Streetlight Manifesto
99 Songs of Revolution: Volume 1
Victory Records (2010)
why you'll love it: Any Streetlight is good Streetlight?
why you'll hate it: It's just covers, dawg
Before the new release drip of 2011 begins, lets look at some leftovers of 2010. First up is Streetlight Manifesto's long promised cover album. Like nearly everything promised by TK, this project was long delayed to little fanfare in the end. 99 Songs of Revolution was first proposed in 2001. So if we're only seeing the first volume now, I've got a feeling this will also be the last.
Counting the remake of Keasbey Nights, Streetlight Manifesto now has as many cover albums as they have original LPs; which is a great waste of their talent. Some of these covers they have been playing just about as long as they've been a band. I heard them perform "Hell" live back in 2003.
These are good for covers, which is nicer than saying "good covers for a ska related band". Radiohead's "Just" is probably the highlight of the bunch. It's just a bunch of damn covers, though. Big whoop!
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