Listen To Bob Dylan: A Tribute

Bob Dylan is many things — brilliant, confounding, universally accessible and willfully obscure — but one thing he's not is emo. While the intent of Drive-Thru's double-disc Dylan tribute — to turn the kids on to rock's greatest storyteller through covers by Jason Mraz, James Blunt, Anberlin and more — is noble, its execution is fatally flawed from the first nausea-inducing string swell.

Virtually everyone fucks up the fundamental essence of the song they cover. Roark strip "Mr. Tambourine Man" of its majestic misery, House Of Fools spackle the empty spaces in "Blowin' In The Wind" with treacly production gloss and Something Corporate's bloated take on "Just Like A Woman" collapses under its own pomposity. Yet in spite of the awful crimes committed against them, the ragged genius of Dylan's tunes shines through the over-processed murk.

Curious about Dylan? Avoid this cringe-worthy "tribute" and get Blood On The Tracks instead.