Albums where the closing track is a cover.

Good one!
Could probably add Magic Moments as well Don from the US release of Cowboy

 

MC5 - Back In The USA (Back in the USA / Chuck Berry)

 

The Feelies' Only Life closes with the Velvets' "What Goes On" and their next record, Time for a Witness, closes with the Stooges' Real Cool Time".

 

The B-52's / The B-52's [1979]

Downtown {Petula Clark, 1964}

 

and then they ended the In God We Trust, Inc EP with a cover of “Rawhide”

 

Closes with a live version of Fortunate Son

 

Whoa, I never knew that was a cover. Who is the original by? I guess I can look it up, ha.

I didn't read the whole thread, so not sure if these were mentioned, but:

Motley Crue- Jalhouse Rock on Girls Girls Girls
KISS- And Then She Kissed Me on Destroyer
Joan Jett- Little Drummer Boy (and probably more since she did so many covers)

 

The closing track of Joni Mitchell's Mingus the album is actually a cover of Charles Mingus' jazz-instrumental Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 and released on his album Mingus Ah Um; Mitchell wrote lyrics.

 

Here ya go……….

Rolf Harris -- Sun Arise

 

Aerosmith - S/T: Walking The Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)

Ted

 

Thanks that was great. Love learning stuff like this.

 

When I started at university in 1985 there were very few kids who had CD players, and even fewer who could actually afford to buy CDs. Most of them seemed to make their purchases on the basis of how CD-ish the recording was; they all seemed to own Propaganda's A Secret Wish with the inlay notes that went into loving technical detail about a couple of unintentional squawks and hisses.

Then in my final year one of the CD boys for some reason acquired Dinosaur Jr's You're Living All Over Me. I'd bought the cassette a couple of weeks earlier, and was saddened to find that the CD version finished with an absolutely filthy cover of Frampton's Show Me The Way.

The original SST CD is the only version of the album that this appears on. Subsequent releases either stop at the previous track, or substitute a so-so cover of The Cure's Just Like Heaven. I assumed this was due to a licensing problem but Show Me The Way appears on their 1991 SST compilation, so who knows?

 

Guadalcanal Diary covered Kum Ba Yah for the final track of their debut. And a mighty fine job of it.

 

Who ?

 

HCTN was a cover anyway

 

Smile on History-Michael Jackson

 

semi-covers or quasi-covers or whatever you call it

Led Zeppelin II - Bring It on Home
Led Zeppelin III - Hats Off to (Roy) Harper
Led Zeppelin IV - When the Levee Breaks

 

That would be Love Gun.

 

The Lemonheads' It's a Shame About Ray

First pressing ended with a cover of "Frank Mills" from the musical Hair. It was soon reissued to include another cover song, "Mrs. Robinson", which was tacked onto the end.

 

Kiss "Love Gun"

 

Neil Young "Comes a time"

 

This very cool cover of 'Let It All Hang Out'' by The Hombres is the closer on John Mellencamp's ''Big Daddy'' album.

 

The hidden track at the end of the U.S. edition of Scorpions' Face the Heat CD is a cover of Elvis Presley's ("Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame."

 

Fraser & DeBolt (With Ian Guenther) closes with "Don't Let Me Down," also released as a single:

 

Mick Ronson's Slaughter on 10th Avebue
Mellencamp's Big daddy