# Stones covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914 "2006-12-20T13:32:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/1 "2006-12-20T13:32:07Z")
I was listening to Susan Tedeschi’s cover of _You Got the Silver_ this morning, and trying to think of good Stones covers. None immediately came to mind – I think we can discount every half-assed bar band’s version of _Brown Sugar_, don’t you? Joe Cocker did a nice version of _Honky Tonk Woman_ … Lindsey Buckingham does _I Am Waiting_ on his new album … and, uh … ? Name me some good Stones covers. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/2 "2006-12-20T13:38:52Z")
Devo – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction The Flying Burrito Brothers – Wild Horses ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/3 "2006-12-20T13:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] Devo – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [/QUOTE] Ah, good one. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/4 "2006-12-20T13:54:03Z")
Unless you were asking for Stones covers which were "hits’, I’d like to suggest anything off _Paint It Blue_ a cd of Stones hits done in true blues fashioned by various artists. “Heart of Stone” by Joe Louis Walker is a favorite. Then of course there are the Stones’ covers of songs which might not have been hits before they did them, and in that case I would like to throw in Molly Hatchet’s version of “It’s All Over Now”. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/5 "2006-12-20T14:07:55Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem] …_Paint It Blue_ a cd of Stones hits done in true blues fashioned by various artists. [/QUOTE] Holmes Bros. doing _Beast of Burden_? I ordered a copy. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/6 "2006-12-20T14:23:28Z")
You may laugh, by Linda Ronstadt did a surprisingly passionate rendition of “Tumbling Dice”. Hard-to-impress critic Robert Christgau says it beats the Stones version- I wouldn’t go that far, but it is decent. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/7 "2006-12-20T14:37:57Z")
“Gimme Shelter” by the Sisters of Mercy: just what you’d expect from that cover, except it works for some odd reason. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/8 "2006-12-20T14:50:08Z")
Tori Amos – “Angie” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/9 "2006-12-20T14:50:22Z")
The Black Crowes did a great cover of _Wild Horses_. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/10 "2006-12-20T14:52:59Z")
_Bittersweet Symphony_ by **The Verve** sampled the **Andrew Oldham Orchestra** recording of _The Last Time_. So much so they had to give songwriting credit. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/11 "2006-12-20T14:54:13Z")
:smack: You said _good_ Stones covers. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/12 "2006-12-20T14:54:39Z")
Robert Johnson did a very nice cover of “Love in Vain.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/13 "2006-12-20T15:30:17Z")
I’m partial to the Folksmen’s cover of “Start Me Up” on the _[url+http://www.columbiarecords.com/amightywind/]A Mighty Wind_ soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/14 "2006-12-20T15:31:19Z")
I knew I was gonna screw that up. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/15 "2006-12-20T16:13:20Z")
Marianne Faithful’s “Sister Morphine” is quite good. May not count as an actual cover though. (Uncredited for lyrics.) The New Riders of the Purple Sage have a great live version of “Dead Flowers”. (Jerry Garcia on the pedal steel.) There’s also a version by Townes Van Zandt on the “Big Lebowski” soundtrack that might be better known but isn’t as good. The Sundays did a cover of “Wild Horses” that was popular and has been used in commercials. (Now that’s a stamp of quality right there!) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/16 "2006-12-20T16:18:56Z")
I have a copy of the original 45 release of “As Tears Go By” in the original sleeve, with a picture of the Stones on it, looking pensive. It’s a good cover and protects the record real fine. That’s what you meant, right? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/17 "2006-12-20T16:22:34Z")
yes, yes, **ftg** is dead on, assuming hers didn’t come first, Marianne Faithful’s “Sister Morphine” is a drugged out masterpiece. It stomps all over the Stones version, which has weird vocals by Mick that don’t match the despair of the lyrics. You really can think the song is actually happening to her while she is singing- scary stuff. The flip side “Something Better” is great as well. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/18 "2006-12-20T16:35:34Z")
I’m not a huge Stones fan, but when I was visiting my sister in Savannah, GA, we went to a bar where this blues band **Too Blue** ( **Two Blue**? I bought two CDs and they use a different ‘too/two’ on each) was playing. One one of their CDs they do a really great, raw, light version of Jumpin’ Jack Flash that actually makes the song worth listening to. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/19 "2006-12-20T16:43:51Z")
I can’t think of _any_ really good Stones covers. (As noted above, Marianne Faithfull’s “Sister Morphine” doesn’t count, since she basically wrote the song in the first place.) But a few are OK…Blood Sweat & Tears did an ambitious take on “Sympathy for the Devil” that, while not completely successful, was at least interesting. The Residents did a suitably frustrated version of “Satisfaction.” Ike & Tina Turner’s “Honky Tonk Women” wasn’t bad. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914/20 "2006-12-20T16:47:56Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] I can’t think of _any_ really good Stones covers. [/QUOTE] Why do you think that is? Although there are a couple of exceptions – noted in the OP – I tend to agree with you. What is it about the Stones that make them so uncoverable? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stones-covers/384914.md?page=2)