This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
As rock star causes go, the Kosovo crisis is no Ethiopian famine.
That produced not one, but two chart-topping singles and a massive, star-studded intercontinental concert. By comparison, this 16-track disc is a real band-aid effort — a set of rock star odds ’n’ ends that feels like the audio equivalent of digging behind the sofa cushions for change. Sure, some tracks are inspired, like Rage Against The Machine’s grinding take on Bruce Springsteen’s Ghost Of Tom Joad or Pearl Jam’s cover of Last Kiss (“Where, oh where can my baby be?”). But others are just kinda weird (Black Sabbath? Korn? A Jamiroquai instrumental?) and way too many are the sort of live tracks and remixes that artists don’t even bother to put on their own albums. Hey, I can only imagine how hard it is to rhyme anything with Kosovo — but somebody should have tried.
