of "The Best Things" and "Living Dead Girl" respectively. But Hole cover Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Courtney Love sings it like she learned it from '60s garage rock legends the Chocolate Watchband (a good thing). Monster Magnet are charged with a wall of guitar for "Big God." Among the previously available material, Tricky delivers his usual mix of mood and general psychosis with a new mix of "Antihistamine" in which he sounds like a mentally disturbed subway rider cursing to himself. Pitchshifter deliver the life-affirmation anthem "Everything Sucks (Again)." Even actress Juliette Lewis takes a turn at the mic with the Infidels on "Bad Brother." At 71 minutes, it's an epic. --Rob O'Connor  (less)

James Taylor. Some songs are better suited to her than others--the singing actress may not have the most beautiful instrument and some notes are a little unstable--but the selection is diverse and interesting and Marcovicci never fails to provide excellent taste. (She even has the refreshingly good sense not to follow the usual, often awkward practice of gender-switching pronouns simply because she, not Paul McCartney, is singing "Here, There and Everywhere.") And the songs she does best--the Beatles' "For No One," Jimmy Webb's "If These Walls Could Speak," Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns"--are very fine indeed, while pianist-arranger Shelly Markham (rather than usual accomplice Glenn Mehrbach) provides excellent support as ...  (less)

of "The Best Things" and "Living Dead Girl" respectively. But Hole cover Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Courtney Love sings it like she learned it from '60s garage rock legends the Chocolate Watchband (a good thing). Monster Magnet are charged with a wall of guitar for "Big God." Among the previously available material, Tricky delivers his usual mix of mood and general psychosis with a new mix of "Antihistamine" in which he sounds like a mentally disturbed subway rider cursing to himself. Pitchshifter deliver the life-affirmation anthem "Everything Sucks (Again)." Even actress Juliette Lewis takes a turn at the mic with the Infidels on "Bad Brother." At 71 minutes, it's an epic. --Rob O'Connor  (less)

of "The Best Things" and "Living Dead Girl" respectively. But Hole cover Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Courtney Love sings it like she learned it from '60s garage rock legends the Chocolate Watchband (a good thing). Monster Magnet are charged with a wall of guitar for "Big God." Among the previously available material, Tricky delivers his usual mix of mood and general psychosis with a new mix of "Antihistamine" in which he sounds like a mentally disturbed subway rider cursing to himself. Pitchshifter deliver the life-affirmation anthem "Everything Sucks (Again)." Even actress Juliette Lewis takes a turn at the mic with the Infidels on "Bad Brother." At 71 minutes, it's an epic. --Rob O'Connor  (less)