Post a cover song way better than its original

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Good Read. Cheers.

Tommy Guerrero doing Come Together Tommy Guerrero stylee

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Jazz cover of Underworlds - Born Slippey (Nuxx). Made famous from Danny Boyles Trainspotting film. Was a big underground club hit before it became synonymous with Trainspotting. Defining Gen X song and film in Ireland and UK at the time.

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Discovered these guys while walking around Rittenhouse Square, after going to my friend Nancy Barile’s book signing for I’m Not Holding Your Coat

They were set up on the sidewalk, and had powered their amps from an access on a streetlight

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I think I’ve posted about it here before, but we had tickets for Ron Artis II at a local winery’s summer concert series a few summers ago, and at the last minute they changed the billed act to some band none of us had ever heard of, called Philly Snacktime. Everyone in our party opted to just bag it and take the refund. D’oh.

And here’s this to stay on track.

Edit - I meant to post this, but I’ll leave both up.

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Just as I have a Spotify playlist of ONLY “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” covers, I have a playlist of ONLY “The Boys Of Summer”

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This one’s not necessarily “way better than the original”, but well worth a listen.

Billy Strings covering Pink Floyd’s “Fearless”. I think he owns it now.

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Hallmark of a great cover is when it reveals the inherent beauty of a piece that sometimes gets lost in the style or genre it originates from. Case in point here: Nothing Else Matters by Margarita Sipatova

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Neither is “better” per se, but interesting takes..

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The national anthem, but in a minor key, objectively better than the original.

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Serge Gainsbourg roots reggae reworking of the French National anthem La Marseillaise recorded in Jamaica in 1979. Features Sly & Robbie. (RIP Sly Dunbar who passed in January).

Could be in the Protest Songs thread as it caused so much controversy with the French.

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Not sure if authentic or a highly realistic AI product but this version of We Are The World is perfection.