Alabama native Percy Sledge scored his immortality with his first time on record: the country-soul anguish of "When a Man Loves a Woman," a 1966 Number One pop and R&B hit. He never had it so good on the charts again but kept cutting quality lamentation for Atlantic — the equally magnificent "It Tears Me Up," '68's slow-burning "Out of Left Field" — in a hearty wounded wail ideal for his surroundings: the melancholy brawn of the Muscle Shoals sound and the nitty-gritty he got from writers like Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham and Donnie Fritts. Sledge had guts, too. His '69 cover of Buffalo Springfield's "Kind Woman" is blazing vocal church, set on a lonesome Saturday night.

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“Satisfied”

Only the genius of Tom Waits could combine the subject of mortality, a reoccurring theme in his work, with wordplay that name checks both Mick and Keith, whom he calls "Mr. Jagger" and "Mr. Richards," and the title of their magnum opus, "Satisfaction." And to show just how cool Waits really is, he even got Mr. Richards to play along, one of nine guest appearances the guitarist has made on three Waits albums. "This growling roadhouse stomp is a late-breaking response to the Stones' greatest hit," Rolling Stone said of the track.