Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Full John Lennon tribute tracklisting revealed
The full track listing for Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, has been unveiled. In addition to Green Day's just-released cover of "Working Class Hero," the John Lennon charity tribute album features U2 doing the title song, Snow Patrol's take on "Isolation," Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu's version of "Watching The Wheels" and veteran rockers Aerosmith asking listeners to "Give Peace A Chance." In addition to the double-CD set arriving on June 12th, more tracks from Ozzy Osbourne, Deftones, Duran Duran and others will be released online.

All proceeds from sales of the album will benefit Amnesty International's campaign to end the Darfur genocide. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, is donating all publishing royalties from the album to the Darfur campaign.

The track listing for Instant Karma is as follows:
Disc One:
U2 -- "Instant Karma"
R.E.M. -- "#9 Dream"
Christina Aguilera -- "Mother"
Aerosmith -- "Give Peace A Chance"
Lenny Kravitz -- "Cold Turkey"
Los Lonely Boys -- "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"
Corinne Bailey Rae -- "I'm Losing You"
Jakob Dylan featuring Dhani Harrison -- "Gimme Some Truth"
Jackson Browne -- "Oh My Love"
Big & Rich -- "Nobody Told Me"
Disc Two:
Green Day -- "Working Class Hero"
Black Eyed Peas -- "Power to the People"
Jack Johnson -- "Imagine"
Snow Patrol -- "Isolation"
Matisyahu -- "Watching the Wheels"
Ben Harper -- "Beautiful Boy"
The Postal Service -- "Grow Old With Me"
Jaguares -- "Gimme Some Truth"
Avril Lavigne -- "Imagine"
The Flaming Lips -- "(Just Like) Starting Over"
Regina Spektor -- "Real Love"

Where can you buy it?

Although it seems like a contradiction Aerosmith gives good Beatle.
Everythime I have heard them do a Beatles song they are good. And for some reason I can hear Tyler sounding convincing belting "All we are saaaa-yin.."
The Lips doing "Starting Over" LOl; that is so them.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Yeah, I loved Aerosmith's cover of 'I'm Down,' not to mention Come Together... Were there others?

And there is also this wonderful news

The surviving Beatles are to release a new single based on a recording by the late John Lennon.

Song ‘Now And Then’ has been reworked by Paul McCartney, who has added vocals, and drummer Ringo Starr, with archive guitar tracks from George Harrison added to a recording given to the band by Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono.

ELO’s Jeff Lynne, who produced the original track, tells The Express, “The song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses. We did the backing track, a rough go that we really didn't finish.

"It was sort of a bluesy sort of ballad, I suppose, in A minor. It was a very sweet song; I liked it a lot, and I wish we could have finished it."

Helter Skelter. It's on Pandora's Box


>>>>>>Yeah, I loved Aerosmith's cover of 'I'm Down,' not to mention Come Together... Were there others?

I heard greenday's working class hero on the radio. I think its awesome that they covered it. A whole new audience of young peopl will hear it now. The message in it is more important than ever.

You can hear "#9 Dream" here (click on the banner):

www.remhq.com

Not many people can sing John Lennon.

[[FEAR; BUILDS WALLS.]]

I think it's a disgrace that Green Day, truly an awful band, covered Working Class Hero, a song that goes against everything they represent. And they have the nerve to turn it into another pop-punk, soulless, made-for-MTV piece of crap, too.

wow, we couldnt disagree more about his. I think this vesion will get kids to want to learn more about John Lenoon and get his records.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-05-03 02:28 by ryanpow.

I wonder why this seems to be limited to Mr Lennon's solo discography and still nobody made an un-obvious choice for their song.

billwebster Wrote:
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> I wonder why this seems to be limited to Mr
> Lennon's solo discography and still nobody made an
> un-obvious choice for their song.


Where is Mick Jagger and "Woman Is The Nigger of The World"?

- Doxa

urgh- what a horrible bunch of bands/ 'musicians' paying 'tribute'.

where's Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow?

Does anybody else buy these things for the versions by the artists you like, play them once or twice and then forget about them? I gave up on tribute albums for that very reason.

CrazyDadda Wrote:
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> Avril Lavigne -- "Imagine"

Yeah, nice. Love her acoustic version of Knocking On Heavens Door.

I do buy them for the artists I like and then typically ignore them, but I need to be a complete-ist and have all that my fave artists release - in this instance...REM

Please do not hve anyone butcher "Imagine". The other day on the NEWS!! they showed a guy from American Idol doing "Imagine". It was the most nauseating thing I'd seen. It's one of the most beautiful songs ever written and everyone can sing it; belongs to us all. But this kid..it was just wrong.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

anyone but Lennon doing it, is wrong.

Saying that Neil Young did a v. moving interpretation during
the 9/11 telethon thing.

tigerman Wrote:
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> And there is also this wonderful news
>
> The surviving Beatles are to release a new single
> based on a recording by the late John Lennon.
>
> Song ‘Now And Then’ has been reworked by Paul
> McCartney, who has added vocals, and drummer Ringo
> Starr, with archive guitar tracks from George
> Harrison added to a recording given to the band by
> Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono.
>
> ELO’s Jeff Lynne, who produced the original track,
> tells The Express, “The song had a chorus but is
> almost totally lacking in verses. We did the
> backing track, a rough go that we really didn't
> finish.
>
> "It was sort of a bluesy sort of ballad, I
> suppose, in A minor. It was a very sweet song; I
> liked it a lot, and I wish we could have finished
> it."

jesus that sounds terrible...tell me that you made that up?

why does bloody Jeff Lynne always have to meddle (and inevitably)
spoil these things?
jesus, he's like a disease.

That story bout a new single is fabricated. The interviews with Lynne & Macca are from 1995! The story appears every 3 months in tabloid newspapers and then disappear.

JumpingKentFlash

I could see REM doing a good version of #9 dream. Hope I am right.

>I could see REM doing a good version of #9 dream. Hope I am right.


You can hear for yourself for free at the site I posted above.

Jakob Dylan and Dhani Harrison??

It's like "I'll Have You Anytime"--The Next Generation

loog droog Wrote:
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> Jakob Dylan and Dhani Harrison??
>
> It's like "I'll Have You Anytime"--The Next
> Generation


it would be interesting to hear the first guy's daddy to do "Working Class Hero" with just acoustic guitar.. would be like taking the idea back home...

- Doxa

there's a track or two i'd like to hear that might be intersting interpretations of songs i love by bands i love...but for the very most part, sounds like a novelty record train-wreck imo.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2007-05-04 20:13 by Beelyboy.