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ghost_of_morphy 
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 Topic: Cover songs... what about entire albums?
Posted: May 04 2014 at 11:06 |
 richardh wrote:
How about A Trick Of The Tail covered by a bunch of bands?
Dance On A Volcano - The Mars Volta
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Now that could be interesting...
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richardh
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Posted: May 03 2014 at 02:46 |
How about A Trick Of The Tail covered by a bunch of bands?
Dance On A Volcano - The Mars Volta Entangled - Magenta Squonk - IQ Mad Man Moon - Big Big Train Robbery,Assault and Battery - Marillion Ripples - Glass Hammer A Trick Of The Tail - Sound Of Contact Los Endos - Coheed and Cambria
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richardh
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Posted: May 03 2014 at 02:40 |
Bitterblogger wrote:
^Thanks. Got a few more:
Emerson/Bonilla/Hughes cover some collection of Nice tunes.
GTR does Supertramp's "Breakfast In America".
PFM cover's "Aphrodite's Child's "666".
And I want to acknowledge the suggestion of Big Big Train doing A Trick Of The Tail. Brilliant! |
Just about any neo prog band could cover that album 
Like the idea of PFM covering 666 but who on earth would they get to guest on ''Infinity''? 
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AreYouHuman
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Posted: May 03 2014 at 00:02 |
Bitterblogger wrote:
Norah Jones covering Yes' "Yesterday and Today". OK, only a song, but I've thought of various female artists covering this for years. |
Excellent suggestion…along similar lines, I’d like to hear someone like Sarah McLachlan or Natalie Merchant covering “Beside the One You Love” by Peter Hammill.
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zachfive
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Posted: May 02 2014 at 23:10 |
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Max Bacon would nail the vocals for BiA forsho.
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: May 02 2014 at 18:13 |
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^Thanks. Got a few more:
Emerson/Bonilla/Hughes cover some collection of Nice tunes.
GTR does Supertramp's "Breakfast In America".
PFM cover's "Aphrodite's Child's "666".
And I want to acknowledge the suggestion of Big Big Train doing A Trick Of The Tail. Brilliant!
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zachfive
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Posted: May 02 2014 at 16:52 |
Talbot wrote:
VDGG/Peter Hammill covering Dark Side of the Moon...
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That'd be good, Hammill would nail the lyrics... a poet through and through
BitterBlogger wrote:
Albums: King Crimson Mark II takes on Steve Hackett's "Voyage of the Acolyte", but with Gordon Haskell's vocals, not Greg Lake's.
Fish-era Marillion covers Camel's "Moonmadness". |
Absolutely to the first one! I'm not a huge fan of Marillion or much of the neo genre but I agree that Moonmadness would be a very fitting album for them to cover. I've tried liking Marillion so many times, I've listened to Fugazi at least 5 times, and each time I put it on is not because I enjoyed the previous time rather I am trying to figure out what, if anything, I'm missing that everyone else is picking up on...
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: April 22 2014 at 15:06 |
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Norah Jones covering Yes' "Yesterday and Today". OK, only a song, but I've thought of various female artists covering this for years.
Albums: King Crimson Mark II takes on Steve Hackett's "Voyage of the Acolyte", but with Gordon Haskell's vocals, not Greg Lake's.
Fish-era Marillion covers Camel's "Moonmadness".
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Talbot
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 06:30 |
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VDGG/Peter Hammill covering Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis covering Io Sono Nato Libero
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Polymorphia
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Posted: April 19 2014 at 12:00 |
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Since Dirty Projectors are on this site, it might be worth mentioning that they interpreted Black Flag's Damaged from memory after the singer had not heard the album in 15 years (they hadn't ever learned the songs either).
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Posted: April 19 2014 at 11:31 |
Barbu wrote:
Big Big Train covering A Trick of the Tail.  |
That's exactly what came to my mind. Oh wait, I think they've already done it.
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Posted: April 18 2014 at 14:07 |
chopper wrote:
How about Dream Theater covering Dark Side of the Moon? Or The Flaming Lips?
Oh yes, they've already done that. |
Is it Spock's Beard or one of those bands that also does Pink Floyd? I forget which has an album of PF music and it's very well done.
Dream Theater probably takes the cake in covering music, as their list is actually impressive, and you will need a pencil and 30 pages to get over that list when you read their book!
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Barbu
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Posted: April 10 2014 at 20:03 |
Big Big Train covering A Trick of the Tail.
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Posted: April 10 2014 at 16:38 |
zachfive wrote:
Rather than what bands have covered Floyd, what album do you think Pink Floyd might have success covering? Perhaps a Camel one... pay some tribute to a band whose talent is equal, or perhaps even greater, than the "legendary" PF. |
In the 60s, before he joined Floyd, David Gilmour was known as a great Hendrix imitator. So it would be fun to hear them cover Are you Experienced.
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: April 10 2014 at 14:51 |
I can think of a few that have been done. I have all three of these: Camper Van Beethoven did Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk' album in 2003. Pretty good if you can imagine Fleetwood Mac done with a hard edge. Petra Haden covered 'The Who Sell Out' in 2005. Petra appeared on the Decemberist's 'The Crane Wife' and I love her voice and violin work, but this is an a cappela version so it is definitely a acquired taste. Pussy Galore's 'Exile on Main St' was appaling from a recording quality standpoint but the energy was infectuous. One I'd really love to see done is Green Carnation or maybe Opeth covering Comus 'First Utterance'. Lisa o Piu took a stab at part of the album but her band doesn't have the ability to put the sort of dark, moody layers on music like Opeth and Green Carnation did.
Edited by ClemofNazareth - April 10 2014 at 14:52
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Posted: April 10 2014 at 11:31 |
PFM covering Selling England by The Pound.
just thought of that on my way to work....
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Posted: April 04 2014 at 14:42 |
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Porcupine Tree covering KC's Red.
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zachfive
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Posted: April 04 2014 at 14:20 |
Now try to come up with some that haven't been done... Dream Theater does a lot of covers, most of which I enjoy, so I'll pass on them. But as for The Flaming Lips, well I could see them doing a decent cover MGMT's album Congratulations.
Rather than what bands have covered Floyd, what album do you think Pink Floyd might have success covering? Perhaps a Camel one... pay some tribute to a band whose talent is equal, or perhaps even greater, than the "legendary" PF.
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Posted: April 04 2014 at 06:55 |
How about Dream Theater covering Dark Side of the Moon? Or The Flaming Lips?
Oh yes, they've already done that.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: April 04 2014 at 00:24 |
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The very first 'tribute to rock classics' album I've bought was Nektar - 'A Spoonful Of Time'. Featuring a plethora of amazing Prog stalwarts, the album is rather hit and miss.
All things said, I'd rather hear Nektar playing a Neil Young track, but I prefer hearing Rush doing Spirit Of Radio. The album is a decent listen, but I don't know why a respectable band would spend time on 'old', popular songs.......
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Cover songs... what about entire albums?
