Let's face it: George Harrison wrote lots of good songs -- but not so many truly great ones that you couldn't fit almost all of them on a single tribute CD.

So why, we wonder, are so many of George's Beatle and solo classics unrepresented on the all-star compilation Songs From the Material World?

Not that we're complaining about the ones that are here -- Todd Rundgren strums a lush While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Masters of Reality (with Twiggy Ramirez) pump up the volume on Devil's Radio; John Entwistle supercharges Here Comes the Sun; They Might Be Giants serve up a savoury Savoy Truffle; The Smithereens light a fire under I Want to Tell You; Mountain man Leslie West slips into Old Brown Shoe and heads for Chicago; Bill Wyman borrows some James Brown funk to pay the Taxman; and The MC5's Wayne Kramer sends It's All Too Much into fuzz-box overdrive.

But where is My Sweet Lord? What is Life? All Those Years Ago? Got My Mind Set on You? Or Something, for crying out loud? If you're gonna put out a Harrison tribute disc -- and call it Songs From the Material World -- you oughta pick the best material.