Artist	Song
Emmerson Nogueira	Tom Sawyer
The Groove Daddys	Subdivisions
Skid Row	What You're Doing
Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra	Closer the the Heart
Sun City Girls	Fly By Night
Silver Sun	Xanadu
The Gomers	Headrush (Tom Sawyer)
Anger	Working Man
The Spur of the Moment	The Spirit of Radio
Ed Hall	I Think I'm Going Bald
Hermetic Science	Jacob's Ladder
Sloan	In the Mood
Deadsy	Tom Sawyer
Dream Theater	Tears
Greg Howe	La Villa Strangiato
Sound Transmission	The Sphere

Comment:

A compilation of Rush covers. I went through all the cover tracks at http://www.2112.net/freedomofmusic/ (all Rush fans should go there immediately) and picked my sixteen favorites. I opted against using anything on Magna Carta's "Working Man" compilation. All tracks are as sonically spiffed up as I could get them (they originated as mp3s) -- cropped or faded where necessary, normalized, a little EQ if it called for it. Most of it sounds quite good! And a number of these tracks are just fantastic. That first Tom Sawyer is by a Brazilian acoustic guitarist and it must be heard. All of it is worthy, of course. The only track I seriously dislike is "The Spirit of Radio" -- it's done by some college a cappella group, and you've never heard anything whiter in your life. They screw up the lyrics a couple of times, too. However, it so unique that I really had no choice but to include it. That's why God created the Skip button. :)

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