| Product Summary | | Label: Warner/reprise/maverick | | UPC: 00093624983460 | | Release Date: 4/7/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210674855 | | Item#: M4KJ5X | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Just Got Paid - Mastodon/The Used/Billy Gibbons ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles - The Black Keys ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Case Of You, A - Michelle Branch ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Here Comes A Regular - Against Me! ~ Various Artists | | | 5. More Than This - Missy Higgins ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Into The Mystic - James Otto ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Like A Hurricane - Adam Sandler ~ Various Artists | | | 8. You Wreck Me - Taking Back Sunday ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Burning Down The House - Disturbed/The Used ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Midlife Crisis - Disturbed/Avenged Sevenfold ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Paranoid - Avenged Sevenfold ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Borderline - Stardeath & White Dwarfs/The Flaming Lips ~ Various Artists | |
| | The Flaming Lips covering Madonna's "Borderline?" The Used taking on The Talking Heads' "Burning Down The House?" Taking Back Sunday recording Tom Petty's "You Wreck Me?" Rarely can a tribute album be described as fresh and edgy, bold and filled with attitude, but those words apply to Covered, A Revolution In Sound: Warner Bros. Records, an album celebrating the golden anniversary of the label founded in 1958. With 11 artists currently on the roster each performing a favorite rock song from Warner's first 50 years, Covered, A Revolution In Sound is issued in Warner's 51st year to not only pay tribute to the past, but hail the present and look forward to the next 50 years of revolutions in music.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Adam Sandler (vocals, guitar); Waddy Wachtel (guitar, background vocals); John Shanks, Billy Gibbons (guitar); Greg Leisz (acoustic guitar, tenor guitar, dulcimer); Patrick Warren, James Dewees, Rupert Gregson-Williams (keyboards); Don Heffington, Kenny Aronoff (drums); Betsy Hammer (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Jim Cooley; Jamie Siegel; Matt Squire; Neal Avron; Billy Bush; Bob Stark ; Josh Wilbur; Brendan O'Brien. | | Recording information: Adam's Workshop; Akron Analog; Drac Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA; Kingsize Sound Labs, Eagle Rock, CA; Kung Fu Bakery Recording, Portland, OR; Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood, CA; Signature Sound, San Diego, CA; Sony Studios, Culver City, CA; SOuthern Tracks Recording, Atlanta, GA; Sunburst REcording, Culver City, CA; Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadega, NY; Warner Studios, Nashville, TN. | | Arranger: Waddy Wachtel. | | A companion piece to the massive Warner Bros. box set, REVOLUTIONS IN SOUND, COVERED finds younger artists on the label performing songs by their revered predecessors. Against Me! delivers a faithful acoustic rendition of the Replacements' bar-room weeper "Here Comes a Regular," while Michelle Branch emotes on Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You," and Avenged Sevenfold runs through Black Sabbath's surging "Paranoid," making the compilation an interesting exercise in hero worship. | | Part of Warner Brothers' ongoing celebration of their 50th Anniversary, Covered: A Revolution in Sound has current Warner recording artists covering songs from classic Warner recordings artists -- i.e., following the rubric set by Rubaiyat, the 1990 compilation that had current Elektra artists covering classic Elektra artists. Elektra was always a weirder label, always reflecting its independence, while Warner always was a bigger label -- the quirkiest and strangest of the majors, particularly during their glory days of the '60s and '70s, but still a major label with no overruling identity, a situation that is especially true in 2009, where the Warner-affiliated labels boast a roster heavy with active rock bands and anonymous singer/songwriters. Both camps are represented here on Covered, but the producers have gone out of their way to showcase Warner's more interesting acts, some of which actually do some interesting work: the Black Keys twist Captain Beefheart into their own image, not necessarily an easy thing to do, the Flaming Lips turn Madonna's "Borderline" inside out, while Mastodon come close to giving ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid" a clenched revamp, perhaps ratcheting up the grind just a notch too tight. While Misty Higgins does her best to strip the sensuality away from Roxy Music's "More Than This," turning it into a breathy triple-A ballad that makes 10,000 Maniacs' version seem muscular, and the Used turn Talking Heads' into a garish car wreck, the rest of Covered finds artists treating the originals as sacred texts. In the case of Avenged Sevenfold's "Paranoid" and Disturbed's "Midlife Crisis," the fidelity is embarrassing; in the case of Michelle Branch's "A Case of You," it's just bland. James Otto fares a bit better with "Into the Mystic," giving it a little bit of heartland soul, but Against Me! should have known better than to replicate the Replacements' one-take wonder "Here Comes a Regular." And that just leaves the most bewildering track here, Adam Sandler's mimicking of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane." Sandler plays it straight, never cracking a joke, and it's not just unintentionally funny, it's just fascinatingly odd -- and in that oddness, it has a leg up on much of the rest of Covered, which is faithful and forgettable. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | Part of Warner Brothers' ongoing celebration of their 50th Anniversary, Covered: A Revolution in Sound has current Warner recording artists covering songs from classic Warner recordings artists -- i.e., following the rubric set by Rubaiyat, the 1990 compilation that had current Elektra artists covering classic Elektra artists. Elektra was always a weirder label, always reflecting its independence, while Warner always was a bigger label -- the quirkiest and strangest of the majors, particularly during their glory days of the '60s and '70s, but still a major label with no overruling identity, a situation that is especially true in 2009, where the Warner-affiliated labels boast a roster heavy with active rock bands and anonymous singer/songwriters. Both camps are represented here on Covered, but the producers have gone out of their way to showcase Warner's more interesting acts, some of which actually do some interesting work: the Black Keys twist Captain Beefheart into their own image, not necessarily an easy thing to do, the Flaming Lips turn Madonna's "Borderline" inside out, while Mastodon come close to giving ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid" a clenched revamp, perhaps ratcheting up the grind just a notch too tight. While Misty Higgins does her best to strip the sensuality away from Roxy Music's "More Than This," turning it into a breathy triple-A ballad that makes 10,000 Maniacs' version seem muscular, and the Used turn Talking Heads' into a garish car wreck, the rest of Covered finds artists treating the originals as sacred texts. In the case of Avenged Sevenfold's "Paranoid" and Disturbed's "Midlife Crisis," the fidelity is embarrassing; in the case of Michelle Branch's "A Case of You," it's just bland. James Otto fares a bit better with "Into the Mystic," giving it a little bit of heartland soul, but Against Me! should have known better than to replicate the Replacements' one-take wonder "Here Comes a Regular." And that just leaves the most bewildering track here, Adam Sandler's mimicking of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane." Sandler plays it straight, never cracking a joke, and it's not just unintentionally funny, it's just fascinatingly odd -- and in that oddness, it has a leg up on much of the rest of Covered. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: Diarmuid Quinn; Terapai Richmond; Dave Fridmann; David Draiman; Rachel Howard; Dave Symes; George Fullan; Ben Edgar; Adam Sandler; John Shanks; Matt Squire; Paul Worley; Billy Bush; Missy Higgins; Dan Donegan; Mike Wengren; Brendan O'Brien; Brooks Arthur |
Engineer: Alex Todorov; Andrew Bazinet; George Fullan; Lars Fox; Matt Squire; Nick DiDia; Trent Bell; Trina Shoemaker; Billy Bowers; Billy Bush; Jeff Rothschild; Bob Stark |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/07/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 512896 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624983460 |
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