The 20 Most-Covered Rolling Stones Songs

The Rolling Stones have been round a very long time.

Lengthy sufficient, actually, for his or her catalog to amass a group of canopy variations from artists spanning genres and generations.

The wonderful thing about Stones songs is that they are often interpreted nearly each which manner from straight rock ‘n’ roll to gradual blues. Within the listing beneath, utilizing information from secondhandsongs.com, we have compiled the 20 Most-Coated Rolling Stones Songs, with every entry that includes one cowl model.

20. “Get Off of My Cloud” and “No Expectations”
From: 1965 Single/Beggars Banquet (1968)
Variety of Covers: 60

Tying for twentieth place with 60 covers every is “Get Off of My Cloud,” a 1965 single, and “No Expectations” from 1968’s Beggars Banquet. Joan Baez’s model of the latter is beneath, from 1970’s The First Ten Years, an album that additionally included covers of Bob Dylan, Donovan and extra.

19. “Useless Flowers”
From: Sticky Fingers (`1971)
Variety of Covers: 61

In 2011, Scott Weiland launched a complete album of covers titled A Compilation of Scott Weiland Cowl Songs, stuffed with songs by artists Weiland admired over time. “Useless Flowers” was included on it. “I believe I am extra of a Keith [Richards] individual, as a result of, you already know, Mick [Jagger] is extra the enterprise man, he retains the band collectively that manner,” Weiland instructed Esquire in 2015. “I am extra of a music individual, so I establish extra with Keith, however Mick had an enormous affect on the way in which I carry out.”

18. “Brown Sugar”
From: Sticky Fingers (1971)
Variety of Covers: 64

From the very starting, the Rolling Stones appeared as much as Little Richard. What a full circle second it will need to have been for them then when Little Richard recorded a cool cowl of the Stones’ “Brown Sugar” for his 1971 album The King of Rock and Roll. “He was the largest inspiration of my early teenagers and his music nonetheless has the identical uncooked electrical vitality if you play it now because it did when it first shot by means of the music scene within the mid ’50s,” Jagger wrote on social media when Richard handed in 2020. “After we had been on tour with him I might watch his strikes each evening and be taught from him methods to entertain and contain the viewers and he was all the time so beneficiant with recommendation to me.”

17. “Miss You”
From: Some Women (1978)
Variety of Covers: 66

Ann Peebles has interpreted the work of many, however her model of the Rolling Stones’ “Miss You” sounds prefer it was virtually written for her, even with the same music association. (The truth is, she even name-checks one other considered one of her covers within the music itself: 1973’s “I am Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down.”) A particular shoutout must be given to Sugar Ray Norcia who performed the blistering harmonica solo.

16. “Woman Jane”
From: Aftermath (1966)
Variety of Covers: 72

Trini Lopez’s cowl of “Woman Jane” stays principally true to the music’s unique intention, however there is a trace of Spanish-sounding guitar and naturally, Lopez’s voice is loads smoother than Jagger’s. This cowl seems on the 1967 album Trini Lopez in London.

15. “Below My Thumb”
From: Aftermath (1966)
Variety of Covers: 79

It could be honest to say that the Rolling Stones’ “Below My Thumb” has not aged very nicely — it is best to keep away from singing about placing girls down. However in 1975 Tina Turner took some energy in singing it herself, altering the pronouns and together with it on her Acid Queen album. The 12 months after that, Turner was lastly capable of depart her abusive husband Ike Turner and be free from his controlling and violent conduct.

14. “Let’s Spend the Night time Collectively”
From: Between the Buttons (1967)
Variety of Covers: 80

It’s possible you’ll not assume the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Useless had a lot in widespread, however Jerry Garcia evidently had a smooth spot for the British dangerous boys, persistently protecting “Let’s Spend the Night time Collectively” with the Jerry Garcia Band over time. Beneath is an additional particular model that includes Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen’s E Road Band.

13. “You Cannot At all times Get What You Need”
From: Let It Bleed (1969)
Variety of Covers: 87

There are lots of frontmen who worship on the altar of Mick Jagger. However Jagger himself appeared as much as Aretha Franklin, who provided her interpretation of “You Cannot At all times Get What You Need” on her 1981 album Love All of the Damage Away. “She was so inspiring,” Jagger wrote on social media after Franklin’s passing in 2018, “and wherever you had been she all the time introduced you to church.”

12. “Play With Hearth”
From: 1965 Single
Variety of Covers: 88

The Rolling Stones walked so bands just like the Heartbreakers might run. “All the things comes from any individual,” Johnny Thunders as soon as stated in an interview. Thunders recorded a model of “Play With Hearth” within the ’90s. “I imply, Keith Richards took it from Chuck Berry, I took it from Keith Richards, you already know?”

11. “Gimme Shelter”
From: Let It Bleed (1969)
Variety of Covers: 118

Merry Clayton set the bar extremely excessive when she recorded her vocal for “Gimme Shelter” — a scorching half that squeaks and screeches in all the proper rock ‘n’ roll methods. Patti Smith put a brand new, expressive spin on it for her 2007 album Twelve, which additionally featured covers of Jimi Hendrix, Neil Younger, the Doorways and extra.

10. “Angie”
From: Goats Head Soup (1973)
Variety of Covers: 120

Tori Amos’ model of “Angie” is presumably essentially the most hauntingly lovely rendition of a Stones music on this listing. Stripped of every other instrumentation save a piano and Amos’ delicate vocal, it was included in her set lists for over a decade.

9. “Ruby Tuesday”
From: Between the Buttons (1967)
Variety of Covers: 126

The unique “Ruby Tuesday” is mild, ethereal and a bit whimsical. Nazareth’s 1984 model is the exact opposite. However Nazareth frankly had a knack for remodeling the songs of others into their very own sound — you might also wish to take a look at their covers of issues like “The Weight” by the Band or “This Flight Tonight” by Joni Mitchell.

8. “Sympathy for the Satan”
From: Beggars Banquet (1968)
Variety of Covers: 127

Let’s be actual: Axl Rose has the type of wailing rock ‘n’ roll voice made for a music like “Sympathy for the Satan.” Weapons N’ Roses’ model of the music appeared over the ending credit of the 1994 movie Interview With the Vampire. “Now we have a number of influences, however the Stones are most positively an enormous a part of it,” Rose instructed the Los Angeles Occasions in 1989. “As a band, we haven’t appeared to wear down the Stones but. We continue to learn increasingly more from them…concerning the truth you’ll be able to do something you need in your music.”

7. “Wild Horses”
From: Sticky Fingers (1971)
Variety of Covers: 132

There wouldn’t be the Rolling Stones with out blues music — it was the inspiration on which they laid their sound on even of their early years. It is becoming then that somebody like Otis Clay, a Blues Corridor of Famer, would select to file their music. In 2002, Clay contributed a soulful rendition of “Wild Horses” to the tribute album All Blues’d Up: Songs of the Rolling Stones.

6. “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
From: 1968 Single
Variety of Covers: 132

Consider it or not, there was a short window of time the place the Rolling Stones thought-about having Peter Frampton be part of the band following the departure of Mick Taylor on the finish of 1974. Two years earlier than that, Frampton had included a canopy of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” on his album Wind of Change. Frampton in the end was not invited into the Stones, however issues turned out tremendous in the long term — he went on to take pleasure in monumental success with 1976’s Frampton Comes Alive!

5. “As Tears Go By”
From: 1965 Single
Variety of Covers: 161

Earlier than the Rolling Stones themselves even recorded “As Tears Go By” Marianne Faithfull had a success with it. Right here is one other lady’s interpretation of it, recorded by the singer-songwriter Melanie.

4. “The Final Time”
From: 1965 Single
Variety of Covers: 166

In 1967, two years after the Stones launched it, the Who put their very own spin on “The Final Time.” “The Stones actually affected me very, very deeply, their wildness on the stage, the truth that they didn’t put on uniforms,” Pete Townshend stated in a 1979 radio broadcast. “This sort of factor was very, simply, outrageous, you already know. Jagger’s stage efficiency and Keith Richards’ stage efficiency, which is simply very, very wild and unkempt. They had been the primary, I believe, the closest to type of a latter-day punk picture.”

3. “Nation Honk”
From: 1969 Single
Variety of Covers: 169

Honestly, this author did not actually count on “Nation Honk” to have this many canopy variations, however right here we’re at No. 3. Here’s a rendition from considered one of nation’s most distinguished names, Waylon Jennings, who actually let the music’s roots present.

2. “Paint It, Black”
From: Aftermath (1966)
Variety of Covers: 285

What if “Paint It, Black” was a heavy metallic music? Look no additional than W.A.S.P.’s cowl of the music, which was launched on a 1998 CD reissue of their debut album.

1. “(I Cannot Get No) Satisfaction”
From: Out of Our Heads (1965)
Variety of Covers: 380

The beneath cowl appears to be like and appears like some sort of fever dream one might need: Devo in full Devo garb enjoying the Stones’ “(I Cannot Get No) Satisfaction.” And Jagger positively permitted — Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale of Devo performed it for him in 1978 earlier than they launched it. “He instantly stood up and began dancing round on this Afghan rug in entrance of the fireside,” Casale later recalled of Jagger, “the type of rooster-man dance he used to do, and saying ‘I prefer it, I prefer it.’ Mark and I lit up, huge smiles on our faces, like in Wayne’s World: ‘We’re undeserving!’ To see your icon that you simply grew up admiring, that you simply had seen in live performance, dancing round, like Mick Jagger being Mick Jagger. It was unbelievable.”