Will Oldham playing "I'm the world's greatest" by R. Kelly pretty much sums up the phenomenon.
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Written March 25 2008 , Tags: cover songs, cover bands, after ski
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there's a light that never goes out by schneider tm (though the original is really gorgeous)
lightspeed champion does an amazing cover of xanadu
i've always liked dinosaur jr's cover of just like heaven better than the cures.
hmm, their cover of "show me the way" too, can't stand pframpton's original. while i am at it i think their version of quicksand is better than bowies. oh and um, definitely billy corgan's cover of landslide. thats way better than the og. damn, ejectorset totally got 2 I was gonna say as well.
(just like heaven, landslide) j_chot said: "damn, ejectorset totally got 2 I was gonna say as well. (just like heaven, landslide)" yeah i had a kid like 6 years before you too! you are just too slow dude.  oh and i never heard the original but soft cell's tainted love was a cover. i always thought that was interesting.
so was "where did our love go"
yeah i just found those and listened. cool stuff. ran across this too. not sure yet if its better than the original, but this tina turner cover of whole lotta love is pretty damn awesome.
link also not sure if it counts but as a "cover" but i have a henry mancini conducted version of herbie hancock's "butterfly" on some record i bought last time i went diggin, that is really really good. you can listen on this page: link prefer johnny cash's "hurt" to the NIN original
the nin one is quite boring
cash puts it in its right place johnny cash doing the mercy chair link
not really better than nick caves but I can understand why mum was bang into mr cash. Johnny's [url=Video]Solitary man[/url], of course.
Foiled! Of course I mean Johnny's Solitary man. Actually, I had no idea it was a cover until 5 minutes or so ago.
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