Saturday, June 21, 2025

Punks Play Stones (plus more Soul Queens)

 

adapted from an Ottilie Simpson photograph
Here's a collection of punk and pub rock bands doing Stones songs.  "Satisfaction" and "Street Fighting Man" are here twice, in very different versions.  Some big hits are here, as well as some deep cuts from the early Stones' records.  If there's any interest in a second volume, I've found loads of more recent punk style Stones covers.  This set covers the decade from 1976 to 1985.

Here too is a sequel to Stoned Soul Queens, with performances that didn't make the first set (either for reasons of space or because another cover version was chosen).  This set includes more than one version of the same song.  Some are more recent recordings (later than the 1960's or 1970's); and there are two songs included that the Stones didn't write.  Thanks to the readers who shared suggestions on the previous post.  Hope you enjoy this one!

11 comments:

  1. PUNKS PLAY STONES: https://pixeldrain.com/u/Scev3QUj

    SOUL QUEENS SING STONES: https://pixeldrain.com/u/xTsr1JXK

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    1. Nice one Jonder, love those Stones cover compilations, keep them coming!
      The Ottilie Simpson photograph is cool but even better would have been a safety pin through that tongue ;-)

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    2. I tried to get one of the AI image generators to make that for me (Stones lips logo with safety pin through the tongue), but AI apparently doesn't comprehend yet what a safety pin is supposed to look like. The results were more like hairpins!

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  2. There is one singer I keep forgetting. A few weeks ago the BBC Antiques Road Show had a woman, who when she was young made a 7'' with the Stones. I cannot find it. I could after I heard her on the show, and searched for it. I forget to take notes, and as a result I forgot. I believe it was around 1964 or 5 and she was of Jamaican origin, but full English, Black Beautiful & British. Brian Jones had his jaw on the floor in the picture. After this vague description, does anyone know that singer/song?

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    1. I finally found her! https://www.discogs.com/artist/2606379-Cleo-Sylvester

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  3. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - I'm free. Ventilator blues (live).
    New Bomb Turks - Summer Romance.
    Soup Dragons - I'm free.
    Inmates - So much in love.
    Eddie and the Hot Rods - Satisfaction (live).

    First two on the R.Hell live double tape/album on ROIR.
    Last one a great medley with Gloria on a live EP. Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond said those covers were cruddy !

    J from Europe.

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    1. Thanks, J! I'm happy to know about the ones I didn't know about. If you see Nick Saloman, stick out your tongue at him.

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  4. Ramones - Stupid Girl.
    Forgot this one.

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    1. Thanks! I recently finished reading "Miles Per Gallon", the memoir by Mike Magrann (singer of Channel 3). Mike wrote that it was Robbie Fields (aka Posh Boy) who made CH3 cover "Stupid Girl".

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  5. few more songs
    the last time - also play The Reegs (ex - chameleons), the Damned, The Opposition
    Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Queers, Motorhead, THe Replacements
    Tell Me - The Mattless Boys
    Street Fighting Man - The Pink Fairies, Glen Matlock, Chelsea, Ramones
    We Love You - Axemen (NZ punks), Die Toten Hosen, The Damned
    Paint It Black - UK Subs, Husker Du, Big In Japan (Liverpools punks)
    Heart Of Stone - The Mekons
    Play With Fire - Nikki Sudden, Johnny Thunders
    2000 Light Years From Home - The Celibate Rifles
    Satisfaction - The Vibrators, THe Hot Rods
    Out Of Time - Ramones, 101"ers
    Mother's Little Helper - Peter & The Test Tube Babies
    Take It Or Leave It - Eddie & The Hot Rods
    Honky Tonk Woman - Fear
    Have You Seen Your Mother Baby - The Records
    Gimme Shelter - Sisters Of Mercy, Chrome
    Sympathy For The Devil - Anti-Nowhere League, Motorhead, Chelsea, Dave Kusworth (Jacobites)
    Wild Horses - Skids, Nikki Sudden
    Angie - The Members



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    1. Thanks, man! I found the punk Stones tribute album that Cleopatra put out last year (with Fear, Anti-Nowhere League, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Chrome, etc.) But some of these others I didn't know about. Much appreciated!

      https://www.discogs.com/master/3568922-Various-Punk-Me-Up-A-Tribute-To-The-Rolling-Stones

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