Best Covers Album

[DroppinScience]

Which cover albums do you think are the best (i.e. a specific artist releases an entire album which covers various famous songs)?

Off the top of my head, I'm really digging on Paul Anka's "Rock Swings" album (covers songs from The Cure, Nirvana, Pet Shop Boys, Van Halen, R.E.M., etc. in that "lounge" type setting... really neat!) and of course Rage Against The Machine's "Renegades" was classic (covers of socially conscious songs from Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Minor Threat, MC5, Rolling Stones, etc.).

I also am really interested in Nouvelle Vague's bossa nova treatments of new wave songs.

I know there's billions more, but help me out here! What other covers albums have you found pretty inspired?

[Medellia]

I used to have the Rage one but I never really listened to it. I don't think I've ever listened to a covers album except for maybe a couple of songs off of Renegades. I really do want to eventually get Weller's Studio 150 though.

[DroppinScience]

Oh wait, there's also Guns N' Roses' "Spaghetti Incident" album (of punk and proto-punk songs). It was decent, but it could've been better.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

giant sand's 'cover magazine' album is really good. they do fucking iron man on there. 'renegades' is my favourite rage against the machine album. what they did to beautiful world was a touch of genius. the nouvelle vague album is a better concept than it is an album. doesnt stop it being good though. too drunk to fuck! the detroit cobras only do covers. i have one of their albums somewhere. it's pretty fucking good. dont like their version of the strokes'' last nite though. that was rubbish.

[roosta]

i like all them me first and the gimme gimme's songs

[enree erzweglle]

The soundtrack from I Am Sam was pretty good.

[Parkey]

I'm with you on the Nouvelle Vague front (y)

[WhoMoi?]

The soundtrack from I Am Sam was pretty good.

(y)
I was just going to add that one, until I saw that you'd already done it.
People can really mess up Beatles covers, but most of the ones on that soundtrack are great.

[enree erzweglle]

(y)
I was just going to add that one, until I saw that you'd already done it.
People can really mess up Beatles covers, but most of the ones on that soundtrack are great.
I know--I was moved by Rufus Wainright's version of Across the Universe.

Before that album, Joe Cocker was the only one who ever did a good cover of a Beatles song. In fact, I sometimes like his version better than the original. (!)

[HEIRESS]

I once made a mix CD titled "please put the cover back on" made up of the original track followed by its cover

its a thing of beauty

[cosmo105]

Shlock's "Punk Side Story" was pretty fucking awesome when i was 14

[DroppinScience]

I know--I was moved by Rufus Wainright's version of Across the Universe.

So those Beatles covers are good? I think I only heard a Sheryl Crow cover and I wasn't terribly impressed.

Speaking of "Across The Universe," I love David Bowie's cover of it. :)

[WhoMoi?]

So those Beatles covers are good? I think I only heard a Sheryl Crow cover and I wasn't terribly impressed.

Speaking of "Across The Universe," I love David Bowie's cover of it. :)

Yes, most of them are really good. Sheryl Crow's track is one of the few that I don't like (but I've never been a fan of hers).

I especially like Eddie Vedder's version of "Hide Your Love Away," Sarah McLachlan's "Blackbird," and Aimee Mann's (with someone else whom I can't remember right now) "On Our Way Home." It's good, go get it. (y)

[cosmo105]

Aimee Mann and Michael Penn. i agree, that soundtrack was fantastic. Rufus really does that song justice. Ben Folds' "Golden Slumbers" is beautiful too. i really hate the Vines' contribution, and i'm not a big fan of Grandaddy's "Revolution," but otherwise it's really worth picking up.

[b-grrrlie]

David Bowie - Pin ups

and what I've heard of Johnny Cash's American III: Solitary Man and American IV: The Man Comes Around - is brilliant.

[zippo]

Were a Happy Family-A Tribute to the Ramones isnt bad...maybe one of the only cover albums i have, dont know much about cover albums really, the I am Sam one´s nice too....sort of a pointless post...later.

[Savage Jimmy]

Darrin's Coconut Ass from Goldfinger, but its only an ep.


a ska/metal cover of Feel Like Makin Love is fuckin awsome

[DroppinScience]

D'oh! How could I have forgotten. Mandy Moore's "Coverage" (covers of '70s and '80s songs from bands like XTC, Blondie, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Joe Jackson, et al) was dynamite too!

[intergalactic]

Beatles- White Album
Stone Roses (Self titled)
Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty (of course)
oh oh, and Pauls Boutique!!!
and for that matter, The 5 Boroughs too
Beck- Sea Change
Elliott Smith- From a Basement on a Hill
Ramones (self titled)
Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks
Lou Reed- Transformer
Michael Jackson- Dangerous/ Thriller
Muse- Origin of Symmetry
Nirvana- Nevermind
Pearl Jam- 10
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

No.1- The Velvet Underground and Nico

[icy manipulator]

APC - emotive

[muddfoot]

Boris The Sprinkler- Group Sex
Primus- Miscellanous Debris

[ScarySquirrel]

The last three posts are pure idiocy. Please, move along, folks. Nothin' to see here.

[intergalactic]

The last three posts are pure idiocy. Please, move along, folks. Nothin' to see here.


foowl

[icy manipulator]

The last three posts are pure idiocy. Please, move along, folks. Nothin' to see here.

a perfect circle's emotive is a covers album you dumb fuck

[GreenEarthAl]

Duran Duran - Thank You

esp: 911 is a Joke - Public Enemy; Ball of Confusion - Temptations; I wanna take you higher - Sly & The Family Stone

[stillill]

Johnny Cash American IV

[dublirie04]

Mad Professor meets Jah Shaka "New Decade of Dub"

it shows an artwork of a studio with those two slapping hands/greeting eachother at the studio door. I like it cause they have done an old album together and a new one and they the cover art is pretty much the same just redone with more modern equipment that they did not use in the first studio.

I also like Roots Manuva "Jungle tings Proper" -- it shows an addias shoe (on a person of course, but the the shoe and pant leg) walking up some stairs, maybe subway stairs. I think it represents the streets very well.

[Brooklyn Babe]

There is an album called "Shared Vision" - that has all beatles covers including a great cover of "we can work it out" by Stevie Wonder.

[muddfoot]

The last three posts are pure idiocy. Please, move along, folks. Nothin' to see here.What have you got against
Boris The Sprinkler- Group Sex
Primus- Miscellanous Debris

[ms.peachy]

Johnny Cash American IV
yeah I was gonna say this one too :)