Various - No Boundaries -A Benefit For The Kosovar Refugees (Epic) Your chance to do your bit by buying this record and saving lives . . . even if you do not like the music. But the betting is you will love at least some, spanning as it does Pearl Jam to Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel to Black Sabbath, Oasis to Tori Amos.
So it is no wimpy bunch of protest songs. What introspection there is finds itself up against the angry Alanis Morissette we all know and love, Jamiroquai at their boogie-happy best, and Rage Against The Machine, who steal the honours with an inspired, heavy reading of the spare Bruce Springsteen ballad The Ghost Of Tom Joad. Somehow the anger in this record seems appropriate.
The spiritual godfather of proceedings is Neil Young, daddy of all anti-war protesters, playing War Of Man. None of the songs is new, none recorded specially: the tracks are all rare (for example, the 1998 Pearl Jam fan club-only Christmas single), live, or previously unreleased versions of songs you may already know, but that does not lessen the importance of the 78-minute compilation.
All the tracks were 'donated' by the artists; proceeds from the sale go to Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders and other aid agencies in Kosovo.