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I recently got this Dougal Reed (actually quickspace I think) CD which is a cover in entirety of Fleetwood Mac's roumours. I like it and I was thinking, I like covers, and I like when a whole album is covered (by one or several bands). It especially works for me when they are non-mainstream bands covering mainstream stuff, like the aforementioned Dougal Reed CD. Rumours has a bunch of great songs but I really can't stand fleetwood mac. So, what are some other cover albums? Off hand I can think of The Smiths is Dead (Cover album of the Queen is Dead) and that Sgt. Pepper cover album released by NME back in 89 or so. Can you guys think of any more tribute albums where the tribute is to a particular album? thanks...

― g, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'McLemore Avenue' by Booker T And The MGs (1970). A complete cover of 'Abbey Road' by The Beatles.

Not sure if the Pussy Galore version of 'Exile on Main Street' has ever been released in its entirity.

― Andrew L, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Zen Arcade was covered by a bunch of Minnesota bands in 1993 or so -- best thing on it I can remember offhand was Arcwelder doing "Whatever," which admittedly is my favorite ever song by them.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I should probably leave this to an expert, though I'm not sure one exists for this subject on ILM .. but aren't Phish famous for covering other band's albums during their live shows? I'm not really into Phish, so it's difficult to remember, but I think they do a different album for each Halloween ... they've done Dark Side of the Moon in the past, and I remember hearing that they were going to cover 'Loveless' ....

anyone know anything about that?

― chris, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know Phish have covered The White Album, Remain In Light and Loaded. Trey always wanted to do Loveless, but I don't know if it actually happened.

I saw a video of the White Album night and it was fucking terrible. That was my only exposure to Phish.

― Mark, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Betty Serveert did a whole album of VU covers.

― JM, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heaven and Hell: A tribute to the Velvet Underground. Came out in '89 I think. Great VU covers by then unknown bands such as Nirvana, James, The Wedding Present.. Chapterhouse does a great version of 'Lady Godiva's Operation'

The Coolies, ...Dig? I think it was their first album. Every song was a Simon & Garfunkle cover - done in various styles (metal, rap, funk, punk, rockabilly ...)

Rutle's Highway Revisited - All covers of Rutle's songs. Only song I can recall is Galaxie 500 doing 'Cheese & Onions'.

― Dave225, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark Kozelek (of the Red House Painters) recently released an entire album of AC/DC covers 'Whats next to the Moon' all played in his usual down-tempo, melancholic acoustic guitar style, and all quite unrecognisable.

― stevo, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

screeching weasel covered at least one of the ramones albums in full

― fritz, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also

K. McCarty does the songs of Daniel Johnston. "Dead Dog's Eyeball"

She's an amazing guitarist - great voice too (kinda like Sandy Denny, (if that's who I'm thinking of) for the unitiated.)

― Dave225, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yippee! Another chance to mention Luther Wright and the Wrongs, who covered Pink Floyd's The Wall in its entirety...bluegrass style!

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And we can't forget the Ex-Lion Tamers, whose live set consisted of Wire's _Pink Flag_ played straight through, right down to the exact amount of space between songs. (Sometimes they did "Options R" as an encore." They opened for Wire on Wire's reunion tour... they are rumored to have recorded their version as _Flap King_, but WMO announced that it's not coming out after all.

I've done radio shows with covers of every song on the Beatles' White Album and Bob Dylan's _Greatest Hits Vol. 2_ in order. The latter's playlist is at http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Douglas/dw.001123.html , and you can even listen to a RealAudio archive.

― Douglas, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd like to cover nation of millions, it has enough giant important iconic songs to work with radical reinterpretations or whatever the fuck.

― ethan, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How foolish of me not to again mention the Squirrels' The Not-So-Bright Side of the Moon...

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ah chapterhouse, whatever happened to andrew sherriff? he seemed a boy with talent.

― keith, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about the Big Daddy version of Sgt Pepper. The full album done in the style of fifties artists with Within You Without You as beat poetry and A Day In The Life in Buddy Holly style with the crescendo at the end being his planne exploding.

Great stuff

― MarkS, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Claw Hammer, 'Q:Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' Incidentally, the original is one of the greatest albums of all time. 'Straight Outta Compton' was covered by V/A.

― dave q, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jennifer warnes album of LC songs was great, also frank beenet does some wicked lounge grunge.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Queers do Rocket To Russia all the way through

― JM, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Laibach covered the album "Let It Be"

― James Kyllo, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there's 'that skinny motherfucker with the high voice?' by dump, which is all prince covers.

― maura, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and "When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water" which is all Bobby Goldsboro covers

― James Kyllo, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sinor Coconout ever do a straight Kraftwerk, or does he mix them up?

― scratch, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ciccone Youth (Sonic Youth + Mike Watt) did the Whitey album in 1987/88. It is basically cover versions of Madonna songs (and some othert stuff I guess). Into the Groove is phantastic.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Laibach's Let It Be is one of my favorite cover albums of all. I actually prefer the Laibach's versions of "Across the Universe" and "I Me Mine".

All of the rest are just to artists though... I have that Caroline Now! comp, tribute to Brian Wilson, playing it earlier today, and it still drives me batty. Quite fond of the tributes to Roky Erikson, Arthur Lee & Love, and Skip Spence.

― badger, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

From Pitchfork News:
"NME reported earlier this week that, with the insane hype following the band around the UK (it's worse there than here, believe us), the Strokes have already inspired a cover band. Going by the downright shameful moniker of Diff'rent Strokes, the band apparently recreates all the 11 songs from Is This It (12, if you include "New York City Cops") using a Casio-style keyboard. But Diff'rent Strokes are no run- of-the-mill Bjorn Again-- they've got a record deal! The incredibly prestigious UK label Guided Missile (anyone? anyone?) will, according to a post to their webboard, release their debut album on December 3rd. Yay."

― Mith Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Thcuse my Lithp.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

from The Male Nurse to this???, oh dear

― gareth, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chicks on Speed have an album of B-52s covers.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Brazen Hussies are doing an album of Journey covers!

― dave q, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pussy Galore covered all of Exile on Main St.. I've heard part of it, it's terrible, but you kind of expect that.

― daria gray, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

As Alex in NYC has just pointed out on the Cover Connections II thread, Camper van Beethoven have gone the Quickspace route and done a whole Fleetwood Mac LP, 'Tusk' in their case. Details here. I hate to think how they've murdered "Sara".

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nearly all the tav falco/panther burns albums are covers the whole way thru, & most of those are great.

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Came across an LP by The Chrysanthemums at the weekend, which covers the entirety of The Zombies "Odessey and Oracle", in order. Since it was cheap, I bought it. Treads a very fine line between worship and gentle mocking of the original, I thought. Would probably give Dr.C an apopletic attack.

― Jeff W, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

JEff W.:

sounds kind of cool, could you post the name of the album if possible...

― g, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.strebor84.freeserve.co.uk/mada014_chrysanthemums.jpg

― Jeff W, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm pretty sure the Whitey Album only has 2 Madonna songs on it (Burnin' Up and Into the Groove). It also has a cover of Addicted to Love by RObert Palmer, and a bunch of original crap.

― Nick A., Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

What albums would you cover if you had the time? For me, it would have to be an album that follows the following rules:

Gotta be a cohesive album. No greatest hits or anthologies.

Can't be an album that to which I'm greatly connected. I couldn't do Crooked Rain because I've heard it too many times, it's been one of my top three albums since I was twenty.

Can't cover an album that's already been covered. No Zen Arcade or Exile. I'd want to try something that hasn't been covered already.

Gotta be an album that's known for being an album. Rumours, yes. Tango in the Night, not so much.

One of these days, I'll sit down and cover Physical Graffiti.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

eighteen years pass...

So do we have a thread that's about albums that are collections of covers? (Bowie's Pin-Ups et al.) -- want to throw this one into the ring, I've heard a variety of the cuts as singles in the past few months but the full album is out and honestly, the PR lives up to the hype, it's really good on all levels:

https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/album/inuktitut

Inuktitut is Elisapie's fourth solo effort. It's a covers album that sprouted in the artist's mind in the winter of 2021, when songs by artists such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Queen, and Cyndi Lauper, whose music once took over the community radio airwaves throughout Nunavik, Northern Quebec, triggered a flood of tears. Many of these songs were an escape as the community and cultural references were being challenged by colonization. Elisapie began a mental archaeological process: finding songs associated with emotional memories and people from her past. She followed that with a second, more prosaic quest. She sought the permission of the original artists to translate and adapt the songs that are now on this album.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:23 (two years ago)

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