The box set for The Art of McCartney, a celebration of the music of Paul McCartney. Photo / AP
The Dadrock season is already upon us with everybody from Pink Floyd to Bob Dylan flogging off their odds and ends.
Dylan is a surprise inclusion on this 42-track covers collection produced by tribute album specialist Ralph Sall. Dylan's raspy take on Things We've Said Today - from A Hard
Day's Night era, when he first encountered the Beatles - is certainly one of the most distinctive cuts here.
He isn't the only McCartney contemporary - Brian Wilson, B.B. King, Barry Gibb, Roger Daltrey, Dion, and Darlene Love all get in on the celebrity roast. But anyone with deep affections for McCartney's tunesmithery will find themselves mildly amused then plain bored.
There are just too many safe interpretations, repetitions and a lack of cohesion or purpose to this vast salute. For every esoteric or mildly intriguing combo on paper, it ends up sounding like a meeting of the McCartney Impersonators club.
Even the likes of Perry Farrell (Got To Get You Into My Life) and Alice Cooper (Eleanor Rigby) come out as pure karaoke. Sure, Gibb's When I'm 64 is funny, considering, and Willie Nelson's croon of Yesterday is sweet.
