Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
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Free Music Review: great CD
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is just amazing, such a wonderful compilation of John Lennon songs, with great artists performing them. Absolutely wonderful!!Free Music Review: Amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is for such a good cause, plus the artists who re-compose John Lennon's songs do a fantastic job on it.Free Music Review: Instant Karma
Hit: 5 Stars
Interesting mix of artists, some hit, some miss. Glad I bought it. John Lennon's lyrics still ring trueFree Music Review: Supreme
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a very nice collaction of one of the best song writers of all timeFree Music Review: A Solid Lennon Tribute
Hit: 4 Stars
A benefit album for the troubled people of Darfur, "Instant Karma" is a 2CD set that brings together various recording artists to cover John Lennon songs from Lennon's solo career. The end result, like most tribute albums, is a mixed bag, but there's definitely a lot more good covers than bad. Some of the good: U2's "Instant Karma" totally rocks, Christina Aguilera amazes with her surprisingly good rendering of "Mother" (even though she doesn't *quite* pull off the primal scream at the end that Lennon immortalised on his original version), Lenny Kravitz captures the paranoia of the groovy rocker "Cold Turkey," Green Day's "Working Class Hero" fits the veteran punk trio like a glove, Jack Johnson's quiet, simple, acoustic guitar take on "Imagine" is very lovely, Ben Harper's "Beautiful Boy" is wonderfully heartfelt, Matisyahu puts a fun reggae-flavored spin on "Watching The Wheels," and Regina Spektor's solo piano version of "Real Love," which concludes the album, is very pretty. As for the few tracks that *don't* work as well: "Give Peace A Chance" by Aerosmith featuring Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars is a mess, Avril Lavigne---the *last* singer on the face of the earth I would call to do a cover of "Imagine"---does an okay job with it, but it's nothing special (Jack Johnson's version is far better), and as much as I love the Flaming Lips, their major reworking of "(Just Like) Starting Over," presented here as an acoustic ballad instead of the 50's-style rock'n'roller that Lennon originally made it, doesn't quite hit the mark. And I agree with a previous reviewer that there was no need to give us two versions of "Imagine" and "Gimme Some Truth" (the latter performed by Jakob Dylan & Dhani Harrison, and then again by Jaguares. Both acts do a really good job, but the point is we didn't need two versions of the same song). Nonetheless, the good performances on "Instant Karma" outnumber the bad, and the album is a benefit release after all, so your purchase of it goes to a very good cause indeed. And "Instant Karma" does serve as a fine tribute to one of the 20th century's greatest singer/songwriters. Although it isn't a perfect set, I still think John Lennon would've been very pleased with "Instant Karma." I think you will be too.