Cover Songs: Complete Best 'Track 3'
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iTunes LP cover for Cover Songs: Complete Best 'Track 3'
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| Compilation album by Superfly | ||||
| Released | September 1, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2007—2010 | |||
| Genre | Pop, rock | |||
| Length | 59:10 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Warner Music Japan | |||
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Wildflower & Cover Songs: Complete Best 'Track 3' set cover.
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| Singles from Cover Songs | ||||
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Cover Songs: Complete Best 'Track 3' is an album by Japanese musical unit Superfly. Released September 1, 2010, the album was packaged as a 2-CD set with Superfly's single "Wildflower", and compiled Western classic rock songs found on Superfly's singles.
Vocalist Shiho Ochi first heard 1960s and 1970s classic rock songs when she was 18, after meeting band-mate Kōichi Tabo, who used to give her MiniDisc mix-tapes with his favorite songs on them as presents. During Superfly's early days as a musical act in Aichi the band did not have a chance to record covers, but started a cover recording project before their major label debut with Warner. Originally Superfly planned to include these covers as the final tracks on their albums, but instead decided it would be better to include these songs as the third tracks on their single releases.
Ochi found singing in English difficult because she does not speak the language, so spent a lot of time checking pronunciation during her early covers. Often she found that performing the songs as straight covers did not suit her voice, such as on Free's "My Brother Jake". Instead, producer Kōichi Tsutaya suggested they make the recordings as fun as possible. For the cover of The Rolling Stones' "Bitch", Superfly collaborated with drummer Kazuyuki Kuhara of the bands Thee Michelle Gun Elephant and The Birthday, as well as trumpeter Tabu Zombie and saxophonist Motoharu of Soil & "Pimp" Sessions.
After a while, Ochi found that recording covers became less fun and more an obligation, so Superfly decided to stop the project and compile these into an album.
The album compiles the Western cover songs released as B-sides on Superfly's singles between 2007 and 2009, often as the singles' third tracks. In addition, the album includes all of the songs from the iTunes exclusive Live from Tokyo extended play that was released in 2007, as well as the recording of Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" from Superfly's Dancing at Budokan!! video album and three new songs.
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