NewJerseyRich wrote:I can't think of any successful first albums that contains a recent cover. Recent here being within the prior 10-12 years. I'm sure there is an exception somewhere...
...for example, The Clash's version of "Police and Thieves"...
My feeling (without doing any kind of research on it) is that in fact a lot of first albums contain a cover somewhere. I guess partly because most bands start off playing music that other people have written, until the time that they've written their own. And if they've done that live to begin with, the people that've come to see them live will expect to get some at least of the first songs they heard live on the first album. Those songs get to be sort of signature songs, even though not composed by the band.
