YOU could envisage a compilation of My Way done myriad ways, and Richard Berry's pub-rock anthem Louie Louie was the subject of forensic-style investigation on Ace's package of covers, Love That Louie, The Louie Louie Files, in 2002, but what's this?

Twenty covers and remixes of bonkers Bjork's techno-metal oddity, compiled by the Icelandic elfin in aid of UNICEF. Ever eccentric, she even does charity records her way, choosing a song with the far from charitable lyrics: "You're alright, there's nothing wrong, self sufficience please! And get to work". Prompted by Bjork's personal website invitation to submit interpretations of Army Of Me, 600 conscripts got to work, and in her New York apartment, she sorted the wheat from the chaff. As with cereals and the Eurovision Song Contest, the wheat can be shaped many ways: the crushing metal of Canada's Interzone; hoe-down country from The Messengers Of God; Morris-dancing whimsy in Great Britain's Dr Syntax n CB Turbo v Rivethead; the harp of Lunamoth; and orchestral lunacy from the Greek entry, Mikhail Karikis's Once More. In her recruitment drive, Bjork has assembled both madly inventive and maddening Armies Of Me but, perverse to the last, she leaves off her original version.

Updated: 09:25 Thursday, May 19, 2005