Wherein our hero grows unusually excited about a tribute album. So excited, in fact, he actually cut-n-paste's a portion of the press release...

Wherein our hero grows unusually excited about a tribute album. So excited, in fact, he actually cut-n-paste's a portion of the press release announcing said tribute album.

Usually I would pooh pooh a Love And Rockets tribute album. They're one of my favorite bands and would usually prefer to hear their songs as interpreted by them, not some crop of fawning fanboy/gals. Luckily for me this tribute nicely sidesteps that issue by relying primarily on A-list talent and peers. There are a few stinkers, and a handful of nameless entries, but c'mon, how can you not look forward to seeing what The Flaming Lips, Dandy Warhols, or Maynard Keenan is gonna do with the source material? And Black Francis hols a dear place in my heart in relation to the album's subjects since The Pixies opened for Love And Rockets the first time I saw either band play live.

Added points for drafting Shepherd Fairey to create the cover art.

New Tales To Tell, A Tribute To Love and Rockets track listing:

1. Black Francis "All In My Mind"
2. Puscifer "Holiday On The Moon"
3. War Tapes "Love Me"
4. Blaqk Audio "No New Tale To Tell"
5. Dubfire "I Feel Speed"
6. The Dandy Warhols "Inside The Outside"
7. The Flaming Lips "Kundalini Express"
8. Sweethead "Life In Laralay"
9. Film School "An American Dream"
10. A Place To Bury Strangers "The Light"
11. Monster Magnet vs Adrian Young "Mirror People"
12. The Stone Foxes "Fever"
13. Frankenstein 3000 "No Big Deal"
14. VEX "It Could Be Sunshine"
15. Better Than Ezra "So Alive"
16. Chantal Claret vs Adrian Young "Lazy"
17. Ian Moore "Sweet F.A."
18. Snowden "No Words No More"