KT Tunstall - Cover Songs, Volume 3: 2008-2011

Here's some more cover versions by KT Tunstall. As with the previous albums in this series, the songs are generally done with a full band. They also generally hew fairly close to the originals. She simply is having a fun time singing the songs she loves. But every now and then, her versions do differ a lot. The version of "Sombody to Love" here is an example of that.

Often when I put together these sorts of covers albums, there are lots of songs from the 1960s and 1970s. But not here. Tunstall grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, and most of the songs originally date from those years. There are a few exceptions though, for instance "Somebody to Love" being from the 1960s and "New York, I Love You" from the 2000s.

The sound quality for this album is very high. Half the songs are officially released and half are not. But you wouldn't know which is which. Most of the unreleased ones were recorded in the studio, with only one ("Nothing Compares 2 U") coming from a concert. But that one was recorded professionally for a French TV show.

The sound quality is so high that when I relistened to this, I decided that one song, a cover of "The Drugs Don't Work" by the Verve, didn't sound good enough to fit in with the rest. It's not that that one sounds bad at all. In fact, it's pretty good. But it just don't match the others. So it was downgraded to bonus track status.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Something to Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
02 Kiss on My List - Hall & Oates
03 Walk like an Egyptian - Bangles
04 You're the Voice - John Farnham
05 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
06 Because the Night - Bruce Springsteen / Patti Smith
07 New York, I Love You [But You're Bringing Me Down] - LCD Soundsystem
08 Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
09 Don't You [Forget About Me] - Simple Minds
10 Close to Me - Cure

Here's the usual song list:

01 Something to Talk About (KT Tunstall & Daryl Hall)
02 Kiss on My List (Daryl Hall & KT Tunstall)
03 Walk like an Egyptian (KT Tunstall)
04 You're the Voice (KT Tunstall)
05 Nothing Compares 2 U (Teitur & KT Tunstall)
06 Because the Night (Rhythms del Mundo with KT Tunstall)
07 New York, I Love You [But You're Bringing Me Down] (KT Tunstall)
08 Somebody to Love (Rhythms del Mundo with KT Tunstall)
09 Don't You [Forget About Me] (KT Tunstall)
10 Close to Me (KT Tunstall)

The Drugs Don't Work (KT Tunstall & Billy Bragg) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/15603052/KTTnstl_2008-2011_CovrSngsVol3_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from a concert in 2008.