Ten Albums "Everybody" Owned -- Except Me: Sticky Fingers

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Yesterday I was dragging myself around the local Putt Putt course, suffering through back pain in the name of "fun." Nah, it wasn't that bad: I'm feeling it far more today than I did yesterday. I didn't play well, but at least I did get to play. So I return here, to the land of myLot, where no backs are harmed in the posting of these discussions, and give you another "big" album that turned lots of people on...just not me. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones Like Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream and Other Delights I'm sure the album cover (with a working zipper) sold a copy or two. It was "controversial" at the time. Earlier in the countdown I said that, with one exception, I never owned anything by any of these bands. This is the exception. I went to my first two rock concerts in August and September, 1978, and in both cases part of the pre-recorded music was Some Girls. That one, I owned. (Of course, those were also the days when they'd play something other than "Miss You" or "Shattered" on the radio.) But this one, which is listed as the biggest-selling Rolling Stones album? No. Exile on Main Street? Nope. Gimme Shelter? (shaking head) The Stones really never appealed to me that much. I would say they were, initially, a better band than the Beatles. Couldn't see ol' Mick and Keef and the boys doing something like "Blackbird," could you? Well, there is "Wild Horses" from this album. The rumors have long persisted that Mick and Keith co-wrote this with Gram Parsons (or that Parsons wrote it himself). That's fueled by the fact that the Flying Burrito Brothers' version of "Wild Horses" actually pre-dates the Stones' version. Mick, and Keith especially, were friends with Gram (Richards and Parsons were both into heroin, too ), and Jagger admitted that Parsons was present during the genesis of this song. It's definitely not what you think of when you think of a Stones song. But it's a great, great song...but not enough to pique my interest in the entire album. Sticky Fingers Recorded by the Rolling Stones Produced by Jimmy Miller Released in 1971 Here's the classic a "rehearsal" version of "Wild Horses":