In the spirit of Spotify Friday, I've made a little playlist for y'all. Following Andrew Loog Oldham's Twitter recommendation of Bobby Darin's Back Street Girl and the death of Solomon Burke, it occurred to me how many good songs there are out there that (a) The Rolling Stones have covered and (b) are covers of Rolling Stones songs.

The list is by no means definitive - the one absence that really hurts is Wayne Gibson's Under My Thumb -

and I've limited it to one cover per song. There are some obvious ones I've left off - Soup Dragons, for example - because I don't like them. I've tried not to go crazy on the Chuck Berry songs. And if you think that Staples song is a cheeky inclusion, I ask you: who's being cheeky?

As well as some reinterpreted favorites - always loved Linda Ronstadt's Tumbling Dice - there are songs that I love by The Stones that I love even more in their original forms: Irma Thomas' Time Is On My Side, Marvin Gaye's Can I Get A Witness, etc.

But, hey, pitch in. The more the merrier.

http://open.spotify.com/user/lucashare/playlist/1SNmeATzHuvyyBoeK6QdgR