Chart Attack
by Hannah Guy

"Deck the stores with 'best of' compilations

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'Tis no new album (hear fans' frustrations)

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Include a horrifying Stones' cover

But the album should appease a Tea Party lover

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Tangents: The Tea Party Collection is specially garnered to hook into potential Tea Party fans who previously didn't want to dish out the bucks for earlier albums, yet has enough material in it to go fishing for sales from their present fan base. The album features the new single "Walking Wounded," two songs that didn't make it to the TRIPtych sessions and an abominably bad bad bad cover of "Paint It Black." The remixes of early songs "The River" and "Save Me" are hardly worth mentioning, they should have been left alone. Nice packaging, though, and there is a small (albeit yawn-inspiring) novel included.