Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Fool to Cry - Moana, Scubba
2. Let's Spend the Night Together - Amazonics
3. Out of Time - Astrud C., Urban Love
4. Sympathy for the Devil [Pleased Remix] - Freedom Dub
5. Under My Thumb - Anakelly
6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Michelle Simonal
7. Harlem Shuffle [Favela Remix] - Banda Do Sul, , Marvin
8. Ruby Tuesday [The Dubby Mix][Mix] - Dual Sessions
9. Angie - Uschi, São Vicente
10. Miss You [Back 2 Remixes] - Groove Da Praia
11. Start Me Up/Brown Sugar [Remix] - Corcovado Frequency
12. Wild Horses - Karen Souza

Disc 2:

1. As Tears Go By [Luxury Strings Mix] - Ituana, São Vicente
2. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Amazonics
3. Beast of Burden - Aneka, Urban Love
4. Emotional Rescue [2 Many Beats Remix] - Freedom Dub
5. Tumbling Dice - Dew, Scubba
6. Mixed Emotions - Michelle Simonal
7. Honky Tonk Women [Three Knocks Mix] - Groove Da Praia
8. Paint It, Black - Sixth Finger
9. She's So Cold [Ipanema@7" Mix] - Glambeats Corp.
10. It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) - Banda Do Sul, Natascha
11. I'm Free [Wizard Edit] - Corcovado Frequency, Uschi
12. You Can't Always Get What You Want - Ituana

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6690 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-21
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Import, Limited Edition

Album Description
Australian two CD set compiles both volumes of this popular series. Volume One is the compilation that started the Bossa Nova covers boom! Bossa N' Stones is an Electronic-tinged Bossa Nova treatment of Rolling Stones classics. They have assembled musicians and producers of different latitudes, who accepted the challenge of mixing the music of the legendary Rolling Stones, with the spirit of the Bossa Nova and contemporary electronics. Selections include classics such as 'Start Me Up', 'Satisfaction', 'Let's Spend The Night Together', 'Brown Sugar', a brilliant 'Sympathy For The Devil' and 'Angie'. After the success of the first volume (which has already gone platinum), Volume Two presents early hits like 'I'm Free', 'As Tears Go By' and 'Paint It, Black', as well as the major '70s numbers like 'Tumbling Dice', 'It's Only Rock N' Roll' and 'Emotional Rescue'. The album reaches forward into the '80s with 'Mixed Emotions', one of the highlights of the disc. 2007.

Customer Reviews

Exile On Lame St.
I adore the Stones; and I love bossa nova. I also love marzipan and Thai food, but that doesn't mean that they should be combined.

Let me get right to the point (you can even skip the rest of this review): this compilation is criminally awful. Not only are these perhaps the worst Stones covers I've heard, they on their own merit aren't good songs. They're cheesy, glossy, cynical, soulless, and so blandly professional as to be instantly forgotten. Yet it is as cover songs that they fail on a spectacular level. Sure, the Stones wrote some awful, maudlin or cutesy tunes (Dandelion, Angie), but they are first and foremost a c*ck-rock band. The Stones (at least the prime Stones stuff) were about sex, debauchery, menace, and perversion, and that's what made, and makes, them fun to listen to. Bossa nova, as much as I do like it, is not about sex, or debauchery, or menace, or perversion (mind you my Portuguese isn't very good). Why leech out the very thing that makes the Stones great in the first place?


This collection manages to completely defang--nay, emasculate is the better word--the Stones. Maybe you're the guy who says, "You know, I would love Sympathy For Devil if it were less Satan-y, maybe a little more, I don't know, non-threatening." Or perhaps, "As I woman, I thought 'Under My Thumb' was very misogynist. But then I heard it with strings and a flute and I realized how perfect it would be for my upcoming fund-raising party for my child's preschool."

If that's you, I wish you hours of smooth listening with this compilation. If you, however, are the kind of person who prefers his Stones with some b*lls, as opposed to an order of spinach and artichoke dip, I suggest you pass this one up.

One further piece of advice: if any current or prospective romantic partner gives you one of these songs on a mix, do yourself a favor and run for your life.

Thank you.

Sympathy for the Bossa
I found out about this on Pandora, and I had to have it. I played it in a car full of friends, and all of them want it, too. Makes me want to fly to South America to listen to Bossa n'Stones live.

It's just a really cool album of great covers of great songs, that breathe fresh life into lyrics you know by heart. Like discovering something brand new with an old friend.

Love it!
Great renditions of Stones tunes in Bossa Nova style. These songs really come off well in this style since it is so different from the original style. This is in contrast to the Bossa Marley songs which are not so diff from the original downbeat reggae style, so I suggest avoiding the Marley collection. Just stick with the Stones!