| 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 that follows their 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 by Laibach and by side projects featuring Laibach members: Dreihunderttausend Verschiedene Krawalle (300.000 V.K.) and Germania.
The following tracks constitute the final 1990 release, 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.
All tracks written by Jagger/Richards except Track 3, written by Laibach.
The Germania version (Track 5) includes samples from the 1968 Jean-Luc Godard film Sympathy for the Devil, a radio interview with Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels following the Altamont festival and various Mick Jagger soundbites.[1]
In 2015, the Sympathy for the Devil album cover was ranked 37th on the 100 Greatest Album Covers of Yugoslav Rock list, published by web magazine Balkanrock.[2]