Your vote for greatest (covers) album

Mine is Annie Lennox "Nostalgia". Not only is she one of the greatest female voices ever, she knows how to make a song her own.

slaw06-26-2020 8:45pm

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bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,510 posts 06-29-2020 at 01:48pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Good one, @mapman. How could I have forgotten THAT one?! Rosanne's Pa recorded a lot of Dylan, but not enough to fill an album, I don't believe. He was the first major artist to express his admiration for Bob and his songs. Takes one to know one. ;-)
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,510 posts 06-29-2020 at 02:03am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Good point, @mcslipp. At least The Stones acknowledged the writer of the songs they outright covered. Zeppelin just changed the name of the song, and claimed authorship. Willie Dixon---writer of some of the songs they stole---sued, and won. Plant & Page are shameless, disgusting thieves. IMO, of course.
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,510 posts 06-28-2020 at 01:46pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The Mona Lisa Twins, whom I just discovered while listening to as many versions of Brian Wilson’s "God Only Knows" as I could stand. The Twins---two sisters, true twins, from Austria, and my favorite new musical discovery in a long time---do the best cover of it I’ve ever heard. In one way I like it better than the original by The Beach Boys: no Mike Love. ;-) I listened to a bunch of The Twins YouTube videos, and they are a trip! They have a bunch of albums listed on Amazon, all real expensive for some reason. Have to do some investigating. I think I’m already in love with the blonde. Apparently John Sebastian likes them a lot, too: he joins them on their video of his Lovin' Spoonful song "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind."
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,510 posts 06-28-2020 at 04:24am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The confusion continues. The topic is NOT greatest album cover, but greatest album containing cover versions of songs.
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,510 posts 06-26-2020 at 10:24pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Dylan's Self Portrait immediately comes to mind. Got terrible reviews when released (Greil Marcus' review in Rolling Stone was entitled "What is this sh*t"), but I loved it. Still do, and the critics have now acknowledged they were wrong.

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