To its credit, the album covers a huge variety of styles. The downside is that a lot of them are not to my taste! So I'll just focus on the songs that perked my interest.
Muzzy Pep's lounge-jazz style works quite well. And the pop-rock chorus is also pretty solid, if a little generic. The problem is when the two shoehorned together into a song, they completely undermine each other.
If Ramones were still around and somehow got a slot on this compilation album, Nitocris' version is pretty much what it would sound like. In other words, it is pop-punk perfection.
The Porkers brand of frenetic ska-rock is something I'm quite fond of. So the Richard Cheese-esque (ie tongue-in-cheek lounge-jazz) verses are a nice surprise and work very well. Unfortunately, the other sections of the song jump all over the place, so the songs ends up as a bit of a dogs breakfast.
I wish I could say this album has also opened up my eyes to new bands. But unfortunately, there wasn't anything new here that really appealed to me.
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