Stones: Sticky FIngers.....

Best I've heard is the original on Atco catalog # COC 59100.

The MOFI version is dreadful and might be the worst recording they ever released.

THE MOFI IS RIDICULOUS!! It is the most compressed version of mush I have ever heard, super low output as well.. The original if a good clean one will kill it. It can sound very good, but was kinda recorded in a distance on some songs and flat, and then some tracks are excellent... If you want it for Moonlight mile, and like Wild horses the original pressing I have plays nearly perfect in all frequency extremes, great dynamics, very smooth but not flat highs, and the bass is very full, especially on those 2 tracks.

Thanks to Gary Giorgi for screwing up the Sticky Fingers on MoFi, along with so many others. I have a copy and it sucks. The original Atco LP is great and the SACD is probably the best record of the bunch.

On Mofi the sax on Brown Sugar sounds like a kazoo. The early Atco sounds good, though not as good as an early US pressing of Exile-- which has unjustifiably gotten a bad reputation.

Viridian, I'm confused by your mention of SACD. Sticky Fingers was never released in SACD.
Anyway, I have both UK & US first pressings of Sticky Fingers and the US LP sounds better to me and others who have sat down and compared them. THe UK pressing sounds "more" compressed than the US pressing, neither are sonic marvels.