Tony Reed Releases Some Covers 2017-2024 Collection
Some classics, some punk, some darker, gothy-type stuff, and if you ever doubted that Tony Reed — Mos Generator and related projects, also now of Pentagram — was a songwriter, the fact that he opens a 21-song covers collection with The Cars should reaffirm. You don’t even approach Ric Ocasek unless you respect the ‘song’ as an artform. Could say the same of Bowie or Discharge, I guess. His take on “Night Fever” rules either way.
In all seriousness, if you’ve followed Reed through either the shifts in approach of Mos Generator or in bands like Stone Axe, Twelve-Thirty Dreamtime, and so on, or of course his own solo work, a lot of those influences are accounted for here, plus “Laguna Sunrise” entirely on a Mellotron, plus it’s a free download, so mark it a total no-brainer, nothing-to-lose, unmitigated win.
Feel free to dive in accordingly:
TONY REED – Some Covers 2017 – 2024
This is a collection of some of the covers I recorded between 2017 and 2024. Some of these are done very close to the original and some are either acoustic versions or altered to sit in a different style of music than the original. I do these covers for a few reasons.
1. I was asked to do something for a cover or tribute album.
2. I am challenging myself to learn playing and recording techniques that better my abilities as a record producer and musician.
3. I can’t get a song out of my head so I record it to make it go away.
These are just the tip of the iceberg of the covers I’ve done by myself over the last 35 years. In 2018 a LP/CD of somewhat obscure seventies underground hard rock covers called “Lost Chronicles of Heavy Rock” came out on Listenable Records. Other than that, most of the covers I have done have never been released. Many are deemed “not for public listening” as far as I’m concerned and will never be let out of the boxes they reside in. All of them have been a learning experience though.
Tracklisting:
1. BYE BYE LOVE – The Cars 04:15
2. AMATEUR HOUR – Sparks 03:13
3. SAT IN YOUR LAP – Kate Bush 03:31
4. BURNIN’ FOR YOU – Blue Oyster Cult 04:35
5. BOOGIE NIGHTS – Heatwave 03:34
6. SWEET THING (pt. 1) – David Bowie 03:19
7. REALLY WANTED YOU – Emitt Rhodes 02:47
8. BETWEEN THE WHEELS – Rush 05:45
9. DON’T BELIEVE A WORD (acoustic) – Thin Lizzy 02:23
10. SURE KNOW SOMETHING – Kiss 03:53
11. WOMAN OF MINE – Lynyrd Skynyrd 04:48
12. BURNING FROM THE INSIDE – Bauhaus 04:56
13. IT’S NO T.V. SKETCH – Discharge 01:32
14. GOODBYE BLUE SKY – Pink Floyd 02:31
15. MOONAGE DAYDREAM – David Bowie 04:59
16. DOGS – Christian Death 02:50
17. TIGHTROPE (acoustic) – Leon Russell 02:38
18. LONELY TOWN, LONELY STREET – Bill Withers 03:27
19. NIGHT FEVER – Bee Gees 04:42
20. BOYS DON’T CRY – The Cure 02:40
21. LAGUNA SUNRISE (Concerto for Mellotron in Dminor) – Black Sabbath 02:56
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