Various Artists - Guilt by Association

This compilation cd came out in 2007 and has a number of indie musicians covering a variety of pop songs which are either cheesy or classics depending on your mood/drunkeness/level of honesty.
Petra Haden sings 'Don't stop believin' using only vocals to mimic the instruments and vocals of the Journey song to great effect. Petra did something similar to the Who Sell Out album. 'Two tickets to paradise' was orginally a pop rock classic but in Geoff Farina's capable hands it becomes something much more forlorn and lovely. 'Say my name' by Destinys Child becomes an indie rocker courtesy of Superchunk but doesn't improve on the funkiness of the original song. 'Chop Suey' by System of a Down becomes a ballad. 'Don't look back in anger' is covered by Devendra Barnhart and he turns it into a childlike woozy hippy wonder. The Take That song 'Back for Good' is given a Scandinavian makeover courtesy of the Concretes as they make it an even better love song. They don't do such a good job on 'Viva Forever' but still improve on the original.
An uneven, ironic?, set of covers with a few versions improving on or finding new ways of expressing the themes of the originals make this a reasonably good compilation.