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Motown
(2003)
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Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald never disguises what his seventh solo album is: the title Motown makes it clear that this 2003 effort is a tribute to the glory days of Berry Gordy's Detroit empire. McDonald never strays too far from that thesis, occasionally dipping into the late '70s for material (he takes on Marvin Gaye's "I Want You") and sometimes choosing ...
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A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
(2007)
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Various Artists
Joni Mitchell covers dot the musical landscape the way Tim Hortons doughnut shacks line the highways of Ontario. It's a little surprising, then, that the first Mitchell tribute album to be released on a major U.S. label didn't emerge until 2007, which was coincidentally the same year Mitchell was scheduled to release Shine, her first studio effort ...
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Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
(2007)
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Various Artists
Let's get the basics out of the way first: Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur is a charity album for a great cause, a benefit for Amnesty International's campaign to aid the crisis in the Sudan, an unimpeachable nonpartisan cause if there ever was one. For this campaign, Yoko Ono donated the publishing to John Lennon ...
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If I Were a Carpenter [A&M]
(1994)
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Released among a bevy of tribute albums toasting the likes of Charles Mingus and Neil Young, If I Were a Carpenter registers as one of the best of the lot, with spot-on performances of Carpenters classics from the '70s. Unlike many tribute collections, this CD gets it right most of the time, thanks to a lineup of artists suited to the duo's wide ...
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Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin
(1995)
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Led Zeppelin have been worshipped intensely by generations of rock musicians ever since the 1969 release of their first of eight massively influential studio recordings. Despite a near-constant, and unrealistically cool critical reception, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and John Bohnam's beyond-iconic status was hardly ever in doubt, ...
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The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
(2005)
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Seu Jorge
Raised in the slums of Rio, Brazil, singer/songwriter Seu Jorge used his formidable talent and undeniable charm to great effect in director Wes Anderson's seafaring comedy the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as a guitar strumming deckhand. The catch was that Pelé dos Santos only knew how to play Portuguese versions of David Bowie tunes, all 13 of ...
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Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
(2007)
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Boyz II Men
Three years after the all-covers Throwback -- a release that included some pleasantly surprising choices for new looks, like One Way's "Cutie Pie" and Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do for Love" -- Boyz II Men reappear not with yet another covers affair. As indicated by the title, the trio changes its focus to Motown for a set that ranges ...
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Interpretations: Celebrating the Music of Earth, Wind and Fire
(2007)
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Various Artists
Interpretations: Celebrating the Music of Earth, Wind and Fire collects ten classic EW&F tracks as interpreted by some of R&B's finest practitioners. Released on Stax, this better than average tribute album works pretty well, with contemporary gospel heavyweight Kirk Franklin offering up an impeccable, if nearly identical rendition of "September," ...
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Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Cure
(2006)
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Each release in the Rockabye Baby! series takes the best-known songs of a particular artist and places them in a lullaby processor that involves chimes, bells, and vibraphones -- renditions that are slightly more involved than the music that comes out of the average baby mobile. Whether the original versions are heavy and aggressive or light and ...
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Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Smashing Pumpkins
(2007)
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Each release in the Rockabye Baby! series takes the best-known songs of a particular artist and places them in a lullaby processor that involves chimes, bells, and vibraphones -- renditions that are slightly more involved than the music that comes out of the average baby mobile. Whether the original versions are heavy and aggressive or light and ...
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Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Tool
(2006)
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Each release in the Rockabye Baby! series takes the best-known songs of a particular artist and places them in a lullaby processor that involves chimes, bells, and vibraphones -- renditions that are slightly more involved than the music that comes out of the average baby mobile. Whether the original versions are heavy and aggressive or light and ...
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Scattered, Smothered and Covered
(2000)
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Hootie & the Blowfish
It's easy to make fun of Hootie & the Blowfish because they are what everyone says they are -- a bar band made good. Since they were a bar band from the early '90s, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they knocked out Smiths and R.E.M. covers along with songs from the Led Zeppelin and Bill Withers songbooks -- this was the music of the time, and ...
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Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons
(1999)
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Various Artists
Although he's not as well known outside music circles as Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain, the early death of Gram Parsons was arguably just as great a loss. Parsons' country-rock hybrid became a touchstone for artists from the Rolling Stones to Elvis Costello to the '90s "alternative country" giants Uncle Tupelo and the Jayhawks. In addition to his ...
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Motown Two
(2004)
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Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald's 2003 album of Motown covers, modestly titled Motown, was his biggest hit in well over a decade, so it only made sense that he returned with a sequel to the record a little over a year later -- after all, might as well strike while the iron is hot. Logically titled Motown Two, the album follows the same blueprint as the first ...
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Bedtime with the Beatles: Instrumental Versions of Classic Beatles Songs
(2001)
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Jason Falkner
Fans who know Jason Falkner best for his ironic songwriting and jagged-edge productions may be surprised to hear Bedtime With the Beatles. This lullaby album, subtitled "Instrumental Versions of Classic Beatles Songs," is exactly what it says it is: a collection of the quietest, most calming versions of Beatles classics most listeners have ever ...
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A Punk Tribute to Weezer
(2002)
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Various Artists
Embraced by alternative rock radio and cherished by indie rockers, Weezer have never been far removed from the punk gene pool. So the appearance of A Punk Tribute to Weezer isn't as great a stretch as an industrial tribute or a "Pickin' On Weezer" album (both of which are surely in the works in these tribute-crazed times). A largely West Coast ...
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Return the Gift
(2005)
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Gang of Four
Why let others reheat your back catalog when you can do it yourself? Maybe that's one of the questions Gang of Four asked themselves before recording Return the Gift, a self-tribute album involving re-recordings of their earliest and best work. While the reunion of the original members synched up with the popularity of several bands that were ...
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The String Quartet Tribute to Sum 41
(2004)
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Various Artists
While the idea of a String Quartet Tribute to Sum 41 might sound to some like one of the famously goofy Canadian crew's gags, it is in fact real, and part of Vitamin's long-running series of similar titles. It's also not nearly as strange as you'd think. Musicians Todd Mark Rubenstein and David Davidson seem to have moved away from the usual ...
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Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams
(1993)
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The shear breadth and diversity of artists gathered for this benefit project, Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams, is a tribute to the affection Victoria Williams' peers had for her. It conveniently also makes for heady listening for any fan of contemporary music. The hard, brittle edges of Soul Asylum ("Summer of Drugs") and Buffalo Tom ...
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Ethereal Tribute to U2
(2002)
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The Vitamin label's Ethereal Tribute to U2 reimagines nine tracks by the world-famous Irish pop group as ambient pop. Vocals from Mele, Josafin Glenmark, and Lisa Linehan lend a dreamy quality to the mostly down-tempo electronic arrangements. The tribute's greatest strength is its decision to leave U2's distinctive melodies intact. Too often, ...
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Pickin' on Zeppelin: A Tribute
(2000)
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Pickin' on Led Zeppelin is a continuation of the quirky tribute series from the CMH label that applies bluegrass instrumentation to classic rock tunes. The music of Led Zeppelin translates to this form better than most of the previous attempts, but is still recommended for Zeppelin fanatics only. The most interesting tracks are "Kashmir," "Black ...
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Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band
(2007)
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Beatallica
Remember the band Dread Zeppelin? Well, here's a reminder -- they're a band that caused a minor stir in the early '90s when they took Led Zeppelin classics, added a dash of reggae, and were fronted by an Elvis Presley impersonator (who alternated between reciting Zeppelin and Elvis lyrics). It was perhaps only a matter of time until another group ...
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An All-Star Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd
(2007)
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Judging from the tragedy they had to endure and the impressive sting of classic anthems and albums they recorded, Lynyrd Skynyrd certainly warrant the tribute album treatment (although just about every bloody band has been "tributized" by now). And in 2007, they got it -- with the release of the 13-track An All-Star Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. ...
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A String Quartet Tribute to Dashboard Confessional [2003]
(2003)
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Vitamin's A String Quartet Tribute to Dashboard Confessional is subtitled "The Songs You Have Come to Love the Most," alluding to Dashboard's 2001 LP Places You Have Come to Fear the Most. It's an obvious reference, but does illustrate the genuine care taken by the label to imbue its ubiquitous string tributes with features unique to the feted ...
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Tribute to 50 Cent
(2003)
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This quickie tribute album features the production of Brian Bart and MCs Rashidi and GVL. It's a straight reworking of Get Rich or Die Tryin''s principal parts, including the inescapable radio hits "In da Club" and "P.I.M.P.". Tribute to 50 Cent is mildly amusing, mostly because of those tracks being so ubiquitous. "Club"'s stuttering groove has ...
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