Reviewed by Chris Webb

An interesting video, with tracks and artists ranging from the excellent Steve Taylor, Russ Taff, Rachel Rachel to the good Allies, Imperials to the mediocre Eric Champion. Seven tracks, 30 minutes of varied musical style commencing musically well with "I Will Stand By You" from Rachel Rachel, an excellent rock track. The video however, was filmed in a poppy field and I kept trying to work out what the poppy field and the little girl in the graveyard had to do with the song. The Area Code track up-to-date musically, but again what did the painting of each other's hats have to do with the song? I decided to only listen to the Imperials in future as they are not good visually. The two video highlights are "I Cry" by Russ Taff and "A Principled Man" by Steve Taylor, both good musically and visually. As an introduction to some of the artists this is quite good, but a better buy would be a sampler CD.

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