Cover (Tom Verlaine album)

Cover
Cover
Studio album by Tom Verlaine
Released	1984
Recorded	1984
Studio	Blue Rock Studio, NYC; Eldorado Recording Studio, Los Angeles; Sorcerer Sound, NYC; Bearsville Studios, NY; The Town House, London; Roundhouse Studios, 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.

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^[4]

NME ranked it number 18 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984.^[5]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Cleary, David. Cover at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
^ Pareles, John (1984-12-25). "Rock - Tom Verlaine - Review". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
^ "Tom Verlaine - Cover at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
^ 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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