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Covers on albums

LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
edited August 2006 in Other Music
Yes? No? What do you guys think of artists putting covers on their albums? I mean, some very legendary songs have been studio covers (Eric Clapton's "Cocaine", Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" and "Babe Im Gonna Leave You") but there's something that's just a little disappointing about it to me.
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  • caifan82caifan82 Posts: 321
    I'm all for it, as long as it's only 1 cover in the whole album. I've heard some pretty interesting covers, so yeah, it's cool with me.
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    I'm not a big fan, I feel like those should be destined to be b-sides. I did however read that John Mayer is covering Hendrix "Bold as Love" on his new Continuum album...that could be interesting to say the least
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  • pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
    I know I'm wrong here, but I just can't help feeling it shows a lack in creativity. You know, as if the band couldn't come up with enough good quality songs to go on an album. I mean theres only about 12 songs on an album, in the two years between albums a band should be able to write enough songs.

    So I'm always disappointed with covers on an album. I dont' mind them so much in concert as long as they only play one or two.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    A couple of early Van Halen albums had "coveritis".......especially "Diver Down." I was glad when they got a real song writer in the band, Sammy Hagar.
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  • voodoopugvoodoopug Posts: 1,011
    Some good covers on albums:

    Van Halen: You Really Got Me
    R. Stones: Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Just My Imagination, Carol, Love in Vain, Little Queenie, You Gotta Move, NOt Fade Away
    Black Crowes: Hard to Handle
    Otis Redding: Satisfaction
    Jimi: All Along the Watchtower
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
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  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    I like covers on albums as long as they bring something new and interesting to the song.
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  • tremorsinmytreetremorsinmytree Posts: 57
    I'm totally in the opion of covers shouldn't be on albums and I loath it when a band releases a cover as their lead single. But at a concert let it rip, play as many as they want, that's what they're meant for.
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  • Atomic PunkAtomic Punk Posts: 2,941
    tybird wrote:
    A couple of early Van Halen albums had "coveritis".......especially "Diver Down." I was glad when they got a real song writer in the band, Sammy Hagar.


    Real song writer Sammy Hagar??? ha!
    If you look into the reason behind a lot of their covers you will see that they did not have a choice. The label made them make the covers and put them on the albums.
    I liked Sammy a lot, but Dave owns him.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Atomic Punk wrote:
    Real song writer Sammy Hagar??? ha!
    If you look into the reason behind a lot of their covers you will see that they did not have a choice. The label made them make the covers and put them on the albums.
    I liked Sammy a lot, but Dave owns him.
    Having paid good money as a young lad working a minimum wage job to see a drunk DLR half-heart it through a gig on the Diver Down tour(incomplete songs probably out-numbered completed ones), my respect for him is pretty low..........a year later, I got my money's worth from ZZ Top's opening act on the first leg of their Eliminator tour, some guy named Sammy Hagar. :)
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  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    tybird wrote:
    Having paid good money as a young lad working a minimum wage job to see a drunk DLR half-heart it through a gig on the Diver Down tour(incomplete songs probably out-numbered completed ones), my respect for him is pretty low..........a year later, I got my money's worth from ZZ Top's opening act on the first leg of their Eliminator tour, some guy named Sammy Hagar. :)


    Was there any other way to see Dave on tour? Now if you would have spent your money on the teen magazines you would have known what to expect at a VH concert. Silly ty! :D
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    even flow? wrote:
    Was there any other way to see Dave on tour? Now if you would have spent your money on the teen magazines you would have known what to expect at a VH concert. Silly ty! :D
    Yes, I spent my teen magazine money on comic books...........:D
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  • surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    Bring something new to the song, or cover a song I will have never heard. An obscure song or from another genre works for me.
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,168
    covers should be played live and thats it. if its on an album that means the band didn't have enough of their own stuff to put on the album.
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  • BogoENBogoEN Posts: 65
    How about The Animals' version of House of the Rising Sun?
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  • YefaYefa Posts: 1,133
    I'm okay with it when done well. Here are a few of my favorite covers on albums that haven't been mentioned yet.

    Neil Young - Oh Lonesome Me
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze
    Neil Young - Four Strong Winds
    Voivod - Batman theme
    Voivod - Astronomy Domine
    Voivod - The Nile Song
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