Another kind of cover - part 1

August 22nd, 2007

Okay, a new strand of thought: cover versions - and just to clarify what I mean here, I’m talking about ‘new renditions of a previously recorded song’. They come in all shapes and sizes, good, bad and ugly and although I was going to pursue a tenuous link to Swiftcover.com by just writing about er….Swift (i.e. fast) covers…I have decided that a far more noble and interesting thing to do here is to just just focus on the best covers. In the World. Ever. Or the most interesting. Or the funniest. Or whatever. Let’s see how we go. What I like about a good cover version is that it can really make you hear a song through new ears, like you’ve never really heard it before, even though you are utterly pig sick of the original. And here’s a good example to kick us off with, by a band I never heard of actually, and maybe you haven’t either. It’s a rock version of Beyonce’s ‘Crazy in Love’ and fine song as it is, I’d rather hear this version on the whole. Have a listen and let me know what you think,. or why not nominate another cover that you like.

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