Cover Versions - Like the original or not
I'm a big fan of covers that have been properly re-worked. Sometimes it works.............
Almost everything that Jimi Henmdrix did to Bob Dylan songs was better than Dylan's original
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes can take a country track and make it listenable for someone who hates country
..........sometimes it doesn't.
Kirsty McColl's version of New England is absolute hell
UB40s Red Red Wine
And we really shouldn't mention Under the Bridge by All Saints.
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Yes! We're working on Tortora & Tyzack's Easy Money, a fine contemporary blues song. The original references the 30s depression, in the lyrics and the sound, but we've somehow translated it into dub and it works really well. (I've also gigged a solo bass / vocal cover and dedicated it to Grenfell Tower.)
There are also some great reggae & dub covers of Take 5, although they're in 4/4 - recognisably covers even though they miss the whole point of the original, and good music in thei