos on that tune.
I agree about Mick Taylor…he is a great guitarist. He and Jagger are the only guitar players on “Sway” . Keith added only vocals. But Taylor felt he should have been given a writers credit on this and some other songs. Since he didn’t … I heard that was one of the reasons he left the band after It’s Only Rock and Roll.
Also Ry Cooder added some fine slide guitar on “Sister Morphene”. And I didn’t know that was recorded during the Let it Bleed sessions.
I agree with your list of underrated guitar players. Roy Buchanan played a Telecaster so his sound is a little like Albert King…sort of light. But Roy was super fast…I loved his version of “Hey Joe”
I doubt many who watch your videos would know who Danny Kirwan was . He was a great foil for Peter Green in the original Fleetwood Mac. My favorites are “Green Manalishi” and “Rattlesnake Shake” (at about 25 min) from Live At Boston (1970) now a 3 cd set.
I hope you like the extra info…you may know it anyway…but it’s fun talking about music with someone who takes the time you obviously do in your videos. Rock On 🤘!!!
mick t is a wonderful soloist, a wonderful asset to any group he's ever been in!
i've got quite a few pre-buckingham nicks fleetwood mac fans around here. my favorite work of danny's has always been dragonfly backed with purple dancer
@@abigaildevoe my favorite Fleetwood mac albums are kiln house and bare trees
Thanks for the history/ details! Im 67 years old, grew up with all of this and didnt know a lot of the details youve shared here! Thanks!
Man oh man, I'm so far-gone I can actually tell what albums you have from LOOKING AT THE SPINES. I had to sell thousands of my albums years ago; I can get super depressed watching videos like this, but also it makes me happy to think someone like you got all my precious albums. PS: I had my Sticky Fingers zipper up; I never knew!
The Zip cover was a magnificent design. Never bettered for an LP. This is a wonderful summary
What a terrific, amazing, and fun review! Abigail, this was fantastic! Loved it and subscribed!
thank you so much! welcome to this long and strange trip
@@abigaildevoe thank you! I saw some of the records in your collection. I can spot The Beach Boys "Endless Summer".
My favorite album of all time from any band. I was 11 when it came out, and I played it so many times over the years, that I wore out 2 vinyl copies and 2 CDs. But the thing is, after all those times listening to the album, I have never tired of it. It still sounds fresh to me. I love hearing reactions to some of these classics by young people on UA-cam hearing these songs for the very first time. I can only imagine what it must be like to hear Can't You Hear Me Knocking or Moonlight Mile for the very first time. Musical orgasm.
Is1959 definitely get the 2009 remaster of "Sticky Fingers". I bought the 2 CD set with bonus tracks. 15 bucks. It sounds like it was remixed. It's a remaster though. You knew already there were strings on "Moonlight Mile". But the remaster is "Oh Geez! The Strings!" Charlie's Drums on "Brown Sugar"? Phenomenal. Acoustic guitars in both channels can be heard crisp and full. You can hear the squeaks of Mick Taylor's and Keith's fingers as they go up and down the frets. Can't go wrong.
One of my fav o rites. 9/26 Abby Road hit the charts in 69 this day.Can't you hear me knocking, what a power house.
I'm a little late to this party, but as a native of Chicagoland, I remember our late, great, dearly departed Lin Brehmer of wxrt kicking off a music mix with Can't You Hear Me Knocking, and introducing it saying, "In the history of Rock and Roll, there are few greater introductory riffs than this....".....Goddamn right
Love yer channel, great to see youngins appreciating the good stuff
Lucinda Williams has done an entire cd ofStones covers available on her website. now..beggar`s banquet,let it bleed, exile and sticky fingers ..any rock group would sell their souls to have released just one of those classics lps and yet the Stones did it , 4 in a row,,un-frikkin-real!!!LONG LIVE THE STONES!!!
Love Lucinda Williams
Hi, Abby! Another great review of a great lp. I spent a lot of time jamming to this album on guitar when it came out. Years later, I played bass mostly (and some guitar) in various bands doing rock, blues, country and even bluegrass and gospel. But you absolutely hit the nail on the head when you said that a great band comes down to having a great drummer. They don't need to be flashing, just steady. Same thing with the bass. When you can get the bass player and the drummer locked in together, your band will be awesome! You know your stuff lady! 😘💕💕💕💕
Can’t you hear me knocking and Moonlight Mile are the best songs on the album.
Excellent! I had no idea of the history and meaning behind “Wild Horses”. I will never listen to it the same way again.
wild horses is a song about a lot of things: breaking up with marianne (and mick realizing what it might've been like to lose her for good,) keith and anita staying together for the kids, and continuing on without brian. very bittersweet
You made me realize just why I love Sway so much. This whole album is very special to me. It always brings me back to being 8-9 years old in the '97 GMC Suburban with my dad's CD on repeat. Often he was taking me to drum lessons. And yes, I adored (and still adore) Charlie's drumming. His death hit me hard. I picked up a really nice later 70s UK pressing at a yard sale years ago (in NJ, naturally), but sadly the zipper was not down at one point. The rekkid ended up with a little bump which thankfully does not skip, but can be heard. It was so clean otherwise... Sister Morphine: gloomy drug song. Dead Flowers: cheery drug song right after it. Both are amazing. And I have also been known to enjoy a blue Am-Spir here and there. Alright, enough of my stream-of-consciousness rambling. Great video!
Hi Abigail. I have the original LP with zipper and a Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Half-Speed Master LP. I just bought the 2 CD remaster. The remaster from 2009 is absolutely amazing! Just finished hearing it tonight!
Thanks for this great video essay on what is and has been since its original release my absolute favorite Rolling Stones album. You did it justice and then some.
Just discovered your channel! I also collect vinyls so this is right up my alley
Actually this is my first exposure to your channel, and I like it very much.
I knew you were going to say “Sway” changed your mind about the Stones, I even said it out loud right before you did.
Also, thanks for doing these videos, you’re hitting all my favorites but the Stones are at the top. I used to do Stones covers when I played live, and I lived that lifestyle for a minute. You seem like an awesome chick with great fashion, I look forward to more!
@lew You might be psychic…
If I could own only 5 albums, Sticky Fingers would be at the top of that list. I absolutely love this album. All of the musicians on this album are the perfect match up. I’m of the opinion that The Rolling Stones played the absolutely best in their entire career on the Sticky Fingers album!!!! Can’t You Here Me Knockin?, Moonlight Mile, Dead Flowers, Bitch, Sway, Brown Sugar, Sister Morphine, You’ve Gotta Move, I’ve Got The Blues, Wild Horses. I listed tracks in the order of my most favorite songs. Wild Horses is a great song but seams that it is always discussed first. I would never change up the Album’s song order….It’s perfect!!!! As a guitarist and lead vocalist, Can’t You Hear Me Knockin? is the best jam session I have ever heard! The only jam song I like as much is Jimi’s Voodoo Chile & Voodoo chile Slight Return by!!!!
I can’t think if they ever wrote about the Altamonte. Alan was such a prick. I’ve been pullin, speaking of album covers.
I recently got out all of my old records and my god they sound great and in much better shape than I remember. It’s been 34 years since I had them out. Worsening tinnitus made digital unpalatable.
Records and living out of a car chasing arch jobs can not mix. Love the vinyl on my aging ears on big 70 style 15” woofers…damn! Graham showed him the country love….stones stoled from everyone, contemporary to the masters but nobody could make it sound uniquely Stones! That is something to behold, even when they fein disco. What a run of albums from Beggars to Tattoo You!
Bobby Keys…Nicky Hopkins, Mick Taylor and Billy Preston made so many of these recordings. Charlie and Keith really define the bed for Mick’s vocals and Bill was no slouch.
This album is an exercise in perfection!
Strange Sticky Finger facts: The Spanish cover was censored. In it's place was a tacky photo of a jar of treacle with a mannequin hand coming out of it. Sister Morphine was also censored and was replaced with a live version of Let It Rock. As for Mick Taylor, in 2010 Mick was suppose to play a concert in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mick was staying at a little motel down the road from my record shop in Somerset. An ambulance was called. They couldn't get Mick out of bed. It transpired that he had double pneumonia and was in the local hospital for 10 days. It was kept hush hush for obvious reasons. It could have been the end of Mick Taylor but he pulled through!
That’s crazy! I did hear he was in the hospital back then. Is that the visit where MJ called in to see if he could do anything?
Regarding the cover- must’ve been because the Franco regime (the censorship etc)?
@@letitbleedadam That I didn't know. I had never heard about Mick's call.
@@letitbleedadam Probably.
Bobby keys sax solo straight up makes my neck sweat, nearly every time I'm not kidding at all. Sway is incredible
And no Keith! MT and MJ, guitars.
Came in on this post late, but thumps up for your mention of Danny Kirwan ! But yeah, Mick Taylor too.
better late than never! all my favorite pre-buckingham nicks fleetwood Mac songs seem to have danny on them. he just doesn't get enough love
@@abigaildevoe I couldn't agree more. Some recordings of what gets credited as Peter Green is actually Danny Kirwan. There is still a deep appreciation of Danny's guitar sound/technique, particularly among a number of current guitar players. Of course Peter Green was the first to notice. And Danny's songs !
I was 12 in 1971 when this came out, I remember because it's when I first tripped on a hit of purple microdot, of course I fell in love with it and took it for about 10 years, this album had some good tunes, that year there were so many great songs it was hard to keep up, but it did get it's share of radio play. Stay safe and good luck
A total masterpiece of an album. It was number one on both sides of the pond because another great rock & roll band had just broken up. There really golden period for me starts with Beggars Banquet all through to Tattoo You with a slight lull after Mick Taylor left. Mick Taylor is my favorite "Mick" in the Rolling Stones. His contribution, by far, was fantastic.
It has a real zipper in it? Cool. There isn't enough gimicks in vinyl these days. I liked the giant rolling paper in the Cheech and Chong record and The Heads even threw in one cannabis seed with each copy of their Coogan's Bluff 7" (seeds are not illegal until any amount of plant reaches above ground).
Very well done, Abigal!
Easily in my top five records of all time. This is a rock band at the top of their game.
An all time GREAT album by... anyone.... anywhere....Ever
Listened to the whole album last night for the first time (had already heard brown sugar and wild horses) and i loved the variety of songs, new favourite of mine is dead flowers! 1971 truly gave such great albums. (also i hope you're gonna do a t rex vinyl monday someday cause i love marc bolan so much)
electric warrior has proven to be hard to find in the wild. as soon as i find it you'll know, because it'll be on this channel!
Love the show. Learned a lot. Great album from the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band. Exile on Main Street, Please.
I have it in my collection, it's greatness.
Sure enough groovin' now, y'all... stuff never gets old. Stones played Chicago about every three years & from '66 through the 80s I was always there... Sticky Fingers turned the Stones into a rock & roll revue... Moonlight & morphine can make sad memories too, but mention of Marianne Faithfull and Donovan (who adopted Brian's son) begs mention of Marianne's 1966 version of "Sunny Goodge Street" (which some might say was the first "60s" love song... ) Thank you...
1. I love this record. Still not burnt out on B. Sugar. I was 14 when this came out. I still remember coming home from the swimming pool sitting in the back seat of my parent's car. All most cars had then were AM push button radios. On top of the console was a single mono speaker. Windows rolled down and Sugar comes on, so da*n hot. Loved it. 2. Sweetheart, here in the South you are what we (guys) refer to as a "Honey". Trust me, that is a total compliment.
man that's such a cool memory to have with a stones song! i discovered you got the silver in a traffic jam on a road trip to nashville, WOW.
and thank you so much!
@@abigaildevoe Thanks for sharing! I'm Nashville born and raised. Check out "Nashville Cats" by the Lovin' Spoonful. peace...
I'm so glad you're getting stuck into some Sticky Fingers..!
Sticky Fingers is near & dear to my heart. One of the best albums that always got played at big parties. I saw the Stones on their Zip Code Tour in 2015 & I had an out-of-body experience when they played Moonlight Mile. The odds of getting that epic tune are astronomical. Keith Richards has absolutely no filter during interviews. LOL. He was asked about Sgt. Pepper's & he said it was a load of rubbish. A little harsh, but he had a great point: He asked the interviewer when's the last time you listened to Sgt. Pepper's & when's the last time you listened to The Rolling Stones. I listen to the Stones a lot. Their albums are in constant rotation for me. Once in a great while, I revisit The Beatles. I wore them out when I was young & I tend to have more fun listening to their earlier albums like Rubber Soul & Revolver.
that's one of the reasons i LOVE keith! very blunt, no BS, i don't like my rock stars with filters!
HUGE ALBUM when it came out in 1971, and the American Tour that followed in 1972 was even MORE HUGE
Saw them 10th row Philly Spectrum that year.
@danny I see the parallels you’re drawing there, Danny…
Glad I found you! New subscriber here, keep up the awesome work you do!
Love your picks for under-rated guitarists and your deep love of 'Sway' which was an absolute favourite of mine from the very first listen in 1971 in the living room of my friend and later saxophonist in our first band
It's a perfect record in every way.
Lovely comments about Charlie. He was my Mums favourite.
Unhinged Abbey today on a vinyl monday 🤪
Post Brian album which is a definitely a great album post Brian plus that cover is a fascinating one 👖
Well I didn't know Warhol had a hand in this cover 🖼
I haunted Record Lane in Lowell, MA in 1971, waiting until the Brown Sugar/Bitch single to come out. And it was beautiful, bright yellow label, red tongue, the songs fit right into my 15 yr old DNA at the time. And then, the mighty Sticky Fingers. I had to hide the album from my parents’ wandering eye. Saw the first Boston concert (July 18) on the 1972 tour. Fifty years later, I have multiple copies of the album: vinyl, SACD, box sets, cds. I still love it, and it still gets my rocks off.
This has long been my favorite Stones album, just an incredible release. I could not agree more about Mick Taylor, whatever became of him anyway? I hope you do an episode on Marianne Faithfull's "Broken English" album. I read her autobiography, she was a junkie living on the streets for a while.
mick t played guest solos for joan jett, and the grateful dead too. formed a band with bobby keys and nicky hopkins, had his own band for a while. but other than that he's been chilling and playing the occasional reunion show with john mayall or the stones!
marianne's story is truly remarkable. if i get to covering broken english on this channel (would LOVE to) then I'll absolutely cover that chapter of her life
Mick Taylor was on a couple Bob Dylan albums with Mark Knoffler and toured with Dylan as well in the 80’s
Sticky Fingers - my all-time favourite album.
Dead Flowers is a great country song, I rate up with the best of any of them. When I listen to Can't You Hear Me Knockin' I always try to hear when Mick T. starts playing his guitar as a harp. Man, he is great on this album as is the rest of them.
Great video sticky fingers is my second favorite stones album the whole album is fantastic I'm doing a rolling Stones themed DJ night this Friday and I'm playing the whole album front to back that night great video
nice!! have fun!
@@abigaildevoe thanks
The kind of album that deserves its ranking on Best Ever lists, and always will. Music that will rock and roll people’s socks off in 2071, and 2771. Definitely their high water mark, and that’s saying something for this venerated band of 60-plus years.
Mine has the zipper but no gatefold. Anyway perfect 10/10 album (their best), just listened to it. I love the dark intropective songs.
My favorite album of all time
Love your video, Abigail! A small(ish) correction: Marianne Faithfull did receive her financial share for Sister Morphine (the lyrics are ALL hers) from 1971 onwards, but no writing credit on the record cover until 1994. Why? Because at the time of Sticky Fingers' release she was still signed to a different label (Decca), to which the Stones and manager Allen Klein didn't want to pay royalties - they had just split from Decca and founded their own label Rolling Stones Records, distributed by Atco/Atlantic. Her own 1969-version of the song had been scraped by Decca only a few days after hitting the shops because of the problematic lyrics (especially delivered by a woman in these still very conservative times!).
She herself has often spoken of Mick's generosity. He even held her hand, literally, while she recorded her version during the Let It Bleed sessions and recruiting Charlie Watts, Ry Cooder and Jack Nietzsche as instrumentalists. It also could be mentioned that Mick bought a small house (Yew Cottage) in the English countryside for Marianne's mom Eva in the late 1960s to be returned after Eva's passing. Marianne astutely offered Mick to give back the property after Eva's death in 1991 although Mick did not insist on this at all. A few days later she regretted her proud move because her son Nicholas who had grown up in that cottage and was very fond of it did not understand why she wanted to give it back. Alas, she phoned Mick again, clumsily pleading, upon which Jagger started ghosting her for a couple of years. 😬
I write this as a Faithfull fan, having read both her autobiographies (I'm just rereading her gorgeous second book Memories, Dreams and Reflections, from 2007). I love Marianne, she totally rocks and is an extremely cultured, well-read lady, and a unique artist. But I know from interviews with some of her contemporaries that she could be entitled and quite a hand-full or two. 😊
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I always knew there were girls like you out there. One of my biggest regrets is never meeting one.
Abigail you are gem!