| Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 55869
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
UPC: 075596094023
EAN: 0075596094023
ASIN: B000008FCS
Release Date: September 24, 1990
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Hello, I Love You - The Cure | | • | House of the Rising Sun - Tracy Chapman | | • | Seven and Seven Is - Billy Bragg | | • | I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing - Jevetta Steele | | • | Hotel California - Gipsy Kings | | • | Werewolves of London - The Black Velvet Band | | • | Motorcycle Mama - The Sugarcubes | | • | One Meatball - Shinehead | | • | Bottle of Wine - Havalinas | | • | Born in Chicago - Pixies | | • | You're So Vain - Faster Pussycat | | • | Marquee Moon - The Kronos Quartet | | • | Get Ourselves Together - Phoebe Snow | | • | Tokoloshe Man - Happy Mondays | | • | Let's Go - Ernie Isley | | • | Going Down - Lynch Mob | | • | Little Bit of Rain - Ambitious Lovers | | • | You Belong to Me - Anita Baker | | • | Road to Cairo - Howard Jones |
Disc 2
| • | Kick Out the Jams - The Big F | | • | Almost Saturday Night / Rockin' All Over the World - The Georgia Satellites | | • | Hello I Am Your Heart - Sara Hickman | | • | Make It With You - Teddy Pendergrass | | • | Blacksmith - Linda Ronstadt | | • | Going Going Gone - Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz | | • | First Girl I Loved - Jackson Browne | | • | These Days - 10,000 Maniacs | | • | Stone Cold Crazy - Metallica | | • | Apricot Brandy - Danny Gatton | | • | Union Man - Shaking Family | | • | One More Parade - They Might Be Giants | | • | I Can't Tell You Why - Howard Hewett | | • | Mt. Airy Groove - Leaders of the New School | | • | You Brought the Sunshine - Shirley Murdock | | • | In Between Days - John Eddie | | • | Love Wars - The Beautiful South | | • | Both Sides Now - Michael Feinstein | | • | T.V. Eye - John Zorn | | • | Hello, I Love You (Slight Return) - The Cure |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Unbelievably Amazing If For Only Two Tracks December 16, 2005
Miguel Gonzalez (OAK PARK, IL United States)
There they are back to back on Disc Two -- Jackson Browne singing the Incredible String Band and 10,000 Maniacs singing Jackson Browne. Sure the Danny Gatton track and a Pixies rarity are also fine. But these two tracks are absolutely indispensible.
Interesting, not essential January 2, 2004
Neds-Fox (Ferndale, MI, United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
'Rubaiyat,' Elektra's 40th anniversary double disc from 1990, is an interesting high-concept cover album: take bands from Elektra's (then) current roster and assign them to cover songs from Elektra's storied back catalogue. So we get They Might Be Giants' take on Phil Ochs, Billy Bragg apeing Arthur Lee, 10,000 Maniacs aesthetically matching Jackson Browne, Gipsy Kings reimagining 'Hotel California' from a latino migrant's POV, and The Cure running roughshod (twice!) through a raucous 'Hello I Love You,' (Robert Smith is not as unlikely a Jim Morrison stand-in as one might imagine). All in all, it's a mixed bag, but there are some gems, including The Kronos Quartet reclaiming Television's 'Marquee Moon' for the minimalist classical set. I was, in fact, successfully tempted to check out both Television and Warren Zevon because of the respectful covers on this collection. This one is mainly of interest to the completist collector of any of the bands represented, but if you're a casual listener and you happened upon this in the used bin at your local record store, you could do worse for your money than giving 'Rubaiyat' a go.
Danny Gatton Lives! October 31, 2003
Brian M. Cooke (San Francisco, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is really a mixed bag, but the Danny Gatton track is outstanding.
Interesting mix of covers April 2, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This 2CD set is in honor of Elektra Records' 40th anniversary. Current Elektra artists cover the songs from the entire Elektra catalog.The songs are a bit of everything, and so there is not much cohesion; more like a smorgasborg. Some of the highlights are "One Meatball" by Shinehead, "Hello I Am Your Heart" by Sara Hickman, "These Days" by 10,000 Maniacs, and a mezmerizing "Going Going Gone" by Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz. And don't miss the singular version of Hotel California by the Gypsy Kings!! Interesting tidbit - the Cure both cover a song and are covered!
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