

Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. The group Africa, on whom I can find no info, travels to guess-which-continent with tribal drumming and a whole lot of hollering.ĭownload all five below, then tell us which you like best in the comments.Ĭheck out more Rolling Stones at their website. There was never any clear meaning imparted on the song, and Mick Jagger even said It means, ‘Paint It, Black.’ ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’ means ‘I can’t get no. Soft Cell’s Marc Almond submerges the listener back in the goth underbelly, but with a grand orchestral sweep. A product of the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith. Post-punk sextet Band of Susans unleash a wall of sparring guitars. Paint It Black is a song recorded in 1966 by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Firewater, on the other hand, explores the middle eastern side of things (and you thought the original had a lot of sitar…). First up, Inkubus Sukkubus brings the gothic overtones front and center with an eerie bats-in-the-chapel rumble. Starring Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie and Michael Caine.LastWitchHunterVin Diesel. This was out there.Īs a result, it’s inspired some terrific covers. The middle eastern melody, the spooky sitar riff underpinning the verses, the humming break two-thirds of the way through. It wasn’t as big a hit as the three aforementioned singles, but it was their first real departure from the blues-band mold. A product of the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is a raga rock song with Indian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European influences and lyrics about grief and loss. “Paint It Black” gave the first whiff of that longevity. ' Paint It Black ' a is a song recorded in 1966 by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. To be sure, it was the best sort of samey –ness, but it wouldn’t have forecasted the group still selling out stadiums 45 years later. Great songs all, but much like the Beatles‘ earliest work, they were all a bit… samey. Over the previous few years, classics like “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “The Last Time,” and “Get Off of My Cloud” had hit the world like an atom bomb.

In 1966 the Rolling Stones already had five chart-topping singles under their belts in Britain (two in America).
