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Thread started 08/22/18 8:37pm

daingermouz202
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Covering a whole album

Has an artist ever did a cover of another artist whole albun?

I know movies are always getting redone so I was just curious as to whether it's ever been done on record.
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Reply #1 posted 08/23/18 1:41am

McGee

Yes.

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Reply #2 posted 08/23/18 3:58am

Dancelot

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Macy Gray did Stevie Wonders Talking Book


oh, and Prince's Black album was covered too of course

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Reply #3 posted 08/23/18 7:25am

thedoorkeeper

Ryan Adams covered Taylor Swift's 1989.
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Reply #4 posted 08/23/18 4:14pm

luvsexy4all

the whole deep purple machine head album was covered by various artists...and its great

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Reply #5 posted 08/24/18 4:41am

daingermouz202
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Thanks to all,This is interesting. Gonna try and check them out against the originals.
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Reply #6 posted 08/24/18 1:25pm

MickyDolenz

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I have a record by Ramsey Lewis called Mother Nature's Son. It's not the entire Beatles' white album, but every song on it came from there. In the same way George Benson has an album called The Other Side of Abbey Road where all of the songs came from Abbey Road.

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Reply #7 posted 08/25/18 8:44pm

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Reply #9 posted 08/29/18 5:28pm

luvsexy4all

lool said:

wtf is this?

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Reply #10 posted 08/30/18 2:39pm

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Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade: Live FRogs Set 1, and Live Frogs Set 2 - ... essentially covers PINK FLOYD'S ANIMALS (somewhere therein)

I thought it was indulgent at the time, but some people who smoke spoke highly of it.

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Reply #11 posted 08/30/18 11:52pm

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Yes. Radio Riddler have an album called Purple Reggae which is actually a cover version of the full Purple Rain album reggae style with some big name guest artists....would be interesting to hear what you think. I listened to it on Spotify.
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Reply #12 posted 08/31/18 3:57am

jaawwnn

Cheap Trick did Sgt Pepper, but that was more of a celebration than a reimagining, like when Amanda Palmer covered the of entire Purple Rain.

The multiple artist reggae cover of Ok Computer is better than it has any right to be.

The entire Cut the Crap by the Clash has been covered and released at least twice by people trying to make it not terrible.

Dirty Projectors covered Damaged by Black Flag, their angle being that they covered the entire thing from memory.


Related - Talking Heads wrote a song called The Overload that was based on a description of Joy Division, without ever having heard them. They did pretty good!

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Reply #13 posted 09/09/18 11:20pm

lool

luvsexy4all said:



lool said:




wtf is this?



Punk band Schlong does Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours':

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Reply #14 posted 09/10/18 8:52am

Cinny

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I hate when people do this.

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Reply #15 posted 09/10/18 5:27pm

ThePanther

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Mary Lee's Corvette did Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (live, no less) back in about 2002. It was incredible! Unfortunately, I lent it to a girl I liked in grad-school and I've never seen it since...

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Reply #16 posted 09/16/18 6:46am

MattUK

Marsheaux covered the entire Depeche Mode album "A Broken Frame"

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Reply #17 posted 09/16/18 9:41am

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Morgan James covers the entirety of D'Angelo and the Vanguard's Black Messiah with acoustic guitar accompaniment. I discovered that session on Youtube. I hope that it's still on there. She's an admirer of his and has said that she would like to write with D'Angelo.

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It's great to listen to for the bluesy acoustic interpretation and James's clear vocalizations.

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Reply #18 posted 09/17/18 6:49am

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It is generally a bad idea. The only one I have liked was Najee's "Songs From the Key of Life".

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