The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers MFSL Original Master Recording LP A:EX, B:NM

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The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.  Originally issued in 1971.  This is the AUDIOPHILE MFSL release.  Rolling Stones Records/Mobil Fidelity Sound Lab - Original Master Recording.  Half-Speed Master.

Side One of the vinyl is visually in EX condition.  Plays better.  Super high gloss.  There are a few very light spider lines.  Side two is in NM condition.  Cover is in NM condition.  Cover has no cuts/slits/holes/tears/stains/writing/ring wear.

Includes original Special Static Free-Dust Free inner sleeve.  Also includes original insert.

Side One:  Brown Sugar, Sway, Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, You Gotta Move.

Side Two:  Bitch, I Got The Blues, Sister Morphine, Dead Flowers, Moonlight Mile.

Review:  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.- The All Music Guide.

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