The Bobs Cover the Songs of...

Bobs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder / Umgd
• ASIN: B0000003L5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,284 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. White Room

2. First There's A Mountain

3. Unchain My Heart

4. The Wind Cries Mary

5. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

6. Is That All There Is

7. Disco Inferno

8. Lonely At The Top

9. Bird On The Wire

10. Particle Man

11. Searchin'

12. Mess Me Up Again

13. Strawberry Fields Forever

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Waiter!, October 5, 2003

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bobs Cover the Songs of... (Audio CD)

This is the Bobs' second album of cover songs, done in their inimitable a capella style. If you have heard the Bobs before, you know what to expect. Swinging a capella voices with a large dose of humor. My personal favorites here are "White Room", "Is That All There Is", "Lonely at the Top", "Bird on a Wire" and "Particle Man". They also managed to sneak one original composition on here, which is "Mess Me Up Again". It's a country song where the singer begs his slob of an ex-girlfriend to come back home. It is also of high quality. I recommend this CD to fans of a capella singing, and people who like music with a sense of humor.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun covers, nothing complex, January 4, 2001

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"boy_howdy" (Northfield, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bobs Cover the Songs of... (Audio CD)

According to the liner notes, the Bobs recorded this album in a single session, just for fun. The result is predictable to all who know the Bobs well from their previous cover album and from their live shows: light-hearted interpretations, musically interesting but at times sparse and hardly complex. This is neither the best (Songs for Tomorrow Morning) or the Worst (Shut up and Sing) of the Bobs; it's good, and you'll like listening to these a capella versions of well-chosen songs you already know, but this isn't the kind of album you end up listening to over and over again -- you're more likely to like a given song if you love the original, where a truly strong cover album should make you appreciate the originals all the more, IMHO.

Especially fun tracks include the bouncy "Disco Inferno," the especially well-suited TMBG favorite "Particle Man," and nice but unspectacular covers of Hendrix, Grateful Dead, and Jack Bruce tunes. A few cuts have appeared in the same form on previous albums, notably "Strawberry Fields Forever" and the half surf-punk "Bird on a Wire." They are worth owning again, I guess, but like everything else on this album they are solid but unspectacular; I still prefer the earlier, rawer days of better Bobs Beatles' covers such as "Helter Skelter" and "You can't do that."

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational redo!, January 4, 2001

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Brett Penney (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bobs Cover the Songs of... (Audio CD)

This album is exceptional in its creative interpretation of some of pop musics greatest hits. This eclectic ensemble takes songs you thought were perfect and makes you hear them in a fresh, original way. Favorites are White Room, Disco Inferno and Strawberry Fields (how do the Bobs create that weird Beatle's sound at the end?).