no question....night time , mr pitiful, love train ain't to proud to beg , just my imagiation....no one better!!!! others??? all the old chuck berry tunes.....

you'll get an argument from the Black Crowes crowd (and a pretty good argument if you ask me)

Stones is the best cover band, Guns'n Roses the next best.

I think their version of "Hard to Handle" forever disqualifies the Black Crowes from consideration.

Guns 'n Roses... Let's see, which is worse, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" or "Live and Let Die"? But their "Mama Kin" is pretty good, though I've never heard the original.

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right on..not only are they the best cover band...when they cover someone elses music they make it sound like its their own....

Dare I say I always thought Bowie did great covers? Stones do as well though; all you mention and I love Harlem Shuffle, Everybody Needs Somebody, That's How Strong My Love Is and so many others too. Indeed, best cover band, I agree!

With all the amazing covers the Stones have done, I've always thought that the best one was...

"Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)"

So completely and utterly different from the Temps' in form, but so perfectly faithful in essence...

I dunno, though. "Love In Vain" and "Stop Breaking Down" are pretty formidible.

how about time is on my side, its all over now, not fade away,carol, like a rolling stone.....

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> right on..not only are they the best cover
> band...when they cover someone elses music they
> make it sound like its their own....


Yes, that's it... example? Harlem Shuffle!

I'd say Stones on this one too. Check all the early stuff. Too many great ones to mention.

JumpingKentFlash

Yeah Stones - Mona (I Need You Baby)...Down The Road Apiece...Red Rooster..I Cant Be Satisfied...Prodigal Son.



ROCKMAN

not fade away........also a great tune on bb kings album "paying the price of being the boss"

paying the cost (rhymes with boss)

JumpingKentFlash Wrote:
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> I'd say Stones on this one too. Check all the
> early stuff. Too many great ones to mention.

Yeah I'd also recommend the early stuff, i. e. 1963-1965. But they haven't been a real cover band ever since.

But in the 1950s Elvis Presley was a great cover artist too (listen to the "Sun session" and his stuff up to 1957). Later he sang too much country and gospel for my taste.

Around 1970-1972 the J. Geils Band was great.
Ry Cooder is another great cover artist of the 1970s.
Etta James is still doing great covers on her albums.

Time Is On Side, Little Red Rooster, You Better Move On, Not Fade Away, Around and Around, etc.. the list continues... Although I love all original versions, the Stones always made these kind of songs their own. They give those songs an edge. Love In Vain is the best cover ever done... it's sheer brilliance.

agree with the LIV remarks. Although the original stands on its own as one of RJ's masterpieces, the Stones somehow transform the song into an "otherworldly" piece of art. Don't know how they got this end product from listening to the original source, either. brilliance.

yes the RS cover a song and when someone else covers it people think they are covering a RS tune ......... thats why they are the greatest garage -bar band -( sorry nrbq) cover band going.......