Cover (Tom Verlaine album)

Cover
Cover
Studio album by Tom Verlaine
Released	September 1984
Recorded	1984
Studio	Blue Rock, New York City; Eldorado, Los Angeles; Sorcerer Sound, New York City; Bearsville, Woodstock; Townhouse, London; Roundhouse, London;
Genre	Post punk
Length	32:39
Label	Virgin
Producer	Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine chronology

Cover is the fourth solo album by Tom Verlaine. It was released in 1984.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The New York Times	Favourable ^[3]
Record Mirror	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Tom Verlaine; except "Five Miles of You" composed with Jimmy Ripp

"Five Miles of You" (4:20)
"Travelling" (5:00)
"O Foolish Heart" (4:28)
"Lindi-Lu" (3:40)
"Let Go the Mansion" (3:08)
"Dissolve/Reveal" (4:41)
"Miss Emily" (4:41)
"Rotation" (4:11)
"Swim" (4:31)

Tom Verlaine - guitars, solos, vocals, synthesizer; drum machine on "O Foolish Heart", "Let Go the Mansion", "Dissolve/Reveal" and "Swim"
Jimmy Ripp - guitars, bass on "Swim"
Fred Smith - bass
Bill Laswell - bass on "Miss Emily"
Jay Dee Daugherty - drums on "Five Miles of You" and "Travelling"
Allan Schwartzberg - drums on "Lindi-Lu", "Miss Emily" and "Rotation"

Ray Niznik, Michael Ewasko, Dave Jerden, Mario Salvati, Howard Gray, Steve Brown - engineers
Jill Furmanovsky - photography

Chart	Year	Peak position
Swedish Albums Chart	1984	35^[6]

NME ranked it number 18 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984.^[7]

^ ^a ^b Cleary, David. Cover at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
^ Pareles, John (1984-12-25). "Rock - Tom Verlaine - Review". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
^ Strike, Andy (September 8, 1984). "Tom Verlaine: Cover". Record Mirror. p. 18.
^ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Tom Verlaine". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 848–49. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ Steffen Hung. "Tom Verlaine - Cover". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
^ "Albums and Tracks of the Year". NME. 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2018.

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