Rolling Stone review of Who Tribute CD

["Brian Cady" <cadyb@home.com>]

Available on line at:
http://www.rollingstone.com/recordings/review.asp?aid=2042424

Various Artists Substitute: The Songs Of The Who
RS Rating: Two Stars

The Who deserve better than a tribute album that treats their songs with
classic-rock reverence - but that's exactly what Substitute does. Instead of
rocking Pete Townshend's warhorses from new angles, Pearl Jam's "The Kids
Are Alright," Sheryl Crow's "Behind Blue Eyes," Fastball's "The Real Me" and
Phish's "5:15" settle for heartfelt mimicry and wind up falling short -
mainly because no one alive can quite do justice to the late Keith Moon's
H-bomb drumming. Even the latter-day Who are reduced to cover-band
redundancy with a workmanlike rehash of "Substitute." Leave it to the master
of makeovers, David Bowie, to at least entertain the idea of reinventing one
of the Who's tunes instead of merely rerecording it. He recasts the bouncy
teen ode to onanism, "Pictures of Lily," as a baroque Scary Monsters-era
ballad. Otherwise, the impudent spirit that made these Who tunes great in
the first place is nowhere to be found.
GREG KOT
(RS 871 - June 21, 2001)

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