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Cover (Tom Verlaine album)

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Cover
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1984
Recorded1984 (1984)
Studio
GenrePost punk
Length32:39
LabelVirgin
ProducerTom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine chronology
Words from the Front
(1982)
Cover
(1984)
Flash Light
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The New York TimesFavourable [3]
Record Mirror[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

Cover is the fourth solo album by Tom Verlaine. It was released in 1984.

Track listing

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All songs written and composed by Tom Verlaine; except "Five Miles of You" composed with Jimmy Ripp

  1. "Five Miles of You" (4:20)
  2. "Travelling" (5:00)
  3. "O Foolish Heart" (4:28)
  4. "Lindi-Lu" (3:40)
  5. "Let Go the Mansion" (3:08)
  6. "Dissolve/Reveal" (4:41)
  7. "Miss Emily" (4:41)
  8. "Rotation" (4:11)
  9. "Swim" (4:31)

Personnel

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  • Tom Verlaine - guitars, solos, vocals, synthesizer; drum machine on "O Foolish Heart", "Let Go the Mansion", "Dissolve/Reveal" and "Swim"
  • Jimmy Ripp - guitars, bass on "Swim"
  • Fred Smith - bass
  • Bill Laswell - bass on "Miss Emily"
  • Jay Dee Daugherty - drums on "Five Miles of You" and "Travelling"
  • Allan Schwartzberg - drums on "Lindi-Lu", "Miss Emily" and "Rotation"
Technical

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Charts

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Chart Year Peak
position
Swedish Albums Chart 1984 35[6]

Reception

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NME ranked it number 18 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b Cleary, David. Cover at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  3. ^ Pareles, John (1984-12-25). "Rock - Tom Verlaine - Review". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  4. ^ Strike, Andy (September 8, 1984). "Tom Verlaine: Cover". Record Mirror. p. 18.
  5. ^ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Tom Verlaine". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 848–49. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  6. ^ Steffen Hung. "Tom Verlaine - Cover". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  7. ^ "Albums and Tracks of the Year". NME. 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2018.