Rerecording artists: the strange pop habit of covering an entire album

From Dub Side of the Moon to Dave Depper's Ram Project, the heroically pointless act of covering an entire album is one of pop's odder habits. Peter Paphides tries to rationalise itThe footnotes of pop are littered with all sorts of heroic but arguably pointless enterprises. The itinerary of Echo and the Bunnymen's Scottish tour in 1983 would have been much simpler had their manager, Bill Drummond, not insisted that their route form the shape of a bunny's head when seen on the map. How many p...

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