Summer's Kiss: A Tribute to the Afghan Whigs
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Album:Summer's Kiss - A Tribute to the Afghan Whigs
When I first got my hands on Summer's Kiss, the new tribute album to the Afghan Whigs, I truly felt like a kid with free reign in a candy store. Thirteen songs and I knew how each of them originally sounded. But getting to hear other bands' takes on the Afghan Whigs just made me giddy. The only problem was where to start? "Retarded?" "66?" "Uptown Again?"
Such a difficult choice that the only answer that felt right was at the beginning, and oh what a joy. It's rare (if ever) that a band can make a cover better than the original (although the Afghan's did it with their cover of TLC's "Creep") and while none of these tracks are better than the originals, they are all honorable covers.
I think one of the best features to this particular tribute album is that most of the artists are not well known. Apart from Joseph Arthur, Susan Marshall, Mark Lanegan and Zykos, the other nine bands were pretty well unknown to me, doubling my pleasure in the music.
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