Cover (Tom Verlaine album)

Cover
Studio album by Tom Verlaine
Released	September 1984
Recorded	1984 (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
Words from the Front (1982) Cover (1984) Flash Light (1987)

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]

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

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

Personnel

• 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"

Technical

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

[1]

Charts

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

Reception

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

References

1. Cleary, David. Cover at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
2. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
3. Pareles, John (1984-12-25). "Rock - Tom Verlaine - Review". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
4. Strike, Andy (September 8, 1984). "Tom Verlaine: Cover". Record Mirror. p. 18.
5. 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.
6. Steffen Hung. "Tom Verlaine - Cover". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
7. "Albums and Tracks of the Year". NME. 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2018.