Cost: $1.00
Only reason I picked this up is that I saw Zeke covered Iron Maiden's "Wrathchild" on it (it's just an ok version, not great). I don't care about Steve Earle, L7, Tom Waits, etc., so the majority of this tribute is of zero interest to me. The included cover songs may be the most interesting out of the lot, but aren't generally that good. Nashville Pussy's "Highway to Hell" is only appealing due to the familiarity of the song, and Murder City Devils' version of The Misfits' "She" is phoned in. Kelley Deal (the chick from The Breeders) does Pantera's "Fucking Hostile"--no love lost for the original, but I find most of these mellowed-out and female-vocaled trying-to-be-ironic deconstructions of aggressive music to be ridiculous. My favorite track on the whole thing ended up being The Supersuckers' (with Eddie Vedder on vox) cover of X's "Poor Girl," which I even prefer to the original.
I'm hoping the Zeke cover shows up on something else so I can ditch this piece of crap.
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