ROLLING STONES: STICKY FINGERS/ZIP + INSERT EX+/VINYL N
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Description
ROLLING STONES: STICKY FINGERS
Labels: Rolling Stones Records, pristine, no visible spindle marks at all
Mode: Stereo
Rarity: Yes
Original Year of Release: 1971
Catalogue Number: COC59100
Sleeve: Textured walletsleeve with fully operational zip fastener and, extraordinarily, no damage to the flap-closer, which is normally wrecked on this sleeve!, Square and rigid spine with bright and clean text, all intact, no ringwear, some very slight age discolouration to the edges, gentle rubwear and small turnover to the bottom right corner, otherwise, it's as good as it gets!
Centrefold:
Inner: White
Insert: Near Mint.
Matrices: A4, B4
Vinyl Weight: 120 grams
Vinyl Condition & Grading: This record has had great care taken of it over the years; it actually vinyl looks and sounds pretty much unplayed. There are no marks at all that I can see on the surface and barely any surface noise. This vinyl is worthy of Near Mint
Album Played For Grading: Yes. (Equipment: Linn Sondek LP12, Linn Ekos arm, Linn K9 moving coil cartridge, tracking at 2 grams into a Cambridge Audio Azur 340A amp and out to a pair of Bose speakers with a Super Woofer)
Tracklisting:
Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
You Gotta Move
Bitch
I Got the Blues
Sister Morphine
Dead Flowers
Moonlight Mile
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.
Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
You Gotta Move
Bitch
I Got the Blues
Sister Morphine
Dead Flowers
Moonlight Mile
Post & Packing: This is a valuable item which can be shipped with insured trackability as follows:
UK: £7.00 (Special Delivery)
Europe: £12.00 (International Signed For with Extra Compensation)
ROW: £15.00 (International Signed For with Extra Compensation)
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