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COVER VERSION

Steven Wilson

Crossover Prog


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3.30 | 149 ratings | 4 reviews | 9% 5 stars

Good, but non-essential

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2014

Songs / Tracks Listing

Side A
1. Thank You (Alanis Morissette) (4:39)
2. The Day Before You Came (ABBA) (5:06)
3. A Forest (The Cure) (6:04)

Side B
1. The Guitar Lesson (Momus) (4:03)
2. Sign `o` The Times (Prince) (3:55)
3. Lord Of The Reedy River (Donovan) (5:03)

Side C
1. Moment I Lost (Steven Wilson) (3:12)
2. Please Come Home (Steven Wilson) (3:30)
3. Four Trees Down (Steven Wilson) (3:33)

Side D
1. The Unquiet Grave (Traditional) (6:57)
2. Well You`re Wrong (Steven Wilson) (3:35)
3. An End To End (Steven Wilson) (5:12)

Total time 54:49


CD track list
1. Thank U (4:39)
2. Moment I Lost (3:12)
3. The Day Before You Came (5:06)
4. Please Come Home (3:30)
5. A Forest (6:04)
6. Four Trees Down (3:33)
7. The Guitar Lesson (4:03)
8. The Unquiet Grave (6:57)
9. Sign O' the Times (3:55)
10. Well You're Wrong (3:35)
11. Lord of the Reedy River (5:03)
12. An End to End (5:12)

Line-up / Musicians

- Steven Wilson / vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, organ, mellotron, percussion, electronics, synth, programming, FX, treatments, hammered dulcimer

Releases information

LP Headphone Dust in March/17/2014 (2014, includes all the A and B sides from the Cover Version singles)

CD Kscope (2014, different tracks' order)

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STEVEN WILSON Cover Version ratings distribution


3.30
(149 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(9%)
9%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(32%)
32%
Good, but non-essential (40%)
40%
Collectors/fans only (13%)
13%
Poor. Only for completionists (5%)
5%

STEVEN WILSON Cover Version reviews


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Collaborators/Experts Reviews

Review by Warthur
PROG REVIEWER
4 stars In parallel with his work in Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson spent the 2000s putting out a series of solo singles in the Cover Version series, each covering a different artist's song on side A and then providing an original Wilson song on side B. Cover Version is a compilation which brings all of this material together into a sort of "lost album".

The exact running order depends on which edition you get - some versions put all the cover versions together and all the original material together, while others mingle them, but either way what you get is a subdued art rock treatment of the material here - Steven doesn't go full prog simply because many of the songs he's tackling don't lend themselves to that, but he does add a distinctive aesthetic touch. (Never have ABBA sounded so sombre, for instance.)

As far as the original material goes, it sounds like Wilson was using the series to provide an outlet for the sort of material which had been part of the Porcupine Tree sound back when it was basically a solo project of his own, but which fell by the wayside as it shifted into being more of a band - The Unquiet Grave, in particular, sounds like something which might conceivably have appeared on Up the Downstair, whilst Well You're Wrong is a slice of the sort of whimsical psychedelic pop that the earliest Porcupine Tree releases dipped into.

Don't expect anything too much like either Wilson's previous or subsequent solo albums or, for that matter, his other musical projects - this is another body in the same sonic universe, with some aesthetic features in common with other musical worlds of Wilson's construction but its own particular way of doing things.

Latest members reviews

4 stars Steven Wilson's solo career in the aftermath of Porcupine Tree, has been a mixed bag to me. Despite retaining the poise and ambition evident in everything he's done since his earliest days, much of his more recent output occasionally seems laboriously constructed and self-consciously targeted at ... (read more)

Report this review (#1631775) | Posted by torvald | Thursday, October 13, 2016 | Review Permanlink

2 stars 2.4 stars. Cover Version is a album with quite a bit of backstory to it. It was originally released as 6 singles over the course of 2003-2010, each with a cover version and original song. They were the first pieces of music released under Wilson's own name while Porcupine Tree was his main b ... (read more)

Report this review (#1362636) | Posted by LakeGlade12 | Thursday, February 5, 2015 | Review Permanlink

3 stars In Which Steven Comes Second, For Once This was Steven Wilson's first true solo album. Unless you count Unreleased Electronic Music Vol 1, this was Wilson's first actual release under his own name, and it's the only actual release under his own name that is a real solo album. Sure, Insurgente ... (read more)

Report this review (#1266702) | Posted by Gallifrey | Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | Review Permanlink

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