![]() ![]() They can resuscitate legends' fading careers, or expose obscure artists who never had much of a career to begin with. I'm Your Fan thus offers a particularly notable example of a much broader truth: Despite all the eye-rolling they inspire, tribute albums matter. ![]() Through Buckley through Cale, Hallelujah is now one of the most often-performed songs in the world-and it wouldn't be without this tribute album. However, without a tribute album, you wouldn't know the song Hallelujah. In 2016, Stereogum labeled the tribute album possibly the most universally derided format in pop music. ![]() Jeff Buckley adored the tribute album and covered Cale's cover in 1994, never having heard Cohen's still-obscure original version. He runs the Cover Me website that reviews and discusses all kinds of cover song performances, and published a book. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John Cale was one of the few who did hear Hallelujah, and he covered it for I'm Your Fan, a collection of Cohen's songs produced by a French fanzine. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions-including the song Hallelujah-in the United States. When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. ![]()
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