Sympathy for the Devil (album) explained

Sympathy for the Devil
Type:studio
Artist:Laibach
Cover:Sympathy_for_the_devil_album_cover.jpg
Released:19 March 1990
Genre:Industrial, neoclassical dark wave
Length:49:42
Label:Mute
Prev Title:Macbeth
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:Kapital
Next Year:1992

Sympathy for the Devil is a compilation album by Laibach and follows on from their The Beatles cover album Let It Be. Sympathy for the Devil features seven cover versions of The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil" and one original Laibach track. The tracks are recorded both by Laibach and a variety of side projects with Laibach members (including Dreihunderttausend Verschiedene Krawalle (300.000 V.K.) and Germania).

Track listing

  1. Laibach: "Sympathy for the Devil (Time for a Change)" – 5:43
  2. Laibach: "Sympathy for the Devil (Dem Teufel zugeneigt)" – 4:54
  3. 300.000 V.K.: "Sympathy for the Devil (Anastasia)" or "Anastasia" – 5:32
  4. Germania: "Sympathy for the Devil (Who Killed the Kennedys – instrumental)" – 5:53
  5. Germania: "Sympathy for the Devil (Who Killed the Kennedys)" – 7:04
  6. 300.000 V.K.: "Sympathy for the Devil (Soul to Waste)" – 4:52
  7. Laibach: "Sympathy for the Devil" – 7:52
  8. 300.000 V.K.: "Sympathy for the Devil (Soul to Waste – instrumental)" – 7:52

All tracks written by Jagger/Richards, except track 3 written by Laibach.
The above is the final release from 1990, which compiles every version of the song that was previously released on two 12" singles and two CD singles in the UK in 1988. Track 1 is an edited version of track 7.

Legacy

In 2015 Sympathy for the Devil album cover was ranked 37th on the list of 100 Greatest Album Covers of Yugoslav Rock published by web magazine Balkanrock.[1]

Notes and References

  1. https://balkanrock.com/autorski-clanci/top-10/100-najboljih-omota-yu-rocka/ "100 najboljih omota YU rocka", Balkanrock.com