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post #1 of 10
4/8/07 at 11:14pm
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So I had my iTunes on shuffle today and happened across The Wallflowers doing Lawyers, Guns and Money by Warren Zevon off Enjoy Every Sandwich, the Zevon tribute album (I bought it a while ago and never really absorbed it, to quote Rob Gordon). Anyway, the cover was great and led directly into My Ride's Here performed live by Bruce Springsteen. Now, this is one of my favorite Zevon songs being played by my all time favorite artist. I damn near lost my shit. Just the perfect song for Springsteen to cover. It almost sounds like something he could've written, if not the absurdism and pop culture IQ that makes Zevon so unique and great. I listened to the whole record and enjoyed it but none as much as those two that I heard first.

Any other great tribute albums out there I should pick up?
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post #2 of 10
4/9/07 at 3:01am
The Pixies tribute album Where Is My Mind? is pretty damn good, not a bad track on it (with the possible exception of Reel Big Fish's "Gigantic", which is kind of all sorts of bad).
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post #3 of 10
4/9/07 at 9:33am
If I Were A Carpenter - Whicn includes the hilarious Top of the World by Shonen Knife and the pretty sublime Hurting Each Other by Johnette Napolitano.

Wicked Grin - Not really a tribute but it's John Hammonds covering all Tom Waits tunes. His "Murder in the Red Barn" may be better than Tom's.

Out of the Blue and Into the Black - Tributes to Neil Young by Canadian bands. The best is probably Stephen Fearing's version of "Thrasher" but David Wilcox doing "Transformer Man" is pretty cool as is the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir doing "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere"
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post #4 of 10
4/9/07 at 9:43am
Sinnead O'Connor's sparse, haunting cover of "Sacrifice" is about the only song worth owning on the Two Rooms Elton John tribute. It's about the only case where the artist tried to do something different with the material (although Tina Turner's "The Bitch is Back" is fun).
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post #5 of 10
4/9/07 at 10:54am
Check out Prozak for Lovers:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/prozak

http://cdbaby.com/cd/prozak2
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post #6 of 10
4/9/07 at 11:40am
I have a Duran Duran tribute album that is acutally quite good.

Also Depeche Mode's Tribute Album is the best tribute album I own.

With Failure, Smashing Pumpkins, God Lives Underwater and Rammstein doing covers.. its awesome.
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post #7 of 10
4/9/07 at 6:39pm
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Killer. The Depeche Mode sounds really interesting and I'd be very intrigued to hear any Tom Waits cover better than Tom Waits.
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post #8 of 10
4/11/07 at 12:10pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~
Out of the Blue and Into the Black - Tributes to Neil Young by Canadian bands. The best is probably Stephen Fearing's version of "Thrasher" but David Wilcox doing "Transformer Man" is pretty cool as is the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir doing "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere"
Haven't heard those, but I'm surprised no one's mentioned the other Young tribute, The Bridge, which a lot of folks consider to be the first and maybe best of the tribute albums that flooded the market in the 90s. The Pixies' version of "Winterlong" is one of their best recordings, Soul Asylum does a stellar "Barstool Blues," Nick Cave is a perfect match for "Helpless," and Sonic Youth brings a Daydream Nation-era intensity to "Computer Age." It was my first thorough introduction to Young's back catalog and to a bunch of the artists (I think it came out in 89, when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school).

Also, I have a soft spot for the first Sweet Relief album that was done for Victoria Williams. I'm not a huge fan of Williams' versions of her own songs, but Soul Asylum (again), Pearl Jam, Maria McKee, Shudder to Think, Matthew Sweet, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, etc. make a case for her songwriting ability and their own abilities to reinterpret. It's a pretty diverse-sounding collection.

I like the Carpenters one, too, BTW.
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post #9 of 10
4/12/07 at 10:54am
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Originally Posted by neaux
Depeche Mode's Tribute Album is the best tribute album I own.

With Failure, Smashing Pumpkins, God Lives Underwater and Rammstein doing covers.. its awesome.
It is indeed one of the better tribute albums out there. Not everything is great, , but the amount of good tracks far outweigh the bad ones.
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post #10 of 10
4/12/07 at 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by barbelithbomb
The Pixies tribute album Where Is My Mind? is pretty damn good, not a bad track on it (with the possible exception of Reel Big Fish's "Gigantic", which is kind of all sorts of bad).
I second this nomination. The Get Up Kids (normally an atrocious band) do a version of Alec Effiel that blows the Pixies' version away.
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