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A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of a specific artist's songs.
There have been tributes or covers recorded since before the first albums became technically feasible; Enrico Caruso's 1907 recordings of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci are one early example. The birth of the 'modern' tribute album is often credited to record producer Hal Willner with the Amarcord Nino Rota LP in 1981. He followed up with tributes to Thelonious Monk, Disney cartoons, Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus and Harold Arlen.
Some tribute albums are created with a further conceptual twist than a simple collection of covers. These include:
- Albums which aid the artist whose work is being covered. These include Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, a tribute to Roky Erickson, whose cult fame has not led to financial success, as well as the 2CD Orphans of God, a tribute to Mark Heard, a singer/songwriter whose work has been praised by fellow artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Victoria Williams, Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett. Victoria Williams is also the subject of such a tribute CD titled Sweet Relief.
- Albums consisting of one artist performing only songs by another artist, such as Great Zeppelin, a tribute album for Led Zeppelin, performed solely by Great White or Wicked Grin, a collection of Tom Waits songs performed by John Hammond Jr.. The Persuasions, The Inmates, Les Fradkin, The Smithereens, and Laibach have each recorded tribute CDs entirely consisting of songs by The Beatles.
- Albums consisting of cover songs performed in a different style of music than that of their original performers. These include Is It Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan and Goth Oddity 2000: A Tribute to David Bowie, as well as the Pickin' On... and String Quartet series of instrumental artist tributes done bluegrass and classical style, respectively. Other examples include reggae, Cuban and ambient lounge compilations consisting solely of songs by The Beatles.
- Albums which recreate a specific album with cover versions of songs from that album. These include Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Booker T. & the M.G.'s' McLemore Avenue, which covers all the songs from The Beatles' Abbey Road, Les Fradkin "Pepper Front To Back" which covers the entire "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album as a CD of Guitar Instrumental Rock and More Oar: A Tribute to Alexander "Skip" Spence, which recreates Spence's only album Oar.
- Albums consisting of cover songs sung in another language. These include Tributo a the Cure - Porque No Puedo Ser Tu (1999) and Tributo a Queen: Los Grandes del Rock en Español (1997).
- Albums consisting of cover songs performed by artists who influenced the band being covered, rather than those influenced by that band. These include Sharin' in the Groove: Celebrating the Music of Phish.
- Albums made to commemorate the loss of a cherished artist. These include So Amazing: A Tribute to Luther Vandross, recorded shortly after his death.
Some albums titled and marketed as "tributes" to well-known musical figures are effectively sound-alikes or knock-offs, recorded by anonymous session musicians or performers of no distinction.
List of tribute albums
- ABBA
- Abba-esque (Erasure, (1992)
- Abbamania (1999)
- A Tribute to ABBA (2001)
- AC/DC
- Fusebox (1997)
- Thunderbolt: A Tribute to AC/DC (1998)
- A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC (performed by Hayseed Dixie), (2001)
- Graveyard Classics 2 (performed by Six Feet Under) (2004)
- Aerosmith
- Badfinger
- Come and Get It: A Tribute To Badfinger (1996)
- Syd Barrett
- Beyond The Wildwood (1987)
- Bathory
- The Beatles
- All This and World War II (original sound track, 1976)
- The Chipmunks sing the Beatles Hits (1964)
- Let It Be (Laibach, 1988)
- Pepper Front To Back Les Fradkin (2007)
- Revolution No. 9: A Tribute To The Beatles (1997)
- Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988)
- This Bird Has Flown - A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul (2005)
- With a little help from their friends—Songs of Lennon/McCartney (K-Tel, 1986)
- Black Sabbath
- Blind Guardian
- Tales From the Underworld (2003)
- Burzum
- Mariah Carey
- Butterfly Melodies (2005)
- The Carpenters
- If I Were a Carpenter (1994)
- Cartoon Theme Songs
- Saturday Morning (various artists, 1995)
- Bruce Cockburn
- Leonard Cohen
- Cold Chisel
- Phil Collins
- Noel Coward
- Daniel Amos & Terry Scott Taylor
- When Worlds Collide (1999)
- dc Talk
- Dead Kennedys
- Virus 100: Dead Kennedy Covers
- What Were We Fighting For? A Tribute to Dead Kennedys
- Death
- Demonic Plague - A Tibute to Death (1999)
- Deep Purple
- Deep Purple Tribute (Cactus Jack, 2003)
- Depeche Mode
- I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous: A Swedish Tribute to Depeche Mode
- For the Masses
- Color Theory presents Depeche Mode
- Devotion - A Tribute to Depeche Mode
- Ronnie James Dio
- Disney
- Stay Awake (album) (1988)
- The Doors
- Bob Dylan
- A Nod to Bob: Tribute to Bob Dylan on His Sixtieth Birthday (2001)
- If Your Memory Serves You Well Les Fradkin (2006)
- The Eagles
- Eyehategod
- For the Sick (2006)
- John Fahey
- Finn Brothers
- She Will Have Her Way (2005)'
- The Grateful Dead
- Green Day
- Guns N' Roses
- Appetite For Reconstruction - A Tribute to Guns N' Roses (1999)
- A Rock Tribute to Guns N' Roses (2002)
- Bring You To Your Knees: A Tribute to Guns N' Roses (2004)
- The String Quartet Tribute to Guns n' Roses (2004)
- It's So Easy - A Millennium Tribute To Guns N' Roses (2006)
- Mark Heard
- Orphans of God (1996)
- Strong Hand of Love (1994)
- 11th Street Tales (2000)
- Jimi Hendrix
- The Hollies
- Sing Hollies In Reverse (1995)
- Elton John and Bernie Taupin
- Integrity
- Iron Maiden
- Transilvania 666 (1999)
- Numbers from the Beast (2005)
- The Iron Maidens: World's Only Female Tribute to Iron Maiden (performed by The Iron Maidens) (2005)
- Route 666 (performed by The Iron Maidens) (2007)
- The Root of All Evil (performed by The Iron Maidens) (2008)
- Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden (2008)
- Jandek
- Naked in the Afternoon: A Tribute to Jandek (2000)
- Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek (2005)
- Jawbreaker (active 1988-1996)
- Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault (2003)
- Robert Johnson
- Joy Division
- Judas Priest
- A Tribute to the Priest (2002, Nuclear Blast)
- King Diamond
- Church of the Devil - A Tribute to King Diamond (2000)
- Kiss
- Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved (1994)
- Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss (performed by Hayseed Dixie) (2003)
- Lick It Up - A Millennium Tribute To Kiss (2005)
- Led Zeppelin
- Encomium (1995)
- Pickin' on Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1-2 (2003)
- John Lennon
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Skynyrd Frynds (1994)
- Megadeth
- Megaded - A Tribute to Megadeth (1999)
- Metallica
- A Garage Dayz Nite (performed by Beatallica)
- Beatallica (performed by Beatallica)
- Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band (performed by Beatallica) (2007)
- Cult (performed by Apocalyptica)
- Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica (performed by Iron Horse)
- Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica, Vol. 2 (performed by Iron Horse)
- Inquisition Symphony (performed by Apocalyptica)
- Plays Metallica by Four Cellos (performed by Apocalyptica)
- Charles Mingus
- Mingus (Joni Mitchell, 1975)
- Joni Mitchell
- Back to the Garden (1992)
- River: The Joni Letters (2007)
- Van Morrison
- Nirvana
- Oingo Boingo
- Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo (2005)
- Drink to Bones That Turn to Dust: a Toast to Oingo Boingo (2006)
- Gram Parsons
- Dolly Parton
- Pantera
- The Art of Shredding: A Tribute to Dime (2006)
- Phish
- Sharin' in the Groove: Celebrating the Music of Phish (2000)
- Pink Floyd
- A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd (2003)
- Back Against The Wall (by Billy Sherwood and a host of various artists, 2005)
- Dub Side of the Moon (2003)
- Echoes of Pink (2002)
- Pixies
- The Police
- Queen
- Tributo a Queen: Los Grandes del Rock en Español' (1996)
- A Guitar Tribute to Queen (2004)
- Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen (2005)
- Radiohead
- "Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads (2006)"
- "Radiodread (2006)"
- Ramones
- Ramones EP (performed by Operation Ivy) (1987)
- Ramones (1992)
- Rocket To Russia (1994)
- Rocket to Ramonia (1996)
- File Under Ramones (1999)
- We're A Happy Family - A Tribute To The Ramones (2003)
- Rheostatics
- The Secret Sessions (2007)
- David Lee Roth
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Sick Of It All
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Ghost Children: A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins (2001)
- A Gothic-Industrial Tribute to The Smashing Pumpkins (2001)
- Midnight in the Patch: Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins (2001)
- The Killer in You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins (2005)
- Ghost Children/Friends and Enemies (2006)
- The Smiths
- The Smiths Is Dead (1996)
- Soundgarden
- Black Days: Midwest Movement Tribute to Soundgarden (2006)
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Suicide in Venice - A Tribute to Suicidal Tendencies (2000)
- Steve Taylor
- Terry Scott Taylor & Daniel Amos
- When Worlds Collide (1999)
- Testament
- Jump in the Pit - A Tribute to Testament (2000)
- They Might Be Giants
- Hello Radio (2006)
- Thin Lizzy
- A Tribute to Thin Lizzy (performed by Rude Awakening) (2007)
- Van Halen
- Strummin' with the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen (2006)
- Panama - A Millennium Tribute To Van Halen (2007)
- The Velvet Underground
- Venom
- Promoters of the Third World War - A Tribute to Venom (1997)
- Tom Waits
- The Who
- Who Covers Who? (1994)
- Who Cares: A Tribute to The Who (2000)
- Substitute: Songs From The Who (2001)
- Brian Wilson
- XTC
- Neil Young
- The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, featuring Sonic Youth and The Pixies (1991)
- Warren Zevon
- White Zombie
- Super-Charger Hell (2000)
- Rob Zombie
- The Zombies
- The World Of The Zombies (1994)
References
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Last updated on Saturday July 26, 2008 at 12:22:34 PDT (GMT -0700)
View this article at Wikipedia.org - Edit this article at Wikipedia.org - Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia
A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of a specific artist's songs.
There have been tributes or covers recorded since before the first albums became technically feasible; Enrico Caruso's 1907 recordings of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci are one early example. The birth of the 'modern' tribute album is often credited to record producer Hal Willner with the Amarcord Nino Rota LP in 1981. He followed up with tributes to Thelonious Monk, Disney cartoons, Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus and Harold Arlen.
Some tribute albums are created with a further conceptual twist than a simple collection of covers. These include:
- Albums which aid the artist whose work is being covered. These include Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, a tribute to Roky Erickson, whose cult fame has not led to financial success, as well as the 2CD Orphans of God, a tribute to Mark Heard, a singer/songwriter whose work has been praised by fellow artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Victoria Williams, Sam Phillips and T-Bone Burnett. Victoria Williams is also the subject of such a tribute CD titled Sweet Relief.
- Albums consisting of one artist performing only songs by another artist, such as Great Zeppelin, a tribute album for Led Zeppelin, performed solely by Great White or Wicked Grin, a collection of Tom Waits songs performed by John Hammond Jr.. The Persuasions, The Inmates, Les Fradkin, The Smithereens, and Laibach have each recorded tribute CDs entirely consisting of songs by The Beatles.
- Albums consisting of cover songs performed in a different style of music than that of their original performers. These include Is It Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan and Goth Oddity 2000: A Tribute to David Bowie, as well as the Pickin' On... and String Quartet series of instrumental artist tributes done bluegrass and classical style, respectively. Other examples include reggae, Cuban and ambient lounge compilations consisting solely of songs by The Beatles.
- Albums which recreate a specific album with cover versions of songs from that album. These include Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Booker T. & the M.G.'s' McLemore Avenue, which covers all the songs from The Beatles' Abbey Road, Les Fradkin "Pepper Front To Back" which covers the entire "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album as a CD of Guitar Instrumental Rock and More Oar: A Tribute to Alexander "Skip" Spence, which recreates Spence's only album Oar.
- Albums consisting of cover songs sung in another language. These include Tributo a the Cure - Porque No Puedo Ser Tu (1999) and Tributo a Queen: Los Grandes del Rock en Español (1997).
- Albums consisting of cover songs performed by artists who influenced the band being covered, rather than those influenced by that band. These include Sharin' in the Groove: Celebrating the Music of Phish.
- Albums made to commemorate the loss of a cherished artist. These include So Amazing: A Tribute to Luther Vandross, recorded shortly after his death.
Some albums titled and marketed as "tributes" to well-known musical figures are effectively sound-alikes or knock-offs, recorded by anonymous session musicians or performers of no distinction.
List of tribute albums
- ABBA
- Abba-esque (Erasure, (1992)
- Abbamania (1999)
- A Tribute to ABBA (2001)
- AC/DC
- Fusebox (1997)
- Thunderbolt: A Tribute to AC/DC (1998)
- A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC (performed by Hayseed Dixie), (2001)
- Graveyard Classics 2 (performed by Six Feet Under) (2004)
- Aerosmith
- Badfinger
- Come and Get It: A Tribute To Badfinger (1996)
- Syd Barrett
- Beyond The Wildwood (1987)
- Bathory
- The Beatles
- All This and World War II (original sound track, 1976)
- The Chipmunks sing the Beatles Hits (1964)
- Let It Be (Laibach, 1988)
- Pepper Front To Back Les Fradkin (2007)
- Revolution No. 9: A Tribute To The Beatles (1997)
- Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988)
- This Bird Has Flown - A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul (2005)
- With a little help from their friends—Songs of Lennon/McCartney (K-Tel, 1986)
- Black Sabbath
- Blind Guardian
- Tales From the Underworld (2003)
- Burzum
- Mariah Carey
- Butterfly Melodies (2005)
- The Carpenters
- If I Were a Carpenter (1994)
- Cartoon Theme Songs
- Saturday Morning (various artists, 1995)
- Bruce Cockburn
- Leonard Cohen
- Cold Chisel
- Phil Collins
- Noel Coward
- Daniel Amos & Terry Scott Taylor
- When Worlds Collide (1999)
- dc Talk
- Dead Kennedys
- Virus 100: Dead Kennedy Covers
- What Were We Fighting For? A Tribute to Dead Kennedys
- Death
- Demonic Plague - A Tibute to Death (1999)
- Deep Purple
- Deep Purple Tribute (Cactus Jack, 2003)
- Depeche Mode
- I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous: A Swedish Tribute to Depeche Mode
- For the Masses
- Color Theory presents Depeche Mode
- Devotion - A Tribute to Depeche Mode
- Ronnie James Dio
- Disney
- Stay Awake (album) (1988)
- The Doors
- Bob Dylan
- A Nod to Bob: Tribute to Bob Dylan on His Sixtieth Birthday (2001)
- If Your Memory Serves You Well Les Fradkin (2006)
- The Eagles
- Eyehategod
- For the Sick (2006)
- John Fahey
- Finn Brothers
- She Will Have Her Way (2005)'
- The Grateful Dead
- Green Day
- Guns N' Roses
- Appetite For Reconstruction - A Tribute to Guns N' Roses (1999)
- A Rock Tribute to Guns N' Roses (2002)
- Bring You To Your Knees: A Tribute to Guns N' Roses (2004)
- The String Quartet Tribute to Guns n' Roses (2004)
- It's So Easy - A Millennium Tribute To Guns N' Roses (2006)
- Mark Heard
- Orphans of God (1996)
- Strong Hand of Love (1994)
- 11th Street Tales (2000)
- Jimi Hendrix
- The Hollies
- Sing Hollies In Reverse (1995)
- Elton John and Bernie Taupin
- Integrity
- Iron Maiden
- Transilvania 666 (1999)
- Numbers from the Beast (2005)
- The Iron Maidens: World's Only Female Tribute to Iron Maiden (performed by The Iron Maidens) (2005)
- Route 666 (performed by The Iron Maidens) (2007)
- The Root of All Evil (performed by The Iron Maidens) (2008)
- Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden (2008)
- Jandek
- Naked in the Afternoon: A Tribute to Jandek (2000)
- Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek (2005)
- Jawbreaker (active 1988-1996)
- Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault (2003)
- Robert Johnson
- Joy Division
- Judas Priest
- A Tribute to the Priest (2002, Nuclear Blast)
- King Diamond
- Church of the Devil - A Tribute to King Diamond (2000)
- Kiss
- Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved (1994)
- Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss (performed by Hayseed Dixie) (2003)
- Lick It Up - A Millennium Tribute To Kiss (2005)
- Led Zeppelin
- Encomium (1995)
- Pickin' on Led Zeppelin, Vol. 1-2 (2003)
- John Lennon
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Skynyrd Frynds (1994)
- Megadeth
- Megaded - A Tribute to Megadeth (1999)
- Metallica
- A Garage Dayz Nite (performed by Beatallica)
- Beatallica (performed by Beatallica)
- Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band (performed by Beatallica) (2007)
- Cult (performed by Apocalyptica)
- Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica (performed by Iron Horse)
- Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica, Vol. 2 (performed by Iron Horse)
- Inquisition Symphony (performed by Apocalyptica)
- Plays Metallica by Four Cellos (performed by Apocalyptica)
- Charles Mingus
- Mingus (Joni Mitchell, 1975)
- Joni Mitchell
- Back to the Garden (1992)
- River: The Joni Letters (2007)
- Van Morrison
- Nirvana
- Oingo Boingo
- Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo (2005)
- Drink to Bones That Turn to Dust: a Toast to Oingo Boingo (2006)
- Gram Parsons
- Dolly Parton
- Pantera
- The Art of Shredding: A Tribute to Dime (2006)
- Phish
- Sharin' in the Groove: Celebrating the Music of Phish (2000)
- Pink Floyd
- A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd (2003)
- Back Against The Wall (by Billy Sherwood and a host of various artists, 2005)
- Dub Side of the Moon (2003)
- Echoes of Pink (2002)
- Pixies
- The Police
- Queen
- Tributo a Queen: Los Grandes del Rock en Español' (1996)
- A Guitar Tribute to Queen (2004)
- Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen (2005)
- Radiohead
- "Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads (2006)"
- "Radiodread (2006)"
- Ramones
- Ramones EP (performed by Operation Ivy) (1987)
- Ramones (1992)
- Rocket To Russia (1994)
- Rocket to Ramonia (1996)
- File Under Ramones (1999)
- We're A Happy Family - A Tribute To The Ramones (2003)
- Rheostatics
- The Secret Sessions (2007)
- David Lee Roth
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Sick Of It All
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Ghost Children: A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins (2001)
- A Gothic-Industrial Tribute to The Smashing Pumpkins (2001)
- Midnight in the Patch: Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins (2001)
- The Killer in You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins (2005)
- Ghost Children/Friends and Enemies (2006)
- The Smiths
- The Smiths Is Dead (1996)
- Soundgarden
- Black Days: Midwest Movement Tribute to Soundgarden (2006)
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Suicide in Venice - A Tribute to Suicidal Tendencies (2000)
- Steve Taylor
- Terry Scott Taylor & Daniel Amos
- When Worlds Collide (1999)
- Testament
- Jump in the Pit - A Tribute to Testament (2000)
- They Might Be Giants
- Hello Radio (2006)
- Thin Lizzy
- A Tribute to Thin Lizzy (performed by Rude Awakening) (2007)
- Van Halen
- Strummin' with the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen (2006)
- Panama - A Millennium Tribute To Van Halen (2007)
- The Velvet Underground
- Venom
- Promoters of the Third World War - A Tribute to Venom (1997)
- Tom Waits
- The Who
- Who Covers Who? (1994)
- Who Cares: A Tribute to The Who (2000)
- Substitute: Songs From The Who (2001)
- Brian Wilson
- XTC
- Neil Young
- The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young, featuring Sonic Youth and The Pixies (1991)
- Warren Zevon
- White Zombie
- Super-Charger Hell (2000)
- Rob Zombie
- The Zombies
- The World Of The Zombies (1994)
References
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia © 2001-2006 Wikipedia contributors (Disclaimer)
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Last updated on Saturday July 26, 2008 at 12:22:34 PDT (GMT -0700)
View this article at Wikipedia.org - Edit this article at Wikipedia.org - Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Last updated on Saturday July 26, 2008 at 12:22:34 PDT (GMT -0700)
View this article at Wikipedia.org - Edit this article at Wikipedia.org - Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation