Equal first thing that bothered me the album: that Mr. Bear does not know the trim of modesty! There are not all performers a photo in the booklet, but by him the same in dozens? Quite inappropriate!
That was it but also already! I will not stop so that interpreters particularly "good" were now and what not. This is always the taste of the listener. I was certainly disappointed with not a single performance - and I also love the original (I have all of them)! But what they have come up here, has earned the name "Tribute" honest. Especially those from whom one would not expect it. From Maffay I was not surprised. He has also been rapped on "encounters" and various musical styles shown to be disclosed. But Anders, Pur (have the time blasphemed so intollerant about the "Pants"), scooter or even Barth, where I am in front of a sniff certainly not always have really put in fast and funny things. The join here old stalwarts like the Rattles (60s! For "newborn") or the Puhdys, puzzled and just plain fun. Here, each interpretation will be rediscovered and I do not succeed to make the disc only run in the "background". They constantly requires my attention, whether hidden text notes, revised texts or musical interpretations. Something forces constantly, to listen more closely.
I'd like to try to hear the different versions of the same title in a row (with the original). These repetitions are not a shortcoming, they are a gain! And the title "missing" is irrelevant. It ultimately is not, this is a "Best of". It's only a matter of that other artists are playing a song, they found particularly outstanding or they would like to reinterpret.
The fact that the performers are not only from the "own swamp" of Hip Hop Allstars is also a plus. Welch boring idea of being honored by those from whom you expect it anyway. But it is precisely from which to obtain a tribute, of which one would not expect that would otherwise make very different music and the effort to make the pieces to put times on the head, which is a true accolade and demonstrates the quality of their own songs. The Fanta did it - and rightly so!
The fun of 4 in listening to this work, I can literally feel. Whether you are however delighted with the smugness of some "fans" so? I find that they do not deserve. Particularly, because they themselves always experimenting and not purists.
For me it is one of the most interesting discs of recent years because it breaks with conventions (which precisely in today's music, surprisingly, always creep in), because they surprised because it is musically sophisticated and simply good maintains. Maybe I'm also just too open.
