The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1971/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1971/2020)
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Billboard 200 – #1 (1971)
Grammy Hall of Fame – Inducted (1999)

“… the Stones at their assured, showboating peak … A magic formula of heavy soul, junkie blues and macho rock.”
– Q Magazine

Sticky Fingers is the eleventh American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 23 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 Mick Taylor’s second full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album and the second Rolling Stones album not to feature any contributions from guitarist and founder Brian Jones after the live album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!.

Sticky Fingers is considered one of the Rolling Stones’ best albums. It achieved triple platinum certification in the US, with songs such as the chart-topping “Brown Sugar,” the country ballad “Dead Flowers”, “Wild Horses,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” and “Moonlight Mile”. The original cover artwork, conceived by Andy Warhol and photographed and designed by members of his art collective, The Factory, was highly innovative, showing a sexually suggestive picture of a man in tight jeans complete with a fully working zipper that opened to reveal a pair of underwear. Owing to the damage caused by the zipper to the vinyl disc, and the expense in producing the unusual cover, later re-issues featured just the outer photograph of the jeans.

Instrumentally, the album featured a return to basics for the Rolling Stones. Absent was the unusual instrumentation which had been introduced several albums prior, most songs featuring drums, guitar, bass, and percussion as provided by the key members.

This remastered and expanded release features a bonus disc of alternate and acoustic versions, as well as several live tracks taken from the band’s performance at the Roundhouse in 1971.

Half Speed ReMasters HiRes Re-Issue: Regarded as one of The Rolling Stones’ all-time great albums, ‘Sticky Fingers’ captured the bands trademark combination of swagger and tenderness in a superb collection. The classic album features timeless songs such as ‘Brown Sugar,’ ‘Wild Horses,’ ‘Bitch,’ ‘Sister Morphine’ and ‘Dead Flowers’ and showcases the inventive song writing of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and formidable guitar licks from Mick Taylor. All Deluxe and Super Deluxe formats will feature a generous selection of previously unavailable material. These include the alternative version of the chart-topping single ‘Brown Sugar’ featuring Eric Clapton; unreleased interpretations of ‘Bitch,’ ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’ and ‘Dead Flowers’; an acoustic take on the anthemic ‘Wild Horses’, and five tracks recorded live at The Roundhouse in 1971 including ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and ‘Midnight Rambler.’

“Pieced together from outtakes and much-labored-over songs, Sticky Fingers manages to have a loose, ramshackle ambience that belies both its origins and the dark undercurrents of the songs. It’s a weary, drug-laden album – well over half the songs explicitly mention drug use, while the others merely allude to it – that never fades away, but it barely keeps afloat. Apart from the classic opener, “Brown Sugar” (a gleeful tune about slavery, interracial sex, and lost virginity, not necessarily in that order), the long workout “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” and the mean-spirited “Bitch,” Sticky Fingers is a slow, bluesy affair, with a few country touches thrown in for good measure. The laid-back tone of the album gives ample room for new lead guitarist Mick Taylor to stretch out, particularly on the extended coda of “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.” But the key to the album isn’t the instrumental interplay – although that is terrific – it’s the utter weariness of the songs. “Wild Horses” is their first non-ironic stab at a country song, and it is a beautiful, heart-tugging masterpiece. Similarly, “I Got the Blues” is a ravished, late-night classic that ranks among their very best blues. “Sister Morphine” is a horrifying overdose tale, and “Moonlight Mile,” with Paul Buckmaster’s grandiose strings, is a perfect closure: sad, yearning, drug-addled, and beautiful. With its offhand mixture of decadence, roots music, and outright malevolence, Sticky Fingers set the tone for the rest of the decade for the Stones.” (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Tracklist:
1. The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar (03:49)
2. The Rolling Stones – Sway (03:52)
3. The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses (05:44)
4. The Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (07:15)
5. The Rolling Stones – You Gotta Move (02:33)
6. The Rolling Stones – Bitch (03:37)
7. The Rolling Stones – I Got The Blues (03:55)
8. The Rolling Stones – Sister Morphine (05:34)
9. The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers (04:05)
10. The Rolling Stones – Moonlight Mile (05:57)
11. The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar (04:07)
12. The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses (05:47)
13. The Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (03:24)
14. The Rolling Stones – Bitch (05:52)
15. The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers (04:17)
16. The Rolling Stones – Live With Me (04:22)
17. The Rolling Stones – Stray Cat Blues (03:48)
18. The Rolling Stones – Love In Vain (06:42)
19. The Rolling Stones – Midnight Rambler (11:26)
20. The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women (04:14)

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