SAShepherd

A recent reference to the Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons tribute album led me to bring in a couple tribute CDs today and wonder about other great tribute albums.

By "tribute album" I mean an album dedicated to one artist (or songwriter/songwriting team).

My two favorites are the Parsons CD mentioned above and the Victoria Williams tribute/benefit album Sweet Relief. I don't own any CDs by either of the tributed artists, though I own plenty by the artists doing the tributing. I guess tribute albums of your favorite artists just mess with your own image of the songs too much to let you enjoy it too much.

I also like the Bruce Springsteen "Nebraska" tribute, the 2nd "Sweet Relief" album (Joe Henry), and the recent Hank Williams tribute.

Any others?

Gdrlv

My favorite is far and away Return of the Grievous Angel. It's an amazing disc, and one of the few that actually gives tribute albums a good name.

Some other good ones...
Real: The Tom T. Hall Project
Sweet Relief: The Songs of Victoria Williams
Sharin' in the Groove: The Music of Phish (features a wide variety of artists...Dave Matthews, the Boredoms, Lake Trout, the Wailers, Los Lobos, and many more)

gilbertr76

Tower of Song - The Songs of Leonard Cohen
A Means to an End - The Music of Joy Division
Third Eye Open - The String Tribute to Tool
A Tribute to Tool
Dark Treasures - A Gothic Tribute to the Cocteau Twins
We Will Follow - A Tribute to U2
Covered in Black - An Industrial Tribute to the Kings of High Voltage AC/DC
Sacrilege - A Tribute to Front 242
Hymns of the Worlock - A Tribute to Skinny Puppy
100 Tears - A Tribute to the Cure
For the Masses - An Album of Depeche Mode Songs
Trancemode Express 1.01 - A Trance Tribute to Depeche Mode
Trancemode Express 2.01 - A Trance Tribute to Depeche Mode
Trancemode Express 3.01 - A Trance Tribute to Depeche Mode

TeeSeeJay

Stoned Immaculate, a tribute to the Doors

saoirse

Laibach - Let It Be (Beatles tribute)

Hiro11

The Bridge-A Tribute to Neil Young
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...=A2e6qoalabijn

Check out this track listing:
1. Barstool Blues performed by Soul Asylum - 2:48
2. Don't Let It Bring You Down performed by Victoria Williams - 2:47
3. After the Gold Rush performed by Flaming Lips - 4:11
4. Captain Kennedy performed by Nikki Sudden - 3:55
5. Cinnamon Girl performed by Loop - 2:44
6. Helpless performed by Nick Cave - 4:28
7. Mr. Soul performed by Bongwater - 3:28
8. Winterlong performed by Pixies - 3:03
9. Computer Age performed by Sonic Youth - 5:07
10. Only Love Can Break Your Heart performed by Psychic TV - 6:04
11. Lotta Love performed by Dinosaur Jr. - 2:32
12. The Needle and the Damage Done/Tonight's... performed by Henry Kaiser - 5:53
13. Out of the Blue performed by BALL - 2:12
14. Words performed by Henry Kaiser - 5:58

Yes, it is that good.

LurkerDan

These are 3 of my faves (Grievous Angel being tops), although I just bought the Nebraska one so it hasn't yet sunk in. I will add, as competition for Grievous Angel for my top spot:

Beat the Retreat - Richard Thompson tribute album (songs by X, REM, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Mould, Los Lobos, Dinosaur Jr., David Byrne, Shawn Colvin, Blind Boys of Alabama, and others). If you like Richard Thompson (or a lot of these artists), you MUST buy it.

Johnny Zhivago

Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs To Benefit The West Memphis 3 > http://www.antimusic.com/guc/2002/wm3.shtml

nodeerforamonth

I like the "Another Damned Seattle Tribute Album".

Also must 2nd The Bridge (Soul Asylum's cover is amazing on that!) and Rise Above.

Others that I like a whole bunch:

Less Than Jake's Gease tribute ("Greased")
Aerosmith: (can't remember the name, but it's a double CD and has Electric Frankenstein & Atomic Bitchwax on it)
Radio Birdman's both tribute CDs.
Misfits: "Hell On Earth"
both volumes of the DFFD (Dictators) tribute CD

harpo787

I'm going to cheat, and say that my absolute favorite "Tribute" album is the Randy Rhoads Tribute album...the live Ozzy album that featured the incredible work of Randy on it. However, I'm fairly sure that doesn't meet the requirements put forth in this thread, so I'll go with something else as well.

Nativity In Black: Tribute to Black Sabbath, both volumes 1 and 2. Just some very cool covers (some sound are very similar to original tunes, while others are almost remakes) of their various albums, and I think between the two volumes you have one song that's the same, but covered by a different artist. I could be wrong though, there may be NONE that overlap. Let me check and list here (after going through that, looks like no overlapping songs, but some overlapping artists):

Volume 1:
After Forever - Biohazard
Children of the Grave - White Zombie
Paranoid - Megadeth
Supernaut - 1000 **** DJ's
Iron Man - Ozzy Osbourne w/Therapy?
Lord of This World - Corrosion of Conformity
Symptom of the Universe - Sepultura
Wizard - Bullring Brummies (Iommi, Geezer Butler w/ Rob Halford)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Bruce Dickinson (w/ Godspeed)
N.I.B. - Ugly Kid Joe
War Pigs [Live] - Faith No More
Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective) - Type O Negative


Volume 2:
Sweet Leaf - Godsmack
Hole in the Sky - Machine Head
Behind the Wall of Sleep - Static-X
Never Say Die - Megadeth
Snowblind - System of a Down
Electric Funeral - Pantera
N.I.B. - Ozzy w/ Primus
Hand of Doom - Slayer
Under the Sun - Soulfly
Sabbra Cadabra - (hed) pe
Into the Void - Monster Magnet
Iron Man (This Means War) - Busta Rhymes

Bust

For a little spin, I'm going to go with Phish's halloween tribute to the Beatles' White Album. They have done other albums also, including Remain In Light and Quadrophenia among others.

The White Album tribute is my favorite though, absolutely beautiful.

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My faves:
Cover Me (Bruce Springsteen)
If I Were A Carpenter (The Carpenters)
For The Love Of Harry (Harry Nilsson)

And on the other end of the scale, the worst tribute I've ever heard was 'Burning London' (The Clash). Other than Cracker's take on "White Riot", the rest of this was a mess...

Alan

jk4w

Hank Williams Sr. : Timeless is a killer tribute record !
Tom Petty does an excellent cover of "your gonna change"

db27

String Tribute to Tool

inri222

Also saw the concert in NYC, one of the best shows I've seen.
A night of Black Flag songs : Rollins Band featuring Keith Morris and Henry Rollins