Take Cover is the tenth studio album by Seattle-based progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on November 13, 2007. It consists of cover versions. The idea to release an album of cover songs came from a game of "name the riff" guitarists Michael Wilton and Mike Stone would play during sound checks. The band members agreed to each choose two songs to record for the album.[6] Its release was announced by the band on August 28, 2007. After its first week of release the album entered the Billboard Top 200 chart at No. 173,[7] with sales of 5,500 copies.[8] Their cover of Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" was released as the album's only single.
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| Released | November 13, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
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| Length | 55:40 | |||
| Label | Rhino | |||
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| 411Mania | (7.5/10)[1] |
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This was the band's last album to feature Stone, who left in 2009.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Welcome to the Machine" (originally performed by Pink Floyd, 1975) | Roger Waters | 4:54 |
| 2. | "Heaven on Their Minds" (originally from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, 1970) | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice | 4:54 |
| 3. | "Almost Cut My Hair" (originally performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1970) | David Crosby | 4:18 |
| 4. | "For What It's Worth" (originally performed by Buffalo Springfield, 1967) | Stephen Stills | 2:53 |
| 5. | "For the Love of Money" (originally performed by The O'Jays, 1973) | Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Anthony Jackson | 4:58 |
| 6. | "Innuendo" (originally performed by Queen, 1991) | John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor | 6:11 |
| 7. | "Neon Knights" (originally performed by Black Sabbath, 1980) | Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio, Bill Ward | 3:41 |
| 8. | "Synchronicity II" (originally performed by The Police, 1983) | Gordon Sumner | 4:55 |
| 9. | "Red Rain" (originally performed by Peter Gabriel, 1986) | Peter Gabriel | 4:39 |
| 10. | "Odissea" (originally performed by Carlo Marrale and Salvatore Licitra, 2003) | Carlo Marrale | 3:51 |
| 11. | "Bullet the Blue Sky" (performed live; originally performed by U2, 1987) | Adam Clayton, David Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen, Jr. | 10:26 |
| Total length: | 55:40 | ||
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| US Billboard 200[9] | 173 |
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