The Covers Project is a database of cover songs (no remixes please) while the knockoff*project details a bunch of copies of album covers.
There are 11 reader comments
• Jul 14 2002 • 2:28PM
It's really great, thanks for posting the links.
I like the deliberate parody:
BAD - EVEN WORSE :-)
the most.
• Jul 14 2002 • 2:29PM
thanks for posting the link... good find for the day (for me, that is!)
• Jul 14 2002 • 7:21PM
I don't think "knock-off" is a bit of a harsh word to use. Most are parodies or tributes... though there are a couple definite rips there. Weird Al's album covers are always good, though.. heh.
• Jul 14 2002 • 8:16PM
I had a radio show and i used to always do the cover song chain thing. It was fun.
• Jul 15 2002 • 4:23AM
One of my favorite covers is Annie Lennox's version of The Clash's "Train in Vain" -- she stays true enough to the original to make it recognizable but changes it just enough to make it interesting. I never liked the Red House Painters doing Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs." And I've always thought Radiohead belting out Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" was both hysterical and brilliant.
• Jul 15 2002 • 7:09AM
I like the fact that the website itself is a cover-version og Blue Robot (http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout2.html
Karen >:)
• Jul 15 2002 • 7:39AM
On my radio show, Shockwave, I play covers all the time. I went to the site, and they didn't have most of the really fun ones that I play. I entered in one Big Daddy CD, but got tired. There are several songs where I have two covers/parodies but not the originals.
• Jul 15 2002 • 8:12AM
No cover has knocked me on my ass quite like This Mortal Coil's cover of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren". Haunting and exquisite, but you probably knew that.
• Jul 15 2002 • 9:25AM
Great cover?
Jeff Buckley covering Cohen's "Hallelujah"
• Jul 15 2002 • 10:51AM
read a great book recently called 100 Best Album Covers. definitely worth a look.
as for cover songs, my favorite would have to be the smashing pumpkins' cover of landslide.
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
tamim • Jul 14 2002 • 2:15PM
Bryan Ferry sounds exactly like John Lennon.
(I had dropped by this site a while back when it was at a different URL.)