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1. Goodbye to Love performed by American Music Club - 3:12
2. Top of the World performed by Shonen Knife - 3:55
3. Superstar performed by Sonic Youth - 4:06
4. (They Long to Be) Close to You performed by The Cranberries - 2:40
5. For All We Know performed by Bettie Serveert - 3:27
6. It's Going to Take Some Time performed by Dishwalla - 4:16
7. Solitaire performed by Sheryl Crow - 4:43
8. Hurting Each Other performed by Johnette Napolitano / Marc Moreland - 4:09
9. Yesterday Once More performed by Redd Kross - 3:58
10. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft performed by Babes In Toyland - 4:06
11. Rainy Days and Mondays performed by Cracker - 3:44
12. Let Me Be the One performed by Matthew Sweet - 3:26
13. Bless the Beasts and Children performed by Four Non Blondes - 4:17
14. We've Only Just Begun performed by Grant Lee Buffalo - 3:51

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

All tribute albums are crappy, because most covers are crappy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

hm... I dunno that I'd call If I Were a Carpenter a crappy tribute album at all. Barring a few exceptional songs, I actually think it's quite a good tribute album

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost)
Was that Carpenters tribute really THAT bad? (I haven't heard it all).
This is further evidence to the theory that Matthew Sweet was indeed on every indie rock compilation released in the '90's.
Kiss tribute to thread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked the idea of that wilner mingus one. mingus tunes played on harry partch's instruments with vocalists as diverse as chuck d and diamanda galas doing extracts from beneath the underdog.

i don't listen to it much though.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

That Carpenters comp is actually pretty good. There are a lot of really bad tribute albums, but that is not one of them. Redd Kross' tune and Superstar in particular are both really fun.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty good for a tribute album or good for an album? (I'll only accept the former.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cracker song is nice. I have it on tape somewhere. It's not really that bad, I guess, but it does include Dishwalla, Sheryl Crow, Four Non Blondes, AND the Cranberries.

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Here it is :
1. Deuce - Lenny Kravitz
2. Hard Luck Woman - Garth Brooks
3. She - Anthrax
4. Christine Sixteen - Gin Blossoms
5. Rock & Roll All Night - Toad the Wet Sprocket
6. Calling Dr. Love
7. Goin' Blind - Dinosaur Jr.
8. Strutter - Extreme
9. Plaster Caster - The Lemonheads
10. Detroit Rock City - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
11. Black Diamond - Yoshiki

Wow, it's a compilation of artist that were 3-4 years past their prime (1994). And the Gin Blossoms, who were not welcome at any time.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

These bands had primes?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I like that Carpenters tribute CD.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pretty good for a tribute album or good for an album? (I'll only accept the former.) "

uh, good for a tribute album. I wouldn't bother listening to it all the way through.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to remember liking the White Zombie song:

1. After Forever performed by Biohazard - 5:46
2. Children of the Grave performed by White Zombie - 5:49
3. Paranoid performed by Megadeth - 2:31
4. Supernaut performed by One Thousand Homo Dj's - 6:39
5. Iron Man performed by Ozzy Osbourne / Therapy - 5:25
6. Lord of This World performed by Corrosion Of Conformity - 6:25
7. Symptom of the Universe performed by Sepultura - 4:15
8. The Wizard performed by Bull ring Brummies - 5:01
9. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath performed by Bruce Dickinson / Godspeed - 5:36
10. N.I.B. performed by Ugly Kid Joe - 5:28
11. War Pigs [live] performed by Faith No More - 7:02
12. Black Sabbath (From the Satanic... performed by Type O Negative - 7:45

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that tribute album.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Flaming Lips and Screaming Trees songs on this one are great (though it's useless as a whole):

1. I Found Out performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers - 4:03
2. I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier performed by Mad Season - 5:13
3. Steel and Glass performed by CandleBox - 4:27
4. Imagine performed by Blues Traveler - 3:45
5. Working Class Hero performed by Screaming Trees - 3:52
6. Power to the People performed by Minus Five - 3:08
7. How Do You Sleep? performed by Magnificent Bastards - 7:12
8. Nobody Told Me performed by Flaming Lips - 3:45
9. Well, Well, Well performed by Super Eight - 4:21
10. Cold Turkey performed by Cheap Trick - 5:50
11. Jealous Guy performed by Collective Soul - 4:11
12. Isolation performed by Sponge - 2:39
13. Instant Karma! performed by Toad the Wet Sprocket - 4:28
14. Grow Old With Me performed by Carpenter, Mary Chapin - 3:18
15. Mind Games performed by George Clinton - 5:26

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Fire and Skill to thread, stat.

1. Carnation performed by Liam Gallagher / Steve Cradock - 3:32
2. Start! performed by Beastie Boys / Miho Hatori - 2:50
3. That's Entertainment performed by Reef - 3:00
4. The Gift performed by Heavy Stereo - 2:36
5. Art School performed by Silversun - 1:59
6. English Rose performed by Everything But The Girl - 2:19
7. Going Underground performed by Buffalo Tom - 3:52
8. The Butterfly Collector performed by Garbage - 3:40
9. The Modern World performed by Ben Harper - 2:32
10. Town Called Malice performed by Gene - 3:39
11. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time) performed by Noel Gallagher - 6:50

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

That late 80s/early 90s Neil Young tribute would have been pretty good if Yo La Tengo's "Barstool Blues" would have been included (recorded around then I think).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

These bands had primes?
You're right Alex, I should have written "peaks".

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

love the nikki sudden cover of "captain kennedy" on it.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Imagine performed by Blues Traveler - 3:45
I am wincing right now. I can only imagine the reaction of people who actually like the song.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wilner Kurt Weill tribute album from the mid-'80s (Lost in the Stars) is really good.

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

does that have sting doing mack the knife?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah! It's good!

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

wilner does seem a wee bit more ambitious than the others mentioned here for these projects

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Carpenters one handily comes as a box of 7"s, so you don't have to listen to the songs you don't like (though I agree with the defenders here, so am possibly dumb for getting it)

I also really like most of this:

1. Never Let Me Down Again - The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Fly On A Windshield - God Lives Underwater
3. Enjoy the Silence - Failure
4. World in My Eyes - The Cure
5. Policy of Truth - Dishwalla
6. Somebody - Veruca Salt
7. Everything Counts - Meat Beat Manifesto
8. Shake the Disease - Hooverphonic
9. Master and Servant - Locust
10. Shame - Self
11. Black Celebration - Monster Magnet
12. Waiting for the Night - Rabbit in the Moon
13. I Feel You - Apollo 440
14. Monument - Gus Gus
15. To Have and to Hold - Deftones
16. Stripped - Rammstein

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I was surprised that I didn't like this one:

1. Straight Outta Compton - King T
2. Fuck Tha Police - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
3. Gangsta Gangsta - C-Murder
4. If It Ain't Ruff - WC
5. Parental Discretion Iz Advised - Allfrumtha i
6. 8 Ball - Jayo Felony
7. Something Like That - Ant Banks
8. Express Yourself - Silkk the Shocker
9. Compton's N the House [Live] - Dr. Dre
10. I Ain't Tha 1 - Mr. Mike
11. Dopeman - Mack 10
12. Quiet on Tha Set - Big Punisher

― s>c>, Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I am surprised anyone would even buy that.

I am not surprised anyone would buy this, but would they ever listen to it all the way through?:

1. Kerouac - Morphine
2. Bowery Blues - Lydia Lunch
3. My Gang - Michael Stipe
4. Dream: "Us Kids Swim off a Gray Pier..." - Steven Tyler
5. Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode to Jack Hunter S. Thompson - Hunter S. Thompson
6. Skid Row Wine - Maggie Estep
7. America's New Trinity of Love: Dean, Brando, Presley - Richard Lewis
8. Dream: "On a Sunny Afternoon..." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
9. MacDougal Street Blues - Jack Kerouac
10. Brooklyn Bridge Blues - Allen Ginsberg
11. Hymn - Eddie Vedder
12. Old Western Movies - William S. Burroughs
13. Silly Goofball Poems - Juliana Hatfield
14. Moon - John Cale
15. Madroad Driving - Come
16. Have You Ever Seen Anyone Like Cody Pomeray? - Robert Hunter
17. Letter to John Clellon Holmes - Dana Colley
18. Pome on Doctor Sax - Anna Domino
19. Mexico Rooftop - Robert Buck
20. Last Hotel - Lenny Kaye
21. Running Through-Chinese Poem Song - Michael Wolff
22. Woman - Jim Carroll
23. Loneliness, Mexican - Joey Altruda
24. Angel Mine - Jeff Buckley
25. Brooklyn Bridge Blues - Eric Andersen

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Sweet Leaf - Godsmack
2. Hole in the Sky - Machine Head
3. Behind the Wall of Sleep - Static-X
4. Never Say Die - Megadeth
5. Snowblind - System of a Down
6. Electric Funeral - Pantera
7. N.I.B.
8. Hand of Doom - Slayer
9. Under the Sun - Soulfly
10. Sabbra Cadabra - (hed) pe
11. Into the Void - Monster Magnet
12. Iron Man (This Means War) - Busta Rhymes

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite, even though this is a crappy tribute thread, is the Troggs tribute "Groin Thunder" from the early 90's (Mummies, Headcoats). C'mon, it's "Groin Thunder"! The Ernest Brookings "Tribute" w/ Yo La Tengo is up for debate. I'm a little too straped for time to AMG-it at the moment.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sub Pop Kinks tribute was pretty sub par, though the one that came out around the same time with Davies' liner notes was surprisingly good.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

1.   My Generation - Gorky Park
2.   Holidays In The Sun - Skid Row
3.   I Can't Explain - Scorpions
4.   Purple Haze - Ozzy Osbourne
5.   Teaser - Motley Crue
6.   The Boys Are Back In Town - Bon Jovi
7.   Move Over - Cinderella
8.   Moby Dick - Tico Torres, Jason Bonham, Mickey Curry
9.   Hound Dog live - Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Klaus Meine
10.   Long Tall Sally/Blue Suede Shoes live - Scorpions, Gorky Park
11.   Rock And Roll live - Skid Row, Motley Crue, Zakk Wylde, Jason Bonham

Phew, there was some suck on this tribute album. Those live cuts especially.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

CLEOPATRA RECORDS TO THREAD!!!!!!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

There has NEVER been a good tribute album EVER and there never will be. FACT!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I like AMC's rendition of 'Goodbye to Love' a lot, but then I'm also an unrepentant fan of both AMC and the Carpenters. I should probably get the whole album.

I also love the Pumpkin's cover of 'Never Let me Down Again'; it's what I'd play someone to convince them of the Pumpkin's worthiness.

The only tribute I've got:
1. Shoot Out the Lights performed by X
2. Wall of Death performed by REM
3. When the Spell Is Broken performed by Bonnie Raitt
4. Turning of the Tide performed by Bob Mould
5. For Shame of Doing Wrong performed by Syd Straw / Evan Dando
6. Down Where the Drunkards Roll performed by Los Lobos
7. Beat the Retreat performed by June Tabor
8. Genesis Hall performed by June Tabor
9. I Misunderstood performed by Dinosaur Jr.
10. The Madness of Love performed by Graham Parker
11. Just the Motion performed by David Byrne
12. Valerie performed by Beausoleil
13. A Heart Needs a Home performed by Shawn Colvin / Wainwright, Loudon III
14. Dimming of the Day performed by Five Blind Boys of Alabama
15. Farewell, Farewell performed by Maddy Prior / Martin Carthy
16. The Great Valerio performed by Maddy Prior / Martin Carthy

They only standouts are the Maddy Prior and June Tabor numbers, as not anyone can pull off a Thompson song; REM sure can't. Putting 'Wall of Death' second on the album is a mistake too, as is Beausoleil's french polka-fest. Most of the other songs are passable.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

WE LOVE US, SO LOVE US:

Disc 1:
1. Hello, I Love You - The Cure
2. House of the Rising Sun - Tracy Chapman
3. Seven & Seven Is - Billy Bragg
4. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing - Jevetta Steele
5. Hotel California - Gipsy Kings
6. Werewolves of London - The Black Velvet Band
7. Motorcycle Mama - The Sugarcubes
8. One Meatball - Shinehead
9. Bottle of Wine - Havalinas
10. Born in Chicago - Pixies
11. You're So Vain - Faster Pussycat
12. Marquee Moon - The Kronos Quartet
13. Get Ourselves Together - Phoebe Snow
14. Tokoloshe Man - Happy Mondays
15. Let's Go - Ernie Isley
16. Going Down - Lynch Mob
17. A Little Bit of Rain - Ambitious Lovers
18. You Belong to Me - Anita Baker
19. Road to Cairo - Howard Jones
Disc 2:
1. Kick Out the Jams - The Big F
2. Almost Saturday Night / Rockin' All Over the World - The Georgia Satellites
3. Hello I Am Your Heart - Sara Hickman
4. Make It With You - Teddy Pendergrass
5. The Blacksmith - Linda Ronstadt
6. Going Going Gone - Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Bill Frisell
7. First Girl I Loved - Jackson Browne
8. These Days - 10,000 Maniacs
9. Stone Cold Crazy - Metallica
10. Apricot Brandy - Danny Gatton
11. Union Man - Shaking Family
12. One More Parade - They Might Be Giants
13. I Can't Tell You Why - Howard Hewett
14. Mt. Airy Groove - Leaders of the New School
15. You Brought the Sunshine - Shirley Murdock
16. Inbetween Days - John Eddie
17. Love Wars - The Beautiful South
18. Both Sides Now - Michael Feinstein
19. T.V. Eye - John Zorn
20. Hello, I Love You (Slight Return) - The Cure

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I like a beatles tribute CD.

The one where the pooh sticks do a klaatu track, and the senseless things do a rutles track.

That's how you do things...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

There has NEVER been a good tribute album EVER and there never will be. FACT!!

Well I'd recommend the Disney one Stay Awake.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

TS:

1. Shoplifters of the World Unite - Dare to Defy
2. London - Down by Law
3. Your Gonna Need Someone on Your Side - Anal Cunt
4. What Difference Does It Make
5. How Soon Is Now? - The Meatmen
6. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable - H2O
7. Handsome Devil - Sweet Diesel
8. Bigmouth Strikes Again
9. You Haven't Earned It Yet Baby - Screw 32
10. Last of the Famous International Players - Leeway
11. What She Said - Youth Brigade
12. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
13. Half a Person - Edgewise
14. Panic - The Business
15. Sweet and Tender Hooligan - 59 Times the Pain
16. This Night Has Opened My Eyes - Home 33
17. There Is a Light - Walleye
18. Back to the Old House - Lament

1. Queen is dead - Boo Radleys
2. Frankly Mr Shankly - High Llamas
3. I know it's over - Trash Can Sinatras
4. Never had no one ever - Bragg, Billy
5. Cemetry gates - Frank & Walters
6. Bigmouth strikes again - Placebo
7. Boy with the thorn in his side - Bis
8. Vicar in a tutu - Therapy
9. There is a light that never goes out - Divine Comedy
10. Some girls are bigger than others - Supergrass

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I know the last one there. The placebo one was played on the radio, and I said "What are they doing to that poor song?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

IIRC it came out about the time when Bis were NME readers' preimer whipping boys'n'girl, so the sacrilege was felt particularly strongly by the easily offended. I've never heard it myself but I suspect it was more heartfelt than Anal Cunt and The Meatmen's takes

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the "From Russia With Love" Pigface tribute album featuring, as you might expect, some Russian unknowns covering Pigface (although they are all pretty much coverable songs if you know what I mean, there's none of the really self-indulgent stuff on it) after Invisible/Underground threw it in with an order.

I AM SCARED TO LISTEN TO IT.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 13 May 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Microwave it.

CLEOPATRA RECORDS TO THREAD!!!!!!

Oh god. Don't start.

String tribute albums to something are the best/worst.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I read that as "Sting tribute albums to something" which would probably be the actual worst, should such a thing come to pass

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

A string tribute album to Sting would be the nadir of music, surely?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"FAST & BULBOUS":

1. The Dog Faced Hermans - Zig Zag Wanderer
2. XTC - Ella Guru
3. The Scientists - Clear Spot
4. The Membranes - Ice Cream For Crow
5. The King Of Luxembourg - Long Necked Bottles
6. The Beat Poets - Sun Zoom Spark
7. That Petrol Emotion - Hot Head
8. The Primevals - China Pig
9. Sonic Youth - Electricity
10. Good and Gone - Harry Irene
11. The Screaming Dizbusters - Frying Pan
12. The Mock Turtles - Big Eyed Beans From Venus

CD includes 2 extra tracks:-
13. The Beat Poets - Gimme Dat Harp Boy
14. The Primevals - Crazy Little Thing

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd actually quite like to hear that. There's a more recent one w/ Racebannon doing 'Electricity' but Christ knows where one finds it

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, there's the Guitar Tribute to Sting and the Tribute to Sting by the Tantric Rock All-Stars and the Jazz Tribute to Sting and the Police and Sting: The Ultimate Tribute by the Evening Star Orchestra and...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha "Tantric Rock Allstars" - they must have come up with that name and then thought "ZING!!"

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

TRIBUTE ALBUMS DO NOT GET WORSE THAN THIS:

1. Old Shoes - Drugstore
2. Mockin Bird - Tindersticks
3. Better Off Without A Wife - Pete Shelley
4. Red Shoes By The Drugstore - The Wedding Present
5. Step Right Up - Violent Femmes
6. Downtown - Alex Chilton
7. Big Joe And Phantom 309 - Archers Of Loaf
8. You Cant Unring A Bell - These Immortal Souls
9. Pasties And A G - String - Jeffrey Lee Pierce
10. Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Magnapop
11. Ol 55 - Dave Alvin
12. Jersey Girl - Pale Saints
13. Martha - Tim Buckley
14. Rubys Arms - Frente
15. I Hope That I Dont Fall In Love With You - 10000 Maniacs

SURPRISINGLY AWESOME TRIBUTE ALBUM:

1. Fela Mentality (Intro) - Fela Kuti
2. Kalakuta Show - Gab & Lateef
3. Interlude: Live At Kalakuta - Fela Kuti
4. Shuffering & Shmiling - Dead Prez, Talib Kewli, Jorge Ben and Bilal
5. Interlude: Gimme Sh*t - Mixmaster Mike
6. Water No Get Enemy - Mixmaster Mike
7. Water No Get Enemy - D'Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray & The Soultronics (feat. Nile Rodgers & Roy Hargrove)
8. Gentleman - MeShell Ndegeocello & Yerba Buena (feat. Ron Blake)
9. Years Of Tears and Sorrow - Common & Djelimady Tounkara
10. Shakara/ Lady (Part One) - Cheikh Lo
11. Shakara/Lady (Part Two) - Cheikh Lo, Les Nubians and Manu Dibango
12. Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message) - Fela Kuti
13. Zombie (Part One) - Bugz In The Attic (feat. Wunmi)
14. Zombie (Part Two) - Nile Rodgers & Roy Hargrove
15. No Agreement - Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Baaba Maa, Positive Black Soul & Archie Shepp
16. So Be It - Kelis
17. Interlude/This Is An Ashanti Proverb - Fela Kuti
18. By Your Side - Sade (Cottonbelly Remix)
19. Colonial Mentality - Yerba Buena
20. Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am - Baaba Maal & Taj Mahal (feat. Kaouding Cissoko)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Even the Tindersticks track?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The only track on that whole Tom Waits tribute album I could stand was the Tim Buckley one.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Violent Femmes doing "Step Right Up" really did make me feel physically ill, and I like that band.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Nickalicious, I'm afraid tribute albums *do* get worse than that:

http://www.nme.com/news/107824.htm

( THE SMITHS are the subject of an unlikely tribute from the heroes of emo and post-hardcore.)

I have heard this. It is the worst album ever made and everyone involved should die slow and painful deaths - perhaps by being made to listen to Hundred Reason's 'How Soon Is Now?' over and over until the internal organs haemorrage
.

― Mog, Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

the heroes of emo and post-hardcore

Not even for one day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"Seems the Smiths have got a lot of unlikely fans"

FFS

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It's certainly the worst album ever made, but the Hundred Reasons massacre isn't the worst thing on it, piss poor though it is. 'Death Of A Disco Dancer' by Your Code Name Is Milo (currently the worst band in the world) is beyond comment.
That 'tribute' to Skip Spence's 'Oar' a few years back was pretty good in parts, and not always by the people you might expect.

― Snotty Moore, Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the neil young tribue was half-good. this was one was three-quarters-good, which i'm reasonably sure makes it the best tribute album ever.

1. Tulare Dust/They're Tearing the Labor Camps Down performed by Tom Russell
2. Big City performed by Iris Dement
3. A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today performed by Peter Case
4. Holding Things Together performed by Dwight Yoakam
5. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) performed by Robert Earl Keen Jr.
6. White Line Fever performed by Joe Ely
7. My Own Kind of Hat performed by Rosie Flores
8. Shopping for Dresses performed by Steve Young
9. Silver Wings performed by Marshall Crenshaw
10. Irma Jackson performed by Barrence Whitfield
11. You Don't Have Very Far to Go performed by Lucinda Williams
12. Ramblin' Fever performed by Billy Joe Shaver
13. I Can't Be Myself performed by Katy Moffatt
14. I Can't Hold Myself in Line performed by John Doe
15. Kern River performed by Dave Alvin

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

_I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous: A Swedish Tribute To Depeche Mode_ is fantastic. How can you go wrong with a Cat Rapes Dog cover of "Something To Do"?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. It is indeed a great/weird album!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That Rubayait thing Elektra put out for their 40th anniversary (someone posted it upthread) is mostly crap save for a few songs. No where near enough interesting or good stuff to balance out two whole discs.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Staplegun Records "Surprise Your Pig" Tribute to REM:

Just Say No - Radio Free Europe
Band of Susans - 1,000,000
Gumball - Stumble
Steelpole Bathtub - We Walk
Sampson And The Philistines - Talk About The Passion
Jawbreaker - Pretty Persuasion
J Church - RockvilleLyrics; Tab; Bass tab
Phleg Camp - Feeling Gravity's Pull
Mr T. Experience - Can't Get There From Here
Flor de Mal - Good Advice
The Punchline - Bandwagon
When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water - I Believe
Vic Chestnutt - It's The End Of The World As We Known It (And I Feel Fine)
King Missile - Get Up
Tesco Vee's Hate Police - Losing My Religion
Jawbox - Low
Mitch Easter - Shiny Happy People

It's kinda weird, but I actually like most of that record. King Missle's "Get Up" is genius.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

revive!

1. Reverberation (Doubt) - ZZ Top
2. If You Have Ghosts - John Wesley Harding & The Good Liars
3. I Had To Tell You - Poi Dog Pondering
4. She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) - Judybats
5. Slip lnside This House - Primal Scream
6. You Don't Love Me Yet - Bongwater
7. I Have Always Been Here Before - Julian Cope
8. You're Gonna Miss Me - Doug Sahm & Sons
9. It's A Cold Night For Alligators - Southern Pacific
10. Fire Engine - Richard Lloyd
11. Bermuda - Vibrating Egg
12. I Walked With A Zombie - R.E.M.
13. Earthquake - Butthole Surfers
14. Don't Slander Me - Lou Ann Barton
15. Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog) - Sister Double Happiness
16. Burn The Flames - Thin White Rope
17. Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) - Chris Thomas
18. Nothing In Return - T Bone Burnett
19. Reverberation (Doubt) - The Jesus & Mary Chain

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 18 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

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