Ranking the songs on Rolling Stones album ‘Sticky Fingers’ in order of greatness #fec #fyp #fypage

By: Jack Whatley

Songs from The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers ranked from worst to best:

10. ‘Brown Sugar’

Maybe it’s just me but listening to The Rolling Stones song ‘Brown Sugar’ is now about as comfortable as listening to Bill Cosby make a candid joke about sleeping aids — it’s just not acceptable anymore. So while I’m sure there will be countless arguments heading my way of “it was a different time” or “things have changed now”, the reality is that the song was always about sexualising the slave trade.

It wasn’t really acceptable fifty years ago and certainly isn’t now. Add to that the myriad of dad-rock dancing that the song can induce, and you have yourself a song to make your skin crawl. Plus, there’s far better on this record.

9. ‘I Got The Blues’

Using a slower progression, the band manage to convey the sadness they felt every time they went on tour. The song is steeped in longing for a normal life and reflects the fast-paced world they had created around them.

The coupling of organ and guitar happens on a good few occasions on this LP, but perhaps the finest example is on ‘I Got The Blues’, which, when emboldened by the horns, only adds to the feeling of alienation.

8. ‘You Gotta Move’

7. ‘Dead Flowers’

As a showing of their determination to make America their homeland, the band paid tribute to perhaps the most sincere genre of Americana there is — country. ‘Dead Flowers’ sees the band flirt with the very dirt upon which the land was founded with this.

There’s a classic honky-tonk progression upheld throughout the piece, but perhaps the most obvious moment is Jagger’s country twang vocal that somehow feels authentic, despite being born in Dartford.

6. ‘Bitch’

A juggernaut riff that, as the opener for side two of Sticky Fingers, more than matched the heavyweight rock of ‘Brown Sugar’—’Bitch’ is Richards at his chugging two-tonne best. Nobody could chug a riff like Keef. We imagine nobody can chug a beer like Keith too, but that’s a different story for a different day.

According to the band’s mobile engineer, Andy Johns, it was Richards who envigorated the song, “He put on his clear Perspex guitar and kicked up the tempo,” Johns said. “The song went from a laconic mess to being all about the groove. Just instantly. As soon as Keith started playing, he transformed the song into what it was meant to be.”

5. ‘Sister Morphine’

Though the song was originally released as a B-side to Marianne Faithfull’s single, The Rolling Stones’ ‘Sister Morphine’ comes from a place of sincere education. Released on Sticky Fingers, the song is truly disturbing at parts and captures the twisted nature of addiction and narcotic dependency.

Jagger is at his most ghoulish too. The singer uncharacteristically wails across the song about cocaine, drugs, doctors and everything in between. The slide guitar from Ry Cooder is tremendous, but this track hangs on Jagger.

4. ‘Sway’

3. ‘Moonlight Mile’

2. ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’

1. ‘Wild Horses’

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