![]() Props to any musician who chooses some non-obvious tunes for their Christmas album. Rex, The Flying Horse Big Band, The Night Swiper, Tom Petty, Unwoman, Whitney, Whyte HorsesĪndrew Bird – Andalucia (John Cale cover) The list starts on the next page… NEXT PAGE → Pages: 1 2 3 4 Best Of, Best of The Year, Feature Tagged with: Adam Schlesinger, Alyssandra Nighswonger, Annett Louisan, Bettye LaVette, Blink-182, Bob Dylan, Daniel Romano, David Rawlings, Deerhoof, Devon Gilfillian, Emel Mathlouthi, Emma Swift, Fountains of Wayne, Gillian Welch, Guga Stroeter, Harry Nilsson, Inter Arma, John Hartford, Kraftwerk, Lotte Kestner, Lucinda Williams, Marc Bolan, Marika Hackman, Marvin Gaye, Molly Tuttle, Neil Young, Rachelle Garniez, Radiohead, Ray Charles, Rosie Carney, Sam Amidon, Scott the Hoople, T. ![]() Or you can just take a break from thinking about such things and listen to 28 covers of “Dammit.” You can listen to these through that prism if you like. They’re all about paying tribute in some way or another, lifting up influences or even guilty pleasures, honoring those that came before. In a way though, the whole concept of the covers record is appropriate for a bleak year. Even the klezmer-cabaret artist who recorded an album covering the recently deceased released it March 13, just before she’d unfortunately have many more names to add to her list. And if you want to try to tie 28 different bands covering Blink-182’s “Dammit” to 2020, good luck. Any year’s a good year for covering obscure Neil Young songs. ![]() That being said, the majority of the albums on our list have nothing to do with the news. Rex tribute album wasn’t supposed to have anything to do with current events, but Willner, too, died of COVID-19 in the spring. An indie label pulled together a tribute to one of the many great artists tragically taken by this goddamn virus, Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger. One artist used her time in lockdown to cover every song on Radiohead’s The Bends, while another did the same thing with Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On. It’s hard not to look at everything in 2020 through the mirror of the pandemic, and a few of the records on our list can be traced directly to it. ![]()
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