Albums where every track has been covered by someone else

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This probably applies to most Beatles albums, so apart from them...

― zizek's rugger bugger brother, Monday, 13 June 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Do albums that are tributes to entire albums count? If so, then add Fleetwood Mac's Rumours to the list.

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Exile On Main Street - Pussy Galore

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Petra Haden - The Who Sell Out

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I betcha the first Stooges album falls into this category, but trying to remember who has covered what will probably push my brane into overdrivel.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Tapestry, has to be.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

a bunch of punk bands ran through those early ramones LPs

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

(xpost x 2)

I don't remember anyone covering "We Will Fall."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Sky Cries Mary covered it, apparently, as mentioned in a footnote in the Dave Thompson book To Major Tom.

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre800/e812/e81269lvo5g.jpg

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

How about Pet Sounds and SMiLE by the Beach Boys, both covered by Brian Wilson?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

...the book's protagonist was musing on how no punk band would have had it in them to cover We Will Fall.

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Jordan Knight cover every song off Step By Step and Hangin' Tough recently?

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure there must be a Forever Changes tribute record somewhere, and not just the live one that Arthur Lee put out a couple of years ago.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Kind of Blue?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Dub Side Of The Moon

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

So far Mike Oldfield has done four remakes of Tubular Bells.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

I think some string quartet or quintet (who's name escapes me) has covered the whole of Kraftwerk's Man-Machine.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

The Balanescu Quartet did an album of Kraftwerk covers - is that who you're thinking of?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

There's a track or two I'm not sure about, but I'd guess Ziggy Stardust.

― dlp9001, Monday, 13 June 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

The Balanescu Quartet did an album of Kraftwerk covers - is that who you're thinking of?

Yeah, probably. I just heard the cover versions of The Model and Robots, and assumed they've covered the whole LP.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Bang On A Can - Music For Airports

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Youth-The White Album

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Is there a track on "Elvis Presley" that has never ever been performed by anybody else than Elvis?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Zen Arcade covered by Twin Cities artists for the album's tenth anniversary.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

(And there's always Cover albums for reference...)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Velvet Underground & Nico.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I'd bet there are a few Dylan albums that would qualify - most likely Highway 61 Revisited is one of them. Check this website for a humongous list of Dylan cover version:

http://www.bjorner.com/covers.htm

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Derek Bailey/Amy Denio/Dennis Palmer - The Gospel Record (this is awesome btw)

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I believe all songs on Darkthrone "Transilvanian Hunger" have been covered, as well as all of Celtic Frost "Morbid Tales".

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

The first Velvet Underground album, surely.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Definitely the first Leonard Cohen album and probably some of his others.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Black Sabbath's Paranoid, maybe? I know Side One has, anyway. (And not on a mere tribute LP.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Webb-Ten Easy Pieces (retroactivly)

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Surely EVERY SINGLE SONG Robert Johnson ever wrote/recorded has been covered, right?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Petra Haden - The Who Sell Out

Is this any cop? I was toying with buying it the other day in Rough Trade...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Odesey and Oracle

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Surely EVERY SINGLE SONG Robert Johnson ever wrote/recorded has been covered, right?

Including "Malted Milk" and "They're Red Hot" (about hot dogs)!!

Two more albums where every track has been covered by somebody else

Howlin' Wolf and The Real Folk Blues

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Everyone is saying "I bet" and "surely" -- someone has to do the research!

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Um . . . the Beatles?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

someone has to do the research!

Well, I researched the first Leonard Cohen album and it defnitely qualifies. http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/test.html

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

ironic that duran duran have done a tribute album and have been the subject of 2 tributes.

― simon le rhodes, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and Closer surely.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis.

I know it is true as a premium from WFMU a couple years back ran through the entire album, in cover version, twice.

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Sinatra's entire 50s albums output to thread, I guess...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I saw a mix of every song on The Queen is Dead being covered circulating on soulseek a while back.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Jay-Z: The Black Album

All covered by a certain DJ.....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

all of fleetwood mac's "tusk" by camper van beethoven.

also, i seem to remember some pop punk band covering an entire ramones album shock

― matlewis, Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

This thread is more fun if we consider only albums where every song has been covered individually artists (not as part of a comp) -- are there any? Can anyone name one?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Phish used to do this regularly in their live sets? I heard they did VU&Nico but usually stuck to more of their own style music.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

If I remember correctly, they've also done The White Album, Quadrophenia, Remain in Light and Loaded (none of which I would particularly cite as being "their own style music," except maybe RiL)

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

They also did Crooked Rain. I only know of this because of Napster.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

This thread is more fun if we consider only albums where every song has been covered individually artists (not as part of a comp) -- are there any?

I still stand by most of 50s Sinatra

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

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