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What are your favorite cover albums?
Cover albums usually get a lot of critique if done wrong but there are some that can be are very good.
My personal favorite is Jahmene Douglas - Love Never Fails. This is a good example of a cover album done right, the album is mainstream chart songs mostly with a Gospel and soul take on them with original arrangements, the closing track on the album is a cover of Next To Me which sounds like a totally different to the original.
Cover albums usually get a lot of critique if done wrong but there are some that can be are very good.
My personal favorite is Jahmene Douglas - Love Never Fails. This is a good example of a cover album done right, the album is mainstream chart songs mostly with a Gospel and soul take on them with original arrangements, the closing track on the album is a cover of Next To Me which sounds like a totally different to the original.
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Medusa by Annie Lennox
The Animals by The Animals
Through The Looking Glass by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Pin Ups by Bowie
12 by Patti Smith
Covers by Placebo
The title makes me wince, it is so pretentious.
Maybe 'Another Time, Another Place' by Bryan Ferry?
Or 'Townes' by Steve Earle.
tori amos - strange little girls
[it was always expected that she would release a cover album because her covers on her live tours were exceptional...but this wasn't an ordinary covers album... quite the opposite.]
Other brilliant Dylan cover albums -
- hard rain ( also covers Leonard Cohen )
- every grain of sand
Both feature brilliant jazz reinterpretations by Barb Jungr
And another fantastic Cohen covers album -
Jennifer warnes - famous blue raincoat
I discounted Another Time Another Place as it includes one original track.
Not sure what's pretentious about Dylanesque. It seems to be an accurate description of the contents.
They certainly are very good singers and they always choose great fun classic songs. Their last Saturday Night At The Movies is the best so far, in my opinion.
Also, Robbie's swing albums are great.
And of course, my favorite male singer is Michael Buble, he really makes very good cover albums, and recently he has been adding more self-written songs which is a great move.
God bless you and her always!!!
Holly (a day one fan of her)
P.S. Her self named album is also good too! I love to hear her sing "Me And Bobby McGee", "I Fall To Piece", and "Lovesick Blues" on it.
If the album was Dylanesque, it wouldn't have been covers, it would have been in the style of Dylan. So it was making claims as to something it was not. It's quite listenable but not Dylanesque, hence pretentious.
Amazing album of Tom Waits covers.
Example tracks:
The Bird and the Bee - I Can't Go For That
The Bird and the Bee - Maneater
Rumer - Boys don't cry
Dionne Bromfield - Introducing Dionne Bromfield
Cyndi Lauper - At Last
Michael Buble - Christmas
Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly
Metallica -$5.98 ep garage days re-revisited.
Hayseed Dixie - ac/dc cover album.
Richard cheese - lounge against the machine
Taking uber-masculine tracks and stamping a female power over them.
Paul McCartney, Run Devil Run.
I LOVE Through the Looking Glass. Awesome.
Annie Lennox - Medusa, particularly her version of No More I Love Yous
Aargh! No! My wife owns this and insists on playing it around the house during the festive period. Guaranteed to turn Ebeneezer Goode into Ebenezer Scrooge.