Greatest Cover Album

[Taverner]

[Parche]

1. pf

[Zavulon]

2. How does Diver Down make any such poll?

That album was fucking AWFUL.

The only cover album I've ever actually enjoyed listening to was one Tesla released a while back, and only because I like the sound of the band. I really don't care much for covers.

[Taverner]

3. It was horrible

I hated it

But I have a lot of friends who think it was amazing.

I think they're crazy

[Zavulon]

7. I ran out and got that piece of shit the day it was released, and I felt BURNED.

I loved the first album, was horribly disappointed with the second, but saw the third and fourth going in the right direction. Diver Down, the fifth, was a half hour, full of bad covers, and I swear that the first time I heard the laughter at the end of "Happy Trails" I thought they were laughing at anyone who bought the album.

I never bought another thing from them. In fact, Diver Down was the only piece of vinyl I ever bought and snapped in two out of frustration. I didn't even have enemies I hated enough to give it to.

[Taverner]

8. You missed 1984

Which wasn't great by any measure, but as far as a final album, it symbolized the 80's attitude to finality - "We live forever!"

[Zavulon]

13. As soon as I heard

"Jump," I figured I wasn't missing much. "Hot For Teacher" wasn't bad, but not up to the standards they set for themselves. I can't imagine that I missed out on too classics by not hearing the rest of the album.

"Jump" was inexcusable. To hear that and think of some of their earlier stuff - "Atomic Punk," "And the Cradle Will Rock," "Take Your Whiskey Home," and other such tunes I loved, I wanted to throw up.

[Taverner]

17. It was the sellout of the 80's

Happened to every artist

Well, except some

[Ahpook]

23. Thing with Mr. Halen is, he always had a nice riff? :)

Never really cared for the band as a whole, but I was always ready for a good Ed riff:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HSmankmVI

[HuskerDU]

4. Too Much Too Soon

by New York Dolls

"Stranded in the Jungle"- the Cadets (?)

"(There's Gonna Be a) Showdown"- Archie Bell and the Drells

"Don't You Start Me Talking"- Sonny Boy Williamson

Plus "Giver Her a Great Big Kiss" was an outtake. Classic stuff IMO.

[jeff30997]

5. The Beatles White Album.

:P

[Taverner]

6. Oh bitch please!

[Forkboy]

9. Firewater - Songs We Should Have Written

Not perfect (no covers album ever will be...nature of the beast), but it's damn good.

[SecularMotion]

10. John Lennon - Rock 'n' Roll

[gmoney]

49. Great record... one of the best "Post Beatles" albums by any of them...

[BulletproofLandshark]

11. Rush's "Feedback"

1."Summertime Blues"
2."Heart Full of Soul"
3."For What It's Worth"
4."The Seeker"
5."Mr. Soul"
6."Seven and Seven Is"
7."Shapes of Things"
8."Crossroads"

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Best cover band EVarrrr

:thumbsup:

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 'Kicking Against the Pricks'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music

Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music



Product Description

Richard Thompson - guitar & vocals Michael Jerome - percussion Judith Owen - vocals The idea for this project came from Playboy Magazine - I was asked to submit a list, in late 1999, of the ten greatest songs of the Millenium. Hah! I thought, hypocrites - they don't mean millennium, they mean twenty years - I'll call their bluff and do a real thousand-year selection. My list was similar to the choices here on this CD, starting in about 1068, and winding slowly up to 2001. That they failed to print my list among others submitted by rock's luminaries, is but a slight wound - it gave me the idea for this show, which has been performed occasionally, and will hopefully receive a few more airings. The idea is that Popular Music comes in many forms, through many ages, and as older forms get superceded, sometimes the baby is thrown out with the bathwater - great ideas, tunes, rhythms, styles, get left in the dust of history, so let's have a look at what's back there, and see if still does the trick. I am unqualified to sing 98% of the material here, but me having a go could be considered part of the fun. Also, trying to render an Arthur Sullivan orchestration with acoustic guitar and snare drum is pretty desperate stuff, but may, at a stretch, be thought charming. What appears on this CD is a performance, rather than a chronological, distillation of several different shows - hence some gaps in the 17th and 18th centuries, and too much weight on Music Hall and Rock & Roll - we just felt that some performances weren't quite captured - perhaps on Part Two?

Disc: 1

1. Sumer Is Icumen In
2. King Henry
3. So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo
4. Bonnie St. Johnstone
5. O Sleep Fond Fancy
6. Remember O Thou Man
7. O Shenandoah
8. Blackleg Miner
9. I Live In Trafalger Square
10. There is Beauty In the Bellow of the Blast
11. Java Jive

Disc: 2

1. Night and Day
2. Orange Coloured Sky
3. Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-Dee
4. A-11
5. See My Friends
6. Friday On My Mind
7. Tempted
8. Oops!...I Did It Again
9. Cry Me A River
10. 1985
11. Sam Hall

[Beaverhausen]

25. That is a great album. How cool is the "OOPs..." cover?

[MrSlayer]

16. Slayer - Undisputed Attitude

Great album covering all their favorite Punk songs.

[Forkboy]

18. I was actually a little disappointed with that one.

It's good, don't get me wrong, but I think because I'm such a fan of most of the originals that it's tough to beat those for me.

[Throd]

53. The "Mr Freeze" cover was worth the album alone!

[Symarip]

19. Madness - The Dangermen Sessions

Everything from The Kinks to Desmond Dekker done PERFECTLY.

[Orrex]

21. I really like Tori Amos' Strange Little Girls

Her cover of Eminem's '97 Bonnie and Clyde is truly chilling.


However, Bowie's Pin Ups is a lot of fun, and not just for the nifty cover art!

[keroro gunsou]

22. metallica

garage days and and garage days revisited. still got 'em on vinyl.... god help me

[Iggo]

37. This is the correct answer. (n/t)

[TX Screwball]

24. My Favorite

...and my scariest.

[Forkboy]

26. Only one song on the Lard cd is a cover.

I know...it's where I got my nic. :D

[TX Screwball]

29. Ooops!

Cover albums not album covers.
Been a long day..

There ya go.

[Forkboy]

30. LOL...I had to think about that too.

Album covers was my first thought too. :)

[coyotespaw]

27. Ahem, ye've all been overlooking one of the few worthwhile things to come from Canada...

Rush's cover album Feedback...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QUWkFeGQ0A

[6000eliot]

28. Pin Ups takes me back to when I was 14.

One of my favorite albums, period.

[Lady-Damai]

31. Axis: Bold as Love

[greendog]

32. Townes Van Zandt's "Roadsongs"

These songs were recorded over a number of years in joints all over America. Iwish I'd written every one. No such luck. This collection represents a lot of love and fun. Cody became a baker. Ruester's going back to school. Mickey's gone straight. Jimmie's laying low. I'm a dad.



Ira Hayes
(Peter La Farge)
A native American from colorado. A rodeo rider, worker, folk singer, and poet. He died on October 7, 1965. His adoptive father, Oliver La Farge, won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "laughing Boy". This song, one of Peter's many, speaks for itself.

Dead Flowers
(M. Jagger, K. Richards)
Everyone knows the Rolling Stones. That's Jimmie playing bass and singing harmony. Ruester on the other guitar.

Automobile Blues
(Lightnin' Hopkins)
I had the privilege of meeting Lightnin'. Cody, the violin player, was forced on me. If you see this, Cody, give me a call.

The Coo Coo
(T.C. Ashley)
I thought this song came from Scotland, but there are no coo coos in Scotland. It comes from South Carolina, where there's plenty. I know a couple.

Fraulein
(Luther Williams)
I promised my father I would learn this song first if I was to get a guitar for Christmas. I did and I did.

Hello Central
(Lightnin' Hopkins)
One of my favorite songs. Mickey, Jimmie and me.

Indian Cowboy
(Joe Ely)
We're from the same part of the country. He picked my up hitchhiking once. He's the only person I ever met who really did run away and join the circus. If I was from Lubbock, I would, too.

Racing in the Streets
(Bruce Springsteen)
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. I listened to it 30 times in a row at Lomax's house. We drove 300 miles the next day, I played it and somebody recorded it. That's why I didn't know it better. Bruce will understand

My Starter Won't Start This Morning
(Samuel(Lightnin' Hopkins)
Centerville, Texas
1912 - 1982

Texas River Song
(Traditional)
It is believed that this song was written by a school teacher for a geography class. I wouldn't have done very well. Angelina is pronounced Angeleena and there is no Nachez River in Texas. It's the Nechez.

Wabash Cannonball
(A.P. Carter)
One of the first songs I ever heard. Jimmie, Cody, Mickey and me in Indiana somewhere.

Short-Haired Woman Blues
(Lightnin')
Like most of his songs, Lightnin' made this one up on the spot. God made Lightnin' up on the spot too, I suppose.

Man Gave Names to All the Animals
(Bob Dylan)
This song is so true and so much fun to sing, you're bound to mix up the words a little. Ruester's playing his guitar. I'm beating on the back of mine.

Little Willie the Gambler
(Bob Dylan)
This song fills me with hope. It was a diamond flush, not a straight.

Cocaine
(Traditional)I learned to finger pick from a Hoyt Axton record.

[cemaphonic]

41. Yeah, that's a great one

Standouts for me are "Dead Flowers," "The Coo Coo," and "Rambin' Gamblin' Willie."

[Dr. Strange]

33. How about Guns & Roses' "The Spaghetti Incident"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22The_Spaghetti_Incident%3F%22

I loved "Hair of the Dog," even though (or maybe because) it wasn't that different from the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YFLhfWdKDY

[OmahaBlueDog]

34. 5. Book of Dreams (Steve Miller Band)

4. Spitfire (Jefferson Starship)
3. Axis: Bold As Love (Jimi Hendrix)
2. Candy-O (The Cars)
1. Sgt, Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)

JMHO, and there are plenty of good other choices (like any of the Neon Park covers for Little Feat Albums)

[mitchum]

35. Tie between "Pin Ups" and "Kicking Against The Pricks"....

with "David Johanson and the Harry Smiths" in second

[Sugarcoated]

36. I don't know about greatest, but I like this one a lot

My favorites are 1,000 Wedding duet with Evan Dando and Julianna Hatfield and Ooh Las Vegas done by The Cowboy Junkies but just about every cover is great

.

[Fire Walk With Me]

38. Laibach's LP worth of covers of "Sympathy for the Devil".

[gmoney]

39. Yo La Tengo "Fakebook" or "I'm your Fan" (Cohen tribute)

Honorable mention to "Rutles Highway Revisited"

[Sebastian Doyle]

40. Diver Down is only half a cover album

But there's some damn good covers there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CHbFI2Ovc0

[enigmatic]

42. "Rainy Day" (1983)

Recorded by members of L.A.'s then "Paisley Underground" of bands; Kendra Smith's version of Neil Young's "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong" and Susanna Hoffs' version of Lou Reed's "I'll Be Your Mirror" are both gloriously wonderful, and the version here of Alex Chilton's "Holocaust" (w/ Kendra on vocals) is better than the original..

http://www.discogs.com/release/906435

[britpopper]

43. Ruby Trax...

Tribute to NME's Roaring Forty...okay, not technically a covers album but since it is a 3-disc set of wonderful 90's britpop bands covering some pretty darn good hits of the past...it gets my vote regardless...sheck it out I say...

[enigmatic]

44. "Fakebook"- Yo La Tengo

Their versions of The Flamin' Groovies' "You Tore Me Down" and John Cale's "Andalucia" are highlights. Low-key, but sublime..

[gmoney]

51. I gotta go with "Griselda" as my fave from this...

but cheers on recognizing this gem!

[enigmatic]

55. "Did I Tell You" is awesome, too

Even though it's not technically a "cover"; brilliant album all around, though..

[begin_within]

45. The Very Best of Nat King Cole

[meegbear]

46. A Testimonial Dinner - The Songs of XTC

[meegbear]

47. Beyond the Wildwood - A Tribute to Syd Barrett

[Bragi]

48. Crisis? What Crisis? -- Supertramp

See

[speedoo]

50. "Enjoy Every Sandwich" (Warren Zevon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjoy_every_sandwich

Adam Sandler's a jerk, but he kicks ass doing Werewolves of London,

[City of Mills]

52. Night Divides the Day: The Music of the Doors

George Winstson -



http://www.amazon.com/Night-Divides-Day-Music-Doors/dp/B000069JZM

[PVnRT]

54. Invalid list, since "Renegades" by RATM isn't on it

[SwissTony]

56. Serious reply?

Thea Gilmore: Loft Music

Thea is a singer/songwriter from England who has been compared to Dylan and Waits as a songwriter. Brilliant voice too.

Less serious reply:: Various artists: Stairways to Heaven

The 's' on the end of Stairways is not a mistake. In the 90s, there was a TV program in Australia called "The Money or the Gun" hosted by a very intelligent interviewer called Andrew Denton. Such shows often have a resident band who play a different song every week. This show had a resident song (STH) played by a different band/artist each week. Versions were done by Rolf Harris (wobbleboard and a bit of a hit in the UK), Beatles and Doors tribute bands and a few others.