Mick Taylor, a virtuoso blues and rock lead guitarist was the best player the Stones ever had on lead guitar IMO Mick Jagger - lead vocal (all tracks), backing vocals (2-5, 9), acoustic guitar (9, 10), castanets (1), maracas (1), electric guitar (2), percussion (3) Keith Richards - electric guitar (1, 3-7, 9), acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5, 8, 9), backing vocals (1-7, 9) Mick Taylor - electric guitar (1, 2, 4-7, 9, 10), acoustic guitar (3) Bill Wyman - bass guitar (all but 5), electric piano (5) Charlie Watts - drums (all tracks)
Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street comprise a 4 album run that’s just amazing. If you like Sticky Fingers, think you’d like the ones you haven’t heard yet!
It's amazing that you can still discover something that's over 50 years old. Just imagine what it would have been like to be a teenager in the 70s and have all these new albums come out? Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd etc etc etc. In the seventies we didn't even go back more than 10 years to listen to music it was all happening in real time
I envy her for hearing this fabulous music for the very first time. Many of us have heard this music endlessly. But imagine hearing it for the first time. It is such amazing music.
@@ls1959 This is what I grew up with and I found a band a few years ago that I find very good.They have been around since the 90’s.Tool is their name and recommend starting with their songs The Pot and Right in two but they have excellent music,complex time signatures unreal guitar riffs/tones and Maynard vocals
"Well, when your sitting back - In your rose-pink Cadillac - Making bets on Kentucky-Derby day - Well I'll be in my basement room - With a needle and a spoon - And another girl, can take my pain away". Killer lyrics man!
Many years ago I was a teenager stuck in a basement (figuratively) at a family friend's house, typical teenage decor musty couches, beat up furniture etc., and only two albums (sigh) I can remember. Cheech and Chongs Wedding Album and Sticky Fingers. Was not a big Stones fan, the only song I knew was "Brown Sugar" which is very good but at the time very overplayed. I reluctantly put the album on and my jaw dropped. The closing Moonlight Mile might be the most beautiful rock song ever. The whole album is stunningly good. Desert Island wish list!
My favorite Stones album. Came out when I was 14. Knowing every note that's coming, it's great to watch you connect with it as you hear it for the first time.
Wonderful reaction - as always your great ear and sensitivity shine. This album was part of a series of Stones albums that helped define classic two-guitar blues rock. The other two are Let It Bleed and Beggar's Banquet. I'd strongly recommend you listen and hopefully 🙏 react to both of them and to the live album that capped off the best of their work imo, Get Yer Ya Yas Out. Some of the best of the classic rock era. The horns are led by an an American saxophonist, Bobby Keys.
A lot of Sticky Fingers was recorded at the Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, which probably gave a lot of the tunes that gospel/blues,/ slide guitar sound,
A guy named Ry Cooder is playing that great slide on sister morphine. Not as well known as some but he's a a really well respected guitarist that other guitarists just love. He does a slide solo on an album by John Hiatt called Bring the family. The song is Lipstick Sunset and Ry's slide on it is famous and just stunning.
One of my favourite songs of all time is Ry Cooder's instrumental version of I Think Its Gonna Work Out Fine . The interplay of his slide with the work of another great slide player David Lindley is four and a half minutes of perfection.
The song has a lot of references to sex. The lyrics "Sometimes I'm sexy, move like a stud, Kicking the stall all night". Kicking in the Stall is an old Southern American slang for making love all night. Moonlight Mile is an amazingly beautiful song to end the album that has so many diverse styles of music. Thanks for all your hard work and amazing analysis.
"kicking the stall" refers to a horse trying to get out of his stall. typically, that would be a stallion in heat trying to get at the mare., and so the obvious sexual reference. grreat song, great line too. keep on rockin
@@luvlgs1 It was a Black American Blues slang used in songs by artist like Muddy Waters references to an unfaithful woman as “another mule is kickin' in your stall” was used in Delta Blues in the American South in the 1920s. The Rolling Stones name comes from a Muddy Watters song. Their admiration for American early blues influenced them!
Paul Buckmaster - string arrangement (2, 10) Ry Cooder - slide guitar (8) Jim Dickinson - piano (3) Rocky Dijon - congas (4) Nicky Hopkins - piano (2, 4) Bobby Keys - tenor saxophone (1, 4, 6, 7) Jimmy Miller - percussion (4,6) Jack Nitzsche - piano (8) Billy Preston - organ (4, 7) Jim Price - trumpet, piano (7,10) Ian Stewart - piano (1, 9)
Thanks for your beautiful truthful reactions to the music. You didn't mention the singer.. I loved the way your body and facials reacted to the music. So lovely. Good bless
Great, great album. There is so much here that's outstanding but Bobby Keys on sax and Nicky Hopkins on keyboard are both amazing. Also not forgetting Jimmy Miller who produced this albums well as the other three albums of the big four albums (this one, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St and Beggars Banquet).
Watched both installments of your "Sticky Fingers" breakdown. Just had to say: you remind me of myself, listening to these albums as a teenager. Mick and Keith are a formidable songwriting duo. They (Keith, especially) had a real ear for arranging songs, too. All those subtle musical things (Bobby Keys' sax, the piano, Mick Taylor's tasteful fills) really add up to make beautiful recordings. Always happy to see someone discover the brilliance of the Stones. Their public image kind of overshadows their genius as serious writers/musicians. "Sticky Fingers" may be their most complete, flawless album. "Sway," "Dead Flowers" and "Moonlight Mile" are my favorites, but there's not a bad song on here. Keep rockin'!
One thing I remember about this album is that the vinyl LPs had an actual zipper on the front of the sleeve. Which was a funny idea, but they found that it damaged the vinyl when they were transported. Then they realised that if you unzipped the zippers, it didn’t damage the records. It’s such a good album.
I know the songwriting credits for Dead Flowers are to Mick and Keith, but there's always been a story circulating that it was really written by Keith and Gram Parson while they were on a three day bender. Great song.
As a die-hard Gram Parsons fan, most stories about him “writing” specific country-tinged Stones songs are entirely unfounded. It’s just more rubbish to add to the lore of Gram Parsons, but even he stated he did not write “Wild Horses.”
@@msmilie Wild Horses was written by Richards before he even met Parsons. He started it in 68 before Gram went to England with the Byrds and first met the Stones. Gram influenced Keith and the Stones but did not play on any recordings or write anything with them. He and Keith played country cover songs which Gram showed him. Some of those cover songs ended up on the Keith Bootleg album recorded in Toronto in 77 while he was under arrest for H. Gram is also on the record saying he had nothing to do with writing Wild Horses. There is a recorded interview where he states that
the horn section has baritone sax, trumpet and some other saxes. The last song has real strings. it's a section with cello, viola, and violins. When this album was made there was no such thing as a synthesizer that could do a good string sound.
So good on so many levels. Variety, originality, layers of instruments, the passion in every song, so many feelings evoked, quality of musicians etc. First heard this on a school tour in Surgeres, France in 1971. Some renegade hippie minder treated us to a session when the accompanying teachers went off for the evening (we were safer with the hippie). Great accoustics in the dorm. Love every song but would especially mention Sway, Wild Horses, Can you hear me knocking, Bi### and the amazing Moonlight Mile.
Fun watching your reaction!! Great job. You landed on my favorite album of all time (I'm 54). I was already a Stones fan by the time I was 9 or 10 years old and then my older brother dropped this on me ("You'll like this", he said). My gawd, I was absolutely blown away. Every track. From rock'n'roll, to pure blues, to pure country, to that ending with Moonlight Mile (yes, they are real strings, not a keyboard, keyboards didn't exist then except in experiments. The Stones ALWAYS played live in the Studio with real players, and still do today)..., just amazing. The songs themselves (covered by so many others since), the performances/musicianship, the topics. Rock and Roll perfection. I loved the little bits you picked out in each track -- yep, all those brief, perfect, musical touches. This one will stick with you!!!
So fun to see you sort of overcome at about 3:38, and then you say: "Everything--Everything together is just SO good!--c'mon!" An excellent critique, Madame!
I think this and Exile on Mainstreet the follow up album to Sticky Fingers (which I'd recommend you give a listen to) and are my favourite Stones albums. I really like what Mick Taylor brings to them.
Just come across this 10 months late. I used to come home drunk on a Saturday night back in the 70's, get in to bed, put this on the stereo and by the time Moonlight Mile finished, I was gone😊
You need to understand that the majority of your followers are from this time ,we know all these songs ! What draws us to you is to see your reaction to discovering them !
Love your reaction, please consider this... The Rolling Stones have been releasing music since 1963, "Satisfaction" was released in the US in 1965 "Under my Thumb" was released in 1966 The "Sticky Fingers" album was released in 1971 5 years is a long time for their music to change ALTHOUGH they are at heart an American Blues influenced band. A la prochaine :)
Sticky Fingers has always been my favorite Stones album. When I saw them live here in Philly back in 1989, they played Brown Sugar, Bitch, and Dead Flowers. Definitely highlights of the show for me.
Hey @VERDY channel - It's so good to see that young people like you comment on the music of the 70s and of course like it too. In part one and of course part two I had a lot of fun and I immediately subscribed to your channel. I wish you would still review the album "Exile On Main Street". Incidentally, the Mick Taylor years were the most creative of the Stones. But don't forget the influence of Brian Jones, without him they would never have become what they are today. Thanks for sharing and best regards @all from hamburg (germany)
Sticky Fingers is probably one of the best Stones albums. First saw the Stones on Ed Sullivan show in 64 with my parents. I was in high school when this album came out. The greatest rock band ever. Not taking away anything from Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, The Beatles and so so many others from my childhood.
They had such an amazing run of killer albums (Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street) in the late sixties to early seventies that no other band can ever compare with.
I hate the fact that people leave out Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock and Roll. I can almost understand leaving out Goat Heads Soup but not really. But it is insane to me that people think It's Only Rock and Roll is the worst of that era or lesser or weaker at all. It is insanely good. I honestly believe the Rock Critics of the day dictated this to the masses at the time and it is still being repeated to this day. Those 2 albums represent the feel of those times perfectly or at least the way I remember it. The music and feel of the album is head shakingly good. I'm an Exile guy. But just saying
Ths amazing thing about the Stones is even if you have every album there are still so, so many throwaway or unreleased gems out there to discover. For my ears there are so very few songs that I don't like. Most fans focus on a certain era of late 60s to early 70s but there is so much more to explore.
Odd that you found Sister Morphine your favorite track based on its "relaxed vibe". Since the song is about someone dying from their drug addiction in a hospital bed, and the singer knows "in the morning I'll be dead", I always felt the music as very dark and ominous.
It was truly beautiful watching you hear this album for the first time. I grew up listening to the Stones and still listen to them today. From 1963-1983 they put out Fantastic Music. Even later albums have great moments, but those 20 years were fantastic. It’s good to know that younger kids will be listening to them for decades to come.
Just for context…Stones just hit 60 yrs together. All in their early 20’s when they exploded on the music scene. Mick & Keith are prodigy’s. You heard the early sensation Satisfaction and mid 1960’s youngster Stones. This is PEAK STONES 5 years later
I absolutely adore every song on this album , but my personal pick is "Can't You Hear Me Knocking'" , because to me it gets transcendental (Well Moonlight Mile does too!). All are A plus, however. My personal favorite RS album ever.
Bitch is such an awesome song. The highlights are definitely the bass and the trumpets (as well as the guitar solo in the end). Very upbeat, very cool. I've got the blues is a somewhat sappy blues ballad complete with a soaring organ. very nice song. Sister morphine was written in 1968 by Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull. It was released by Faithfull in early 1969 as the B-side of her single 'Something Better'. Her version has more a folk vibe and is more brooding. The version of the Rolling Stones is more haunting, especially with the outbursts of Piano and the slide guitar. Dead Flowers about getting back at a lover that left you is definitely country influenced and is such a nice singalong song and the album concludes by the majestic Moonlight Mile, complete with an accompaining orchestra. As I said in my review of the first side, Sticky Fingers might be The Rolling Stones more consistently strong album and their most representative of their sound and style. That's why it is the perfect album to introduce someone to the Stones. Their albums Beggar's Banquet (1968), Let it Bleed (1969 and having my favorite Stones song Gimme Shelter), their live Get Yer Ya-Ya's out (1970), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main St. (1972) make an uninterrupted string of first rate albums that had been rarely equalled in Rock music.
The 1968-72 Stones were the best rock and roll band ever. The orchestral arrangement on Moonlight Mile is actual violins, by the way. This was a little before synthesizers could actually imitate string instruments.
Think of the variety of music on this one album. From rock to country to blues to jazz, the album has it all. And it is all top quality. Great songwriting, great musicianship, great vibe, from beginning to end. This is what rock n roll is all about. Do you hear this anymore from today's music? I sure don't.
This is in my opinion a perfect album. No fillers anywhere. The Stones made especially in the late 60s till the mid 70s incredible albums, but I think the other ones have a few weaker songs here and there. So is this their best album? I'd say yes.
The Rolling Stones changed my life when I ‘discovered them’ as a teenager in the late 80’s Have been a Stones aficionado ever since. This album like many others of theirs is simply magnificent. Like music critic Roy Carr once wrote ; ‘If your looking for anything better in this field, don’t bother…none has been recorded’
Keith did some great work on this album, but he was also 'indisposed' for some of the sessions. Mick Taylor worked with Mick Jagger on Moonlight Mile and Sway. Mick Taylor was shocked when the album was released and he got no composing credits, after Jagger had promised he would get them (according to Taylor). That was the beginning of the end of his time with the Stones.
The beginning of the end for Taylor in the Stones was that he and his wife both became heavily addicted to Heroin by the end of Exile On Main St. He joined in 69 as a non smoking non drinking vegetarian and 2 year later was a heroin addict
My favourite album of all time. By anyone! Bought this as a 14 year old (the original LP sleeve, which had a red balloon which pulled out of the fly of the jeans). My mother was horrified. :)
As a kid, this was my first really subversive rock album. I mean, a song called Bitch? A song called Sister MORPHINE?? It was actually a little wild for me, but I sure grew to love it. All these years later I still listen to it regularly. It was great seeing your reaction to all that the Stones were capable of besides the 2 minute 50 second singles that they were also very good at.
Do a deep dive on Paul Buckmaster. He arranged strings for a lot of classic rock in the 1970's. He did them here and on a few Elton John albums and for Carly Simon (and a lot more). Very recognizable additions to many great songs.
VERDY great job with your reaction to the Album Sticky Fingers From The Rolling Stones . I do believe you enjoy the cover that Guns and Roses did of Dead Flowers live performance from Aggintina.
Freut mich dass du dich für die stones interessierst wo du so jung bist! Du scheinst es zu mögen und bringst sehr gute Kommentare dazu. Ich bin als Kind da reingefallen, jahrgang 1961😂 Wie zeitlos gut das Album ist!
You picked a great record to start with, Verdy. Between 68-72, the Stones were at their peak. I'm not sure another musician/group had a better four-year stretch in that period. And that's really saying something when you consider the embarrassment of riches in every genre of music during those years. Prior to '68, the Stones were more of a singles band in my opinion (an amazing singles band to be sure, but not producing consistent albums). And the years after '72 were a frustrating series of peaks and valleys. But for those four years the Stones could match artistic wits with anybody.
That is my favorite Stones album. You should check out sticky fingers live also Let it Bleed is another great Stones album there are so many great Stones albums
Verdy I love 70's Stones I feel this is when they were at their best very diverse and always with that bluesy rhythm. Knowing your love of 80's music from your recent live stream I want to recommend you listen to what Rolling Stone magazine called the album of the 80's The Joshua Tree by U2 a masterpiece from beginning to end
The horns on "Bitch" are Bobby Keys (sax) and Jim Price (trumpet). You must not have the liner notes that came with the vinyl and CD copies of the album. They list the musicians and instruments played on each track. I'm sure there are more than a few websites that list this info on all Rolling Stones tracks. That's one disadvantage to the access of a virtual album instead of a physical hard copy.
The Rolling Stones are definitely a group worth exploring. They cross over so many genres. Some songs really worth exploring are: "Paint it Black", Can't Get No Satisfaction", "Get off of my Cloud", "As Tears Go By", "Ruby Tuesday", "Start Me Up", "Miss You", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Honkey Tonk Woman" and that's just the beginning of some of their mega hits. Have fun exploring!
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Well most reaction channel requesters request the popular songs like Thunderstruck, Back in Black, Smoke on the Water, Stairway to Heaven, Iron Man, Crazy Train, and the like. Same old songs all the time. I try to request obscure songs, like Love in Vain by The Rolling Stones, or Let's Work Together by Canned Heat, or Train Train by Blackfoot, and just songs like that. Songs you don't here hardly ever, but they're amazing songs.
Nothing too original for me to add. What you heard before: "Satisfaction" and "Under My Thumb" are classics, but for me, the true greatness of the Stones are displayed on this album, Satanic Majesty's, Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St. Nice to see someone young with open ears appreciate this. Love the way you say your 2 favorite expressions: "Whew!" and "Come On!"
This album is a great example of how tasteful the Stones could be with their ballads. I think they hit their musical peak at this point. The only other album that they made that has a similar consistent quality to SF is Beggar's Banquet. After SF there was a slow decline in album quality, more noticeable once Mick Taylor left.
This is an "all killer, no filler" type of album. Even the deep cuts are great.
No doubt
All the Songs on this Album are “Deep Cuts”
It is a pure masterpiece
Moonlight Mile is a beautiful song. I'm kinda glad that it's rarely played on the radio, it's like finding a pearl just for Stones fans.
Exactly... I still remember the first time I heard this and Salt of the Earth. I was shocked, like I just found gold.
Nope it's not the great only bad cut on the album
The whole album's brilliant, but Side 2 is my favourite. It's special.
Always my favorite Stones song...I love how the song builds into a huge crescendo.
It's such a great song so is I got the blues.. stunning
Moonlight Mile is one of my all time favorite songs. Listening to this song and Dear Prudence off the Beatles White Album while high was incredible.
Moonlight Mile is beloved by Stones fans everywhere in the world. It's a masterpiece.
Moonlight Mile is just sublime. What a masterpiece.
Mick Taylor, a virtuoso blues and rock lead guitarist was the best player the Stones ever had on lead guitar IMO Mick Jagger - lead vocal (all tracks), backing vocals (2-5, 9), acoustic guitar (9, 10), castanets (1), maracas (1), electric guitar (2), percussion (3)
Keith Richards - electric guitar (1, 3-7, 9), acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5, 8, 9), backing vocals (1-7, 9)
Mick Taylor - electric guitar (1, 2, 4-7, 9, 10), acoustic guitar (3)
Bill Wyman - bass guitar (all but 5), electric piano (5)
Charlie Watts - drums (all tracks)
Mick Taylor's rendition of LOVE IN VAIN from Get Yer Ya Ya's Out is sublime.
Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street comprise a 4 album run that’s just amazing. If you like Sticky Fingers, think you’d like the ones you haven’t heard yet!
I'd throw Goat's Head Soup in there too, it's a fantastic album,
@markgreene6499 after that Some Girls, and that's the last great album they ever put out
@@markgreene6499 yes I was just about to add the same comment. My other 2 faves after those are 12x5 and Some Girls.
You beat me to that list , agree 100%
Add get yer ya yams out to the period - one of the best live albums - stones at their peak live
It's amazing that you can still discover something that's over 50 years old. Just imagine what it would have been like to be a teenager in the 70s and have all these new albums come out? Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd etc etc etc. In the seventies we didn't even go back more than 10 years to listen to music it was all happening in real time
Yes I look back on it all with astonishment,Black Sabbath, Hendrix,Crème,Allman Brothers on and on
Zeppelin I think was the first British band to emerge away from the British Invasion sound. I like Zeps first two albums.
@@alphajava761 Seen them in 1970 Indianapolis coliseum and they played 2 1/2 hours when they were at the top of their game
I envy her for hearing this fabulous music for the very first time. Many of us have heard this music endlessly. But imagine hearing it for the first time. It is such amazing music.
@@ls1959 This is what I grew up with and I found a band a few years ago that I find very good.They have been around since the 90’s.Tool is their name and recommend starting with their songs The Pot and Right in two but they have excellent music,complex time signatures unreal guitar riffs/tones and Maynard vocals
great snapshot of 70s stones
"Moonlight Mile" is indeed a Rolling Stones masterpiece. A stunning, unforgettable song...!!
"Well, when your sitting back - In your rose-pink Cadillac - Making bets on Kentucky-Derby day - Well I'll be in my basement room - With a needle and a spoon - And another girl, can take my pain away".
Killer lyrics man!
His solo cover of Sway with Carla Olsen is great
Many years ago I was a teenager stuck in a basement (figuratively) at a family friend's house, typical teenage decor musty couches, beat up furniture etc., and only two albums (sigh) I can remember. Cheech and Chongs Wedding Album and Sticky Fingers. Was not a big Stones fan, the only song I knew was "Brown Sugar" which is very good but at the time very overplayed. I reluctantly put the album on and my jaw dropped. The closing Moonlight Mile might be the most beautiful rock song ever. The whole album is stunningly good. Desert Island wish list!
My favorite Stones album. Came out when I was 14. Knowing every note that's coming, it's great to watch you connect with it as you hear it for the first time.
This album really takes me back to my youth…Lots of rock and roll…Pot and partying…
Wonderful reaction - as always your great ear and sensitivity shine.
This album was part of a series of Stones albums that helped define classic two-guitar blues rock. The other two are Let It Bleed and Beggar's Banquet. I'd strongly recommend you listen and hopefully 🙏 react to both of them and to the live album that capped off the best of their work imo, Get Yer Ya Yas Out. Some of the best of the classic rock era.
The horns are led by an an American saxophonist, Bobby Keys.
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out has a most beautiful rendition of Robert Johnson's LOVE IN VAIN - Mick Taylor at his finest.
The Rolling Stones have tried almost everything. They have an album for everyone, it's actually crazy. By far my favorite band.
One of my favorite Stones songs, they so rock
Congratulations!
You have just actively listened to one of the few Perfect Albums of all time.
A lot of Sticky Fingers was recorded at the Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, which probably gave a lot of the tunes that gospel/blues,/ slide guitar sound,
Had this album forever and heard it probably a million times. It never gets old. Great reaction. Thanks for doing it.
Never gets old
Greatest rock and roll band ever. The greatest front man ever.
They have a massive catalog that touches on almost everything.
The Rolling Stones CARRIED Rock & Roll for decades. Really nice work from you.
Thank you for giving them a listen.
What a great treat to enjoy you discovering the album. Thanks for taking a listen.
My favorite band since I first heard Little Red Rooster around Christmastime 1964. Loving your channel.
The Rolling Stones never shied away from using outside talent or from controversial topics. The Bad Boys of Rock.
Charlie Watts' drumming on "Bitch" is next level / impeccable.
The coda to Moonlight Mile is one f my favorite moments on the record. Mick Taylor and Nicky Hopkins added another layer.
I couldn't agree more, but it's actually the great horn arranger Jim Price on piano, not Nicky.
Nope
A guy named Ry Cooder is playing that great slide on sister morphine. Not as well known as some but he's a a really well respected guitarist that other guitarists just love.
He does a slide solo on an album by John Hiatt called Bring the family. The song is Lipstick Sunset and Ry's slide on it is famous and just stunning.
Ry Cooder is a great musician. He has played many kinds of music, not just rock.
One of my favourite songs of all time is Ry Cooder's instrumental version of I Think Its Gonna Work Out Fine . The interplay of his slide with the work of another great slide player David Lindley is four and a half minutes of perfection.
The song has a lot of references to sex. The lyrics "Sometimes I'm sexy, move like a stud,
Kicking the stall all night". Kicking in the Stall is an old Southern American slang for making love all night.
Moonlight Mile is an amazingly beautiful song to end the album that has so many diverse styles of music. Thanks for all
your hard work and amazing analysis.
"kicking the stall" refers to a horse trying to get out of his stall. typically, that would be a stallion in heat trying to get at the mare., and so the obvious sexual reference. grreat song, great line too. keep on rockin
@@luvlgs1 It was a Black American Blues slang used in songs by artist like Muddy Waters references to an unfaithful woman as
“another mule is kickin' in your stall” was used in Delta Blues in the American South in the 1920s. The Rolling Stones name comes from a Muddy Watters song. Their admiration for American early blues influenced them!
Paul Buckmaster - string arrangement (2, 10)
Ry Cooder - slide guitar (8)
Jim Dickinson - piano (3)
Rocky Dijon - congas (4)
Nicky Hopkins - piano (2, 4)
Bobby Keys - tenor saxophone (1, 4, 6, 7)
Jimmy Miller - percussion (4,6)
Jack Nitzsche - piano (8)
Billy Preston - organ (4, 7)
Jim Price - trumpet, piano (7,10)
Ian Stewart - piano (1, 9)
Thanks for your beautiful truthful reactions to the music. You didn't mention the singer..
I loved the way your body and facials reacted to the music. So lovely. Good bless
Great, great album. There is so much here that's outstanding but Bobby Keys on sax and Nicky Hopkins on keyboard are both amazing. Also not forgetting Jimmy Miller who produced this albums well as the other three albums of the big four albums (this one, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St and Beggars Banquet).
Watched both installments of your "Sticky Fingers" breakdown. Just had to say: you remind me of myself, listening to these albums as a teenager. Mick and Keith are a formidable songwriting duo. They (Keith, especially) had a real ear for arranging songs, too. All those subtle musical things (Bobby Keys' sax, the piano, Mick Taylor's tasteful fills) really add up to make beautiful recordings.
Always happy to see someone discover the brilliance of the Stones. Their public image kind of overshadows their genius as serious writers/musicians. "Sticky Fingers" may be their most complete, flawless album. "Sway," "Dead Flowers" and "Moonlight Mile" are my favorites, but there's not a bad song on here. Keep rockin'!
One thing I remember about this album is that the vinyl LPs had an actual zipper on the front of the sleeve. Which was a funny idea, but they found that it damaged the vinyl when they were transported. Then they realised that if you unzipped the zippers, it didn’t damage the records. It’s such a good album.
I know the songwriting credits for Dead Flowers are to Mick and Keith, but there's always been a story circulating that it was really written by Keith and Gram Parson while they were on a three day bender. Great song.
You can hear a lot of Gram in Wild Horses as well. The Burritos also recorded it first. Of course, what is songwriting without a little theft?
As a die-hard Gram Parsons fan, most stories about him “writing” specific country-tinged Stones songs are entirely unfounded. It’s just more rubbish to add to the lore of Gram Parsons, but even he stated he did not write “Wild Horses.”
@@msmilie Gram said he did not write Wild Horses.
@@msmilie Wild Horses was written by Richards before he even met Parsons. He started it in 68 before Gram went to England with the Byrds and first met the Stones. Gram influenced Keith and the Stones but did not play on any recordings or write anything with them. He and Keith played country cover songs which Gram showed him. Some of those cover songs ended up on the Keith Bootleg album recorded in Toronto in 77 while he was under arrest for H. Gram is also on the record saying he had nothing to do with writing Wild Horses. There is a recorded interview where he states that
@@fuchsiaswing8545 Absolutely correct😎
the horn section has baritone sax, trumpet and some other saxes. The last song has real strings. it's a section with cello, viola, and violins. When this album was made there was no such thing as a synthesizer that could do a good string sound.
So good on so many levels. Variety, originality, layers of instruments, the passion in every song, so many feelings evoked, quality of musicians etc. First heard this on a school tour in Surgeres, France in 1971. Some renegade hippie minder treated us to a session when the accompanying teachers went off for the evening (we were safer with the hippie). Great accoustics in the dorm. Love every song but would especially mention Sway, Wild Horses, Can you hear me knocking, Bi### and the amazing Moonlight Mile.
It never got much better than this lp...a stunning masterpiece
Fun watching your reaction!! Great job. You landed on my favorite album of all time (I'm 54). I was already a Stones fan by the time I was 9 or 10 years old and then my older brother dropped this on me ("You'll like this", he said). My gawd, I was absolutely blown away. Every track. From rock'n'roll, to pure blues, to pure country, to that ending with Moonlight Mile (yes, they are real strings, not a keyboard, keyboards didn't exist then except in experiments. The Stones ALWAYS played live in the Studio with real players, and still do today)..., just amazing. The songs themselves (covered by so many others since), the performances/musicianship, the topics. Rock and Roll perfection. I loved the little bits you picked out in each track -- yep, all those brief, perfect, musical touches. This one will stick with you!!!
So fun to see you sort of overcome at about 3:38, and then you say: "Everything--Everything together is just SO good!--c'mon!" An excellent critique, Madame!
I think I was 11 or 12 when this came out? Man, what an album! We played it a LOT!
Yep, I was 11 living in Germany at the time. Was huge
Awesome! Please do the album, Let It Bleed, next
I think this and Exile on Mainstreet the follow up album to Sticky Fingers (which I'd recommend you give a listen to) and are my favourite Stones albums. I really like what Mick Taylor brings to them.
Just come across this 10 months late. I used to come home drunk on a Saturday night back in the 70's, get in to bed, put this on the stereo and by the time Moonlight Mile finished, I was gone😊
You need to understand that the majority of your followers are from this time ,we know all these songs ! What draws us to you is to see your reaction to discovering them !
But only the good stuff too many requesters ask only for the garbage top 40 onall the channels
Nice Verdy, you really feel the music, glad you're finding it, it was the soundtrack of my youth, and still is. 🎶
Love your reaction, please consider this...
The Rolling Stones have been releasing music since 1963,
"Satisfaction" was released in the US in 1965
"Under my Thumb" was released in 1966
The "Sticky Fingers" album was released in 1971
5 years is a long time for their music to change ALTHOUGH they are at heart an American Blues influenced band.
A la prochaine :)
Sticky Fingers has always been my favorite Stones album. When I saw them live here in Philly back in 1989, they played Brown Sugar, Bitch, and Dead Flowers. Definitely highlights of the show for me.
Side 2 !!! Sticky Fingers !!!! Let's Go 😂
This is definitive rock music.
Hey @VERDY channel - It's so good to see that young people like you comment on the music of the 70s and of course like it too. In part one and of course part two I had a lot of fun and I immediately subscribed to your channel. I wish you would still review the album "Exile On Main Street". Incidentally, the Mick Taylor years were the most creative of the Stones. But don't forget the influence of Brian Jones, without him they would never have become what they are today. Thanks for sharing and best regards @all from hamburg (germany)
😊❤❤❤❤❤ Sweet reaction 😊❤❤❤❤❤ Many favs,I Love Waiting on a friend...from "Tatoo You" its Beautiful
Sticky Fingers is probably one of the best Stones albums. First saw the Stones on Ed Sullivan show in 64 with my parents. I was in high school when this album came out. The greatest rock band ever. Not taking away anything from Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, The Beatles and so so many others from my childhood.
They had such an amazing run of killer albums (Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street) in the late sixties to early seventies that no other band can ever compare with.
I hate the fact that people leave out Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock and Roll.
I can almost understand leaving out Goat Heads Soup but not really. But it is insane to me that people think It's Only Rock and Roll is the worst of that era or lesser or weaker at all. It is insanely good.
I honestly believe the Rock Critics of the day dictated this to the masses at the time and it is still being repeated to this day.
Those 2 albums represent the feel of those times perfectly or at least the way I remember it. The music and feel of the album is head shakingly good.
I'm an Exile guy. But just saying
Ths amazing thing about the Stones is even if you have every album there are still so, so many throwaway or unreleased gems out there to discover. For my ears there are so very few songs that I don't like. Most fans focus on a certain era of late 60s to early 70s but there is so much more to explore.
Odd that you found Sister Morphine your favorite track based on its "relaxed vibe". Since the song is about someone dying from their drug addiction in a hospital bed, and the singer knows "in the morning I'll be dead", I always felt the music as very dark and ominous.
Great rock and roll never ever gets old,,
"Dead Flowers" is one of the Stones most under-appreciated songs.
It was truly beautiful watching you hear this album for the first time.
I grew up listening to the Stones and still listen to them today.
From 1963-1983 they put out Fantastic Music. Even later albums have great moments, but those 20 years were fantastic.
It’s good to know that younger kids will be listening to them for decades to come.
So spacious, and dynamic, and human.
Dead Flowers is another Gram Parsons related/inspired/related song. Parsons recorded with The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Emmylou Harris.
Just for context…Stones just hit 60 yrs together.
All in their early 20’s when they exploded on the music scene.
Mick & Keith are prodigy’s.
You heard the early sensation Satisfaction and mid 1960’s youngster Stones.
This is PEAK STONES 5 years later
I absolutely adore every song on this album , but my personal pick is "Can't You Hear Me Knocking'" , because to me it gets transcendental (Well Moonlight Mile does too!). All are A plus, however. My personal favorite RS album ever.
Mick Jagger is the
Rock God for eternity.His voice can be so mean and vicious. Such a thrill @
Bitch is such an awesome song.
The highlights are definitely the bass and the trumpets (as well as the guitar solo in the end). Very upbeat, very cool.
I've got the blues is a somewhat sappy blues ballad complete with a soaring organ. very nice song.
Sister morphine was written in 1968 by Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull.
It was released by Faithfull in early 1969 as the B-side of her single 'Something Better'.
Her version has more a folk vibe and is more brooding.
The version of the Rolling Stones is more haunting, especially with the outbursts of Piano and the slide guitar.
Dead Flowers about getting back at a lover that left you is definitely country influenced and is such a nice singalong song and the album concludes by the majestic Moonlight Mile, complete with an accompaining orchestra.
As I said in my review of the first side, Sticky Fingers might be The Rolling Stones more consistently strong album and their most representative of their sound and style.
That's why it is the perfect album to introduce someone to the Stones.
Their albums Beggar's Banquet (1968), Let it Bleed (1969 and having my favorite Stones song Gimme Shelter), their live Get Yer Ya-Ya's out (1970), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main St. (1972) make an uninterrupted string of first rate albums that had been rarely equalled in Rock music.
The 1968-72 Stones were the best rock and roll band ever. The orchestral arrangement on Moonlight Mile is actual violins, by the way. This was a little before synthesizers could actually imitate string instruments.
Think of the variety of music on this one album. From rock to country to blues to jazz, the album has it all. And it is all top quality. Great songwriting, great musicianship, great vibe, from beginning to end. This is what rock n roll is all about. Do you hear this anymore from today's music? I sure don't.
This is in my opinion a perfect album. No fillers anywhere. The Stones made especially in the late 60s till the mid 70s incredible albums, but I think the other ones have a few weaker songs here and there. So is this their best album? I'd say yes.
The Rolling Stones changed my life when I ‘discovered them’ as a teenager in the late 80’s
Have been a Stones aficionado ever since. This album like many others of theirs is simply magnificent.
Like music critic Roy Carr once wrote ; ‘If your looking for anything better in this field, don’t bother…none has been recorded’
Greatest Rock n Roll Band ever 🤘🤘
Exile on Main Street next please Ms Verdy.❤
VERDY CHANNEL RULES!!! 🥰
Keith did some great work on this album, but he was also 'indisposed' for some of the sessions. Mick Taylor worked with Mick Jagger on Moonlight Mile and Sway. Mick Taylor was shocked when the album was released and he got no composing credits, after Jagger had promised he would get them (according to Taylor). That was the beginning of the end of his time with the Stones.
The beginning of the end for Taylor in the Stones was that he and his wife both became heavily addicted to Heroin by the end of Exile On Main St. He joined in 69 as a non smoking non drinking vegetarian and 2 year later was a heroin addict
My favourite album of all time. By anyone! Bought this as a 14 year old (the original LP sleeve, which had a red balloon which pulled out of the fly of the jeans). My mother was horrified. :)
As a kid, this was my first really subversive rock album. I mean, a song called Bitch? A song called Sister MORPHINE?? It was actually a little wild for me, but I sure grew to love it. All these years later I still listen to it regularly. It was great seeing your reaction to all that the Stones were capable of besides the 2 minute 50 second singles that they were also very good at.
Do a deep dive on Paul Buckmaster. He arranged strings for a lot of classic rock in the 1970's. He did them here and on a few Elton John albums and for Carly Simon (and a lot more). Very recognizable additions to many great songs.
Your channel is like a breath of fresh air. I'd love to get your reactions to some Kinks, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan. :)
VERDY great job with your reaction to the Album Sticky Fingers From The Rolling Stones . I do believe you enjoy the cover that Guns and Roses did of Dead Flowers live performance from Aggintina.
One of the best live albums ever was recorded in this period, imho. Get Yer Ya Yas Out. Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed deserve a listen too.
Very nice analysis. Well done!
Freut mich dass du dich für die stones interessierst wo du so jung bist!
Du scheinst es zu mögen und bringst sehr gute Kommentare dazu.
Ich bin als Kind da reingefallen, jahrgang 1961😂
Wie zeitlos gut das Album ist!
Sie kommt aus Canada und spricht französisch 😂
Ich komme aus Deutschland und spreche Englisch 😂
A good amount of the songs were recorded at Muscle Shoals Studio in Alabama ..That place turned out loads of great music ..
Love the reaction to one of the best blues rock albums ever made. The music is very quiet though in comparison to your voice.
You picked a great record to start with, Verdy. Between 68-72, the Stones were at their peak. I'm not sure another musician/group had a better four-year stretch in that period. And that's really saying something when you consider the embarrassment of riches in every genre of music during those years. Prior to '68, the Stones were more of a singles band in my opinion (an amazing singles band to be sure, but not producing consistent albums). And the years after '72 were a frustrating series of peaks and valleys. But for those four years the Stones could match artistic wits with anybody.
Mic Taylor all over this album 😮 game changer for the band 😊
That is my favorite Stones album. You should check out sticky fingers live also Let it Bleed is another great Stones album there are so many great Stones albums
Verdy I love 70's Stones I feel this is when they were at their best very diverse and always with that bluesy rhythm. Knowing your love of 80's music from your recent live stream I want to recommend you listen to what Rolling Stone magazine called the album of the 80's The Joshua Tree by U2 a masterpiece from beginning to end
The horns on "Bitch" are Bobby Keys (sax) and Jim Price (trumpet). You must not have the liner notes that came with the vinyl and CD copies of the album. They list the musicians and instruments played on each track. I'm sure there are more than a few websites that list this info on all Rolling Stones tracks. That's one disadvantage to the access of a virtual album instead of a physical hard copy.
Classic Album. Ranks high all time
Their best , ultimate genre too
The Rolling Stones are definitely a group worth exploring. They cross over so many genres. Some songs really worth exploring are: "Paint it Black", Can't Get No Satisfaction", "Get off of my Cloud", "As Tears Go By", "Ruby Tuesday", "Start Me Up", "Miss You", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Honkey Tonk Woman" and that's just the beginning of some of their mega hits. Have fun exploring!
If you keep playing albums from this era of bands you will get 30,000 more subscribers in just one week !
Honestly facts. Reactions to actual real good music will bring in people by the droves
Nope
@@cs-7 too many reaction channels requesters only ask for garbage top 40
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Well most reaction channel requesters request the popular songs like Thunderstruck, Back in Black, Smoke on the Water, Stairway to Heaven, Iron Man, Crazy Train, and the like. Same old songs all the time. I try to request obscure songs, like Love in Vain by The Rolling Stones, or Let's Work Together by Canned Heat, or Train Train by Blackfoot, and just songs like that. Songs you don't here hardly ever, but they're amazing songs.
My first RS album at 15 in 71 and I think their best!
Nothing too original for me to add. What you heard before: "Satisfaction" and "Under My Thumb" are classics, but for me, the true greatness of the Stones are displayed on this album, Satanic Majesty's, Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St. Nice to see someone young with open ears appreciate this. Love the way you say your 2 favorite expressions: "Whew!" and "Come On!"
ANGIE is still my favorite Stones song.
Just say "the horn section ". You rock and so do the STONES !!!!
Cruising in my e.150 to Angola on the lake and my 8 track ate my sticky fingers tape.
Admit it, you’re just an old soul❤😂🎉
This album is a great example of how tasteful the Stones could be with their ballads. I think they hit their musical peak at this point. The only other album that they made that has a similar consistent quality to SF is Beggar's Banquet. After SF there was a slow decline in album quality, more noticeable once Mick Taylor left.