We dug the hell out of OKX, Stereogum's track-by-track cover tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer, but Drive XV (their take on REM's Automatic for the People) is taking a while to grow on us. It's not the bands they brought on to cover the songs, you understand, 'cause they're great; it's just, you know, we're still a little bitter about Monster or something.
Anyhow, maybe we'll ditch Drive XV for a while, because Stereogum's put a new cover tribute project out, and it's a doozy.
After discarding our release-date almanac, someone suggested Björk. It was late, and we don't remember who said what, but it was a great idea. Debut, her first post-Sugarcubes album came out in 1993, which could count for a nice and even 15 years in 2008, but Post was the obvious choice: It's a stronger album top to bottom -- a culmination of her work to that point. It includes any number of iconic tracks and due to the richness and variety of Björk's self-described "spastic" palette, an infinite number of interpretive possibilities.
Amen to that. Run don't walk to get downloads -- they tend to pull them down after a few weeks.