The Covers Record
by Cat Power
  • Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: Mar 21, 2000
Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Rolling Stone
    60
    While we await her next album of new material, due next winter, The Covers Record provides a stopgap fix of her unnerving, coldblooded voice and shaky acoustic guitar.
  2. Nude As The News
    60
    The uninitiated will still perceive these songs as music to slit your wrists to, but The Covers Record is actually the first time Chan Marshall lets her hair down for more than one song per album.
  3. Q Magazine
    40
    Eventually, though, the guitar-and-piano-only, stripped-down dynamics mean that a dull torpor settles over the album.

Awards & Rankings

28
#28 Best Album of 2000
72
#72 Most Discussed Album of 2000

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User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. raviopatra
    Nov 20, 2013
    10
    This album is perfection. I've never really liked cover versions of most songs, but somehow Marshall makes all these songs (some of which I amThis album is perfection. I've never really liked cover versions of most songs, but somehow Marshall makes all these songs (some of which I am completely unfamiliar of) sound very appealing and magnificent. My favorite track would be the opener "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Cat Power Rules!… Full Review »
  2. GabyDas3
    Feb 18, 2007
    10
    im fourteen and this album makes me happy, nostaglic (i know how ridiculous that sounds) and calm. with an amazing voice which is hypnotic, im fourteen and this album makes me happy, nostaglic (i know how ridiculous that sounds) and calm. with an amazing voice which is hypnotic, amazing and fantastic this album can only be a must have for anyone. Can't Get no Satisfaction' from Rolling Stones is the most amazing cover i have every heard...Cat Power makes me appreciate music again.… Full Review »
  3. Ricky
    Jul 20, 2006
    10
    Her voice is entrancing and addictive.
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