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Originally Posted by k-krack
Come on! He may have "made the song his own," but a cover is never a true expression of anything.
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I refer Mr 'krack', if this is your real name, to the general covers work of Diamanda Galas, Otomo Yoshihide, Roland Kirk's version of I say a little prayer, Keiji Haino's See that my grave's kept clean and Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love.
There are plenty more songs that either get to the core of a song, or find a personal identity within another person's song. Until Girls Aloud released their fourth utterly magnificent proper pop song, I flirted constantly with the notion that there were too many songs, and covers were the only way forward.