Sympathy for the Devil (album)

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).

Sympathy for the Devil
Studio album by Laibach
Released	19 March 1990
Genre	Industrial, neoclassical dark wave
Length	49:42
Label	Mute
Laibach chronology
Macbeth (1990) Sympathy for the Devil (1990) Kapital (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

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.^[2]

References

1. "Sympathy for the Devil - Laibach". Allmusic.
2. "100 najboljih omota YU rocka", Balkanrock.com