You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory - Covers

Covers

• Guns N' Roses covered the song on their album, "The Spaghetti Incident?". All the instruments on this version were performed by Duff McKagan.
• Manic Street Preachers singer James Dean Bradfield played an edited version on the 2004 Lifeblood tour as intro to "Cardiff Afterlife," dedicating the song to the band’s missing lyricist Richey Edwards.Also did an acoustic version on BBC's Radio 2 Music Club, 2008
• Giant Sand covered the song on the album Ballad of a Thin Line Man (1986).
• The Sand Rubies recorded the song for their 1998 reunion album Return of the Living Dead.
• Ronnie Spector, of The Ronettes, recorded the song on her 1999 She Talks to Rainbows EP featuring Joey Ramone.
• Johnny Thunders' friend Michael Monroe, of Hanoi Rocks, covered the song on his debut solo album, Nights Are So Long (1987).
• Nikki Sudden was known for covering the song live.
• The Bruisers covered the song on their 2001 Better Days.
• Sheer Terror covered the song on the live DVD Beaten By The Fists Of God (2005).
• Mouth frequently performs the song in concert. In August 2009, the band recorded a version for their album, "Beggarman Songs" but it was left off of the final release for unknown reasons.
• The Mighty Wah! recorded a version of the song in 1983.
• Mondo Generator frontman Nick Oliveri recorded a solo version of the song for the bands' Australian Tour EP 2008
• Blondie performed a cover during their "Endangered Species Tour". They added it to the setlist on the New York concert as part of a homage of their early friend bands.
• Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson joined Jesse Malin on stage to perform this song at the City Winery in New York City on February 19, 2011.
• Willie DeVille* performed a cover on the 1996 Thunders tribute album "I Only Wrote This Song For You"
• White Fence included a cover as the final track on the CD release of 2011's ...Is Growing Faith