Sticky Fingers
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Sticky Fingers
Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and eleventh American studio album by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in April 1971. It is the band's first album of the decade and the first release on the band's new label Rolling Stones Records, after having been contracted since 1963 with Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the US. It is also Mick Taylor's first full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album and the first Rolling Stones album not to feature any contributions from guitarist and founder Brian Jones. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
This album could reasonably be called their peak. They were called the World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band for entirely too long, but if that designation ever applied, it was here.
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Rolling Stone
If Sticky Fingers suffers from any one thing it’s its own self-defeating calculating nature. Its moments of openness and feeling are too few: its moments where I know I should be enjoying it but am not, too great.
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BBC
It's this album that remains the Stones' most coherent statement.
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Slate
Sticky Fingers, though, is Jagger’s finest hour, starting with his songwriting.
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All Music
Sticky Fingers is a slow, bluesy affair, with a few country touches thrown in for good measure. The laid-back tone of the album gives ample room for new lead guitarist Mick Taylor to stretch out
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Uncut
But it’s Sticky Fingers itself that still impresses most, the power of its blend of grit and sophistication undiminished nearly half a century on, in a beguiling union of country and city, the raw and the cooked.
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Clash
this was the moment the Stones truly proved themselves satanic majesties
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The Westword Online
shows why the Rolling Stones is cemented as one of the all time great bands and very deserving of the title “greatest rock band in the world” in 1971
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
So this is the Stones of the 70's - filled with ass-whupping riffs, beautiful melodies, creative ideas and all sorts of things that make a great album.
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Only Solitaire
A bit dirtier and gimmicker than necessary, but most of the songs are still ooby-dooby.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Virtually every track is a classic, divided between head-pounding rockers that brilliantly integrate the fine Keys and Price horn section ("Brown Sugar"; "Bitch"), and epic ballads that build to an irresistable climax (the famous and unforgettable "Wild Horses" ...
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The Guardian
their claim to be The Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band in the World has no more compelling evidence than the flawless 46 minutes of music here
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Robert Christgau
this is unregenerate Stones
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Adrian's Album Reviews
It sees The Stones themselves rise to their own artistic challenge - the run of 'Beggars Banquet' and 'Let It Bleed'. That they manage to add 'Sticky Fingers' to that list says something for the run of form they were on.
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Don Ignacio
I might not find this to be as rock-hard brilliant as Let it Bleed, but it's still pretty rock-hard brilliant in its own right.
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Mark's Record Reviews
Upbeat, downcast, beautiful, soulful, fun, rockin' - it's all right here. And man, that production! Fantastic guitar sounds all the way through.
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vintagerock.com
If you had to pick one album from the Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers would be a most solid choice.
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Goldmine Magazine
Indeed, “Sticky Fingers” still stands head and shoulders (or pants and zipper) over most of The Rolling Stones’ catalog: one of the six or seven best albums that they have ever made
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Boppin's Blog
Today is Bill Wyman’s birthday. ... Happy Birthday Bill. Maybe for my next birthday you can come up with some of the magic you helped create on this album.
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American Blues Scene
This music hasn’t lost a step, and continues to speak to the human spirit and psyche. It is as powerful today as it has ever been, and will continue to be so well into the foreseeable future.
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Premier Guitar
The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers is one of their greatest albums and captures the band’s unique combination of swagger and softness in an impeccable collection of wildly varied material.
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Pop Matters
Sticky Fingers sounds better than ever, and it affirms that during their peak years, the Rolling Stones indeed were the world's preeminent band
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Irish Examiner
It takes an album like Sticky Fingers to blow away your prejudices and remind you that, before they slipped into caricature, the Stones were rock’s outlaws-in-chief.
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The Rolling Stones Exhibit
Regarded as one of the Stones’ all-time great albums, Sticky Fingers captured the band’s trademark combination of swagger and tenderness in a superb collection.
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Ian Billen
Great song writing is as present on this as almost any classic Stones album.
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Treblezine
it turned out, in the long run, to be classic Stones, and a great beginning to the second act of the band’s history
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Alt Rock Chick
One of the great guitar riff collections of all time, it also features two timelessly beautiful ballads and a solid foundation combining R&B, blues, soul, country and fiery rock ‘n’ roll.
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AV Music
One aspect of Sticky Fingers’ legacy that hasn’t been widely discussed is the fact that it seems to have laid down a significant part of the blueprint for Southern rock, which would emerge as a distinctive subgenre and subculture just a couple years after the album’s release.
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IB
Great song writing is as present on this as almost any classic Stones album
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