Hear No Evil – A Tribute To The Monkees (1992)
Come And Get It – A Tribute To Badfinger (1996)
For The Love Of Todd – A Tribute To Todd Rundgren (1997)
If You Can’t Find A Favorite Artist Among These, You Don’t Like Alt Pop
From an oft-neglected corner of the library comes these three, budget conscious pop tributes to The Monkees, Badfinger and Todd Rundgren. Yeah, there are plenty of unknown names here, and an equal number of suspect readings of the indelible pop material that’s covered. But, can you really pass up the opportunity to hear such obscure pop concepts as Mitch Easter’s “International Feel,” The Plimsouls‘ “Suitcase” or Peter Holsapple’s dirgey psych slap at “You Just May Be The One?” Of course not. Because I know you can’t wait, those three appetizing teasers are posted below for all to hear. If you must advance further, and can’t live without experiencing The Knack’s “No Matter What,” Vulgar Boatman’s “The Kind Of Girl I Could Love” or Parthenon Huxley’s “There Goes My Inspiration,” you’ll need to navigate a few links & timers.
MONKEES TRIBUTE
DEACON LUNCHBOX The Day We Fall In Love
CHANT Take A Giant Step
BOB RUPE BAND St. Matthew
BIG FISH ENSEMBLE Last Train To Clarksville
MAGNAPOP Pleasant Valley Sunday
MITCH EASTER Valleri
PAT JOHNSON AND THE WELLSPRINGS OF HOPE The Door Into Summer
THE DIGGERS Circle Sky
PETER HOLSAPPLE You Just May Be The One
ANNE RICHMOND BOSTON Mr. Webster
DOLL SQUAD Let’s Dance On
OPIUM HELLO Sweet Young Thing
VULGAR BOATMEN The Kind Of Girl I Could Love
THOSE BIG BELT BUCKLES What Am I Doing Hangin‘ Round?
CRUISIN A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
LIVE BAIT Randy Scouse Git
ROCKABILLY ROCKETS Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day
BOISE AND MOSS WITH A SIDE OF HAMM Gonna Buy Me A Dog
MULTI-COLOR HOUSE You Told Me
MAN SIZE JOB Daydream Believer
FLYING SUBS (Theme From) The Monkees
BADFINGER TRIBUTE
ADRIAN BELEW Come And Get It
P. HUX Perfection
THE LOUD FAMILY We’re For The Dark
COTTON MATHER Flying
BRAD JONES It’s Over
THE KNACK No Matter What
20/20 Day After Day
CHRIS VON SNEIDERN Midnight Caller
AIMEE MANN Baby Blue
BILL LLOYD Lonely You
COCKEYED GHOST Name Of The Game
CHERRY TWISTER It Had To Be
THE SOLTEENS Know One Knows
DWIGHT TWILLEY I Can’t Take It
THE PLIMSOULS Suitcase
THE ROOKS Get Away
CIRCLE SKY Just A Chance
ERIK VOEKS I’ll Be The One
WALTER CLEVENGER Better Days
PARANOID LOVESICK Icicles
AL KOOPER Maybe Tomorrow
LON & DERREK VAN EATON Apple Of My Eye
TODD RUNDGREN TRIBUTE
MITCH EASTER International Feel
VIRAL SATELLITE Long Flowing Robe
BEN McMURTRIE Healer
JAMIE HOOVER Izzat Love?
GREG JENNINGS The Fire Of Mind
ROCKET SCIENTISTS Too Far Gone
THE GUILD Couldn’t I Just Tell You
MISSY MILLER Compassion
MITCH COOPER Hello, It’s Me
FRED FROOM Pretending To Care
PARTHENON HUXLEY There Goes My Inspiration
RUNROY GOLDBERG Lucky Guy
DON DIXON Broke Down And Busted
VAN COOPER Torch Song
DAVID MELBYE The Wheel
KEN GULLAC AND KIRK CARLSON You Cried Wolf
KENNY COLLINS Cliche
WOODS Slut
NATE KENERLY Love Of The Common Man
BILL LLOYD I Don’t Want To Tie You Down
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8 Comments
Three of my favorites!
Thanks for sharing Willard.
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Great Post Cap'n! Thumb Records post was a pleasant surprise too!
The Badfinger tribute is essential. It re-emphasizes on top of their own recordings what great songwriters they were (esp. Pete Ham but also all the others).
Seriously, even if you LoVe Badfinger now, listen to this CD and you will love them more.
Ace K.
This is kind of fun. Loved the Monkees and Badfinger especially. So the tributes are nice so thank you.
I've heard this Monkees tribute before and seem to remember not liking it. But I'll give it another try since you've so kindly posted it.
So much good material from Badfinger was released, I'm hoping this tribute is as good as bglobe313 says. I'll give it a listen.
Thanks, Captain!
–Crazed
I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of tribute comps in general and I haven't really listened to any of these in years. Though, there are certain tracks that are worth revisiting.
you are a god! thank you