Thesis 1: Cover versions are almost always worse than the original. Thesis 2: Refugee Tom Petty is a great song. Synthesis (and that is dialectically incorrect): Refugee by Melissa Etheridge alone is worth much more than the purchase price of this album. Hardly ever has songs and foreign interpretation so perfectly fitted together like in this case. It is exactly the processing and the voice to which this song has waited for years. (The Americans were exceptionally smart in this case and have placed this song as an opener). If someone at rest also interested: Melissa Etheridge has always been always a big, emotional performer who often suffered from mediocre song material. This Best Of rectify this shortcoming ideal. So you do not have to "Bring me some water" the rather mediocre rest of the first album listen but pushes directly to the haunting "Like the way I do" it, only to be passed on to the wonderful ballad "You can sleep while I drive" to become. No filler, but throughout song material that voice really just as well. Hardly ever was so justified a Best Of album. And "Refugee" - you'll have to discover for yourself. But brace yourself and do not lose faith in Tom Petty. He remains American Girl and Breakdown and I need to know - at least as long as they are not been covered by Melissa E.. Then they are forever yours.