Rating: 2/5
Review:
A real mixed bag
This album is a very mixed bag.
The contributions here range from the excellent Prince
version of A Case Of You which is full of soul, meaning and respect, to the
absolutely dire Bjork atrocity of the Boho Dance – all about Bjork being
winsome and quirky and with a self-absorbed contempt for Joni Mitchell's depth,
subtlety and extraordinary musical creativity.
From the sublime to the ridiculous indeed. In between we get very good versions of The
Magdalene Laundries from Emmylou Harris and Blue by Sarah McLaghlan, pretty
ordinary contributions from people I'd expect to do far better like Annie
Lennox, k.d. lang and James Taylor, and some frankly poor, mannered stuff from
several others including Elvis Costello.
So, for me a real curate's egg of an album which I can't
really recommend overall, in spite of three fine tracks. The rest just isn't worth it.
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