1. The dreaded "covers" album

2. The inspirational "Gospel" album

3. The hot "15 producers" album

4. The "...featuring" album

5 The "we're back together " album

Fury said:

1. "covers" album

Like this?

Fury said:

1. The dreaded "covers" album

2. The inspirational "Gospel" album

3. The hot "15 producers" album

4. The "...featuring" album

5 The "we're back together " album

oh lord the fake gospel albums

I cant even do it.

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I gotta go with the gospel album. Especially if your whole career in secular music was based on sex, drugs and rock n roll. I remember the rapper Gangsta Boo deciding to go the Christian Hip Hop route, then came back to hardcore hip hop. Coco from SWV. Salt from Salt N Pepa. Not to mention you made millions from profane material and now that you fell off, you want to "get close with God".

Cover albums don't really bother me for some reason from respected musicans. However, a lot of jazz musicians were feeling the pressure from their record companies to record Beatles covers because they were so popular and jazz itself was declining in popularity. Thelonius Monk left his record company when he was propositioned to make a covers album of Fab Four tunes.

bashraka said:

I gotta go with the gospel album. Especially if your whole career in secular music was based on sex, drugs and rock n roll.

What about people like Little Richard, Joe Simon, & Al Green, who abandoned their secular careers while they were still popular to become preachers and record and perform gospel only? Joe never went back secular and doesn't perform his old songs. Cat Stevens also left secular music. Or the reverse, gospel singers who switched to secular like Sam Cooke and Amy Grant? I think the Christian rock band Stryper made a secular album too. Some acts usually had at least 1 gospel song on otherwise secular albums like Deniece Williams, rather than releasing a whole album of it like Elvis Presley. The only Grammys that Elvis won were for gospel albums.

Some covers albums are pretty good, or just a stop-gap to keep busy while still writing new stuff. I'd be worried if I saw someone like Pete Townshend doing one.

I guess none of those albums are an automatic sign that someone's career is over, they're just all kind of trying too hard to sell you something and not trying hard enough to do something that feels like art. It's a phase that a good artist might bounce back from.

paisleypark4 said:

Fury said:

1. The dreaded "covers" album

2. The inspirational "Gospel" album

3. The hot "15 producers" album

4. The "...featuring" album

5 The "we're back together " album

oh lord the fake gospel albums

I cant even do it.

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That gif!!!

For some artists, it's Christmas albums.

cover albums.

It seems like a lazy,quick way to rejuvenate a fading career.Sometimes it works (Rod Stewart),but more often than not,it makes an artist seem like they finally ran out of ideas.I have bought covers albums in the past,but I refuse to buy one ever again.

Anything titled "Live at the ______________ Amphitheatre."

When an older artist that hasn't made an album in years, comes back and makes a new album without their own style, but a weak generic sounding one that sounds like everyone else these days. It just goes to show how desperate they are.

SoulAlive said:

cover albums.

It seems like a lazy,quick way to rejuvenate a fading career.Sometimes it works (Rod Stewart),but more often than not,it makes an artist seem like they finally ran out of ideas.I have bought covers albums in the past,but I refuse to buy one ever again.

He turned into a bore as far back as the mid to late 1980s. The last good thing he had was "Infatuation".

1. A MEDIOCRE/POINTLESS "covers" album (specially of gospel, blues and or jazz standards)

2. The inspirational "Gospel" album (see Nº1)

3. The hot "15 producers" album

4. The "...featuring" album

+ 5.The heavily promoted album full of filler and weak singles (...the harder the fall)

+ 6.The "risky/trying something radically different" album (sorry, it doesn't work, unless you're Bowie)

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I have heard some good-ass cover albums! I like when artists choose songs that meant something to them or inspired them in the first place (and often continue to inspire them their whole lives).

namepeace said:

For some artists, it's Christmas albums.

Yes, exactly what I wanted to say.

Cinny said:

I have heard some good-ass cover albums!

Technically, aren't orchestras, Broadway, & opera performers doing covers albums?

Cinny said:

That album is a mixed bag for me. Some songs are just awesome and others (especially A Whiter Shade Of Pale) are just too good in their original form to cover.

JoeTyler said:

1. A MEDIOCRE/POINTLESS "covers" album (specially of gospel, blues and or jazz standards)

2. The inspirational "Gospel" album (see Nº1)

3. The hot "15 producers" album

4. The "...featuring" album

+ 5.The heavily promoted album full of filler and weak singles (...the harder the fall)

+ 6.The "risky/trying something radically different" album (sorry, it doesn't work, unless you're Bowie)

On point edits.

I think I have seen the pointless covers album with people singing jazz standards when that was not what they were about at all.

Can't forget the "(insert separate artist) + (insert separate artist) + (insert separate artist) are making a group album together" album.

Fury said:

1. The dreaded "covers" album

2. The inspirational "Gospel" album

3. The hot "15 producers" album

4. The "...featuring" album

5 The "we're back together " album

#1's alway's a bad sign.

vainandy said:

When an older artist that hasn't made an album in years, comes back and makes a new album without their own style, but a weak generic sounding one that sounds like everyone else these days. It just goes to show how desperate they are.

Ace said:

Fury said:

1. The dreaded "covers" album

2. The inspirational "Gospel" album

3. The hot "15 producers" album

4. The "...featuring" album

5 The "we're back together " album

#1's alway's a bad sign.

That and when they do something like what Rod Stewart did - an album of standards, like stuff from Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett. Mr. Stewart did SEVEN albums like that!

For me, a "your career is over" album is when an artist makes an album covering their past hits! Didn't Dionne Warwick do like 2 or 3 of those albums? It seemed to work for Lionel last year but he's the only one I can really think of who's career that type of album actually rejuvinated. 99% of the time, it's the ultimate in desperate attempts to keep a recording career going.

vainandy said:

When an older artist that hasn't made an album in years, comes back and makes a new album without their own style, but a weak generic sounding one that sounds like everyone else these days. It just goes to show how desperate they are.

Your statement immediately brings The Bar-kays to mind.

Hudson said:

kitbradley said:

For me, a "your career is over" album is when an artist makes an album covering their past hits! Didn't Dionne Warwick do like 2 or 3 of those albums? It seemed to work for Lionel last year but he's the only one I can really think of who's career that type of album actually rejuvinated. 99% of the time, it's the ultimate in desperate attempts to keep a recording career going.

Sometimes acts release these kinds of albums because they make no money from the original recordings because they signed a bad contract or got ripped off some other kind of way. Others like James Brown would record songs over and over with different arrangements.

MickyDolenz said:

kitbradley said:

For me, a "your career is over" album is when an artist makes an album covering their past hits! Didn't Dionne Warwick do like 2 or 3 of those albums? It seemed to work for Lionel last year but he's the only one I can really think of who's career that type of album actually rejuvinated. 99% of the time, it's the ultimate in desperate attempts to keep a recording career going.

Sometimes acts release these kinds of albums because they make no money from the original recordings because they signed a bad contract or got ripped off some other kind of way. Others like James Brown would record songs over and over with different arrangements.

thos e albums always piss me off because they sound nothing the original i wanted to hear!