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Oh! I love covers too! I have a whole playlist of covers because I feel the same way.

Some of my favourite covers:

-Bizarre Love Triangle- by New Order covered by Frente!

-Hallelujah- Leonard Cohen but Jeff Buckley’s will always make me cry, and KD Lang’s make me shiver

-Needle in the Hay- by Elliott Smith but covered by Melissa Laveaux (originally from Ottawa) her version is brilliant and though I love both versions, hers is a thorough re-imagining

-La Vie en Rose- by Edith Piaf, but gorgeously redone by Lucy Dacus

-Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver, but covered by Mountain Man

-the whole Johnny Cash album where he covered 90s grunge/industrial. I once when into a shop called Empire of Dirt and I asked them what inspired the name. “The song Johnny Cash wrote” they said. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that the song was written by Trent Reznor and performed by Nine Inch Nails.

I have too many favourites and my mind is spilling over so I’m going to share your post, and continue this there.

Thank you for your words! I can’t wait to listen to your favourites!

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Some of yours like the Johnny Cash album & Buckley's Hallelujah are also covers I love .

I love Melissa's music but don't remember her version of Needle in the Hay. I will seek out your cover favs 😍

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It is always interesting to hear other people's interpretations of songs and what they bring to them through their own artistry xxx

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