Via Billboard:Hey, really like a certain album? Enjoy covering some of the songs on it? In a band? Friends with a bunch of other bands? Than round your buds up and remake the album track for track! Hell yeah!
Following in the footsteps of Springsteen's Nebraska and The Beatles' Rubber Soul, The Clash's Sandinista! is getting the complete redux treatment. On May 1st, 00:02:59 Records will release The Sandinista! Project, with all 36 tracks covered by 36 different bands. Those groups include the Smithereens, Camper van Beethoven, Jon Langford and Sally Timms, Stew, Amy Rigby, Steve Wynn, and many others. All proceeds from sales of the double disc will go to charities including Joe Strummer's Memorial Forest organization.
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Clash songs were redone on the Burning London tribute, and a lot of those turned out horribly (Indigo Girls doing "Clampdown" took the cake, I think). But the one really tragic thing about this particular album getting the tribute treatment is that someone's gonna have to recreate "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe." That's the only Clash song I can't stand.