History Main / CoverAlbum

In {{Music|Tropes}}, artists and groups are influenced by earlier ones. As a result, most artists and groups perform and play several {{cover|Version}}s of their favourite songs. In many cases, said artists and groups record them. Said versions can be [[ParodyDisplacement more famous]] then the original recording or even [[CoveredUp surpass]] it, in quality. These covers can also be entirely different to the original, whether it be in style, [[TheCoverChangesTheGender gender]] or [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning meaning]].

* The self-titled (and [[OneBookAuthor only]]) album by ''Replicants'' was entirely covers of songs by artists active in the seventies, mostly split between NewWaveMusic (Music/TheCars, Music/GaryNuman, Missing Persons) and album rock (Music/SteelyDan, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/JohnLennon). Their name, aside from being a ShoutOut to Film/BladeRunner, was also a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that they were just replicating songs already written and performed by other artists. The group featured ex-members of Music/{{Tool}} and {{Music/Failure}}, and the album was perhaps best known for the fact that they got Maynard James Keenan to sing Music/PaulMcCartney's "Silly Love Songs".

* Also in 1994 came ''Kiss My Ass: Classic Music/{{Kiss}} Regrooved'', featuring (among others) Lenny Kravitz, Music/StevieWonder, Music/{{Extreme}}, Music/{{Anthrax}}, Music/{{Yoshiki|Hayashi}} (from Music/XJapan), and members of Music/RageAgainstTheMachine and Music/{{Audioslave}}. Plus Kiss themselves on a straight remake of "Hard Luck Woman"... but this time with Music/GarthBrooks on lead vocals.

* ''Songs From The Neighborhood'' is this for the TV series ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', with artists like Amy Grant and Donna Summer performing songs that Fred Rogers sung on his series. The album also includes a RewrittenPopVersion of "Thank You For Being You", a song from another PBS Kids show, ''Series/TheNoddyShop''. A sequel album, ''Thank You, Mister Rogers: Music & Memories'', featuring artists like Creator/TomBergeron and Kellie Pickler, was released in 2019, featuring many of the same songs.
* Spin Magazine put together ''Nevermind: A Tribute'', an album that featured various artists covering the entirety of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'', in honor of that album's tenth anniversary. Possibly most notable for featuring two bands who went from being CoveredUp by Nirvana to doing Nirvana cover songs themselves (The Meat Puppets and The Vaselines).

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!! Cover albums by artists who are predominantly cover artists.

* The self-titled (and [[OneBookAuthor only]]) album by ''Replicants'' was entirely covers of songs by artists active in the seventies, mostly split between NewWaveMusic (Music/TheCars, Music/GaryNuman, Missing Persons) and album rock (Music/SteelyDan, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/JohnLennon). Their name, aside from being a ShoutOut to Film/BladeRunner, was also a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that they were just replicating songs already written and performed by other artists. The group featured ex-members of Music/{{Tool}} and Failure, and the album was perhaps best known for the fact that they got Maynard James Keenan to sing Music/PaulMcCartney's "Silly Love Songs".

* Spin Magazine put together ''Nevermind: A Tribute'', an album that featured various artists covering the entirety of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', in honor of that album's tenth anniversary. Possibly most notable for featuring two bands who went from being CoveredUp by Nirvana to doing Nirvana cover songs themselves (The Meat Puppets and The Vaselines).

* ''Zonkey'' by Umphree's [=McGee=] is a mash-up cover album - based on a feature of their live Halloween sets, they combine elements of two or more cover songs into one track, sometimes adding pieces of their own original songs too. For instance "National Loser Anthem" starts out as the lyrics of {{Music/Beck}}'s "Loser" set to the music of {{Music/Radiohead}}'s "National Anthem", and eventually adds [[Music/PhilCollins "In The Air Tonight"]] into the mix.

** Similarly, ''Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father'' was a benefit album for a child-abuse charity that had various artists covering all of ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''. The most well-known contributors included [=WetWetWet=] (whose version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" went to number one), Music/SonicYouth and Music/TheFall.

* ''Stoned Immaculate: A Tribute to the Music of Music/TheDoors'' came out in 2000 and featured a diverse collection of musicians, from Music/{{Aerosmith}} and Music/TheCult, to Music/DaysOfTheNew and Music/StoneTemplePilots, to Music/{{Creed}} and Music/{{Train}}.

* The ''Anthems'' EP by Music/{{Anthrax}} focuses entirely on songs from the '70s, which is reasonable for a band with some 20-30 cover songs across their discography. The title comes from "Anthem" by Music/{{Rush}} (one of the songs performed).

* [[Music/HeartBand Ann Wilson's]] ''Immortal'', meant to pay tribute to rock or pop musicians who passed away in the 2010s - the significance of the title being that their music would always be remembered. Most of the original artists were primarily solo performers, but sometimes she covers songs by groups in honor of one particular member: For instance, Music/ChrisCornell is represented by "I Am The Highway" (originally by {{Music/Audioslave}}) rather than a song from any of his solo albums.

* Music/DavidBowie's ''Music/PinUps''.

* ''[[LongTitle Stereogum Presents... OK X: A Tribute to OK Computer]]'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin An indie tribute to]] Music/{{Radiohead}}'s Music/OKComputer. Notable for featuring a contribution from the then-virtually unknown Music/VampireWeekend about six months before the release of their breakthrough debut album.

* ''Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits'' from 1995 featured artists covering songs from '60s and '70s children's TV shows, such as ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' by the Music/{{Ramones}} and ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' by Music/ButtholeSurfers.

* {{Weezer}}'s ''Christmas With Weezer'' EP, also consisting entirely of Christmas carols. The band originally recorded the songs for a ''Tap Tap'' mobile RhythmGame of the same name, then released the songs on their own with alternate mixes and added backing vocals.
* Music/BadReligion's ''Christmas Songs'' - there's one original, and it's TheNotRemix of one of their old singles, "American Jesus".

* ''Winter Carols'' by Blackmore's Night mostly comprises covers of Christmas songs, performed in the style of Renaissance folk music by former [[Music/DeepPurple Deep Purple]] guitarist [[Music/{{Rainbow}} Ritchie Blackmore]].

* Music/BillieHoliday covered other people's songs, but she managed to make the material personal by her delivery and the listener's knowledge of her tragic life. A good example is her album ''Music/LadyInSatin'', which was recorded one year before her death.
* Jazz vocalist Music/SarahVaughan's entire career is made of cover albums, including ''Music/SarahVaughanWithCliffordBrown'' (1957) and ''Music/LiveInJapan'' (1973).
* Music/FrankSinatra mostly covered material by songwriters, as was common for crooners in his day. Examples are the albums ''Music/SongsForYoungLovers'' and ''Music/SongsForSwinginLovers''. Even ''Music/MyWay'' is a complete cover album.
* Music/ElvisPresley's ''Music/{{Elvis Presley|TheAlbum}}'', ''Music/ElvisNBCTVSpecial'' and ''Music/FromElvisInMemphis'' are all cover albums, since Elvis never wrote his own material.
* ''Music/WithALittleHelpFromMyFriends'' and ''Film/MadDogsAndEnglishmen'' by Music/JoeCocker; the latter is also a LiveAlbum.
* Music/SidVicious solo album ''Music/SidSings'' (1979) has nothing but covers, except for one solo rendition of one Music/SexPistols song.

* The self-titled (and [[OneBookAuthor only]]) album by Replicants was entirely covers of songs by artists active in the seventies, mostly split between NewWaveMusic (Music/TheCars, Music/GaryNuman, Missing Persons) and album rock (Music/SteelyDan, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/JohnLennon). Their name, aside from being a ShoutOut to Film/BladeRunner, was also a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that they were just replicating songs already written and performed by other artists. The group featured ex-members of Music/{{Tool}} and Failure, and the album was perhaps best known for the fact that they got Maynard James Keenan to sing Music/PaulMcCartney's "Silly Love Songs".
* Music/TheFourFreshmen mostly did covers of jazz and pop standards, although they sometimes included an original or two in their albums.
* ''Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute'' which featured artists like Music/BobDylan, Music/WillieNelson and Music/VanMorrison doing covers of Music/JimmieRodgers songs.

* Leo Moracchioli, a multi-instrumentalist known for making metal covers of non-metal songs on Youtube, has released the better part of three dozen of these.
* The ''Music/KidzBop'' series, currently on album 40, tries to cover songs only using children's voices. They have attracted some attention from MoralGuardians because of the fact that some of their songs have explicit lyrics.
** For the EVEN younger set there's the ''Rockabye Baby'' series, featuring lullaby renditions of songs by almost everyone (The Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, you name it!)

* A fusion of both types with Music/{{Santana}}'s ''Guitar Heaven'': Carlos playing classic rock under the voices of a who's who of 90s/early 00s vocalists, including [[Music/LedZeppelin "Whole Lotta Love"]] with Music/ChrisCornell,[[Music/DeepPurple "Smoke on the Water"]] with [[Music/PapaRoach Jacobby Shaddix]], and [[Music/TheDoors "Riders on the Storm"]] with [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]] (and Ray Manzerek!).
* The Blue Aeroplanes' 2007 ''Harvester'' album is a single ''label'' tribute. The Aeroplanes were signed to Creator/HarvestRecords (EMI's imprint for ProgressiveRock and related genres), and the album consisted of their covering songs by various Harvest bands (most notably Music/PinkFloyd and Music/DeepPurple).
* Music/ClanOfXymox's ''Kindred Spirits'' includes covers of Music/DavidBowie, Music/DepecheMode, Music/NineInchNails, Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, Music/{{The Cure|Band}}, Music/TheSistersOfMercy, Music/{{Radiohead}}, and Music/JoyDivision[=/=]Music/NewOrder.
* Sonique's ''Don't Give a Damn'' consists of Film/JamesBond theme tune covers.
* The ''Anthems'' EP by Music/{{Anthrax}} focuses entirely on songs from the '70s, which is reasonable for a band with some 20-30 cover songs across their discography. The title comes from "Anthem" by Music/{{Rush}} (one of the songs performed).
* Anastacia's ''It's a Man's World'', a cover album of songs originally performed by male artists or singers (such as Music/KingsOfLeon, Music/GunsNRoses, Music/FooFighters, and Music/LedZeppelin).
* Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds' ''Kicking Against the Pricks'', a very varied assortment of folk, blues, country, rock and pop numbers.
* [[Music/GreenDay Billie Joe Armstrong]] and Norah Jones' ''Foreverly'' is a song for song cover of The Everly Brothers' ''Songs Our Daddy Taught Us''. ''Songs Our Daddy Taught Us'' itself consisted entirely of cover songs and traditional folk songs, which makes ''Foreverly'' a cover album of a cover album.
* [[Music/GreenDay Billie Joe Armstrong]] released a series of covers on Green Day's [[Website/YouTube YouTube]] channel during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. They were compiled as ''No Fun Mondays''.
* Music/GarthBrooks' ''Blame It All on My Roots'' box set contains four [=CDs=] of covers, each with its own title (''Blue Eyed Soul'', ''Classic Rock'', ''Country Classics'', and ''Melting Pot'').
* Music/RichardThompson's ''1000 Years of Popular Music'', which goes in chronological order from "Sumer Is Icumen In" to "Oops I Did It Again". Supposedly, this was inspired when ''Playboy'' magazine asked him for his list of "greatest songs ever", and accused him of trolling when it included songs over fifty years old.
* Music/JohnLegend & The Roots' ''Wake Up!'' is based around covers of {{Soul}} songs from the '60s and '70s - more specifically ones that were lesser-known and had lyrics dealing with social and political themes. Though several of the interpretations include new AWildRapperAppears verses, the only fully original song is closing track "Shine".
* Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' ''Raising Sand'', which had the duo working with a backing band and covering songs chosen by RecordProducer T-Bone Burnett. There is one song that could sort of be termed an original: "Please Read the Letter" was co-written by Plant, but it's a new recording of a song that first appeared ten years earlier on the Jimmy Page And Robert Plant album ''Walking Into Clarksdale''.
* ''Happy Together'' by the Music/LeningradCowboys with the Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble.
* ''We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions'' by Music/BruceSpringsteen, a collection of folk songs, most of which were recorded by folksinger Music/PeteSeeger.
* ''Mutt'' by Lost Dogs is an odd one. Lost Dogs is a {{supergroup}}, consisting (at the time of ''Mutt'') of the frontmen of Daniel Amos, The 77s, and The Choir. For that album, they covered songs by all three of those bands--with each member only singing on the songs they ''didn't'' originally write.
* ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Songs]]'' by psychedelic {{Soul}} band Rotary Connection is a collection of radically-altered cover versions of artists ranging from Music/OtisRedding to Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, and no less than ''three'' Music/{{Cream}} songs! With Minnie Riperton (yes, the one who became famous for "Loving You" years later) on lead vocals on most when she isn't doing who trademark high-pitched backing vocals.

* ''Music/SwitchedOnBach'' by Music/WendyCarlos is an example of ElectronicMusic playing work by Music/JohannSebastianBach.
* ''Music/FiveLiveYardbirds'' by Music/TheYardbirds is comprised of nothing but blues and R&B covers, all played live.
* ''Going Back'' by Music/PhilCollins is an album of his versions of soul and Creator/{{Motown}} standards from TheSixties.
* ''Under the Covers'' by Music/NinjaSexParty in collaboration with Tupperware Remix Party. Covers a selection of late '70s and '80s songs, including [[Music/OffTheWall "Rock with You"]] by Music/MichaelJackson, [[https://youtu.be/fCe2bTtKCJg "Take on Me"]] by Music/{{Aha}}, and [[https://youtu.be/b7CUOa7wsd0 "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"]] by Music/TearsForFears. The album's follow-up, appropriately titled ''Under the Covers Vol. 2'', features solely '80s songs.
* Music/LindaRonstadt recorded a trio of albums of jazz standards in the 1980s (''What's New'', ''Lush Life'' and ''For Sentimental Reasons'') with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, followed in 2004 with another album of jazz standards (''Hummin' to Myself'') with a jazz combo.
** Ronstadt's 1987 album ''Canciones de Mi Padre'' was a collection of traditional Mexican folk songs.
* Music/NewFoundGlory have ''From the Screen to Your Stereo'' and ''From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II'', which are the {{Signature Song}}s from well known movies like ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' and ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'', and the ''Mania'' EP, which consists of Music/{{Ramones}} songs.
* Marsheaux's ''A Broken Frame'' is a full-length cover of the Music/DepecheMode album of the same name.
* Apoptygma Berzerk's ''Sonic Diary''.
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' digital-only ''Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Covers EP'': To celebrate being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame themselves, the band released an EP of covers of past inductees. All six covers were previously released (the already-mentioned cover of Ramones' "Havana Affair" also appears here, for instance), but four of them were previously unavailable digitally.
* Music/InformationSociety's ''Orders of Magnitude'', which even covers "Capital I" from ''Series/SesameStreet'' and "Heffalumps and Wooozles" from ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''.
* ''Marvelous Clouds'' by [[Music/{{Ween}} Aaron Freeman]] consists entirely of Rod [=McKuen=] covers.
* Music/NateWantsToBattle:
** The album ''Thnks fr th Cvrs'' contains his takes on mainstream songs like [[Music/FallOutBoy "Thnks fr th Mmrs"]], [[Music/PanicAtTheDisco "Victorious"]] and [[Music/MaydayParade "Miserable at Best"]].
** ''Genesis'' contains anime covers like "Literature/TheAsteriskWar" and "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town]]".
* Music/{{Whitesnake}} has an unusual case in ''The Purple Album'', where all of the songs are Deep Purple ones... back when Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale was in said band.
* Another unusual case is Music/LionelRichie's 2012 album ''Tuskegee'', made up entirely of reinterpretations of songs he wrote in full or part. Most are from Richie's solo career, though a couple were first recorded by his former band Commodores and one by Music/KennyRogers. As for the reinterpretations, all but one are collaborations with then-current country acts; the exception is one with Music/JimmyBuffett.
* Music/Powerman5000's ''Copies Clones & Replicants''.
* Leaether Strip's album of [[https://leaetherstrip.bandcamp.com/album/dm-my-depeche-mode-covers Depeche Mode covers]].
* [[Music/HeartBand Ann Wilson's]] ''Immortal'', meant to pay tribute to rock or pop musicians who passed away in the 2010s - the significance of the title being that their music would always be remembered. Most of the original artists were primarily solo performers, but sometimes she covers songs by groups in honor of one particular member: For instance, Music/ChrisCornell is represented by "I Am The Highway" (originally by {{Music/Audioslave}}) rather than a song from any of his solo albums.
* Music/RicardoIorio:
** Hermética's "Intérpretes".
** As a solo artist, he has "Ayer Deseo, Hoy Realidad" and "Tangos y Milongas".
* ''Music/WeezerTheTealAlbum'' by Music/{{Weezer}}
* Music/PeterHollens: In "The Greatest Showman A Capella", he sings multi-track vocals of the entire songtrack from ''Film/TheGreatestShowman''.
* ''Duet All Night Long'' by Reel Big Fish and Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer: Every other track is one of the aforementioned bands or the other performing a cover. The other gimmick is that every song is performed as a duet - Zolof's Rachel Minton appears on every Reel Big Fish track, and Reel Big Fish's Aaron Bartlett appears on almost every Zolof track (On Zolof's version of "Say Say Say", Reel Big Fish's Scott Klopfenstein gets to StepUpToTheMicrophone instead)
* ''A Flower Bookmark'' and ''A Flower Bookmark 2'' by Music/{{IU}} are remake albums, a tribute to some classic Korean songs she admires.
* Leeni's ''Lovefool'' EP covers songs from Creator/BazLuhrmann's ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'', including Music/TheCardigans' "Lovefool".
* Music/PablloVittar's debut EP, ''Open Bar'', consists entirely of Portuguese versions of pop songs.
* "Reload" by Music/TomJones is, with the exception of newly-written "Sex Bomb", entirely cover versions of other artist's songs recorded as duets with a third artist/band e.g. a cover of "Burning Down the House" by Music/TalkingHeads as a collaboration between Jones and Music/TheCardigans.
* ''Zonkey'' by Umphree's [=McGee=] is a mash-up cover album - based on a feature of their live Halloween sets, they combine elements of two or more cover songs into one track, sometimes adding pieces of their own original songs too. For instance "National Loser Anthem" starts out as the lyrics of {{Music/Beck}}'s "Loser" set to the music of {{Music/Radiohead}}'s "National Anthem", and eventually adds [[Music/PhilCollins "In The Air Tonight"]] into the mix.
* ''Music/BuiltToSpill Plays the Songs of Music/DanielJohnston''. After being asked to perform as Daniel Johnston's backup band for a few dates of a tour, Built to Spill decided to record their arrangements of his songs in studio (with Doug Martsch on vocals) without any intention of actually releasing them. After Johnston's death, they decided to put the album out as a tribute.
* Real Life's ''Send Me an Angel - 80s Synth Essentials'' includes a 2009 remake of their own "Send Me an Angel" and 12 other covers of 80s synthpop hits such as [[Music/{{Eurythmics}} "Sweet Dreams"]], [[Music/{{Visage}} "Fade to Grey"]], [[Music/GaryNuman "Cars"]], [[Music/DepecheMode "Everything Counts"]], [[Music/NewOrder "Blue Monday"]], [[Music/{{The Cure|Band}} "Primary"]], [[Music/TearsForFears "Shout"]], [[Music/SoftCell "Tainted Love"]], and [[Music/{{Kraftwerk}} "The Model"]].
* ''Peripheral'' by Matt Mancid & Color Theory covers a variety of now-obscure '80s gems, including Music/PeterGabriel's "Mercy Street", Music/NewOrder's "Ceremony", Music/TheBlueNile's "Tinseltown in the Rain", Music/DepecheMode's "The Sun and the Rainfall", Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'s "Kyoto Song", the Music/PetShopBoys' "Rent", Music/ThePsychedelicFurs' "The Ghost In You", Music/{{Erasure}}'s "Piano Song", Music/PrefabSprout's "The Ice Maiden", and Music/SoftCell's "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye".
* ''A Pilot Project'', a 2014 release by the Scottish band Pilot, consists entirely of [[Music/TheAlanParsonsProject Alan Parsons Project]] covers. The album (whose complete title includes the phrase "A Return to The Alan Parsons Project") marked the 40th anniversary of Pilot's first album, which Parsons had produced. Three of the Pilot members who worked on their debut album went on to work with the APP, and the album is explicitly a tribute to the APP in general and that group's by-then-deceased Eric Woolfson in particular.
* Creator/GraceJones' first five albums were predominantly cover albums, with the latter two gradually incorporating original material as well (while still mostly consisting of song covers); Jones would shift to recording albums of predominantly original material from her sixth album, ''Living My Life'', onwards.
* Music/{{Noah|Indonesia}}'s 2016 album ''Sings Legends'' is entirely consisted of their cover of Indonesian songs that were famous in the 80s and 90s.
* ''Mujer Divina – Homenaje a Agustín Lara'' is a tribute album by Music/NataliaLafourcade made of songs by Mexican singer Agustín Lara.
* Music/AWOLNation's ''My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers, And Me'' covers hits from the '70s to the '90s with an ensemble of guest vocalists.
* Music/TheBlackCrowes' EP ''1972'': As the title suggests, the album consists entirely of covers of songs that were originally released in 1972 - mainly rock songs, but there's also a nod to soul influences in the form of [[Music/TheTemptations "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"]].
* Eighteen Visions' ''1996'' focuses on the band's influences from the 1990s - the title track is a new original song, while the rest of the album is about evenly split between 90s HardcorePunk / metalcore and 90s HardRock. The cover art is also a ShoutOut to ''[[Music/BleachAlbum Bleach]]'', using the same font and a similarly posed photo of the band... though ''Bleach'' itself was released in the late 1980s, and the {{Music/Nirvana}} song they cover on the album is "Scentless Apprentice" from ''Music/InUtero''.
* The self-explanatory ''A Compilation of [[Music/StoneTemplePilots Scott Weiland]] Cover Songs'' mixes previously released cover versions (such as a Music/StoneTemplePilots version of [[Music/TheBeatles "Revolution"]] that had been previously issued as a standalone charity single) with newly recorded ones done specifically for the release. The album was originally conceived to be packaged with Weiland's memoir ''Not Dead and Not For Sale'', but was instead released digitally on its own.
* Music/LeonaLewis' ''Hurt: The EP'' consists of three cover songs, all originally sung by men: "Hurt" (Music/NineInchNails), "Iris" (Music/TheGooGooDolls), and "Colorblind" (Music/CountingCrows). The US edition added a fourth cover, "Run" by Music/SnowPatrol, which had been previously released and happened to still fit the theme. Another thing all four songs had in common was that the lyrics only use first or second person pronouns, so TheCoverChangesTheGender wouldn't have to apply to Leona's versions.

* A Perfect Circle's ''Emotive'', an album of politically-themed covers with a pair of original songs. Interestingly, those two originals are really only ''kind of'' original - "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" is a drastic [[RearrangeTheSong re-arrangement]] of their earlier song "Pet", while "Passive" was originally co-written by members of the band and [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] for the defunct SuperGroup Tapeworm.
* Vanilla Fudge's 1967 self-titled debut consists of covers of hit songs from the previous three years, including one of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On", all of them with slower tempos, thundering rhythms and dramatic vocals.
* ''Music/BeachBoysParty'' by Music/TheBeachBoys was a quickly-recorded cover album to buy Music/BrianWilson more time to create ''Music/PetSounds''.
** And on the subject of Brian Wilson, the man himself recorded two cover albums consisting of Music/GeorgeGershwin and Disney tunes, respectively.
* Michael [=McDonald=] recorded two albums of Motown covers.
* ''Sacred Cows'' by [[Music/DanielAmos The Swirling Eddies]] was an album of parodic cover versions (often employing StylisticSuck) of the most popular Christian rock songs of the moment. Thus, [=DeGarmo=] and Key's "God Good Devil Bad" was performed as if Terry Scott Taylor was recovering from a blow to the head; Music/AmyGrant's "Baby Baby" was performed like a hotel lobby karaoke performance; [[Music/DCTalk dc Talk]]'s "I Luv Rap Music" was performed in lounge lizard style.
* Music/TheHollies had a few. ''Hollies Sing Dylan'' was an album of Music/BobDylan covers, and ''Buddy Holly'' was an album of Music/BuddyHolly covers. Additionally, the group's first album, ''Stay with the Hollies'', contained 14 tracks, only one of which was an original composition.
* Music/GeorgeMichael's ''Songs from the Last Century'', an album of covers mostly from the 20s to the 50s.
* Toto released ''Through the Looking Glass'', all covers of songs which inspired the band.

* [=UB40=] released four different cover albums, each titled ''Labour of Love''.
* Music/JoyElectric's ''Favorites at Play''. Ronnie Martin of JE [[WhatCouldHaveBeen initially wanted]] to record an album covering the songs and artists that had influenced him. Then he realized that it would have been a bunch of 80s songs, and [[ItsBeenDone the last thing the world needed was yet another piece of 80s nostalgia]]. So he swung in the opposite direction and covered a bunch of songs that had just been released in the prior five years (2004-2009).
* Music/FooFighters' limited edition ''Medium Rare''.
* ''Live Frogs Set 2'' by Les Claypool's Frog Brigade is an entire-album cover of ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'' by Music/PinkFloyd. ''Live Frogs Set 1'' also consists only of covers, but most of them were originally by some of Les Claypool's other projects.
* On the first album by Music/{{Fozzy}} (the [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] one), eight out of ten songs are covers.
* ''The Hit List'' by Music/JoanJett.
* ''The Director's Cut'' by Fantômas, which has them covering movie themes in their own avant garde metal style.
* ''Rise Above'' by Dirty Projectors is a cover of most of Music/BlackFlag's ''Music/{{Damaged|Album}}''. It's pretty far afield from the original versions, in part because band leader Dave Longstreth [[HalfRememberedHomage hadn't heard the actual album in 15 years and purposely avoided revisiting the material aside from the lyrics]].
* Metalcore band Coalesce have ''There Is Nothing New Under the Sun'', an EP of Music/LedZeppelin covers. A later reissue stretched it to album length by including more covers (of The Get Up Kids, Boysetsfire, Music/BlackSabbath and Undertow), one original, and some alternate takes of the Zeppelin songs.
* The Crust Brothers' only release, ''Marquee Mark'', is a live set consisting almost entirely of covers (notably the first six songs are all either by Music/BobDylan or else are songs by Music/TheBand that first appeared on Dylan and The Band's ''Basement Tapes''). The rendition of Silkworm's "Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" may or may not qualify as a cover because The Crust Brothers ''were'' Silkworm collaborating with Music/{{Pavement}}'s Stephen Malkmus.
* Music/DefLeppard had the album ''Yeah!'', which covered songs by some of their main influences.
* Music/MichaelBolton released ''Timeless: The Classics'', which was recorded at least in part to spite critics who went after him for doing so many cover songs (one of which had won him a Grammy).
* Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s ''Honkin' on Bobo'', in which they cover old blues songs.
* Claw Hammer's ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Not Devo'' is a track for track cover of Music/{{Devo}}'s ''Music/QAreWeNotMenAWeAreDevo''. It also included covers of Music/BrianEno's "Blank Frank" and Music/PattiSmith's "Pumping (My Heart)", along with a short jokey Music/LedZeppelin medley and an introductory skit explaining their reasoning behind covering the album.
* Petra Haden (who played in alternate band that dog, and did some violin for the Music/FooFighters) did an ''a cappella'' version of ''Music/TheWhoSellOut'' by Music/TheWho - as in, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc6IqwM0Z_U every single instrument was covered with her voice]]. Her later album ''Petra Goes to the Movies'' mostly takes the same all a capella approach to songs from film scores - this time there were a few covers that included conventional instruments.
* Music/CountingCrows' ''Underwater Sunshine'': While there are a few pretty well-known songs on the album (Music/BobDylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", Pure Prairie League's "Amie", and The Faces' "Ooh La La", for instance), the overall focus seemed to be on covering artists that they feel deserved more attention.
* The Music/InsaneClownPosse's ''Smothered, Covered, & Chunked'' is an album that's only found in a certain edition on their ''The Mighty Death Pop!'' album. They do have other artists on some of their covers, such as Lil Wyte, Music/LimpBizkit frontman Fred Durst, and the rest of their Creator/PsychopathicRecords artists, and although they do include some pop songs (such as Music/ChristinaAguilera's "Beautiful", Music/TearsForFears' "Shout", Music/MichaelJackson & [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger]]'s "State of Shock", and even ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'''s "Hold Still"), it's basically them covering the late '80s/early-to-mid '90s rap artists that ended up influencing them.
* K. [=McCarty=]'s ''Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston''. Another case of a [[OneBookAuthor one album band]] whose only release is a cover album - though she previously sang original material as a member of the band Glass Eye, she only did a solo album in the hopes of helping Music/DanielJohnston get some more recognition, and hasn't released anything else since.
* Dump's ''That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?'' is an album of lo-fi Music/{{Prince}} covers - though technically "A Love Bizarre" was a Sheila E. song with heavy involvement by Prince. By the way, the IntentionallyAwkwardTitle is a ShoutOut to the Prince song "Bob George", which doesn't actually get covered on the album.
* Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass formed a cover band side project called The Hotrats - their lone album ''Turn Ons'' consisted of 12 cover songs.
* Mark Kozelek of Music/RedHousePainters and Music/SunKilMoon has an Music/{{ACDC}} cover album titled ''What's Next to the Moon?'' as well as Sun Kil Moon's Music/ModestMouse cover album ''Tiny Cities''.
* Music/PattiSmith's album ''Twelve'' is a collection of famous rock songs such as "[[Music/JeffersonAirplane White Rabbit]]" and "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Gimme]] [[Music/LetItBleed Shelter]]".
* Music/{{Laibach}} covered almost all of ''Music/LetItBe'' in pseudo-fascist {{industrial}} style, minus the title track, and with "Maggie Mae" replaced by a German folk song.
* Music/SimpleMinds "Neon Lights" album, and the bonus disc of "Graffiti Soul", "Searching for the Lost Boys".
* Music/MandyMoore recorded "Coverage" in 2003, a collection of covers of '70s and '80s songs. It was one of her first albums that allowed her to break out of the Pop Princess stereotype.
* In TheNineties, there was something of an unofficial series of albums where a punk band would cover a Music/{{Ramones}} album in full. Screeching Weasel's 1992 cover of ''Music/{{Ramones|Album}}'' seemed to kick off the trend, and was notable for emulating the original album's production by consistently placing the guitar in the left speaker and bass in the right. Later came The Victims' ''Music/LeaveHome'', The Queers' ''Music/RocketToRussia'', The Mr. T Experience's ''Music/RoadToRuin'', Parasites' ''It's Alive!'' [[note]] which has the additional gimmick of using the mangled, Mondegreen-filled lyrics printed in the Japanese edition of the album rather than the real ones[[/note]], Boris The Sprinkler's ''Music/EndOfTheCentury'' [[note]]Vocalist Rev. Norb adds one of his trademark MotorMouth monologues to the start of [[QuestioningTitle "Do You Remember Rock N' Roll Radio?"]], in which he introduces the record as "a recreation of one of the worst Ramones albums known to man"[[/note]], and Beatnik Termites' ''Pleasant Dreams''.
** Ramones themselves have ''Acid Eaters'', which much like Rush's ''Feedback'' above, is mainly a collection of 60s songs that influenced them.
* Holly Cole did an entire album of Music/TomWaits covers called "Temptation".
** ''Anywhere I Lay My Head'' by Creator/ScarlettJohansson is also a tribute to Tom Waits.
* ''Chulahoma'' by Music/TheBlackKeys is a tribute to Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough. The final track is an answering machine message left by Kimbrough's widow commending the band.
* Music/{{Ulver}}'s ''Childhood's End'' is made up entirely of covers of mostly very obscure songs from the late-sixties psychedelic era. By far the best known song covered is Music/JeffersonAirplane's "Today".
* Side 1 of Music/ToddRundgren's ''Faithful'' features his near-perfect reproductions of '60s songs from Music/TheBeatles, Music/TheBeachBoys, Music/TheYardbirds, Music/BobDylan, and Music/JimiHendrix.
* Music/{{Melvins}}' ''Everybody Loves Sausages'' is a fairly eclectic one, with material ranging from obscure HardcorePunk songs to Music/{{Venom}}, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/ThrobbingGristle, and the title theme to early Creator/JohnWaters film ''Female Trouble''.
* ''Local H's Awesome Mix Tape Vol. 1'', as well as its sequel.

* Easy Star All-Stars, have also done dub reggae cover versions of ''Music/OKComputer'' and ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' called ''Radiodread'' and ''Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band'', respectively.

* ''Rock 'n' Roll'' by Music/JohnLennon.
* ''Music/GarageInc'' by Music/{{Metallica}}.
* ''"The Spaghetti Incident?"'' by Music/GunsNRoses.
** Brazilian band Ratos de Portão spoofed this with ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pt/thumb/5/50/FeijoadaAcidenteInternational.jpg/220px-FeijoadaAcidenteInternational.jpg "Feijoada Acidente?"]]'', which had two versions, Brasil (local punk bands, including [=RxDxPx=] themselves) and International.
* ''Undisputed Attitude'', by Music/{{Slayer}} (but while the band is ThrashMetal, the songs are HardcorePunk covers, and a few original songs in HardcorePunk style.)[[note]]two of those "originals" are sort of covers, if you count songs originally written for other groups: "DDAM" and "Can't Stand You" were leftover songs from Jeff Henneman's short-lived hardcore side-project Pap Smear[[/note]].
* ''Feedback'' by Music/RushBand. Released in honor of the group's 30th anniversary is a collection of favorite 1960s songs.
* ''Songs from the Mirror'' by Music/{{Fish}}.
* ''Thank You'' by Music/DuranDuran.
* ''Famous Blue Raincoat'' by Music/JenniferWarnes.
* ''Hymns of the 49th Parallel'' by k.d. lang.

* ''Other People's Songs'' by Music/{{Erasure}}.

* ''A Singer Must Die'' by Music/StevenPage and the Art of Time Ensemble.
* Music/PeterGabriel's ''Scratch My Back''.
** Though it's closer in form to a Tribute Album, ''And I'll Scratch Yours'' is a companion piece: The original concept was to have all of the artists who Gabriel covered on ''Scratch My Back'' record Peter Gabriel covers themselves. In the end, four of the artists covered on ''Scratch My Back'' declined to record anything for ''And I'll Scratch Yours'', and two artists who Peter Gabriel didn't cover at all [[note]] (or three such artists if you count Music/BrianEno: ''Scratch My Back'' included a version of "'Heroes'" by Music/DavidBowie, and while Eno co-wrote the song and was a collaborator with Bowie throughout [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum the album of the same name]], he only stepped in when Bowie himself declined to appear on the album)[[/note]] appeared on the album just to make up the difference.
* Music/TheBand's ''Moondog Matinee''.
* Music/JohnnyCash's ''American Recordings''.

* Music/OzzyOsbourne's ''Under Cover''.
* Music/BobSeger's ''Smokin' O.P.'s''.

* Music/{{Helloween}}'s ''Metal Jukebox''.
* Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ''Take Cover''.
* Music/{{Stryper}}'s ''The Covering''.
* Music/AxelRudiPell's ''Diamonds Unlocked''.
* Music/{{Hammerfall}}'s ''Masterpieces''.
* Music/{{Sepultura}}'s ''Revolusongs'' EP.
* From Sepultura's native Brazil, there are a few cases, but to highlight ones in English (which are also single artist tributes), Matanza's ''To Hell with Music/JohnnyCash'', and ''[[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zxZYfbtjyt4/TjgNO1Sj2II/AAAAAAAAB0A/7HorQ4qE54w/s1600/zeramalhocantabeatlescapacomfio.jpg Zé Ramalho Canta]] [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]]'' (Ramalho also had [[https://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/Alb.56870627/500x500.jpg one with]] Music/BobDylan, though there he made Portuguese versions of the songs).
* Music/PatoFu had ''Música de Brinquedo'' and its sequel, which as the title "Toy Music" makes clear, has all the songs (which include old Pato Fu tracks) performed with [[EverythingIsAnInstrument toy instruments]].
* ''Nineteeneighties'' by Grant-Lee Phillips covers songs from TheEighties.
* ''The Cover Record'', ''Covers'' and ''Jukebox'' by Music/CatPower. The latter does have two originals, one of which is a rearranged version of "Metal Heart", one of her earlier songs.
* ''Covers'', an EP by Greg Laswell.
* Music/{{Primus}}' ''Rhinoplasty'' has two live recordings of Primus' original songs as "bonus tracks", but since this trope allows at least one or two original songs, it counts.
* ''Renegades'' by Music/RageAgainstTheMachine is all about covers.
* The Music/FlamingLips' ''[[WordSaladTitle The Flaming Lips]] and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches [[OverlyLongGag Doing]] Music/PinkFloyd's Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon''. Take a wild guess as to what album is being covered.
* Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet (aka "Sid and Susie"), ''Under the Covers Vol. 1'' (favorite songs from TheSixties), ''Vol. 2'' (TheSeventies), and ''Vol. 3'' (TheEighties).

* Similarly, Anne Brigg's self-titled LP was 8 tracks of English folk songs with two original songs.
* ''The Russian Album'' by Music/PaulMcCartney (originally a USSR-exclusive release, but went international in 1991)
** ''Run Devil Run'' is an accidental [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]; it was ''intended'' to be a CoverAlbum and is mostly covers, but two of the three original songs on it are perhaps the best-known on the album. (This is what you get when you allow someone else to pick which songs make the album.)
** ''Kisses on the Bottom'' is another album of mostly covers, this time formative pop standards Paul listened to as a youngster and two originals.
* Music/RodStewart's ''Great American Songbook'' series of Tin Pan Alley standards, and all the similar albums by other artists (including Music/CyndiLauper, Music/BetteMidler and Art Garfunkel).
** OlderThanTheyThink: Music/RingoStarr did it first with his 1970 album ''Sentimental Journey''.
* ''Under the Influence'' by Music/AlanJackson.
* ''Timeless'' by Music/MartinaMcBride.
* ''Starting Over'' by Music/RebaMcEntire.
* Music/LeAnnRimes' SelfTitledAlbum.
* Music/PaulAnka's ''Rock Swings''.
* ''Mockingbird'' by Allison Moorer.
* ''Songs We Didn't Write'' by Ghoti Hook.
* ''Greased'' by Music/LessThanJake is the songs from ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' in their Ska Punk style. ''TV/EP'' does the same with TV {{Theme Tune}}s and commercial jingles - though it's an EP with an under 20 minute runtime, they manage to fit sixteen songs in.
* Osso's ''Run Rabbit Run'' is an odd borderline case. They covered the entirety of Music/SufjanStevens' album ''Enjoy Your Rabbit'', but Osso themselves had gotten their start backing Sufjan on two of his prior releases (''Music/{{Illinois}}'' and ''Song For Christmas, Vol. V'').
* ''Coverkill'' by Music/{{Overkill}}.

* Westlife's ''[[PunBasedTitle Allow Us to Be Frank]]'' is entirely composed of Music/FrankSinatra covers. Yes, the title ''is'' a {{pun}}.
* Music/CamperVanBeethoven covered the entire Music/FleetwoodMac album ''Tusk'' (under the same album title, of course).
* Cracker's ''Countrysides'' consists of seven country covers, one Music/BruceSpringsteen cover performed country style, and one original song.
* Music/TheResidents, being big fans of TheCoverChangesTheMeaning and the ConceptAlbum, have quite a few: ''Music/TheThirdReichNRoll'' is two sidelong medleys of deranged '60s and '70s pop covers, ''The King and Eye'' consists of Music/{{Elvis|Presley}} covers with some between-song narration about the rise and fall of Elvis himself, ''George And James'' covers George Gershwin and James Brown, and ''Stars And Hank Forever'' covers John Phillip Sousa and Hank Williams. The latter two were originally going to be part of a lengthy series of two-artist cover albums that eventually got scrapped.
** ''I Am A Resident!'' is an odd deconstruction of a "tribute album": First the band asked fans to submit their own cover versions of Residents songs, then they created "mash ups" by combining elements of different covers of the same song with each other.