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: #1051 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Original recording reissued
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Digitally remastered edition of the Rock 'N' Roll veterans' 1971 album, originally the first album for their own Rolling Stones Records imprint. Though the album was pieced together from various sessions, it remains one of their most iconic albums. 10 tracks including 'Brown Sugar', 'Bitch' and 'Wild Horses'.

Customer Reviews

Music 5, Re-master 0
I don't know why the previous posters are impressed with this re-master. Sticky Fingers is my personal favorite Stones album, and if you don't have it, get it, but I recommend you seek out the 1994 re-master on Virgin Records. This re-master distributed by UMD has compressed the top end, probably to hide tape hiss, and boosted the instruments up louder to near distortion levels. On headphones certain higher pitched sounds like the piano on Moonlight Mile are eardrum piercing, and the organ solo on I Got the Blues is particularly horrid sounding on headphones or open speakers. On open speakers, the overall poor quality is even more apparent. While certain sounds, particularly opening guitar riffs, stand out more than before, once the entire band kicks in, the compression leads to a dull thuddy sound, particularly in the drums. The one song that overall sounds better than before is ironically my least favorite - Sister Morphine. It now has a menacing quality that has been missing from previous CD masters, but it opens with a clumsy fade-in on the guitar, again probably to mask tape hiss. Perhaps the most disappointing part of this re-master is that one of my favorite moments in this album - the sudden surprising swell of strings near the end of Sway - is completely buried now.
Some have complained about a high end "harshness" to the Virgin re-masters but to me those are more open and crisp. If that's your taste, that's what you want. If you prefer a more bassy limited sound, you might prefer the new re-masters. As for me I will stick with what I have and not purchase any more UMD re-masters.

A Loudness War Victim
Why the Stones felt the need to compress these new remasters to make them so much louder is beyond me. This CD has a dynamic range of about 8db. Everything has been compressed to make the average volume louder. Try the new Rod Stewart remasters of A Night on the Town and Atlantic Crossing, which were not compressed to increase the volume, to see what might have been with these new Stones remasterings. I actually like the EQ choices Stephen Marcussen made in the remastering of this and the other Stones remasters, but the lack of dynamic range and compression ruin it. No bonus tracks and a loudness war remastering make this one a loser for me. Stick with the Ludwig remasters from '94 or the original CBS/Columbia CDs (the latter of which are unfairly maligned IMHO). Let's not reward this type of remastering.

Get This For The Great New Remastering!
There isn't much I can add that has already been said thousands of times about the Rolling Stones 1971 classic "Sticky Fingers",so I'll get to the basics here about the 2009 reissue-the remastered sound,helmed by Stephen Marcussen and Stewart Whitmore,is a big leap forward over the 1994 Virgin-both the hard-rocking "Brown Sugar" and "B*tch" have more bite,kick and snarl,the acoustic passages of "Wild Horses","Sister Morphine" "You Gotta Move" and "Moonlight Mile" sound clearer and more life-like,the bass no longer sounds like mud,and the top-end harshness of the previous CD editions is gone,balanced out to a tolerable level.The packaging is the same as the Virgin-plus no bonus tracks-so if sound quality is not an issue with you,then keep your old one.But given the reasonable price,I wouldn't deny any Rolling Stones or classic-rock fan the chance to hear this landmark album in a fresh sonic light,either!