I'm a sucker for tribute albums, even when they're those awful industrial albums that Cleopatra trots out every so often (heck, I own four of them!). Often, they'll have some perfect collaboration between the vision of the coverer and the coveree. Or they'll be some perfect eyebrow raiser you wonder why they recorded, but having it turn out to be amazing. Luckily, "The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young" has both of these, one of which we'll look at today.
Neil Young barely needs an introduction, but the concept behind this album deserves a mention. Young formed a society called The Bridge School, which raises money for educational technologies for handicapped children. Young's own son Ben has cerebral palsy. So, a bunch of folks got together to do this album to raise funds for the Bridge School. The Pixies were one of the more loud and grungy acts that did a song (along with Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum and Dinosaur Jr. on that end), and their style of tense noise rock fit well with Neil's ramshackle, broken down sludge rock. Taking on "Winterlong", it's one of the highlights of the album.
http://youtu.be/mWWjMgzhbu4
The Bridge, the album, is long out of print and a bit difficult to find, but The Pixies included this cover in their B-Sides album, so you can find it easily there.
For those curious of the other cover, it's Psychic TV doing "Only Love Can Break Your Heart'. Look it up, we'll be looking at it soon.
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