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Classic Compilation: Various Artists – Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits
As an example of the Tribute Album sub-genre, it’s fair to say that Step Right Up is easily one of the best.
Classic Compilation: A Testimonial Dinner – The Songs of XTC
By the mid 90s XTC must have felt distinctly unloved. Neither critical darlings, nor a massive commercial success, they’d had a career-stalling set-to with their record label and had no choice but to down-tools and go one strike. What Virgin records didn’t take into account was the fact that although XTC’s fanbase was small, it …