The recording of Sympathy For The Devil must be one of the most documented in rock history. Jean-Luc Godard made a documentary in 1968 named after the song which chronicled its evolution from a rather bland and straight-forward folk song, through many fascinating stages, all the way up to its final samba-esque version.
Since then it's been covered by everyone from Guns N' Roses and Janes Addiction to Bon Jovi and Natalie Merchant. The most fascinating interpreters though are Slovenian goofballs and full-time provocateurs Laibach. After releasing an album covering all of The Beatles' Let It Be in 1988, they soon followed it up with an EP consisting of seven different cover versions and remixes of Sympathy For The Devil.
So completely pointless and so very very entertaining.
(mp3) The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the devil (1968)
(mp3) Laibach - Sympathy for the devil (Dem teufel zugeniegt) (1988)
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