Coversongs List

Introduction

The coversongs list is kept by Gavin Spearhead. Who will be referred to as The Keeper in the rest of this document. The Keeper is not responsible for any damage directly or indirectly caused involving this list. None of the info presented in this document is guaranteed to be correct. This list is Freeware. If you want to spread this document, make sure all the files are included and that no information is changed except any possible spelling errors. Some notice to The Keeper would be appreciated. Any additions can be sent to The Keeper. I'm especially looking for tracklists of the onslaught of tribute albums. Also corrections, comments, questions and suggestions are appreciated. You can send new entries and corrections to me directly, suggestions and comments can be placed in the guestbook. if you prefer to communicate securely, here is my PGP public key.

A little about me: I finished my study Computer Science at the University of Twente in Enschede. I'm 32 years old and live in the west of the Netherlands. My main interest besides Computers is Death/Doom/Black metal and Grindcore. Besides this list I also maintain:

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It can also be found at:
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Label index can be found at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kmachine/covers/labelidx.htm

Editorial Notes

The list is intended as a list of coversongs, one can found in rock music. If an entry is to be included, at least one of the entries 'Artist' and 'Original artist' have to be a rock artist, where rock means hardrock, metal, punk, rock 'n' roll, and other related genres.

Entries included are:

coversongs found on albums, EPs, singles, demos, etc
live performed coversongs

Not included are:

samples taken from a song, stolen riffs, fragments from songs etc
re-recording of songs by the original artist
remixes
songs with the same title, but no tight relationship between them
coverbands ie bands that only play coversongs

Comments

[Free] means that the cover song is just generally based on the original, but it's not an exact cover of the song, many alterations, both musically and lyrically may be put in. In other words, it's a free interpretation.
[Live] means that a song isn't recorded by the covering artist but *only* performed Live. It is at the entry Album. Or when it is after an album it means that the recording on that album is live.
[?] means that this information is based on rumours or guessing. When it is behind the song entry it may be that it is not a cover at all.
Empty entries mean unknown to The Keeper.
Anything else after a | means comments.

The entire coversongs list has recently been re-formatted to using HTML tables. The first column consist of the artist that performs the cover When there are more artists with the same name, the country/state of origin is mentioned. The title of the cover song, which may be different from the original is in the second column. If so, the original title is mentioned between "{" and "}". The artist who originally recorded/performed the song is listed in the third column. Finally a list of albums on which the coversong appears, ie the album title of the covering artist, with format, the year of release and the label on which it appeared is listed in the fourth column. Every album entry is preceded by a space. If the album doesn't have a title as with split albums, a description is put between "{" and "}". Label names are abbreviated for the sake of saving space. The key to the abbriviations is not included in this list. After a title also may be a country name, then the release in that country is the one with the cover on it. Everything on a line after a '|' is comments.

Key to the format of albums

7"	A single, usually a one or two track album
BL	bootleg album
Box	a boxset
CCD	Compilation CD: containing more than one band
CD	This is a full-length album, assumed is, it is (or was) available on CD and possibly LP and TP
CS	Cassette single
Demo	right, a demo
Digi	This is a CD in a special package (digipak), usually contains some bonustracks. In this case the cover is only on the digipack version and not on the CD version (if that exists). Optionally postfixed by EP.
DVD	A video recording
EP	This is a short album, available on CD, LP or tape
LP	Similar to a CD but only available as LP.
PD	Only released as picture disk
TP	tape, equal to CD but only available as tape
TCD	Tribute CD. A CD featuring only coversongs of one band.
VHS	A video tape
DVD	A DVD

Revision : 5.3 / 4 January 2006