Your vote for greatest (covers) album

slaw,

I am writing from the memory so I may mess something up, but it was recorded on the cassette or a Mini Disc, I think. One song is from the portable recorder next to the drummer, etc. Hardly an audiophile set-up. It does convey the atmosphere well, though, so if you want "be there" feeling this is a good one.

’At the last moment, Kortes decided to tape her scheduled performance of “Blood on the Tracks.” Having only a cassette to make a board tape, the first side came out OK, but the second side was problematic.

Then she found someone had recorded the entire performance on a mini-disc. After passing copies along to Billboard magazine and www.dylancoveralbums.com, Kortes thought that would be the end of the story."

https://archive.triblive.com/news/rock-road-ahead-looks-promising-for-mary-lees-corvette/

Wish there was vinyl for MLC.

Faithful by Todd Rundgren

Mary Lee’s Corvette - Blood On the Tracks (by Bob Dylan) at Arlene Grocery.

The guy from the audience at the beginning of Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts is fantastic. Speaking of real Bob Dylan fan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YLehh_t62M

"Seventeen years ago, they were a ubiquitous presence in what was then a thriving Lower East Side rock scene. One of the few remaining venues from that time, Arlene’s, had a series of “classic album” cover nights. Most of them were pretty cheesy and didn’t draw very high-quality talent, further reinforcing the assumption that the best musicians all want to play their own material.

One of those nights featured a local venue owner doing a version of an album by the Band. The other album on the bill that night was Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, which Mary Lee’s Corvette played all the way through, after only two rehearsals.

It was one of the most transcendent shows ever witnessed by anyone from this blog (or its more primitive predecessor – in the fall of 2001, blogs as we know them today didn’t exist). That e-zine rated Mary Lee’s Corvette’s venomous version of Idiot Wind as the best song of the year. A few months later, the band officially released the live recording, which by then had been circulating among collectors who were in awe of frontwoman Mary Lee Kortes’ vocals and the band’s similarly electrifying performance."

https://maryleescorvette.com/music

https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2019/01/22/mlkpetes/

Ramones’ Acid Eaters

Easy Peasy.....

Under Cover by Motorhead.

Honestly to hear Lemmy (RIP) singing Sympathy with the Devil is an eye opener.......
Seriously it is actually very well produced and the SQ is pretty darn good.

+1 Rickie Lee Jones - It's Like This

Also Shawn Colvin "Uncovered"

Viva Las Vegas; Dead Kennedys

Not sure it's the "greatest", but one of my favorites is Rickie Lee Jones - It's Like This.  Check out Tom Jones - Reload also.

Hi,
I’m your fan, The songs of Leonard Cohen
Patti Smth, Twelve

Ok then Emerson Lake and Palmers cover of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition 

When I was teenager I bought an album just for the cover art but it turned out to be one of my favorites and it is the album was           Oxygene by Jean-Michel Jarre the artwork was the planet earth peeling away revealing a skull 
Yes had some great album covers by Roger Dean

@petg60,

I think you're not understanding my post.

I'm wanting great (cover's of other artists' songs). Not album jacket covers.

Hi,
i cannot choose one cover and i forget many more

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Nevermind - Nirvana
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
London Calling - The Clash
Velvet Underground & Nico- Velvet Underground & Nico
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
Brain Salad Surgery -ELP

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.