| Author | Message | ||
     Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 155 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some of you will be aware of the series of books about individual albums. A new one is due out in September about the album of Leonard Cohen covers, which included Robert Forster’s cover of Tower of Song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1755 Registered: 10-2006 |
An odd one to do. Who's the writer, do you know? | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ray Padgett who has a blog called Cover Me and had a book out a few years ago with the same name. I don’t like the album much despite there being plenty of decent artists on it. Perhaps because all the singers are male and most of the great covers of Cohen are by women. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 169 Registered: 05-2005 |
Finally got hold of the book. The indexing is excellent. There’s a couple of quotes from Robert. Padgett is most interested in John Cale and Nick Cave’s covers. According to him, Robert had already bagsed Tower of Song but Cave decided to do it too. | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 156 Registered: 10-2005 |
I have the album since it came out and I like it a lot. I have now also read the book. It is one of the better ones I've read in the series (I've been disappointed a few times), because the author Padgett tells the story of the tribute album boom in the 90s and he has made several interesting interviews that come as intermissions. The book is well written and I learned a lot. But there is not very much about Roberts Forster's contribution, and not much about some of the other artists on the album that I like (David McComb, Lloyd Cole). For some reason Padgett describes both The Go-Betweens and The Triffids as very successful bands, which is not really how it was perceived in 1991 (I think). | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1817 Registered: 10-2006 |
Which ones in the series would you recommend, guys? I have John Nivens's Big Pink book, but haven't got round to it yet. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 170 Registered: 05-2005 |
It’s the only one in the series that I own. There’s a few albums that I really like in the series but I’ve never bothered buying the books. I’ve ordered the reissue of Young Marble Giants’ Colossal Youth so I may pick that one up. |