Listening to Kiss "Dynasty" right now and 2000 Man is the best Stones cover I have ever heard. Im sure this topic has been "covered" before but just wanted to give some of MO. Kiss was a campy crap band (and i loved them as a kid just the same) but that cover still rocks. Dynasty isnt too bad either. Kiss tried to cash in on the disco crap with Dynasty. Think it was cool though how they reached back to '67 and covered that Stones song. Ace does a good job on that song. Best Stones cover to me. Any other Stones covers u guys like ?

To name a few...

Johnny Winter's Silver Train and Jumpin' Jack Flash
Otis Redding's Satisfaction
Alexis Korner's Get Off of My Cloud
Flying Burrito Brothers' Wild Horses

Jack does a pumped up punk rattle through of 2000Man on American Slang.....






ROCKMAN

The best Stones cover ? Well I say it again : Bette Midler "Beast of Burden"

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Dead flowers, you do know that your first video is a fake?

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Dead flowers, you do know that your first video is a fake?

Not till you now told me. Thanks.

I think that version of DF from The Big Lebowski is very good.

JumpingKentFlash

Gimme Shelter- Mitch Ryder

Found this contribution under 19 October 2006 in USA TODAY:

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By Ken Barnes

The best Stones covers: One label's opinion

Regular readers of this blog will know that Thursday's regular feature has traditionally (if a four-month-old blog can be said to have traditions) been playlists. Now that we're featuring a weekly playlist in the paper on Tuesdays, we figured we'd run that here on Tuesdays (Monday nights, actually) and do something else on Thursdays.

Which I'd like to be lists, of various sorts. Various lists ranging from the greatest all-time songs to the best guitar solos have drawn good responses from you, so it seems to be worth a shot.

This one's a little less generalized than the examples above. I just got an album called Paint It Black, subtitled The Compilation of The Rolling Stones cover tracks. (There may be an apostrophe missing somewhere in there, but never mind, let's keep my inner copy editor stifled for now.)

I'm going to list the tracks the compilers believe constitutes the definitive Stones covers collection (or probably the definitive collection that they could license readily). Then I want to turn it over to you -- what Stones covers do you think should be on a collection of this type? What are the best Stones covers? Then I'll chime in with some of my own later on.

Tracklist follows, with assorted footnoted comments.

David Bowie/Let's Spend the Night Together (*)

Rod Stewart/Street Fighting Man (*2)

Aretha Franklin/Jumpin' Jack Flash

Otis Redding/Satisfaction

Linda Ronstadt/Tumbling Dice

Ike & Tina Turner/Honky Tonk Women

Bryan Ferry/Sympathy for the Devil

Grand Funk Railroad/Gimme Shelter

Mighty Lemon Drops/Paint It Black (*3)

Tony Merrick/Lady Jane (*4)

Ramones/Out of Time

Flying Pickets/Get Off My Cloud (*5)

Jason & The Scorchers/19th Nervous Breakdown

Exodus/Bitch (*4)

Miranda Lee Richards/Dandelion (*6)

Leon Russell/Wild Horses

Quireboys/Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)

Gilby Clarke/Dead Flowers

Footnotes:

* Never a favorite of mine. Already this compilation's in trouble by me.

*2 I was curious -- does Rod Stewart cover any Stones songs on his new Great Rock Classics of Our Time album? Answer -- no. Too busy covering great rock classics by Cat Stevens, Bread and Bonnie Tyler, apparently.

*3 I actually like this version, and the group, but it's sure a strange segue from eight global superstars to the Mighty Lemon Drops

* 4 Not familiar with these tracks

* 5 Just fyi for those unfamiliar with the Flying Pickets, they're an a cappella group.

* 6 Obscure but cool version of relatively obscure but cool song. Points to the compilers for this one.

OK, I'll bet the collective wisdom out there can come up with some killers that were missed. Have at it.

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The blog mentions some more covers many of which I don't know.

Tori Amos/Angie
David Bowie/Let's Spend the Night Together
Joanna Dean/Gimme Shelter
Devo/Satisfaction
Aretha Franklin/Jumpin Jack Flash
Charlotte Martin/Wild Horses
Melanie/Ruby Tuesday
New Riders of the Purple Sage/Dead Flowers
Cat Power/Satisfaction
Rage Against the Machines/Street Fighting Man
Ramones/Out of Time
Otis Redding/Satisfaction
Linda Ronstadt/Tumbling Dice
Leon Russell'/Wild Horses
Jason and the Scorchers/19th Nervous Breakdown
Searchers/Take It or Leave It
Del Shannon/Out of Time
Sisters of Mercy/Gimme Shelter
Social Distortion/Under My Thumb
Soundgarden/Stray Cat Blues
Rod Stewart/Street Fighting Man
Rod Stewart/Gimme Shelter
The Sundays/Wild Horses
Ike & Tina Turner/Honky Tonk Women

Any hidden jewels among these?



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The best Stones cover ? Well I say it again : Bette Midler "Beast of Burden"

This, and Bobby Dare's cover of "The Last Time".

Kiss' "2,000 Man" also is great. Here's a cool acoustic live version from their 1995 "MTV Unplugged" special:

Don't know if it is "The Best", but one of my favorites in Mothers Little Helper, by Belgian singer Arno Hintjens.

Not in any order

Think- Chris Farlowe.mp3
Connection - Montrose.mp3
Dead Flowers - Dax Riggs.mp3
Gimme Shelter - New Model Army & Tom Jones.mp3
Heart Of Stone - The Allman Brothers Band.mp3
Honky Tonk Women - Tay Mahall.mp3
No Expectations - Johnny Cash.wma
Out Of Time - Manic Street Preachers.mp3
Paint It Black - K is for Kate.mp3
Ruby Tuesday _ Melanie
Take it or leave it - Searchers.mp3
The Spider And The Fly - Buffalo Tom.mp3
Tumbling Dice - Linda Rondstadt.mp3
Sitting on a fence - Twice As Much.mp3
We Love You - Cock Sparrer (1977).mp3
Stray Cat Blues - Soundgarden.mp3

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I came accross a cover of Satisfaction a while back by Junior Wells that knocked me out. Complete blues-style reinterpretation of the song.

I have also always enjoyed the Devo take on Satisfaction. Love the video.

Flamin' Groovies LP "Now" includes very nice versions of Paint It Black & Blue Turns To Grey, but the best thing I ever heard is Checkerfield Kings album "Let's Go Get Stoned"

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Flamin' Groovies LP "Now" includes very nice versions of Paint It Black & Blue Turns To Grey, but the best thing I ever heard is Checkerfield Kings album "Let's Go Get Stoned"

good call on the Chesterfield Kings....their version of Street Fighting Man could fool the casual fan

Moonlight Mile Alvin Youngblood Hart
As Tears Go By Johnny Thunders

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Flamin' Groovies LP "Now" includes very nice versions of Paint It Black & Blue Turns To Grey, but the best thing I ever heard is Checkerfield Kings album "Let's Go Get Stoned"

good call on the Chesterfield Kings....their version of Street Fighting Man could fool the casual fan

You're right, Chesterfield, not Checkerfield.
I only have flac files given to me by my brother-in-law, and i often listen to that album, and do you know their album "Drunk On Muddy Waters" ? And Surfin' Rampage ? they are so talented, they can play anything with class. I miss words in english languange to explain what I feel about that band.

Many have been mentioned already.
But there is more . .

And only some good ones:

Act together Nikki Sudden
Angie Womack& Womack
Back Street Girl Lampchop
Brown sugar Ryan Adams & Beth Orton
I got the blues Come
I'm waiting Lindsay Buckingham
It's not easy Charlie Sexton
Just wanne see his face Blind Boys of Alabama
Sway A.Escovedo
Honky Tonk Woman Joe Cocker, Humple Pie, Ike+Tina Turner
Gimme Shelter Thunder
Connection Montrose
Dead Flowers Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Cowboy Junkies
Far Away Eyes Handsome Family
Happy N. Lofgren
I'm free Soup Dragons
Lets spend the night together Roger Chapman, Muddy Waters, Tina Turner
Mothers Little Helper Tesla
Sympathy for the devil Andy Taylor
Paint it black Eric Burdon& War
Play with fire Calwin Russel
@#$%& Joan Jett
Stupid Girl Ellen Foley
Jumpin J. Flash Leon Russel, P. Frampton
Under my thumb Blind Faith, Terence Trent D'Arby
You got the silver Carla Bruni
2000 Light years Monster Magnet

and some more very nice covers on those "Blues" and "Country" compilations!

my two favourites:

<<As Tears Go By Johnny Thunders>>

...speaking of Thunders; there's an audience recording of a 'Stones Tribute' show he and Richard Lloyd - backed by a couple of the Heatbreakers - did. Includes a fantastic cover of Play With Fire

Other than Otis', Ike & Tina's and The Burritos' covers, I'll nominate the reggae version of Salt Of The Earth by The Cables

dont like her attitude at all and her newest lover is nothing but an emberassing little dwarf. but this version somehow works. nice "broken" voice.

GIMME Shelter -Tom Jones

Adding to the list:
Oasis- Street Fighting Man
Sundays - Wild Horses
Tesla - Mother's Little Helper
Barney Bentall - Dead Flowers

not the best, frankly - but since Nena is a big Stones fan










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