Bands Covering Whole Albums
 

Pussy Galore did Exile on Main Street, The Queers did Rocket to Russia and SY talked about doing the whole of The White Album. Just wondering what other bands might do an interesting job of covering another band's whole album.

oh there ws something huge, I cant really remember....man
whish it will come back to my mind, something like covering the whole backkatalog of a band

didnt Sy once sing half of a black flag album at some show?

I wouldn't be surprised if they did that with half of Damaged, can't imagine them going for another album though.

I thought that Thurston recited the first half of Family Man because their equipment was messing up.

Hah.

I suppose the fact it was Thurston doing it makes it more likely that it wouldn't be the 'obvious' choice.

thats what i was thinking of

Family MAN WITH YOUR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ALREADY UP

yOU'RE SUCH A MAN WHEN YOU'RE PUTTING UP YOUR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

I think the opportunity has passed now, but for a while it seemed like a Grateful Dead album (say Workingman's Dead) would've been an obvious candidate for a SY cover job.

clawhammer did the first Devo LP.

does Dirty Projectors' take on _Damaged_ count?

The Walkmen did Nilssen's PUSSY CATS.

Phish did a bunch of live album cover albums didnt they?

Acid Mothers Temple did Terry Riley's "In C".

Phish had a tradition of Haloween shows. they let their fans vote on which album that Phish would "wear" as a musical costume. They played three sets on their halloween shows, a 1 hour set, then a break, then the complete album chosen by fans, then a break then a 2 hour set
amazing rock.

their first one was the Beatles white album, the whole thing.. then they did quadrophenia completely the next halloween
the one after that they did talking heads remain in light and the halloween after that they did Velvet Underground's LOADED

two nights after Loaded they played all of dark side of the moon

it takes some skillz to learn and arrange whole albums in the few weeks between voting ending and the concert!

All four shows have been released in their entirety as Live Phish Volume 13, 14, 15 and 16.[

I got the white album as a bootleg soon after they did it. it was awesome and while my guitar gently weeps was fucking killer

Yeah I was always interested in picking up THOSE live albums. The only actual Phish album I liked (that I heard) was FARMHOUSE.

their albums are hit and miss. they were a very very sepcial live band though, improvisational freakouts that in no way sounded like the fluffy bullshit of dave matthews.

Dream Theater do it a lot, but Dream Theater are bad music

Dream Theater SUCK

japancakes - loveless

didn't Rammstein do Let it Be?

whoops, no - it was Laibach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5mlb3Bjzs

Beat me to it.

Yeah, I have all of their Halloween shows.....and a shit more too.

But yeah, the White Album one is pretty fucking great. They nail it.

Laibach should cover everything. Luckily, they seem to be in the process of doing precisely that.

Carla Bozulich covered the whole of the Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson, and it's very, very near to being as good as the original (although, obviously, no-one touches Willie).

Screeching Weasel - Ramones.

Someone did the whole of Trout Mask Replica, can anyone remember who that was? Or did I imagine it?

OH Smithereens covered MEET THE BEATLES last year.

Nah, no one's done Trout Mask yet . Someone should though.

I read a few years back about some guy who covered a lot of DK songs on accordian; not sure if he did a whole album though.

Neil Haggerty would probably do something interesting with Trout Mask. The fact that he'd probably do something interesting covering any album is another matter.

Recently some singer-songwriter I never heard of covered a bunch of Crass songs. Dont' know if it was an album in full deal.

Also of note: Dump's amazing THAT SKINNY MOTHER... (Prince songs). Soooooooo good.

Some band whose name I foget (Beslan???) covered a good part of Whitehouse's "Great White Death" in a "rock" stylee a while back...

I seem to remember Husker Du touring doing Tommy live.

It's an excellent way to keep up with contracts during periods of writer's block.

Camper Van Beethoven - Tusk (Fleetwood Mac)
Kelly Stoltz - Croc-o-dials (Echo & The Bunnymen)


Jeffrey Lewis



Very good it was too

last night i just saw queen diamond, an all-girl king diamond tribute band, switch gears to metallica and cover master of puppets in its entirety. killer. they're from philly and they're school of rock all-stars to boot. they totally slay.

Oh Yeah, Nels Cline's INTERSTELLAR SPACE REVISITED is amazing! (Coltrane)

irish guy mark o reilly i think did an album of radiohead songs on a clssical piano....real nice if you like to drink wine and eat cheese and look like adickheaded penguin whilst you hob nob with someone named quentin......

Though Paulybee makes little sense, that Christopher O'Reilley album (TRUE LOVE WAITS) is pretty ok. Although I think Brad Mehldau's interpretations of Radiohead are better.

kylie minoise did that awesome version of the napalm death tune, the name escapes me, one of the best noise artists on the planet right now

these would be cool i think:
the flying luttenbachers (RIP) doing the damned's 'damned damned damned', and also the weasel walter quarter/sextet doing ayler's 'spritual unity'.
the hospitals doing thee headcoats' 'beach bums must die'
the dead c doing suicide's 'debut'
the silver daggers doing the screamers demos collection
burmese doing brutal truth's 'extreme conditions demand extreme responses'
lightning bolt doing black flag's 'the process of weeding out'
ruins doing magma's 'mekanik komandoh'
six organs of admittance doing van morrison's 'veedon fleece'

It's kind of disturbing that you know that much about Phish.

the walkmen covered harry nilsson's "pussy cats" and it's a bit weird, but spot on.

I love the Walkmen version of PUSSY CATS. In fact, it's the only Walkmen album that I listen to regularly.