Sunday, February 1, 2009

Second Best Charity Album Of The Year?

Well it seems there's going to be another charity album released this February... This time it's War Child's Heroes, a more flashy (but less interesting) lineup (compered to Dark Was The Night) of artists doing covers. The twist is that the covering artists were chosen by the original song's creators.
The lineup is less cohesive than DWTN and I can't feel it being a great album although it might have some great and interesting covers one it.

The title track is David Bowie's Heroes covered by TV On The Radio (sounds more like a remix than a cover):


Elbow which put out a great album last year (The Seldom Seen Kid) cover U2's Running to Stand Still (sound a lot like the original):


Other interesting tracks from Beck (doing Dylan), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (covering The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker) and more...

1 comments:

Uri Nizan said...

Loved the Elbow version to "Running to Stand Still". You're right, it sounds very similar to U2's, but it's just different enough to make it special.