Drink Toast to Innocence: Tribute Lite Rock / Various

Named the #1 album of 2013 at Absolute Powerpop! This is the culmination of a long time dream: to hear some of my favorite current musicians tackle the Lite Rock classics of my childhood. Whether you love the original versions and you're curious about how the new recordings might sound, or you're a fan of the current artists, and you want to hear their latest tracks, Drink A Toast To Innocence: A Tribute To Lite Rock is for you. Take a look at some reviews: 'This is so far the best music compilation of 2013, so don't miss it.' --Power Popaholic 'What Drink A Toast To Innocence does well is to take a regularly maligned sub-section of popular music and represent it for what it usually was, behind the late-20th-Century production fetishes: a solid, long-lasting body of work built around unique melodies that are immediately recognizable no matter who is interpreting them. That is a valuable commodity, and this set celebrates that better than a 20-disc retrospective of the originals probably could. Plus, it's a hell of a lot of fun.' --Popdose 'There's so much consistently good material in this collection, from one track to the next, that I honestly feel that this is easily one of the very best and most enjoyable tribute albums ever done by anybody, and I do not say that lightly, folks. This album is a great one and you should go buy it right now.' --Kool Kovers.