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Looking for compilation suggestions

As of late I find myself listening to compilation albums and soundtracks more and more. Right now I'm listening to "These Times We're Living In, A Red House Anthology" which is very good. Other favorites are kd lang's "Songs from the 49th Parallel," the soundtrack from "Dead Man Walking" and the newly released "Instant Karma - The campaign To Save Darfur." Albums such as these provide me an opportunity to hear new artists or well known artists performing music somewhat out of their element.
Any recommendations appreciated and I'll probably pick up a few of them.
timrhu

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reubent
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Some of the MTV Unplugged Compilations are actually pretty good too. If you like stripped down acoustic versions of some classic rock tunes, there is plenty of good stuff available in the Unplugged series.

I'm not really thrilled about promoting MTV, but IMHO they had a real winner in the Unplugged series.

TIC
reubent
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I really like "Sweet Relief", a benefit for Victoria Williams. It's 14 covers of Victoria Williams songs by some great artist. There are some great cuts by Soul Asylum, Lucinda Williams, Pearl Jam, Michael Penn, Lou Reed, Matthew Sweet, Evan Dando of the Lemonheads, The Jayhawks and several more.

It's been in my rotation since it came out in 1993.

Enjoy,

TIC
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