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Covers and covers of covers

The Covers Project is a database of cover songs (no remixes please) while the knockoff*project details a bunch of copies of album covers.

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tamim says:

Bryan Ferry sounds exactly like John Lennon.

(I had dropped by this site a while back when it was at a different URL.)

» by tamim on Jul 14, 2002 at 02:15 PM
np says:

It's really great, thanks for posting the links.
I like the deliberate parody:

BAD - EVEN WORSE :-)

the most.

» by np on Jul 14, 2002 at 02:28 PM
AnP says:

thanks for posting the link... good find for the day (for me, that is!)

» by AnP on Jul 14, 2002 at 02:29 PM
nowak says:

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.

» by nowak on Jul 14, 2002 at 07:21 PM
scott says:

I had a radio show and i used to always do the cover song chain thing. It was fun.

» by scott on Jul 14, 2002 at 08:16 PM
Amy says:

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.

» by Amy on Jul 15, 2002 at 04:23 AM
Karen Nielsen says:

I like the fact that the website itself is a cover-version og Blue Robot (http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout2.html

Karen >:)

» by Karen Nielsen on Jul 15, 2002 at 07:09 AM
Dave Romm says:

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.

» by Dave Romm on Jul 15, 2002 at 07:39 AM
yonderboy says:

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.

» by yonderboy on Jul 15, 2002 at 08:12 AM
John says:

Great cover?

Jeff Buckley covering Cohen's "Hallelujah"

» by John on Jul 15, 2002 at 09:25 AM
carson says:

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.

» by carson on Jul 15, 2002 at 10:51 AM

 
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