#1159 The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

On the heels of a seemingly endless run of insanely solid, vaguely similar, incrementally stranger (or in the case of Satanic Majesty's, a lot stranger) albums there's nowhere left to go but everywhere, pointed inward. It's an odds and ends collection of leftover songs that hangs together pretty darn well, simultaneously adventurous and a return to roots, soulful and satisfying and subtly strange. One of their more thrilling albums, though I can't put my finger on why, which is probably why 4.5/5