“Paint It Black” by the Rolling Stones

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Brian Jones played the spooky sitar tune at the 1966 Los Angeles session to this classic. Bill Wyman contributed the klezmer-like organ, the studio legend Jack Nitzsche the gypsy piano.

“Brian had pretty much given up the guitar by then,” recalled Keith Richards. “If there was any other instrument lying around, he absolutely had to do something with it. That gave the sound a lot of different textures.”

Rolling Stones (1966)

There is less variety in the text: “I look inside myself and see my heart is black/I see my red door and it has been painted black…” The whole world is black, and not even girls in summer dresses can help.

Aftermath: The first Stones album to be written entirely by Jagger/Richards lived up to their bad-boy image and portrayed the groupies, crooks and parasites of Swinging London. One encounters hard riffs (“It’s Not Easy”), girls hungry for adventure (“Under My Thumb”) and contemporary psychedelia (“Paint It Black”).

These bands and musicians recorded a cover version of “Paint It Black”.

  • 3 Steps Ahead (1998)
  • The Agony Scene (2003)
  • Marc Almond + Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1998)
  • The Animals (1967)

  • Anti Nowhere League (1983)
  • Anvil (1981)
  • Avengers (1983)
  • The Black Dahlia Murder (2002)
  • Eric Burdon & War (1970)
  • Vanessa Carlton (2202)
  • Ciara (2015)
  • Deadsy (2006)
  • Earth Crisis (2006)
  • Echo & the Bunnymen (1988)

  • The Eternal Afflict (1992)
  • Face to Face (1996)
  • Chris Farlowe (1966)
  • The Feelies (1999)
  • Firewater (2004)
  • Gob (1998)
  • Karel Gott (1969)

  • Grip Inc (1995)
  • Hayseed Dixie (2007)
  • Incubus Succubus (1997)
  • Marie Laforêt (1966)
  • Johnny Long (1999)
  • Tracy Lawrence (1997)
  • Ottmar Liebert (2001)
  • M Clan (2001)
  • Marduk (2002)
  • Mephisto Waltz (1992)
  • The Meteors (1991)
  • Rage (1998)
  • The Residents (2000)
  • The Standells (1966)
  • Gabor Szabo (1966)
  • The Tea Party (2000)
  • Three Sixes (2004)
  • Glenn Tipton (1997)
  • U2 (1991)

  • The Unseen (2005)
  • Hikaru Utada (1999)
  • Vicious Rumors (1994)
  • Rick Wakeman (1994)
  • WASP (1984)

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