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7	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]].
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9	A Cover Album is what happens when you compile several of these Cover Versions together and exclusively in one album.
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11	There are basically two kinds of this:
12	* The '''Tribute Album''': In this kind of album, some artist(s) or group(s) [=is/are=] tributed by many other ones by doing Cover Versions of the original songs the tributed one(s) had composed. Very seldom, some original songs may be introduced, generally by showing what the bands do or a song specially composed for the album. These ''Tribute Albums'' may be done in order to [[MilestoneCelebration celebrate some milestone]] (''X Years of...'') or simply for the pleasure of tributing the artist(s) or group(s).
13	* The '''Single-Artist Tribute''': This is where just one artist or group does all the covering job. Artists may do this for a variety of reasons. It might be that they want to have a product out there but don't have any new material at the moment, or they could be trying to pump some life into a stalled career by recording a bunch of familiar songs whose popularity has already been established. It can be an honest desire to pay tribute to songs and artists they enjoy, or it could just be for fun.
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15	See also CoverVersion, CoveredUp, TheCoverChangesTheGender, TheCoverChangesTheMeaning and SuspiciouslySimilarSong. Compare and contrast with RemixAlbum.
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17	'''As a note for the tropers: We're talking about recordings, whether these are live recordings or studio ones, and said recordings should consist ''only'' of covers. There may be exceptions with one or two (no more) original songs.'''
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19	!Examples:
20	See also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Covers_albums this list at]] Website/ThatOtherWiki.
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24	* The HeavyMetal genre is very fond of this:
25	** Music/IronMaiden has many of these.
26	** Music/{{Helloween}} has essentially four: ''The Keepers of Jericho Vol. I & II'', ''The Eastern Tribute to Helloween'' and ''[[{{Portmanteau}} HelloRay]]'', shared with Music/GammaRay.
27	** Music/JudasPriest has also some of these: both volumes of ''Legends of Metal'', ''Hell Bent for Metal'', ''Hell Bent Forever'' and ''The Metal Forge Vol. 1: A Tribute to Judas Priest'', which covers ''Music/BritishSteel'' in its entirety.
28	** Music/DreamTheater: ''Voices: A Tribute to Dream Theater'', and ''Sin City: The Dreams Go On''.
29	*** Of note about ''Voices...'' is that the album is actually composed of two [=CDs=]: one with the aforementioned Dream Theater covers, and the other with original songs by the same bands. We care for the first CD anyway.
30	** Music/{{Metallica}} has many as well: ''Metal Militia'', ''Metallic Assault'', ''Kerrang's Tribute to Music/MasterOfPuppets'' and so on. 2021's ''The Metallica Blacklist'' comprises 53 songs covering the 12 tracks of ''The Black Album'' including 12 versions of ''Nothing Else Matters''.
31	** And, of course, Music/BlackSabbath's ''Nativity in Black Vol. 1 & 2'' and ''Evil Lives: A Tribute to Black Sabbath'', among others...
32	** Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ''Warning Minds of Raging Empires''.
33	** Music/{{Megadeth}}'s ''Megaded''.
34	** Music/RonnieJamesDio had three, two of them after his death.
35	** ''Re-Machined: A Tribute to Music/DeepPurple's Machine Head'' had many heavy hitters covering the seminal metal band's best known album.
36	** Music/{{Summoning}} has ''In Mordor Where the Shadows Are: A Tribute to Summoning''.
37	* ''Mojo'' magazine curates one of these with pretty much every issue it releases, mostly focusing on covers of one artist or one specific album. The theme of the CD always ties in with a story in the issue.
38	* ''Star Power!'', ''20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions!'', and ''20 More Explosive Fantastic Rockin' Mega Smash Hit Explosions!'' are a trilogy of albums released by Pravda Records in the '90s, which featured indie and punk artists covering '70s AM radio hits: The verbose and/or excited album titles were coupled with deliberately garish, eye-searing cover art as a parody of K-tel compilations of the time. Many of the artists who contributed are fairly obscure today, but ''20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions!'' features the Music/TheSmashingPumpkins covering "Jackie Blue" by southern rock band The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, while ''20 More Explosive Fantastic Rockin' Mega Smash Hit Explosions!'' has Music/KingMissile's considerably snarkier version of "Still the One" by Orleans [[note]]which may be an elaborate gag about a case of similar names - The Orleans song was sung and co-written by John Hall, while the primary member of King Missile is John '''S.''' Hall.[[/note]]
39	* ''Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits'' from 1995 featured artists covering songs from '60s and '70s children's TV shows, such as ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' by the Music/{{Ramones}} and ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' by Music/ButtholeSurfers.
40	* Fearless Records' ''Punk Goes...'' [[http://www.fearlessrecords.com/releases/artist/22?ext=html tribute series]] features bands like Pierce the Veil, August Burns Red, and others covering songs in various genres, like ''Punk Goes Pop'', ''Punk Goes Metal'', and hysterically enough, ''Punk Goes Crunk''.
41	* The compilation album ''When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear'', featuring artists such as Music/{{Devo}}, Music/TheOakRidgeBoys, Music/AniDiFranco and Creator/JackieChan, Roy Clark, and Music/HermansHermits covering popular songs they'd be considered ''unlikely to cover'' (such as Herman's Hermits covering Music/BillyIdol's "White Wedding" and the Oak Ridge Boys performing Music/{{Kansas}}' "Carry on Wayward Son").
42	* ''This Bird Has Flown'': An indie rock tribute to Music/TheBeatles' ''Music/RubberSoul''.
43	** 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/{{The Fall\|Band}}.
44	* Likewise, parody group Big Daddy did a version of Music/TheBeatles' ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' as if it was recorded in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpCqsc2SK8 the 1950s.]]
45	* ''A Century of Covers'', a tribute to Belle & Sebastian.
46	* ''Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three'' is in an odd gray area between being a tribute album and a single artist tribute, but for convenience, let's place it here: The album consisted of the current lineup of the [[Music/HenryRollins Rollins Band]] collaborating with different vocalists on covers of Music/BlackFlag songs.
47	* ''If I Were a Carpenter'', a 1994 compilation featuring contemporary alternative artists covering songs written/made famous by the 70s pop duo Music/{{Carpenters}}.
48	* ''Kick at the Darkness'', a tribute album to the Canadian singer Music/BruceCockburn. Yielded a CoveredUp [[CoverVersion version]] of his song "Lovers in a Dangerous Time", done by the Music/BarenakedLadies on that album, and now most people don't know about the original.
49	* Music/LeonardCohen has had a few:
50	** ''I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Music/LeonardCohen'', a 1991 release featuring various alt-rock acts (including Music/ThePixies, Music/{{REM}}, and Music/NickCave) covering Cohen classics.
51	** ''Tower of Song'', a 1995 release featuring more mainstream artists like Music/BillyJoel, Music/ToriAmos, Music/WillieNelson and Music/SuzanneVega
52	** ''The Songs of Music/LeonardCohen Covered'', a 2012 release compiled by Mojo magazine.
53	* ''Urban Renewal'', a soul, RAndB, and hip hop tribute to Music/PhilCollins featuring Music/{{Brandy}} and [[Music/WuTangClan Ol' Dirty Bastard]] among others. The album came about because the publishers of Collins' songs noticed a notable amount of artists in those genres asking about covering or {{sampling}} his music - As explained in PopCultureIsolation, Phil Collins' solo work was popular with a generation of black audiences who heard his eighties hits on "urban" radio stations but didn't know of his roots in ProgressiveRock with Music/{{Genesis\|Band}}. It received negative reviews [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike for being a Phil Collins tribute album released at the time of his hatedom's height]].
54	* ''Salvation - Inspired by The Cranberries'', featuring covers of Music/TheCranberries by Irish musicians like Music/SineadOConnor.
55	* ''Virus 100'', a Music/DeadKennedys tribute album that gets its name from the fact that it was the 100th release for Music/JelloBiafra's label Creator/AlternativeTentacles. It mainly featured artists who were signed to Alternative Tentacles themselves, but notable outside contributors included Music/{{Sepultura}}, Music/FaithNoMore, Music/{{L7}}, and Music/NapalmDeath. The album had a good deal of arrangements [[InTheStyleOf that completely changed the genre of the original song]] -- aside from the metal covers, you have Faith No More playing "Let's Lynch the Landlord" as a lounge song, Mojo Nixon's country version of "Winnebago Warrior", [=NoMeansNo=]'s a capella version of "Forward to Death", The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's rap version of "California Über Alles" (with updated lyrics focusing on then-current California governor Pete Wilson), and Kramer turning "Insight" into an eerie ballad with synthesized orchestration.
56	* ''For the Masses'', a Music/DepecheMode tribute album released in 1998, mainly featured contemporary AlternativeRock bands (such as Music/{{Deftones}}, Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, Music/VerucaSalt), with a few ElectronicMusic artists (Meat Beat Manifesto, [[Music/Apollo440 Apollo Four Forty]]) contributing too. It's also notable for focusing entirely on Music/DepecheMode songs written by Martin Gore, and for having a cover designed by Martyn Atkins, who frequently worked with Depeche Mode themselves as a graphic designer or video director. Additionally, Music/MarilynManson were going to contribute a version of "Personal Jesus" to this album, but couldn't due to scheduling conflicts -- they finally covered the song six years later and used it as a new track for their own GreatestHitsAlbum instead.
57	* ''Music/StayAwake'', which consists entirely of covers of Creator/{{Disney}} songs by various artists.
58	* ''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\|Band}} and Music/{{Train}}.
59	* Music/DuranDuran merited no fewer than three tribute albums, all within the span of three years (1997 - 2000): ''The Duran Duran Tribute Album'', featuring late '90s alt-rockers such as Music/{{Deftones}} and Less Than Jake; ''[=UnDone=]: The Songs of Duran Duran'', featuring Australian musical artists such as Ben Lee (with Music/KylieMinogue) and Something for Kate; and ''Glue: A Tribute to the Music of Duran Duran'', a fan-driven covers album project that benefited RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).
60	* ''Bob Dylan In The 80's: Volume 1'', a Music/BobDylan tribute album specifically focused on his output from 1980 to 1990 (including songs from the era that weren't officially released and songs that were technically by Music/TheTravelingWilburys).
61	* ''Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles'': Music/{{Eagles}} songs performed by country artists.
62	* ''Legacy: A Tribute to Music/FleetwoodMac's Rumours'', where assorted artists (Music/{{Jewel}}, Music/ShawnColvin, Music/EltonJohn) cover a song from the ''Music/{{Rumours}}'' album.
63	* There are two major Music/GratefulDead tribute albums:
64	** ''Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead'' from 1991 had the endorsement of Dead frontman Jerry Garcia, who particularly liked the contributions from Music/MidnightOil, Music/JanesAddiction, and long-time Deadhead Music/ElvisCostello.
65	** ''Day of the Dead'', from 2015, was a triple-disc set curated by members of Music/TheNational and featuring contributions from Music/{{Wilco}}, Music/TheFlamingLips, Music/LucindaWilliams and more. Dead members Bob Weir and Bruce Hornsby even show up on a few of the tracks.
66	* ''Concert for George'', a 2002 tribute to Music/GeorgeHarrison, available on CD and DVD.
67	* ''Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project'' was a 1997 album of covers of Film/JamesBond theme tunes by contemporary artists. The producer David Arnold went on to compose the music for the Bond films from ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' onward.
68	* 1991's ''Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Music/EltonJohn and Bernie Taupin''. Notable for Music/KateBush's cover of "Rocket Man" and Music/TheWho's cover of "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)"; Elton John is one of the few recording artists to ever cover The Who, with his version of "Pinball Wizard".
69	* Also in 1994 came ''Kiss My Ass: Classic Music/{{Kiss}} Regrooved'', featuring (among others) Music/LennyKravitz, 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.
70	* A Music/LedZeppelin tribute album called ''Encomium'' was released in 1995, and features covers done by various alternative and pop groups from TheNineties, including Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish, Music/StoneTemplePilots, Music/DuranDuran, 4 Non Blondes, and the Rollins Band, among others.
71	* In 1994, a bunch of CountryMusic artists got together to record a Music/LynyrdSkynyrd tribute called ''Skynyrd Frynds''.
72	* ''Music/{{RAM}}'' by [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul]] and Linda [=McCartney=] was the subject of three out of the blue tribute albums in recent years: ''[[http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/ram-on-la/ Ram on L.A.]]'' and ''[[http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/09/jamoeblog/tom-scharpling-on-his-paul-mccartney-ram-album-tribute.html TOM]]'' were released within weeks of each other in 2009, and in 2011 a Portland musician released a re-creation of the album called ''[[http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2011/03/07/dave-depper-releases-the-ram-project The RAM Project.]]''
73	* ''The Power & The Passion'', where Australian bands cover Music/MidnightOil.
74	* ''Songs from the Neighborhood'' is this for the TV series ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', with artists like Music/AmyGrant and Music/DonnaSummer performing songs that Creator/FredRogers sung on his series. The album also includes a RewrittenPopVersion of "Thank You For Being You", a song from another Creator/PBSKids 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.
75	* ''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).
76	** In a similar vein, Japanese label Far East Tribe Records pulled together a ''Nevermind'' tribute album for the album's twentieth anniversary, simply called ''Nevermind Tribute''. The album is responsible for getting several bands noticed in the west for the first time, such as ''ONE OK ROCK'' and ''Music/ManWithAMission''.
77	* ''Sharin' in the Groove'', featuring covers of Music/{{Phish}} songs. This album is a bit of a twist on a typical tribute album; Instead of featuring artists inspired by Phish, it instead included songs from acts who were contemporaries of the band (Los Lobos, Music/{{Pavement}} side-project The Preston School of Industry), artists who were influences ''on'' Phish (Son Seals, Little Feat, Music/TomTomClub), famous admirers of the band (Music/JimmyBuffett, [[Music/AlicesRestaurant Arlo Guthrie]]) or friends with its members (Music/{{Boredoms}}, [[Music/DaveMatthewsBand Dave Matthews]], Phish lyricist Tom Marshall's band Amfibian). The album even includes a contribution from Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, who composed an orchestral medley of two Phish songs, performed for the project by the Vermont Youth Orchestra.
78	* ''Dub Side of the Moon'', a reggae cover of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon''.
79	* ''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.
80	* ''We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Music/{{Ramones}}''. There are many, ''many'' Ramones tribute albums out there, but this one's notable for featuring lots of well-known artists such as Music/{{Metallica}} ("[=53rd=] & [=3rd=]"), Music/RobZombie ("Blitzkrieg Bop"), Music/RedHotChiliPeppers ("Havana Affair") and Music/TomWaits ("Return of Jackie and Judy"). The album was produced by Zombie and Johnny Ramone, who had creative control over the project, right down to personally sequencing the tracklisting himself.
81	** Let's just say you may never hear "The KKK Took My Baby Away" the same way again after you hear '''Music/MarilynManson''' singing it; your ideas about Music/{{U2}} may be upended as well when you hear their version of "Beat on the Brat".
82	* ''The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show'' was songs from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' covered by various PunkRock bands.
83	* ''Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute'' which featured artists like Music/BobDylan, Music/WillieNelson and Music/VanMorrison doing covers of Music/JimmieRodgers songs.
84	* 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''.
85	* 1996 saw the release of "Schoolhouse Rock Rocks", a tribute album to ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock''. Highlights include Blind Melon's "Three's a Magic Number" and Better Than Ezra's "Conjunction Junction".
86	* ''[[http://onjoyfulwings.bandcamp.com/album/seven-swans-reimagined Seven Swans Reimagined]]'': Music/SufjanStevens' album ''Seven Swans'' covered by various indie musicians.
87	* ''Hello Radio'', a tribute to Music/TheyMightBeGiants.
88	* ''Twisted Forever – A Tribute to the Legendary Music/TwistedSister''.
89	* The ten-year anniversary rerelease of Music/SharonVanEtten's album ''Epic'' included covers of the songs by other artists: Music/BigRedMachine, Music/{{Idles}}, Music/LucindaWilliams, Music/{{Shamir}}, Music/CourtneyBarnett, Music/StPanther, and Music/FionaApple took one apiece.
90	* ''Tom's Album'' is unusual in that it's basically a tribute album to one song: It features twelve versions of "Tom's Diner" by Music/SuzanneVega -- the original vocal and instrumental versions that [[BookEnds book-ended]] Suzanne Vega's album ''Solitude Standing'', plus a selection of remixes, covers, parodies, or other songs that just prominently [[{{sampling}} sample]] it, all curated by Vega herself. The album was primarily inspired by the popularity of DNA's remix of the song, which is included [[note]] DNA also contributed the only non-"Tom's Diner" song to the album, a remix of Suzanne Vega's "Rusted Pipe"[[/note]]. Aside from the concept, the album is notable for featuring a bizarre cover of the song by Bingo Hand Job, a one-off collaboration between Music/{{REM}} and Billy Bragg.
91	* ''Whore: Various Artists Play Music/{{Wire}}''.
92	* 1995's ''A Testimonial Dinner; the Songs of Music/{{XTC}}''. This one included a contribution from a group calling themselves "Terry & The Lovemen"...who were actually XTC themselves in disguise, and their contribution was a previously unreleased song that had been left off their 1989 album ''Oranges & Lemons''.
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96	* Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s ''Honkin' on Bobo'', in which they cover old blues songs.
97	* ''Strange Little Girls'' by Music/ToriAmos is loosely themed as "covers of songs written by men about women".
98	* 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).
99	* Music/PaulAnka's ''Rock Swings''.
100	* 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\|Band}} (one of the songs performed).
101	* Apoptygma Berzerk's ''Sonic Diary''.
102	* [[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.
103	* [[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''.
104	* 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.
105	* Music/TheBand's ''Moondog Matinee''.
106	* ''Music/BeachBoysParty'' by Music/TheBeachBoys was a quickly-recorded cover album to buy Music/BrianWilson more time to create ''Music/PetSounds''.
107	** And on the subject of Brian Wilson, the man himself recorded two cover albums consisting of Music/GeorgeGershwin and Disney tunes, respectively.
108	* 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"]].
109	* ''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.
110	* 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).
111	* 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).
112	* Any album by Music/PatBoone.
113	* Music/DavidBowie's ''Music/PinUps'' revolves around songs from UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, focusing on artists who influenced Bowie's own material, including Music/TheWho, Music/TheYardbirds, Music/TheKinks, and Music/PinkFloyd. Bowie intended to record a follow-up themed around American songs from the same era, but it never materialized; two songs planned for it were eventually recorded for ''Music/{{Heathen}}'', though.
114	* Anne Brigg's self-titled LP was 8 tracks of English folk songs with two original songs.
115	* 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'').
116	* ''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.
117	* Music/JohnnyCash's ''American Recordings''.
118	* Music/CamperVanBeethoven covered the entire Music/FleetwoodMac album ''Tusk'' (under the same album title, of course).
119	* ''Music/SwitchedOnBach'' by Music/WendyCarlos is an example of ElectronicMusic playing work by Music/JohannSebastianBach.
120	* ''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.
121	* Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds' ''Kicking Against the Pricks'', a very varied assortment of folk, blues, country, rock and pop numbers.
122	* 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.
123	* 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.
124	* 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.
125	* Holly Cole did an entire album of Music/TomWaits covers called "Temptation".
126	* ''Going Back'' by Music/PhilCollins is an album of his versions of soul and Creator/{{Motown}} standards from TheSixties.
127	* 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.
128	* Cracker's ''Countrysides'' consists of seven country covers, one Music/BruceSpringsteen cover performed country style, and one original song.
129	* 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.
130	* Music/DefLeppard had the album ''Yeah!'', which covered songs by some of their main influences.
131	* ''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]].
132	* Music/DreamTheater have a fondness for tributing their influences. They've covered and recorded several classic albums on stage, such as Music/IronMaiden's ''Music/TheNumberOfTheBeast'', Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Music/MasterOfPuppets'', Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' and Music/DeepPurple's ''Music/MadeInJapan''. Recently, they've launched a special edition of their latest album with a CoverAlbum featuring six different covers. Not to mention both volumes of the official bootleg Uncovered.
133	** Their keyboardist Music/JordanRudess has also released at least three albums consisting largely of covers. Perhaps most notable is ''The Road Home'', which, except for one track, consists of covers of classic ProgressiveRock material (with Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's "Tarkus" probably being the most impressive; Keith Emerson himself, who was sparse with his praise for others' performances of his material, loved it). Four of these are full band arrangements and the fifth is a piano-and-voice medley of four songs. ("Piece of the π" is an original instrumental.) He also has two albums that consist largely of covers, but just barely miss the cutoff for this trope due to containing too many original songs.[[note]]''Notes on a Dream'' consists of Music/DreamTheater covers (apart from three originals) and ''The Unforgotten Path'' consists (apart from four originals) of arrangements of songs from various genres, most quite well known. Both of these are entirely solo piano albums.[[/note]]
134	* 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.
135	* ''Thank You'' by Music/DuranDuran.
136	* Music/BobDylan's (frequently overlooked) [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled first album]], ''[[Music/BobDylanAlbum Bob Dylan]]'' (1962) was composed almost entirely renditions of folk standards, with only two (not particularly inspired) original compositions.
137	** Also ''Music/SelfPortrait'' (most of it), ''Dylan'', ''Down in the Groove'' (most of it), ''Music/GoodAsIBeenToYou'', ''World Gone Wrong'' and ''Music/ChristmasInTheHeart'', as well as his three albums of standards, ''Shadows In The Night'', ''Fallen Angels'' and ''Triplicate''. It's safe to say Dylan likes cover albums.
138	* 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.
139	* 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''.
140	* ''Other People's Songs'' by Music/{{Erasure}}.
141	* ''The Director's Cut'' by Fantômas, which has them covering movie themes in their own avant garde metal style.
142	* ''Songs from the Mirror'' by Music/{{Fish}}.
143	* 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.
144	* Music/FooFighters' limited edition ''Medium Rare''.
145	* ''Four Year Strong Explains It All'', a cover album consisting entirely of Four Year Strong doing 90s songs.
146	* On the first album by Music/{{Fozzy}} (the [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] one), eight out of ten songs are covers.
147	* ''Marvelous Clouds'' by [[Music/{{Ween}} Aaron Freeman]] consists entirely of Rod [=McKuen=] covers.
148	* ''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.
149	* Music/PeterGabriel's ''Scratch My Back''.
150	** 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.
151	* ''Songs We Didn't Write'' by Ghoti Hook.
152	* ''"The Spaghetti Incident?"'' by Music/GunsNRoses.
153	** 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.
154	* 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.
155	* Music/{{Hammerfall}}'s ''Masterpieces''.
156	* Music/{{Helloween}}'s ''Metal Jukebox''.
157	* 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).
158	* Music/PeterHollens: In "The Greatest Showman A Capella", he sings multi-track vocals of the entire songtrack from ''Film/TheGreatestShowman''.
159	* 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.
160	* 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.
161	* Music/InformationSociety's ''Orders of Magnitude'', which even covers "Capital I" from ''Series/SesameStreet'' and "Heffalumps and Wooozles" from ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''.
162	* Music/RicardoIorio:
163	** Hermética's "Intérpretes".
164	** As a solo artist, he has "Ayer Deseo, Hoy Realidad" and "Tangos y Milongas".
165	* ''A Flower Bookmark'' and ''A Flower Bookmark 2'' by Music/{{IU}} are remake albums, a tribute to some classic Korean songs she admires.
166	* ''Under the Influence'' by Music/AlanJackson.
167	* ''The Hit List'' by Music/JoanJett.
168	* ''Anywhere I Lay My Head'' by Creator/ScarlettJohansson is a tribute to Tom Waits.
169	* 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.
170	* "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.
171	* 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).
172	* 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.
173	* ''Mujer Divina – Homenaje a Agustín Lara'' is a tribute album by Music/NataliaLafourcade made of songs by Mexican singer Agustín Lara.
174	* ''Hymns of the 49th Parallel'' by k.d. lang.
175	* ''Covers'', an EP by Greg Laswell.
176	* Leaether Strip's album of [[https://leaetherstrip.bandcamp.com/album/dm-my-depeche-mode-covers Depeche Mode covers]].
177	* Leeni's ''Lovefool'' EP covers songs from Creator/BazLuhrmann's ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'', including Music/TheCardigans' "Lovefool".
178	* 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".
179	* ''Happy Together'' by the Music/LeningradCowboys with the Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble.
180	* ''Rock 'n' Roll'' by Music/JohnLennon.
181	* ''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.
182	* 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.
183	* ''Local H's Awesome Mix Tape Vol. 1'', as well as its sequel.
184	* ''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.
185	* ''Timeless'' by Music/MartinaMcBride.
186	* ''Starting Over'' by Music/RebaMcEntire.
187	* ''The Russian Album'' by Music/PaulMcCartney (originally a USSR-exclusive release, but went international in 1991)
188	** ''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.)
189	** ''Kisses on the Bottom'' is another album of mostly covers, this time formative pop standards Paul listened to as a youngster and two originals.
190	* 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.
191	* Michael [=McDonald=] recorded two albums of Motown covers.
192	* ''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".
193	* Marsheaux's ''A Broken Frame'' is a full-length cover of the Music/DepecheMode album of the same name.
194	* 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''.
195	* ''Music/GarageInc'' by Music/{{Metallica}}.
196	* Music/GeorgeMichael's ''Songs from the Last Century'', an album of covers mostly from the 20s to the 50s.
197	* Music/{{Ministry}}'s ''The Cover Up'', which combines three previously released cover songs with covers recorded specifically for the album.
198	* 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.
199	* ''Mockingbird'' by Allison Moorer.
200	* Music/NateWantsToBattle:
201	** 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"]].
202	** ''Genesis'' contains anime covers like "Literature/TheAsteriskWar" and "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town]]".
203	* 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.
204	* ''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.
205	* 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.
206	* Music/OzzyOsbourne's ''Under Cover''.
207	* 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'').
208	* ''Coverkill'' by Music/{{Overkill}}.
209	* ''A Singer Must Die'' by Music/StevenPage and the Art of Time Ensemble.
210	* 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]].
211	* 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.
212	* Music/AxelRudiPell's ''Diamonds Unlocked''.
213	* ''Nineteeneighties'' by Grant-Lee Phillips covers songs from TheEighties.
214	* ''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.
215	* 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''.
216	* Music/Powerman5000's ''Copies Clones & Replicants''.
217	* 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.
218	* Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ''Take Cover''.
219	* Music/{{Ramones}} have ''Acid Eaters'', which much like Rush's ''Feedback'', is mainly a collection of 60s songs that influenced them.
220	* ''Renegades'' by Music/RageAgainstTheMachine is all about covers.
221	* 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"]].
222	* 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.
223	* 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''.
224	* ''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)
225	* 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.
226	** ''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.
227	* 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.
228	* Music/LeAnnRimes' SelfTitledAlbum.
229	* 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.
230	** Ronstadt's 1987 album ''Canciones de Mi Padre'' was a collection of traditional Mexican folk songs.
231	* ''[[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.
232	* 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.
233	* ''Feedback'' by Music/RushBand. Released in honor of the group's 30th anniversary is a collection of favorite 1960s songs.
234	* 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!).
235	* Music/BobSeger's ''Smokin' O.P.'s''.
236	* Music/{{Sepultura}}'s ''Revolusongs'' EP.
237	* 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).
238	* Music/SimpleMinds "Neon Lights" album, and the bonus disc of "Graffiti Soul", "Searching for the Lost Boys".
239	* Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees' ''Through the Looking Glass'' was inspired by Music/DavidBowie's ''Music/PinUps'' and as such focuses on artists who influenced the band, including Music/{{Sparks}}, Music/BobDylan, Music/IggyPop, Music/BillieHoliday, and even Creator/{{Disney}}.
240	* ''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]].
241	* 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]]".
242	* Sonique's ''Don't Give a Damn'' consists of Film/JamesBond theme tune covers.
243	* ''We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions'' by Music/BruceSpringsteen, a collection of folk songs, most of which were recorded by folksinger Music/PeteSeeger.
244	* 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).
245	** OlderThanTheyThink: Music/RingoStarr did it first with his 1970 album ''Sentimental Journey''.
246	* Music/{{Stryper}}'s ''The Covering''.
247	* 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.
248	* ''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.
249	* 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.
250	* Toto released ''Through the Looking Glass'', all covers of songs which inspired the band.
251	* [=UB40=] released four different cover albums, each titled ''Labour of Love''.
252	* 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".
253	* ''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\|Musician}}'s "Loser" set to the music of {{Music/Radiohead}}'s "National Anthem", and eventually adds [[Music/PhilCollins "In The Air Tonight"]] into the mix.
254	* 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.
255	* Music/PablloVittar's debut EP, ''Open Bar'', consists entirely of Portuguese versions of pop songs.
256	* ''Famous Blue Raincoat'' by Music/JenniferWarnes.
257	* 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.
258	* ''Music/WeezerTheTealAlbum'' by Music/{{Weezer}}
259	* Westlife's ''[[PunBasedTitle Allow Us to Be Frank]]'' is entirely composed of Music/FrankSinatra covers. Yes, the title ''is'' a {{pun}}.
260	* 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.
261	* Music/RobbieWilliams recorded ''Swing When You're Winning'', its title a pun on his previous album ''Sing When You're Winning'', following the success of a song for the ''Literature/BridgetJones' Diary'' soundtrack. It featured one original song which fit in with the theme and which Robbie had waiting for a suitable album to release it on, and several duets including ones with Creator/NicoleKidman and the late Music/FrankSinatra.
262	* [[Music/HeartBand Ann Wilson's]] 2018 album ''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.
263	* ''Music/FiveLiveYardbirds'' by Music/TheYardbirds is comprised of nothing but blues and R&B covers, all played live.
264	* ''Music/FrancescoZappa'' (1984) by Music/FrankZappa is an unusual example as Zappa used plays music by 18th century classical composer Francesco Zappa on his Synclavier computer. In other words, he doesn't actually cover him as he just lets his computer play the scores.
265	** ''Music/TheBestBandYouNeverHeardInYourLife'' is a double LiveAlbum where Zappa plays highly unique covers of Music/JohnnyCash's "Ring of Fire", Music/TonyBennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", Music/MauriceRavel's "Boléro", Music/JimiHendrix' "Purple Haze", Music/{{Cream}}'s "Sunshine of Your Love", the traditional "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", the theme from ''Film/TheGodfather'', the theme from ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' and Music/LedZeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".
266	* Stabbing Westward have ''Hallowed Hymns'', released the day before Halloween 2020, and consisting of three cover versions of songs with vaguely seasonally appropriate themes (plus a remix of one of them): Music/TheCure's "Burn", {{Music/Ministry}}'s "Everyday Is Halloween", and Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen's "Killing Moon".
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270	* Music/BadReligion's ''Christmas Songs'' - there's one original, and it's TheNotRemix of one of their old singles, "American Jesus".
271	* ''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]].
272	* ''Music/MerryChristmas'' by Music/BingCrosby, the best-selling Christmas album of all time, all covers.
273	* ''Music/ChristmasInTheHeart'' by Music/BobDylan, an album full with covers of Christmas carols.
274	* Music/{{Erasure}}'s ''Snow Globe'' features covers of both well-known and obscure Christmas tunes, in addition to the five original songs.
275	* Music/{{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.
276	* ''The Most Wonderful Time of the Year'' by [[Music/StoneTemplePilots Scott Weiland]] consists entirely of renditions of Christmas standards.
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279	[[folder:Cover albums by artists who are predominantly cover artists]]
280	* A lot of folk, country and traditional music performers will bring out albums where they play traditionals and standards, rather than their own material.
281	** In fact, during the 1950s and 1960s, it was common for many country artists to record albums of songs entirely by one particular songwriter; one notable example is Music/BuckOwens' 1961 album ''Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard''. Frequently, several of the songs on such albums had been (or would later be) big hits for other artists. One example on Owens' ''Buck Sings Harlan'' album is "Heartaches by the Number", which had been a top 5 country hit for Ray Price two years earlier.
282	* ''Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings'' by Music/LouisArmstrong is a collection of mostly traditionals and jazz originals that were circulating around the time Armstrong and his band recorded them. Some of them are own compositions, but most of them were already covers back then.
283	* ''Music/WithALittleHelpFromMyFriends'' and ''Film/MadDogsAndEnglishmen'' by Music/JoeCocker; the latter is also a LiveAlbum.
284	* Music/TheFourFreshmen mostly did covers of jazz and pop standards, although they sometimes included an original or two in their albums.
285	* 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.
286	* ''[[Music/RobertJohnsonTheCompleteRecordings The Complete Recordings]]'' by Music/RobertJohnson is an album with all his recordings, yet most of them were traditionals and blues songs that other artists were already singing at the time. Johnson covered them, added his own lyrics here and there and used different melodies sometimes too.
287	* 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.
288	** 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!)
289	* 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.
290	* Franchise/TheMuppets have brought out two cover albums, ''Music/MuppetBeachParty'' and ''Music/KermitUnpigged''.
291	* Music/PostModernJukebox's Retro stock and trade.
292	** Ditto for the Music/VitaminStringQuartet and all of their countless tributes. Hell, they've even done a tribute to Music/SystemOfADown's ''Mezmerize'' and ''Hypnotize''.
293	** 8-Bit Universe, note for note [[RecycledInSpace but in 8-bit!]]. Most of their albums are just random collections of whatever they last mixed, but they have done straight tributes for Music/LinkinPark (in memory of Chester) and Music/{{Queen}} (for ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'').
294	* Music/ElvisPresley's ''Music/{{Elvis Presley\|TheAlbum}}'', ''Music/ElvisNBCTVSpecial'' and ''Music/FromElvisInMemphis'' are all cover albums, since Elvis never wrote his own material.
295	* 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 Tool's Maynard James Keenan to sing Music/PaulMcCartney's "Silly Love Songs".
296	* 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.
297	* Jazz vocalist Music/SarahVaughan's entire career is made of cover albums, including ''Music/SarahVaughanWithCliffordBrown'' (1957) and ''Music/LiveInJapan'' (1973).
298	* Music/SidVicious solo album ''Music/SidSings'' (1979) has nothing but covers, except for one solo rendition of one Music/SexPistols song.
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