Warner Bros Revisits its Musical Past

Similar to the 1990 Elektra Records 40th anniversary collection Rubaiyat--which featured its then-current roster covering favorites from the label's past--Warner Bros released Covered, A Revolution In Sound this week, to commemorate its 50th anniversary. (We've only heard the closing track, Madonna's "Borderline", which is given a predictably psychedelic re-working by The Flaming Lips.) Unlike the multi-disc Elektra collection, Covered is a 12 song, single CD release.

Aside from the numerous artists that would inevitably be missing from this kind of tribute, we gotta wonder why there's no Prince or Van Halen on here (and why the former didn't cover track #3); and is track #7 some kinda joke?

Tracklisting as follows:

1. "Just Got Paid" - (originally recorded by ZZ Top) Mastodon

2. "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" - (originally recorded by Captain Beefheart) The Black Keys

3. "A Case Of You" - (originally recorded by Joni Mitchell) Michelle Branch

4. "Here Comes A Regular" - (originally recorded by The Replacements) Against Me!

5. "More Than This" - (originally recorded by Roxy Music) Missy Higgins

6. "Into The Mystic" - (originally recorded by Van Morrison) James Otto

7. "Like A Hurricane" - (originally recorded by Neil Young) Adam Sandler

8. "You Wreck Me" - (originally recorded by Tom Petty) Taking Back Sunday

9. "Burning Down The House" - (originally recorded by Talking Heads) The Used

10. "Midlife Crisis" - (originally recorded by Faith No More) Disturbed

11. "Paranoid" - (originally recorded by Black Sabbath) Avenged Sevenfold

12. "Borderline" - (originally recorded by Madonna) The Flaming Lips with Stardeath And White Dwarfs