Artists/bands that have covered an entire album?

Submitted by expatbassist t3_zzgthx in Music

I'm a pretty big bluegrass fan and this past year I've really enjoyed listening to the Punch Brothers Hell on Church Street, which is a track by track cover/reinterpretation of Tony Rice's legendary album Church Street Blues.

Anyone know of any other groups or artists that have covered entire albums like this?

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laces_out t1_j2bjd3w wrote

Phish does it every year on Halloween. You can find free audience recordings here.

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killer5037- t1_j2bkmzq wrote

Dream Theatre has covered Dark side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, as well as Metallica's Master of Puppets album.

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makemasa t1_j2bm2l8 wrote

Flaming Lips have done Sgt Peppers and Dark Side.

Smithereens did Tommy (highly recommended)

Joe Pernice did an album of Barry Manilow covers (not one specific album)

Petra Haden did The Who Sell Out

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wonderloss t1_j2bmsz8 wrote

Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade covered Pink Floyd's Animals.

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LonoHunter t1_j2bmw4u wrote

Laibach did a dark, experimental version of the whole Let it Be album by the Beatles

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GrooseandGoot t1_j2bq3mz wrote

Saw Petra Haden and the Sellouts perform the entire The Who Sell Out album to open for The Decemberists back in the mid 00s. Entirely acapella, no instruments.

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purpdrank2 t1_j2bq74z wrote

Fruit Bats, they covered all of Siamese Dream

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DTNSFN1 t1_j2bqcla wrote

Luther Wright & the Wrongs - Rebuild the Wall
bluegrass cover of Pink Floyd's The Wall

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UncontrolableUrge t1_j2bqf2w wrote

Robyn Hitchcock covered a bootleg of Dylan's first electric show in England.

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HeidiKH83 t1_j2bqqmb wrote

Ryan Adams did one of Taylor Swift’s albums Easy Start All Stars do a whole bunch ie. Dark Side Of The Moon. Srgt. Pepper.

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Corn_Palace t1_j2bqvyr wrote

Booker T. & the M.G.s, - McLemore Avenue covers Abbey Road, though not in order.

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joelfinkle t1_j2br05h wrote

Mary Lee's Corvette did Blood on the Tracks live at a NYC club some years ago. She later said that the sheer amount of lyrics made it quite a challenge.

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alive-human-person t1_j2br7ro wrote

Easy Star All Stars does amazing album covers. Dub side of the moon is phenomenal, so is Radiodread (OK computer).

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ClemofNazareth t1_j2budgs wrote

Camper Van Beethoven did the entire Fleetwood Mac album Tusk.

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kzoostout t1_j2bue3r wrote

Charlie Hunter Quartet did a reimagined, jazz version of Natty Dread.

A bit of a stretch, but DJ Danger Mouse more or less made his name (to me at least) by mashing up the lyrics from Jay-Z's Black Album and beats that he created from the Beatles' White Album to create The Gray Album.

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MunsonRoy3 t1_j2bvfox wrote

Replying to GrooseandGoot (#1,206,368)

Had tickets to that in Orlando 2 years ago with The Sword and Wolfmother. Covid cancelled it twice, then both opening acts switched. By the time it actually happened I couldn’t go because of work. Was bummed I missed that show

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sigurrosco t1_j2bx2zr wrote

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) did bandwagonesque. ( Teenage Fanclub) Spotify

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toomanyukes t1_j2byg9m wrote

Not albums per se, but Rockabye Baby does some very good lullaby covers of... Well, just about any artist you can imagine. Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Tom Petty, Rhianna, Johnny Cash, Coldplay... It's quite an impressive body of work.

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seemeflying t1_j2bypqk wrote

Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band Album by Easy Star All-Stars

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ink_monkey96 t1_j2c0u4z wrote

Senor Coconut’s El Baile Aleman is an album of Kraftwerk covers on analog instruments in a Latin music style, and it’s so good.

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[deleted] t1_j2c1xnz wrote

It’s kinda common for punk bands to cover full Ramones albums. One of the best known is the Queers full album cover of Rocket to Russia

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TomHarlow t1_j2c3np6 wrote

Angelique Kidjo covered Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, and it’s excellent.

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snukebox_hero t1_j2c50h4 wrote

Train covered all of Zeppelin II and I'll be damned it's actually really good. It's better than it has any right to be.

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marcosbowser t1_j2carpo wrote

Not exactly what you asked (and maybe you already know?) but the bluegrass band Iron Horse does whole albums of music by Zeppelin, the Shins, Modest Mouse and, most famously, Metallica. Pretty great.

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shelldon_conch t1_j2cbmx7 wrote

Iron Horse (lots) and Soulive - Rubber Soul are good

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orswich t1_j2cbpjv wrote

If you like bluegrass/country you will enjoy Canadian band "Luther Wright and the wrongs" cover pink Floyd's "the wall" start to finish..

Amazing

Here's "mother" from the album https://youtu.be/6PvFy5uMS28

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real_horse_magic t1_j2cdw13 wrote

Replying to thatsapeachhun (#1,211,802)

Say what you will about Phish that’s gotta be one of my favorite things a band has ever done, just straight up inventing a fake band, writing and rehearsing an albums worth of songs for a one-show gag and playing it relatively straight, like “yes we’re now going to play this legendary lost album by this totally legit, obscure Swedish band”

Dudes in Phish are straight up geeks and they do some of the craziest, funniest stuff

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Edigophubia t1_j2cnavf wrote

Frankie Rose covered the cure's seventeen seconds album. I was bummed after I bought it on Bandcamp as soon as it came out, thinking it was going to be a new album of original music (I like the cure significantly less than Frankie Rose). But it's a good cover album.

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MoneySike3000 t1_j2ctsgx wrote

Cheap Trick did Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Barabaragaki t1_j2cw8q0 wrote

Macy Gray covered Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book album.

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yoursummercamp t1_j2cwg56 wrote

Not your genre but....Flaming Lips did the entire Dark Side of the Moon album and it is amazing!

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davisjones2022 t1_j2d07n9 wrote

The Enorchestra covered Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (Brian Eno)

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brsb5 t1_j2dbtdg wrote

Mary Fahl did Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon"

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Sachem81 t1_j2de0c7 wrote

Dirty Dozen Brass Band covered all of What’s Going On? after Hurricane Katrina. It is pretty powerful.

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OriginalMaar t1_j2dh74y wrote

man you are missing a gold mine. Dan tyminski just did the same album of rice in his tribute. go check it out its called 'one more time before you go'.

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ClivesKebab t1_j2dhb88 wrote

Sturgill Simpson covered 2 of his own albums with bluegrass renditions

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AdMaleficent1234 t1_j2dmccm wrote

Old crow medicine show cover bob dylans blonde on blonde album

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bigbaddeal t1_j2dn07f wrote

Drop everything and go listen to the album Pickin’ On Modest Mouse by Iron Horse.

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vwxxxyz t1_j2dnh2h wrote

Weezer’s Teal Album was covers of different artists. Love their cover of “Africa” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”.

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Owenjg77 t1_j2e733o wrote

A Giant Dog covered Arcades Fire Neon Bible

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Krokodrillo t1_j2e9h3m wrote

Alanis Morissette covered her album ‚Jagged Little Pill‘ for its anniversary with only acoustic instruments.

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BabyManatee t1_j2ea4we wrote

Schlong did a punk cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours called Tumours. Fit the whole album in a 45.

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GreenBaySlacker t1_j2elh2q wrote

Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities. Its not an entire album being covered, but is a fantastic album of modest mouse covers

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k33pthefunkalive t1_j2ep3qe wrote

DAVID (not Dave) Matthews covered the Dune soundtrack with some random space related songs sprinkled in, including the star wars theme and Bowie's Space Oddity. MF DOOM fans might recognize the solo in that one too ;)

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UncontrolableUrge t1_j2f44i2 wrote

Not recorded, but there is a group of musicians in Columbus, Ohio that have been performing a live Beatles marathon every year. Every album in UK release order with solo material added in.

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onioning t1_j2f7g2c wrote

Bettie Serveert did a Velvet Underground album. Though that said, even though I like the band it's pretty lackluster. Can't even remember if it was the eponymous album or the banana album. But it exists.

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onioning t1_j2f7mh3 wrote

Replying to ClemofNazareth (#1,207,496)

Lol. That's Fleetwood Mac? I'm a pretty big Camper fan but had no idea. Mostly because I dismissed the album as their least interesting. Not a Fleetwood Mac fan but I'll have to try approaching it again.

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fairnuff77 t1_j2fj6eg wrote

Old Crow Medicine Show covered Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blond”

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