And this is a tribute?

Everywhere you look nowadays there are tribute albums to almost every metal band who was even slightly successful. Perhaps this is an uninformed opinion, but I don't want to waste time money listening to these albums just to know for sure. I am under the belief that about 70% of cover songs by hard rock and metal bands are average or worse. Just my opinion, but having said this, why I would want to purchase an entire album of cover songs? When the Black Sabbath tribute Nativity in black came out like 12 years ago it was sort of a big deal. However it had artists who still had careers outside of doing covers. Nowadays there are a lot of hasbeens and never weres that are spending more time doing songs on tribute albums then they are doing their own originals. I think that's sad because it's like the only recording deal they can get is doing someone else's songs. Neil Peart was asked about a Rush tribute album a few years ago and he had heard it and said something like "it sounds like a bunch bar bands covering Rush songs". That may a little blunt, but it's not far from the truth in many cases. Maybe there are people out there that love cover songs and think tribute albums are fantastic, but I fail to see the point and just see it as a waste or recording time for the most part.

In other news Kiss defeated AC/DC 8-6 in the Battle of the bands. This was such a popular topic that I will do it once a month although I may do it at the middle of the month. So in about two weeks there will two more bands squared off against each other for the March edition of Battle of the bands.