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More music! More talk! More commercials!
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I generally detest covers. What's the point of listening to an imitator try to imitate a great album?
Covers are worthwhile only when the covering artist transforms the original into something distinct. Bowie's cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together," for example. Or Aztec Two-Step (I think that was the name) doing Van Halen's "Jump." In contrast, Van Halen's cover of the Kinks cover of Pretty Woman was utterly pointless.
Thus, my poll response. I would like to see Outkast do a cover of Zoso.
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I really love the compilation cover of Springsteen's Nebraska, with Deanna Carter, Ani DiFranco, Los Lobos, Johnny Cash (doing a truly inspired version of I'm on Fire, which was written to be on the Nebraska album but ended up on Born in the USA), Chrissy Hynde, Dar Williams, and Aimee Mann.
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