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.

Off the top of my head, I really liked these:

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

Dylanesque - Bryan Ferry

The title makes me wince, it is so pretentious.

Maybe 'Another Time, Another Place' by Bryan Ferry?
Or 'Townes' by Steve Earle.

good question

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.]

Martin L Gore - Counterfeit E.P

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.

I quite enjoy The Overtones albums.

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.

I love Lady and Gentlemen from LeAnn Rimes.

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.

Scarlett Johansson - Amywhere I Lay My Head

Amazing album of Tom Waits covers.

Probably 'I'm Your Fan'. Album of Leonard Cohen covers, released early 90's. Terrible title, but some great versions of Cohen's songs.

The Bird and the Bee's tribute to Hall & Oates. It's just so good.

Example tracks:

The Bird and the Bee - I Can't Go For That
The Bird and the Bee - Maneater

Joss Stone - Soul sessions 1 and 2
Rumer - Boys don't cry
Dionne Bromfield - Introducing Dionne Bromfield
Cyndi Lauper - At Last
Michael Buble - Christmas

Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox - Twist is the New Twerk
Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Foreverly

Double post

The Wildhearts - Stop us if you've heard this before.
Metallica -$5.98 ep garage days re-revisited.
Hayseed Dixie - ac/dc cover album.
Richard cheese - lounge against the machine

Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls

Taking uber-masculine tracks and stamping a female power over them.

Paul Weller, Studio 150,

Paul McCartney, Run Devil Run.

Also, though they've never made a covers album, Biffy Clyro's cover versions are always excellent.

1,000 Years Of Popular Music-Richard Thompson

I LOVE Through the Looking Glass. Awesome.

Anastacia - It's A Mans World

Cher - It's a Man's World,
Annie Lennox - Medusa, particularly her version of No More I Love Yous