This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Over the years, I have killed countless forests and spilled rivers of ink mocking and deriding many of the artists who appear on this album. Well, not this time.
The two-disc Peace Songs is an admirable and tremendously worthwhile effort — a fund-raiser for War Child Canada — so I will be nice. Because no matter whether we personally dig Avril Lavigne’s shimmery version of Dylan’s Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, or Chantal Kreviazuk’s typically stark piano-ballad take on Bob Marley’s Redemption Song, or Jarvis Church’s coffeehouse revamp of U2’s One, or David Usher’s dusty version of Manic Street Preachers’ If You Tolerate This, or Raine Maida and Our Lady Peace’s mournful cover of John Lennon’s Imagine, or even Bryan Adams’ bouncy acoustic ditty Don’t Drop That Bomb On Me, I know that their hearts were in the right place. If yours is, you’ll go out today and plunk down the money for this disc. Consider it your good deed for the day. Just like I consider this mine.
