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This is a tribute album with an assortment of artists and I think it needs to be approached as something where you'll probably not like some of the stuff. The measure of something like this is how much of the music is genuinely great and how much you learn about songs you already appreciated.I feel that REM's cover of "First We Take Manhattan", probably the most popular track on the album, is true to the spirit of the song and not bad at all, but not brilliant. In spite of effort spent, I don't believe anyone has really captured both the menace and humor of the original, although there are probably some versions of this song out there that I haven't heard yet.In contrast, Lloyd Cole's cover of "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" is bright and poppy and quite at odds with the vibe of the original. It sounds simply wonderful and brilliant. This strikes me as the most valuable work on this album, and very much in the spirit of things, as Lloyd Cole took something old and wonderful and did something new and wonderful with it.The Pixies make "I Can't Forget" sound like a Pixies song, a really good one. It's fun"Stories of the Street", "Suzanne", and "So Long Marianne" do not strike me as truly insightful covers but they're very pleasant by virtue of being sung by very gifted vocalists."Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On" is a totally ridiculous song and David McComb & Adam Peters do a wonderful job with it. It sounds great. I'm sure this is the definitive cover of this song.My first few listens to "Who By Fire" by The House of Love didn't do anything for me but I'm listening to it now and it's really very good.There are two rather bad covers of "Tower of Song" on this thing.Jean-Louis Murat's rendition of Avalanche in French is fascinating. I think a musically darker French rendition by the same artist might be very interesting to hear.Any Cohen fan will enjoy this album, I think.