Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a previously recorded, commercially released song by someone other than the original artist or composer.

Originally, Billboard and other magazines that track the popularity of musical artists and hit tunes measured the sales success of the published tune, not just recordings of it. Later, they tracked the airplay that songs achieved, some cover versions being more successful recording(s) than the original song(s). Cover versions of well-known, well-liked tunes are often recorded by new or up-and-coming artists to achieve initial success when their unfamiliar original material would be less likely to be successful. Before the onset of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, songs were published and several records of a song might be brought out by singers of the day, each giving it their individual treatment. Cover versions could also be released as an effort to revive the song's popularity among younger generations of listeners after the popularity of the original version has long since declined over the years.

Cover Songs

Cover Songs is an UK bootleg released on black and colored vinyl in 2010. Wrap-round sleeve.

The album contains covers of songs by bands from the 1970s and 1980s.

Track listing

  • Arnie (Warlock Pinchers cover)/ White Punks on Dope (The Tubes cover)
  • Today Your Love Tomorrow The World (Ramones cover)
  • Jerkin' Krokus (Mott the Hoople cover)
  • Return of Spiders (Alice Cooper cover)
  • Rocket Reducer # 62 (MC5 cover)
  • Lexicon Devil (Germs cover)
  • Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground cover)
  • God of Thunder (Kiss cover)
  • Leech (Green River cover)
  • California Uber Alles (with Jello Biafra) (Dead Kennedys cover)
  • Love Canal (Flipper cover)
  • Someday (Flipper cover)
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