Celebrating Gershwin (A Tribute To George Gershwin) - Various Artists

Advantages: Recognisable tunes
Disadvantages: Neither fish nor foul. Best stick to the original

...I was prompted to shake the dust off a neglected corner of my record collection by a review posted by Nar recently. "The True Legacy of a Legendary Musical Divorce?" is about the Album "Legacy, a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours" - a CD of cover versions of the songs from the classic Mac album 'Rumours' released in 1977. Nar also said that he was '?forever on the look out for new versions and covers of songs by leading artists known and unknown.'. For completeness then, here is one for his collection and maybe one which may have escaped your attention the first time around. The String Quartet Tribute's declared aim is to concentrate on one well known performer or group at a time and produce classical (instrumental) versions of the songs 'note for note'. Some albums are compendiums of the original's more well known titles; others, as... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Nice thought, initially great --originals--
Disadvantages: Not the LP originals but cover versions, horrible voices and bad sound quality

...Dear Ciao members and Linkin Park fans, My first Ciao test report ever will be on >A tribute to Linkin Park<, a CD by various artists which you will find listed below in the track listings. [Please don't be too hard on my English, as my maternal language is German ^^° ...But let's get back to the report!] As said in the title, the CD is tributed to the American Nu Metal band Linkin Park which inspired the CD (as all of the tracks are simply cover versions of their own hits, in fact), whereas the band itself was not engaged in the process of CD making (and I'm not even sure whether they are informed about its existence at all...). ***** The CD - some brief info: ***** CD release date: September 23, 2002 Number of discs:1 Label: Anagram ASIN: B00006HCKM Price: £8.99 (you will find the CD @ www... Read review

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Advantages: It's a bit different...
Disadvantages: It's a bit bad....

...I bought this album (before sample tracks for it were available on Amazon) thinking that there would be some nice dark versions of some Bowie tracks. I was prepared for a few strange noises and slightly discordant sounds - some goth music is like that. What I wasn't prepared for was the droning nature of all these tracks! For a start, a lot of the songs don't lend themselves to the moody, atmospheric goth sound (in hindsight, I should have realised this). Admittedly, Time, Always Crashing, The Man Who Sold The World and Look Back In Anger could be done well in the gothic style, but there are so much better options in 1984, Stay, She Shook Me Cold, Lady Stardust and even Space Oddity. I think this album would interest only a certain niche of the goth market - the songs are in a similar somewhat un-tuneful style (to my ears). I would... Read review

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