Track Listing

1. Brown Sugar
2. Sway
3. Wild Horses
4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
5. You Gotta Move
6. Bitch
7. I Got The Blues
8. Sister Morphine
9. Dead Flowers
10. Moonlight Mile

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #770 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 46 minutes

CD Description
Recorded at Muscle Shoals in Alabama, with the Rolling Stones mobile and at Olympic Studios in London, Sticky Fingers is an acknowledged masterpiece and rightly features on the list of Rolling Stone Magazine’s "Greatest Albums Of All Time". It came housed in a controversial ‘zipper’ sleeve conceived by Andy Warhol – and topped the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The US number one single "Brown Sugar" has become the ultimate rock anthem but the riffy "Bitch" is just as intoxicating while the ballads "Sister Morphine" and "Moonlight Mile" are timeless classics . Sticky Fingers also provided rock fans with "Can’t You Hear Me Knocking" and "Sway". The much-covered "Wild Horses" and "Dead Flowers" inaugurated a rich run of country-tinged material for the band. Keith Richards & Mick Jagger’s songwriting partnership had reached another level as this album was unveiled in 1971.

Customer Reviews

Remastering the Stones
OK, I would imagine that most folk already know this album and will already have it in some form or other. Therefore I will not dwell too long on the peerless music contained therein. The music is a mixed bag of styles taking in deep core blues numbers, hoary rockers and a spell of jazz-rock(almost!)in the latter minutes of Can't you hear me knocking which is worth the cost of admission alone.

Why should anyone buy these new remasters, especially when the last lot claimed that the patented UV22 Super CD Encoding system by Apogee Electronics captured the fine detail of the original analogue master(still awake out there??). I got this just to hear for myself if there was any noticeable difference in this and the last lot. I do not have a wave editor, so this is all based on listening to it in the car, on the way home with it, and on the stereo at home.

There are differences that I could hear in the car, even though it is a noisy and less than perfect place to start('98 Mini Cooper with a window open to stop it from steaming up in the rain). Straight off I could hear Bobby Keys sax playing in Brown Sugar, the background bits and not just the hard blowing. The violins in Sway were more apparent. The detail in the sound of the slide guitar in You Gotta Move and a load of other fine aspects just is more apparent.

At home all of the above were even more obvious. In particular the background is totally silent, no hiss at all to cloud the music.I also notice that the disc has not been mastered to be loud like all too many over compressed offerings these days. The sounds just emerge out of silence.

Sound quality 5 stars, no attempt to do anything new with the cd liner notes/artwork 3 stars.

The sonic differences are noticeable, not life changing or essential, rather small but perfectly formed. I reckon I will end up buying the lot over a period of time and replacing the last lot. Damn this addiction!!!

5 stars for the music; 3 stars for the package
So the first batch of Stones remasters are upon us and what are we getting for our hard earned cash?

The packaging is the same as the previous Virgin issues from 1997, no extra photos from the cover shoot or sessions. No insightful sleeve notes from someone like Roy Carr or Charles Shaar-Murray whose long out of print Rolling Stones - An Illustrated Record is still required reading.

The mastering is a big improvement over previous issues with some of the distortion removed from Brown Sugar and numbers like Sway and Moonlight Mile no longer sounding as murky as they did before.

On the down side the discs have not been issued as hybrid s.a.c.d. like the A.B.K.C.O. issues of the Stones' Decca back catalogue from a few years back which set the bar higher for Stones issues.. The c.d. cases are also those flimsy super audio jewel boxes which seem to be the fashion these days and they break all too easily.

I don't have too much to say about the music except it's place as one of rock's greatest albums is wholly justified. This remaster further cements that reputation.

A Stones nut like me will buy without hesitation. Others will have to decide if the sound improvement is worth the extra outlay. Reservations about format and packaging aside I would say "go for it".

50% better
i've loved this album since i bought it on vinyl as a youngster.of course i later bought it again on cd.now i discovered it had been remastered, i had to give the new version a listen.played on a decent home system it is a stunning improvement: crisper,cleaner,more detailed and lifelike,vocals richer,instruments better seperated in the mix.i am now enjoying this magnificent album all over again and hearing new touches each time i listen to it.one question, why has "exile" not been included in these remasters? PS i've just found out "exile" is to be released in a remastered version later this year.