''Covers 80s'' is the seventh album by American singer/songwriter
Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik (born November 18, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Sheik is known for his 1996 debut single "Barely Breathing", which earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He has com ...
. It was released on
Sneaky Records in 2011. The album is composed of covers of songs by British artists originally released in the 1980s.
Singer
Holly Brook, who appeared on Sheik's album ''
Whisper House'', and
Rachael Yamagata
Rachael Amanda Yamagata (born September 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Arlington, Virginia. She began her musical career with the band Bumpus before becoming a solo artist and releasing five EPs and four studio album ...
, who has toured with Sheik for various concerts, contribute backing vocals throughout this album.
Reception
The album was released to mixed reviews.
National Public Radio
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said, "No nostalgia here, only genuine feeling, and the challenge to reconsider what might really be worth reviving."
Track listing
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Stripped" (
Depeche Mode
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) – 3:39
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Hold Me Now" (
Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins were an English Pop music, pop band, formed in 1977 in Sheffield. Initially a New wave music, new wave group, they switched to a more mainstream pop sound and achieved considerable popularity during the early and mid-1980s, scori ...
) – 4:39
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Love Vigilantes" (
New Order) – 4:04
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Kyoto Song" (
The Cure
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) – 3:53
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What Is Love?" (
Howard Jones) – 3:58
#"
So Alive" (
Love and Rockets) – 4:32
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Shout" (
Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands o ...
) – 4:44
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Gentlemen Take Polaroids
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Background
''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' was the band's first album for the Virgin Records label after leaving Han ...
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Japan
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) – 4:53
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Life's What You Make It" (
Talk Talk
Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), Paul Webb (bass), and Simon Brenner (keyboards). Initially a synth-pop group, Talk Talk's first two albums, '' The Party's Over'' (198 ...
) – 4:33
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William, It Was Really Nothing
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The Smiths
The Smiths were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Manchester in 1982, composed of Morrissey (vocals), Johnny Marr (guitar), Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (musician), Mike Joyce (drums). Morrissey and Marr formed the band's songwrit ...
) – 2:11
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Stay
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* Stay, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the US
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* Stay of execution, a ruling to temporarily suspend the enforcement of a court judgment
* Stay of proceedings, a ruling halting further legal process in a tr ...
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The Blue Nile The Blue Nile is a river in Ethiopia and Sudan.
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* Blue Nile (state)
Blue Nile State ( ') is one of the eighteen States of Sudan, states of the Republic of the Sudan. It was established by presidential decree nº 3 i ...
) – 5:41
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The Ghost in You
"The Ghost in You" is a song by the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs, written by the band's lead vocalist Richard Butler and bassist Tim Butler. It was the second single from the band's fourth studio album, '' Mirror Moves'' (1984). As a ...
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The Psychedelic Furs
The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977. Led by lead vocalist Richard Butler (singer), Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs are one of the many acts spawned from ...
) – 5:08
References
2011 albums
Duncan Sheik albums
2010s covers albums
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