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Sticky Fingers

(Virgin)
Release Date: 07/26/1994 12:00

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In 1969, Brian Jones was found face-down in his pool, the victim of what a coroner called “death by misadventure.” The Stones were prodigious drug users, and narcotics seeped into this ramshackle masterpiece, especially “Sister Morphine,” a terrifying overdose song. The themes are dark—even party-hearty single “Brown Sugar” has lyrics about rape and the African slave trade—but the playing is festive, with Jones’s replacement Mick Taylor blazing in guitar-hero mode.
Download: “Brown Sugar,” “Wild Horses,” “Moonlight Mile”

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