Awesome The Rolling Stones

Perhaps it’s because we need our spirits lifted, but we can’t seem to get enough of the SkaTune Network lately. Today’s jam is an unconventionally upbeat cover of the Rolling Stones’ 1966 classic Paint It, Black,. While it’s not a happy song, Jer’s arrangement almost made us forget its dark subject. Bonus points for the Time Bomb riff at the end.

Musician Alexander Uhl loves to perform rock, pop, and movie music on a church pipe organ. His YouTube channel is packed with covers including this version of Darude’s 1999 trance hit Sandstorm. We also suggest checking out his covers of Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer and Cutting Crew’s (I Just) Died In Your Arms.

Whether or not there was a true rivalry, the media loved to play up the competition between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Dog & Rabbit’s brilliantly executed short film plays out this battle through a series of slapstick collages animated using the dueling rock bands’ album art. Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animations were clearly a source of inspiration.

Bardcore musician Hildegard von Blingin’ is back with another great medieval interpretation of a popular song. This time, we’ve got The Rolling Stones’ 1966 classic Paint It, Black, which works incredibly well with the centuries-old instrumentation and revised Old English lyrics. Just wait for the choir to kick in at the end. You won’t be disappointed.

This October, the Rolling Stones will release Hackney Diamonds, their first original album since 2005 and without Charlie Watts on most tracks. The elder statesmen of rock and roll prove they still have it with the single Angry. The music video features a leather-clad Sydney Sweeney rolling through LA, dancing to a Stones retrospective on the billboards.

Celebrate your love for rock and roll royalty with this official LEGO wall art based on The Rolling Stones’ iconic lips logo. As you build the 1998-piece kit, you’ll find a hidden 60th-anniversary logo inside the tongue. An included QR code gives you access to a one-hour playlist of Stones music to enjoy while you build.

Boston Dynamics programmed one of its nimble Spot robots to mimic the dance moves of Mick Jagger. But that’s not all. Spot is soon joined by the other members of the Robot Stones to replicate the music video for their classic hit Start Me Up.

Constantine Bard presents a sweeping medieval-style cover version of The Rolling Stones’ 1966 hit song Paint It, Black. While we love how the original adds so much depth with Brian Jones’ sitar playing, this version feels even more epic in its scope.

There I Ruined It reimagines another song as the worst version of itself. This time, they converted The Rolling Stones’ classic Satisfaction into a Scott Joplin-esque ragtime ditty that absolutely nobody asked for. Though we actually enjoyed it more than Cat Power’s version.

It seems age is no barrier to The Rolling Stones producing quality music. Their April 2020 release is as good as many songs from the height of their popularity, and seems especially timely when set against imagery of empty cities photographed during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Rolling Stones are definitely getting up there in age, so it’s easy to forget what they were like in their youth. This 1964 newsreel is a perfect time capsule of the early days of the band. Is it just us, or was their entire audience 10 years-old?

Musician Jamie Dupuis turns in a great cover version of the Rolling Stones’ Paint It Black, performing the 1966 rock classic on his carbon fiber Emerald harp guitar, which produces a wonderfully layered sound that combines both lead guitar and bass sustain sounds in one.

Angel Nene takes a look back at the career of The Rolling Stones by playing a medley of their songs, accompanied by morphing images of the groups primary members as they have aged since 1962 through 2018. He previously did the same for The Beatles.

During a recent appearance at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, the talented Rory Charles Graham aka “Rag’N’Bone Man” and his band turned in an extraordinary, soulful cover of the 1969 Rolling Stones’ classic, Gimme Shelter. Damn, that man can sing.

To commemorate the band’s 50th anniversary, Suntory has concocted a batch of just 150 bottles of this woody Japanese whisky, in an awesome lip-and-tongue decanter, to be priced at ~$6300 each.

Like the Stones? Sit back and enjoy this awesome elderly street performer in Brussels as he rocks out his own “special” version of the classic (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Stick around for a bonus medley.