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Hardly A Tribute... More An Embarassment!

David Allan Hitchcock | Bellevue, WA USA | 07/20/2000

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Its my guess that this lame collection of slavish covers with almost lip-sync accuracy was meant to pay tribute, but does little to advance the banner of creativity held high by the originators. As the included tune (yet, unfortunately, equally LAME in its rendition) "THE IN CROWD" espouses, "other guys imitate us, but the original is still the greatest!"Sadly, all but 2 of the 20 "interpretations" fail to diverge from nearly IDENTICAL instrumentation, arrangement, and lead vocalist aping the lyric-spitting, vibrato-viscious Mr. Ferry; yet, somehow, without the KOHONAS of the originals. Is this tribute? Does this add anything to the adventurous musical legacy that once was ROXY MUSIC? I think not. I doubt any of the Roxy regulars would be terribly impressed, nor was I.It was amusing to hear the techno-disco version of "Virginia Plain" by Johnny Bic & Slamm (kinda "spin-me-right-round, like a record..." Dead-Or-Alive) At least it was a re-interpretation... and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown did a mean version of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," but its a bit of a stretch claiming the track is a tribute to Roxy Music (it was only ever released by Bryan Ferry as a solo cover...) Two stars for nice idea, but save your money for a better effort..."

Someone was drunk

Arye Mirovski | Haifa Israel | 12/10/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Do they hate Roxy Music that much? No need to waste my words and your money on that sick joke."

This is no tribute to Roxy Music, it's a terrible insult

Distant Voyageur | Io | 10/23/2002

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Boring, disasterous, cover version of Roxys classic songs. I have no idea why this so-called "tribute" was even released. This CD isn't even worthy of existing as the covers are absolutely a catastrophic injustice to Roxys music. Just the album cover art alone is enough to make even die hard fans run the other direction. Stay as far away from this! End of Story!"