Free the Music!

By Tankboy on Jul 3, 2008 7:22PM

Buffetlibre put together a free '80s cover song project, and has posted the 56 contributions on their site. You can download the whole thing at once or choose song by song a la carte style.

The bands tackled range from pencil-sketch Norwegians a-ha to Chicago noisemonsters Big Black. There are some clunkers, but with over 50 songs some bands actually tired to DO something with the source material instead of just dressing it up in Mall-Emo guitars and ironic line readings. Ruby Isle's version of Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut" is surprising, to say the least, and while we may not agree with the treatment entirely, Trash Yourself's rave-up read of N.W.A.'s "Fuck Tha Police" is, erm, interesting.

MP3: Ruby Isle "The Final Cut"
MP3: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin "Another Satellite"

DOWNLOAD: The whole dang REWIND project

Image from Buffetlibre's MySpace page