Covers Record [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: Love to Be Silly.

Tracks:

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Kingsport Town
Troubled Waters
Naked If I Want To
Sweedeedee
In This Hole
I Found A Reason
Wild Is The Wind
Red Apples
Paths Of Victory
Salty Dog
Sea Of Love

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Chan Marshall devised the Cat Power moniker in order to put a degree of separation between herself and the often-twisted individuals who inhabit her songs. Here, she takes another step back while also taking a step forward. As the album title indicates, these are covers of other people's songs. Yet she sings them with no less intensity than if they were her own. Mick Jagger may have snarled the definitive "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," but Marshall takes a different tack. She removes the chorus and returns it as elegant slow blues. The Velvet Underground's "I Found a Reason" becomes a near-wordless cry. She relies only on her sufficient guitar picking and likeably amateurish piano tinkling, creating an isolated web not unlike that of Neil Young at his most deserted. Most appropriately, she covers "Red Apples" by Smog, whom she resembles in approach. Obscure (traditional and early) Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, and Michael Hurley tunes complement the bruised but not buried surroundings. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

Chan the (Wo)man Marshal makes another hit! .......2007-06-12

The Covers Record is an album that is typical Cat Power: subtle melodies underneath Chan Marshal's quiet, yet powerful vocals. I would venture to say that this is one of the most unique albums of covers that anyone will come across.

melancholy.......2007-01-12

I love this album. Her renditions of these classics are so unique to her style and melancholic. I love it.

Lover her or hate her.......2007-01-12

Chan seems to have the type of voice you love or hate; kind of like Bjork or JoAnna Newsom.

Put me in the love camp.

I'm listening to Covers right now, and let me say that the song "Naked If I Want to Be" is simply jaw-droppingly awesome. How can someone express such true, naked (no pun intended) emotion?

Truly incredible.

GREAT VOICE!.......2006-11-04

She has an excellent voice. Not typical. She does a great job of covering all of the songs!

She can't play, but she can sure sing.......2006-09-03

If you've been listening to the Cat Power album, The Greatest, you'll know that Chan Marshall makes a superb blues singer. The Covers Record, a likable collection of cover songs recorded in the late 1990s, serves as a nice introduction to Marshall's blues/folk singing style. There is no backup band on this stripped down album, only Marshall's voice and one other instrument per song. Spare, but it gets the job done.

Some reviewers have fawned over her version of the Stones classic "Satisfaction." I'm okay with that, but I'm considerably more enchanted by "Salty Dog," the country blues standard made famous by Mississippi John Hurt. Marshall does a wonderful version of it, easily on par with any folk or blues singer you can think of. One reason this song stands out for me is that she sticks to her strength (bluesy singing) and turns the guitar duties over to an actual professional, Matt Sweeney. He does nice job playing fingerstyle guitar John Hurt fashion. It's so easy to like this song. It's simple, clean, and sounds really great.

If only she had followed this approach for every song on the album! This could have easily been a five star album... not even just five stars, but a THOUSAND stars! But instead, Marshall prefers schlubing her way through the piano and guitar parts rather than have one of her talented friends provide a proper accompaniment. The Covers Record has a DIY quality to it as a result. Although I do like The Covers Record--it's one of her best albums--I keep thinking of how great it might have been if only she focused exclusively on singing.

Fortunately for us, Marshall's great voice saves the album. The CD is quite listenable even in spite of some of her bumbling and plodding accompaniments. I approve of the stripped down approach--no drum machines, no distorted guitars, no overdubbed harmonies. Truly, it would have been a formula for absolute perfection, if only!

Ah well... what are Cat Power fans if not an exasperated bunch? Look at any forum about her. It's one post after the next making excuses for her screwups, or making suggestions for improvement: "Chan would be so good if only she didn't cry and stop playing, or if only Chan would tune her guitar, or if only Chan would complete the song without messing up, or if only Chan would get a good producer who could help her." Somehow these problems never seem to arise with her peers like Ani Difranco, Regina Spektor, PJ Harvey, etc... but Cat Power fans have to learn to be tolerant. Every song can't be a winner. And in her case, it's more like every tenth song might be a winner, but only if the moon is right, she happens to be in a good mood, isn't drunk, nobody says anything mean to her, and she decides to let someone else play guitar for a change. Then and only then you may just get to hear something really magical come out of her.

In any event, The Covers Record has some remarkable moments and if you can accept its DIY limitations, it's a good listen.

Average customer rating:

I'll Come Back To You - (EP)
CHIPPENDALES (Strippers)
Manufacturer: XS Rhythm/Telstar Records, UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000LQCBFU

Product Description

RARE, 3-track EP, from the legendary Chippendale dancers. TRACKS: 1.I'll Come Back To You-4:09(Remix) Lead vocals-John Blaylock 2.Love Is A Wonderful Thing-5:02 Lead Vocals-Kurt Von Schmittou 3.Fever-3:22 Lead Vocals-Mark Wood / Issued on XS Rhythm/Telstar Records, UK, 1992, # CDXSR4.

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Loosepockets
Nate Allman
Manufacturer: Third Surfer
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA9GB2
Release Date: 2004-07-20

Tracks:

From the Storm
How Magnificent
Summer Song
Loose Pockets
Beautiful Mystery
Aran's Song
Foolish Heart

Average customer rating:

Pullin Out the Covers

Manufacturer: RPP
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA3Z1E
Release Date: 2004-04-27

Average customer rating:

Is the Extra Track Worth It????
I keep playing this over and over again ...

Covers Record
Cat Power
Manufacturer: Pony Canyon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004T449
Release Date: 2000-02-25

Tracks:

Satisfaction
Kingsport Town
Troubled Waters
Naked If I Want To
Sweedeedee
In This Hole
I Found A Reason
Wild Is The Wind
Red Apples
Paths Of Victory
Salty Dog
Sea Of Love
Love To Be Silly (Bonus)

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: Love to Be Silly.

Customer Reviews:

Is the Extra Track Worth It????.......2001-03-24

Yes, the extra track is worth it! Cat Power is an amazing band led by Chan Marshall. Her voice is beautiful and just the vehicle for these songs. Her cover versions of Sea of Love (previosly available on the Japanese import of Moon Pix, and sung accompanied by an autoharp), Satisfaction, Sweedeedee, I Found A Reason, and Wild is the Wind are some of my favorites. But, I have to say that every song is wonderful, just like every Cat Power album! The bonus track is called Love To Be Silly. It is a very cute and silly song. At one point Chan giggles. It makes any Cat Power fan's heart smile! If one is not a Cat Power fan, this album, What Would the Community Think? or Moon Pix would be an excellent first choice. If you like Chan Marshall's style and her voice try another album, it is always worth it. She has a very rare talent that is worth supporting.

I keep playing this over and over again ..........2000-06-21

When I am by myself, and my family is far away, I play Cat Power. And the Covers CD is the first one I play. The CD starts out with the BEST rendition of Satisfaction ever (although my wife points out it is missing the chorus and she favors Mick). Naked IF I Want To is a powerful song and has me turning up the volume. Salty Dog and all the rest are just so fine that I have to listen again and again. And Sea of Love is one I drown in. Like this very much.

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Archangel
Michael Vaccaro
Manufacturer: Original Cast Record
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000056NZ6
Release Date: 2001-05-01

Tracks:

Heartbeat, It's A Lovebeat
Hurricane
Prisoner Of Brenda
I Hope I'm Getting Close
Dancing Queen
Disco Elite
Boy Meets Girl
Am I So Easy To Replace?
Sandman's Coming
Makin' It

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Rock Bop Folk & Pop

Manufacturer: Ohio Moon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAKBMU
Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

Remember the Alamo (Tribute Version)
Rockin' Little Baby
School of Rock and Roll
Susie Darlin'
Comeback Buddy
Little Boy Sad
(I Remember) Baby Blue
Jesus on the Line
Little Lonely Summer Girl
Rockabilly Angels
Apron Strings
Ever Lovin' Fingers
Bertha Lou
Flaming Star
Go On Home
You're the One
People Tell Me
Elvis and Buddy
The Ways of A Woman In Love
Words of Love (Crumble and Fall)
Remember the Alamo (Original Version)

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Entre el Barro y Las Preguntas
Toli Morilla
Manufacturer: Dusty Roses Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAA558
Release Date: 2003-06-24

Tracks:

Se Acab
Banderas
Esas Amapolas
Camino de Oriente
Cantar
Son Los Vientos
Camino, Camino
Nada Como Arder
Marea
Desde La Torre M Alta

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