Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, 1st UK , zip, insert

	£		47
	$		62

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

ORIGINAL COPY. FIRST UK PRESSING. Released 1971.  Stereo. Rolling Stones Records, catalogue number; COC 59100, Matrix numbers; COC 59100 A/B3.

Near mint condition copy of one of the greatest Rock LPs ever made. Complete with undamaged original zip, inner `pants' sleeve designed by Warhol and insert .

The last comparable condition copies sold on eBay for £30-200.

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Overall Sleeve Condition : EXCELLENT

It's the usual thing. This sleeve is near mint bar a mark on the internal pants bit from the zip and a tiny dent on the rear sleeve where the zip of the next copy in the original box marked it. Tiny rubs to top right hand corner where sticker removed. but otherwise unfaded, unrubbed and beautiful.

Original insert is Mint.

Vinyl Condition, Visual:  MINT.

Looks brand new and unplayed.

Vinyl Condition, Audible:  MINT.

Plays superbly. Well preserved and cared for, no decrease from the original sound quality. No skips, no jump, no sign of heavy play,

Label Condition :  MINT.

Tracklist:

SIDE ONE

1. BROWN SUGAR
2. SWAY
3. WILD HORSES
4. CAN’T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKING
5. YOU GOTTA MOVE

SIDE TWO

1. BITCH
2. I GOT THE BLUES
3. SISTER MORPHINE
4. DEAD FLOWERS
5. 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 nonironic 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.

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