Cover Versions
- Joy Division, New Order, Suicide, The Badgeman and The Sisters of Mercy have done covers of the track. A Joy Division cover played live on April 3, 1980 appears on the 1981 compilation Still, and a New Order cover played live at Glastonbury 1987 was released in 1992 on the album BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert.
- Jonathan Richman plays a portion of "Sister Ray" on his song "Velvet Underground." Indeed, it has been argued that Richman's "Roadrunner" is, considering its distorted organ solo (provided by producer John Cale) and chordal similarities, largely a reworking of "Sister Ray" in musical terms, although Richman's positive and life-affirming lyrics about the joys of driving around suburban Boston are in marked contrast to Reed's detached saga of "debauchery and decay".
- British power-punk band Buzzcocks formed as a result of a classified ad placed by founding member Howard Devoto seeking musicians to collaborate on a version of "Sister Ray".
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