Please help me to collect The Rolling Stones' gospel influenced songs.
What do you think? These are my suggestions. Any false or more?

The Rolling Stones' Gospel

Can I Get A Witness
You Can Make It If You Try
The Last Time
Get Off Of My Cloud (1965 studio or Love You Live version)
Salt Of The Earth
You Can't Always Get What You Want (LIB or post 1990 live versions)
Gimmie Shelter
Tumbling Dice (EOMS or post 1990 live)
Loving Cup (EOMS version)
Torn And Frayed
I Just Wanna See His Face
Let It Loose
Shine A Light
Can You Hear The Music
Winter
Winning Ugly
Baby Break It Down
How Can I Stop
Thru And Thru
Saint Of Me
Thief In The Night
Strictly Memphis
You Gotta Move ( Love You Live version)

... "Winning Ugly"???
Serious?!?

I'd probably put "If you really want to be my friend" and "Pain in my Heart" on that list. But why is Winning Ugly on this list?

Why only certain versions for a few songs?

"Why only certain versions for a few songs?"
Couse they played for example YCAGWYW very bluesy in the 70's but more gospel style later.Same with TD or GS.

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Please help me to collect The Rolling Stones' gospel influenced songs.
What do you think? These are my suggestions. Any false or more?

The Rolling Stones' Gospel

Can I Get A Witness
You Can Make It If You Try

Ok

The Last Time
Get Off Of My Cloud (1965 studio or Love You Live version)
Salt Of The Earth
You Can't Always Get What You Want (LIB or post 1990 live versions)
Gimmie Shelter
Tumbling Dice (EOMS or post 1990 live)
Loving Cup (EOMS version)
Torn And Frayed
I Just Wanna See His Face
Let It Loose
Shine A Light
Can You Hear The Music
Winter
Winning Ugly
Baby Break It Down
How Can I Stop
Thru And Thru
Saint Of Me
Thief In The Night
Strictly Memphis
You Gotta Move ( Love You Live version)[/quote]

A lot of those tracks, I wouldn't call gospel, but does it really matter?

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Far Away Eyes?

But I don't get that list either.



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Yeah, I also think It doesn't really matter.
I think gospel as an interesting music style that influenced TRS. And I'd like to find these kind of connections.That's all.



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IMO Far Away Eyes is musically country influenced.

I always thought that Gospel was supposed to be songs invoking the glory of the Lord, and if that's the case, very few of the songs on your list meet that category!
It's true that the Stones freely adapted the Staple Singers' "This Could Be The Last Time" for their first "self penned" No. 1, but the Stones' adaptation bore only scant relation to the original:





As far as I'm concerned, the only song that meets that criterium is "Just Wanna See His Face" from "Exile", here covered by the Blind Boys Of Alabama:





Just my thoughts!


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

I agree that the only real Stones gospel song is "Just Wanna See His Face".
But the above songs are somehow gospel influenced IMO. I mean the MUSIC STYLE, not the lyric.The chorus or the organ work or the singing style or the rhythm etc.Maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks for the two above links.Interesting, especially the Blind Boys Of Alabama cover.

I too like the Stones' gospel influenced tunes like Just wanne see, Let it loose, If you really want to be, Shine a light, etc.

Same with Dylan and other artists. I always like this gospel-rock touch, if done good.
Another fine exampel was the Cocker/ Russel Mad Dogs tour!

If you search for more Stones moments; - there is a remix of Jaggers Out of Focus.
It's been on a off. CD single and has some gospel touch too. I really liked this version! Nearly forgot about it but have to search it out.