The Best of Rockline (1999)

About this title: Hollywood's interactive radio showcase Rockline unleashes its first anthology album, featuring live in-studio versions of alt-rock hits. It's a curious morph of venue, since radio promotion, live performance, and album distribution have traditionally functioned distinctively, not collaboratively, in the record biz. As a cultural artifact, Rockline reminds us that its still a boys' world out there, since you have to strain to hear much of a woman's touch on Tonic's high-hat-happy "Open Up Your Eyes," Dishwalla's extractive "Counting Blue Cars," radio-drenched hits by Lenny Kravitz, the Verve ... read more

Tracks:

1. 6th Avenue Heartache [Dylan]
2. Drive You Mild [VanderArk/VanderArk]
3. Open Up Your Eyes [Hart/Russo]
4. Circus [DeVeaux/Britten]
5. County Blue Cars [Alexander/Browning/]
6. Good [Griffin]
7. Into Your Drug [Sweet]
8. Water's Edge [Ross/Pollock]
9. One Angel [Schmidt]
10. And Fools Shine On [Johnson/Frederiksen]
11. S.R.V. [Johnson]
12. I Am a Pig [Halford/Lowery/Marl]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.