A lot of artists seem to be doing this as of late. I THINK the first CONTEMPORARY artist who went there was Sarah McLachlan's Freedom sessions.

IMO, as a GENERAL STATEMENT, this sort of thing tends to work best with Jazz & prog, where there is room to improvise. Most of these in rock are inferior to the originals.

This would be much more interesting as a project similar to Peter Gabriel's "Scratch My Back".

Here's Natalie's new recording of "Carnival":

While I would not rate this higher than the original, I am pretty surprised at how good it is.

I had the same reaction. "Jealousy" was the one remake that did very little for me.

Listened to this last night. I was prepared to be bored, but I really enjoyed it. The reinterpretations are interesting, and the recording quality is first rate, which helps. Haven't looked at the DVD yet.