This Bird Has Flown: 40th Anniversary Tribute To Rubber Soul CD

 This Bird Flys
This is a really good album. Just a tad short from being a great album which explains why 4 instead of 5 stars. "This Bird Has Flown" is a tribute to the Beatles "Rubber Soul" album. Various artists were invited to take one of the songs from the "Rubber Soul" albun and do their own tribute to that song. In many of the cases the artists seem to follow the original idea and sound that the Beatles did with a bit of an updated twist to it. There are a couple of songs however, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) done by The Fiery Furnaces is one, that go off into another direction all together. Unfortunately I think The Fiery Furnaces lose their way while going off in another direction with the song. They sound like a bad impersonation of Bob Dylan trying to sing rap while on a bad LSD trip. But there are some strong perfomances here that makes this album worthwhile. The Donnas, Dar Williams, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Rhett Miller and Cowboy Junkies (my 2nd favorite group after the Beatles) all provide some outstanding work that stands up to the the original versions by the Fab Four themselves. I don't think there would be any Beatles fan that wouldn't mind having this album among their collection of Beatle albums.
Submitted by Janet (Palm Harbor, Fl)
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