I've been spending a lot of time listening to this 1998 album of instrumental covers of Prince songs by Keff McCulloch (who did the Sylvester McCoy era version of the Dr Who theme tune, and incidental music for several late 80s Dr Who stories) and I wanted to recommend it, and see if other people had recommendations for cover albums/'in the style of' type stuff on spotify?
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― ferret is followed! (soref), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago)
kidz bop kids are obviously great, but they already have their own ilm thread so maybe everyone already knows them?
― ferret is followed! (soref), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago)
The many "Orgel Sound J-Pop" comps are charming for a brief period of time.
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago)
There's just so much of this stuff being churned out, it's hard to know were to start! I'd like to read a long New Yorker article about the Vitamin String Quartet, how all those albums are recorded, about the musicians who play on them
― ferret is followed! (soref), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago)
I have the Starlite Orchestra playing the hits of the Neue Deutsche Welle downloaded to my phone. There's something strangely calming about their clinically professional, bloodless covers.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago)
Top Kidz 2: Die Coolsten Deutschen Pop-Hits is pretty good as well.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago)
King Larry Las Vegas if you're into fun covers. Shit, I spent about three whole days going through these, but the list is at my other home. I'll get back to you. But if you like "Incredibly Strange" type stuff, there is loads of it on Spotify.
― Amne$ha (I M Losted), Saturday, 28 December 2013 03:06 (eleven years ago)
good lord vitamin string quartet have like 500 albums
― akm, Saturday, 28 December 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago)
some radio station plays their music 24 hours a day. they must be raking money in.
how did I not know that Mike Westbrook did an Abbey Road cover album until twenty minutes ago?
― ferret is followed! (soref), Saturday, 28 December 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago)
A Tribute to Brian Eno
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago)
(uh this link should work if the first one doesn't)
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago)
Disco Fever have about a million albums of covers of disco and 80/90s pop songs on spotify (though the same tracks reappear on a lot of them), incluidng an incredible version of Wang Chung's 'Dance Hall Days' where it sounds like they couldn't make out the original lyrics and just went with vague phonetic approximations.
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)