Så tager vi Berlin – R.E.M. fortolker Cohen

TEMA: Borrowed Tunes // Coverversioner

I 1991 tog det franske musikmagasin Les Inrockuptibles  initiativ til at sammensætte et hyldestalbum til Leonard Cohen. Det kastede mange interessante coverversioner af sig – se hele listen længere nede.

Allermest vellykket var dog R.E.M.’s version af First We Take Manhattan. Det er sådan, det nummer skal lyde. Og det er sådan, R.E.M. skal lyde. Apropos Berlin, så har R.E.M. netop været dernede for at indspille bandets nye album, Collapse Into Now. Lad os håbe, de lyttede til noget i den her retning under deres ophold:



                  
Her følger hele listen over de coverversioner, der var med på tribute-albummet I’m Your Fan.

"Who by Fire" – The House of Love
"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" – Ian McCulloch
"I Can't Forget" – Pixies
"Stories of the Street" – That Petrol Emotion
"Bird on the Wire" – The Lilac Time
"Suzanne" – Geoffrey Oryema
"So Long, Marianne" – James
"Avalanche IV" – Jean-Louis Murat
"Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On" – David McComb & Adam Peters
"First We Take Manhattan" – R.E.M.
"Chelsea Hotel" – Lloyd Cole
"Tower of Song" – Robert Forster
"Take This Longing" – Peter Astor
"True Love Leaves No Traces" – Dead Famous People
"I'm Your Man" – Bill Pritchard
"A Singer Must Die" – Fatima Mansions
"Tower of Song" – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"Hallelujah" – John Cale