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| 1. Hotel California ft The Killers |
| 2. Cupid ft Amy Winehouse |
| 3. Imagine ft Jack Johnson |
| 4. Under Pressure ft Keane |
| 5. Walk On The Wild Side ft Editors |
| 6. I Heard It Through The Grapevine ft Kaiser Chiefs |
| 7. Satiscaction ft Cat Power |
| 8. Under The Boardwalk ft The Rolling Stones |
| 9. Runaway ft The Zutons |
| 10. Because The Night ft KT Tunstall |
| 11. Bohemian Rhapsody ft Augusto Enriquez |
| 12. For What Its Worth ft One Republic |
| 13. Big Yellow Taxi ft Aquila Rose & Dana Valdes |
| 14. Beat It ft Fall Out Boy |
| 15. Purple Haze |
| 16. Smells Like Teen Spirit ft Shanade |
| 17. Are You Ready For Love? ft The Kooks |
| 18. Mi Cherie Amour ft Eros Ramazzotti |
| 19. Stairway To Heaven ft Rodrigo Y Gabriela |
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Some songs (The Killers, Editors, KT Tunstall, The Zutons and OneRepublic) were recorded specifically for the project, with the rest cobbled together from other sources and added to by the uniformly slick Rhythms del Mundo musicians.
The Killers' Brandon Flowers somehow manages to put his own wobbly stamp on the Hotel California, and having such a strong Latin undertow anyway, it sounds fine with brass, congas and so on percolating through it. Amy Winehouse's fine reading of Cupid (taken from the Back To Black deluxe edition bonus disc and revamped) is the other most noteworthy track. Other happy marriages include Cat Power's languid transformation of the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction and their own surprisingly understated take on Under The Boardwalk.
Jack Johnson gets his second Rhythms del Mundo outing on John Lennon's iconic Imagine, but the song suits neither his stoned surfer croon nor its breezy 'salsa romantica' arrangement. Even so, it's nothing like as offensive as Kaiser Chiefs' insincere mauling of I Heard It Through The Grapevine, nor as ridiculous as Augusto Enriquez doing Bohemian Rhapsody in Spanish. ¡Por favor!
This highlights the album's other major flaw, aside from its surfeit of 'landfill indie' chancers like The Kooks and Editors. Although ostensibly produced, ''to raise awareness and funds for climate crisis projects and natural disaster relief'', the only material that chimes with the environmental message is Aquila Rose and Idana Valdes' bilingual version of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi.
OK, pop songs generally aren't very 'green', but Marvin Gaye could easily have been represented by, say, What's Goin' On and the late Michael Jackson by, um... Earth Song, rather than Fall Out Boy's feeble cover of Beat It. Skip it. --Jon Lusk
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I do like the cover of 'Under The Boardwalk' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. While nowhere near as good as the original the cover of 'Heard It Through The Grapevine' is certainly worth the listen.
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