The Cover Album Game - Games - Forums : Best Ever Albums

EyeKanFly
Head Bear Master/Galactic Emperor

Age: 33
Location: Gotham

What you do is you pick one of your favorite albums (or any album really) and pick a different artist to play each song on the album. It's basically a way to think, "how would this song sound if [x artist] played it?" That chart need not be chronologically correct. For example, you could have John Lennon singing "Karma Police". Hell, you could have Mozart arrange "Hey Jude" if you wanted to.

Here's an example featuring my favorite album and a some of my favorite artists:

Black Holes and Revelations by Various Artists (originally by Muse):

1. Take a Bow by Hurts
2. Starlight by The Shins
3. Supermassive Black Hole by The Flaming Lips
4. Map of the Problematique by Sufjan Stevens
5. Soldier's Poem by Simon & Garfunkel
6. Invincible by Queen
7. Assassin by Jack White
8. Exo-Politics by The Killers
9. City of Delusion by Bruce Springsteen
10. Hoodoo by Love
11. Knights of Cydonia by Led Zeppelin

Enjoy!

alelsupreme
Awful.

Gender: Male
Age: 27

fuck it, why not.

Pinkerton:

Tired Of Sex - Neutral Milk Hotel
Getchoo - Beach Boys
No Other One - Pixies
Why Bother? - Radiohead
Across The Sea - Bob Dylan
The Good Life - Bruce Springsteen
El Scorcho - X
Pink Triangle - Stone Roses
Falling For You - My Bloody Valentine
Butterfly - Kraftwerk

Yeah, I can't see this working that well.

JMan

A Night at the Opera by Black Sabbath. I've been wondering about this for a while.
Paranoid by Deep Purple
Machine Head by Aerosmith
Get Your Wings by Def Leppard
Hysteria by Adele (Adele's not a favorite, but I wondered what Armageddon It by Adele would sound like.)

Guest

JMan wrote:

A Night at the Opera by Black Sabbath. I've been wondering about this for a while.
Paranoid by Deep Purple
Machine Head by Aerosmith
Get Your Wings by Def Leppard
Hysteria by Adele (Adele's not a favorite, but I wondered what Armageddon It by Adele would sound like.)

Do you want to tell him or should I?

MrFrogger
Where am I

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: Oakland

JMan wrote:

A Night at the Opera by Black Sabbath. I've been wondering about this for a while.
Paranoid by Deep Purple
Machine Head by Aerosmith
Get Your Wings by Def Leppard
Hysteria by Adele (Adele's not a favorite, but I wondered what Armageddon It by Adele would sound like.)

First of all, if you look at the previous posts, that's obv not how you play the game

Second of all, those all sound absolutely terrible

Guest

I put some thought into it and tried to pick artists who I think would give an interesting take on each song, but also so that it would work as a cohesive(ish) album, which you could play from start to finish. First and foremost, though, it has to be something I'd want to hear, and my choices definitely fill that criteria. They may not be my favourite bands, but if I saw a tracklist that looked like this I'd be pretty fucking excited.

Various Artists - A Tribute to Pink Moon

1. My Bloody Valentine - Pink Moon
2. The Flaming Lips - Place To Be
3. Belle & Sebastian - Road
4. The Strokes - Which Will
5. Talk Talk - Horn
6. Fiona Apple - Things Behind The Sun
7. Tom Waits - Know
8. Radiohead - Parasite
9. Dinosaur Jr. - Free Ride
10. Can - Harvest Breed
11. The Fall - From The Morning

SamuelPear

Gender: Male
Age: 31

A Tribute to the Brown Album (The Band) - Various Artists

Across the Great Divide - The Roots ft. Aloe Blacc
Rag Mama Rag - Richie Havens
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Arcade Fire
When You Awake - Ryan Adams
Up on Cripple Creek - The Black Keys
Whispering Pines - Carole King
Jemima Surrender - Neil Young
Rockin' Chair - Bon Iver
Look Out Cleveland - Bruce Springsteen
Jawbone - Devendra Banhart
The Unfaithful Servant - The Black Crowes
King Harvest (Has Surely Come) - Bob Dylan

Last edited by SamuelPear on 04/14/2013 18:49; edited 1 time in total

MrFrogger
Where am I

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: Oakland

Fuck it I'll do this

Various Artists-A Tribute to Animal Collective's Feels

1. Neutral Milk Hotel-Did You See the Words?
2 Deerhunter-Grass
3. Mount Eerie-Flesh Canoe
4. David Bowie-The Purple Bottle
5. My Bloody Valentine-Bees
6. Sufjan Stevens-Banshee Beat
7. Godspeed You!Black Emperor-Daffy Duck
8. Joanna Newsom-Loch Raven
9. Arcade Fire-Turn into Something

Now those aren't necessarily my FAVORITE artists, buy I think they could do a killer interpretation of their assigned song

Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call

Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis

WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT

1. White light/White heat - LCD Soundsystem
2. The Gift - Tom Waits
3. Lady Godiva's Operation - Gun Club
4. Here She Comes Now - The White Stripes
5. I Heard Her Call My Name - Wilco
6. Sister Ray - Public Image Limited
_________________
-Ryan

ONLY 4% of people can understand this chart! Come try!

My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

Silver

Various Artists - A Tribute to Let It Be:

1. Arctic Monkeys - I Will Dare
2. The Strokes - Favorite Thing
3. Sonic Youth - We're Comin' Out
4. Broken Social Scene - Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
5. The Antlers - Androgynous
6. Deerhunter - Black Diamond
7. My Bloody Valentine - Unsatisfied
8. The Libertines - Seen Your Video
9. Japandroids - Gary's Got A Boner
10. Belle & Sebastian - Sixteen Blue
11. Modest Mouse - Answering Machine

I'd buy that.