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Eleven cover songs as good as (or even better) than the original

Sep 15, 2011, 9:53am Naive Harmonies

There's no shortage of terrible covers out there, and the vast majority of them usually fall into one of two categories: Overly faithful and vastly inferior to the original and totally pointless, making you just want to hear the original Overly experimental, wrecking the original, and just as pointless as the first kind of bad cover A good cover finds makes the original great and casts it in a new light. It makes you notice that that disco song had a really great melody, that the original was a little [...]

• José González, “Heartbeats”... » Heartbeats.mp3
• Beck - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
• Camera Obscura - Tougher Than The Rest
• Coldplay - Hunting High And Low
• Grizzly Bear - He Hit Me
• Iron And Wine - One More Try
• Lily Allen - Everybody's Changing (Live)
• Nearly God - Children's Story (ft. Martina Topley Bird)
• Nouvelle Vague - In a Manner of Speaking
• Sondre Lerche - Human Hands
• The Lucksmiths - I Started a Joke

Link Text:	José González, “Heartbeats”
File Name:	Heartbeats.mp3

Artist:	Beck
Title:	Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Link Text:	Beck, “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat”
File Name:	Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Genre:	Pop
Year:	2009

Artist:	Camera Obscura
Title:	Tougher Than The Rest
Link Text:	Camera Obscura, “Tougher Than The Rest”
File Name:	Tougher Than The Rest.mp3
Genre:	Alternative
Year:	2009

Artist:	Coldplay
Title:	Hunting High And Low
Link Text:	Chris Martin/Coldplay, “Hunting High And Low”
File Name:	Hunting High And Low.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Year:	2002

Artist:	Grizzly Bear
Title:	He Hit Me
Link Text:	Grizzly Bear, “He Hit Me”
File Name:	He Hit Me.mp3
Genre:	Alternative & Punk
Year:	2007

Artist:	Iron And Wine
Title:	One More Try
Link Text:	Iron and Wine, “One More Try”
File Name:	One More Try.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Genre:	Live
Year:	2011

Artist:	Lily Allen
Title:	Everybody's Changing (Live)
Link Text:	Lily Allen, “Everybody’s Changing”
File Name:	Everybodys Changing.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Genre:	Pop
Year:	2006

Artist:	Nearly God
Title:	Children's Story (ft. Martina Topley Bird)
Link Text:	Nearly God (aka Tricky) feat. Martina Topley-Bird, “Children’s Story”
File Name:	Childrens Story.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Genre:	Electronica/Dance
Year:	1996

Artist:	Nouvelle Vague
Title:	In a Manner of Speaking
Link Text:	Nouvelle Vague “In a Manner of Speaking”
File Name:	In a Manner of Speaking.mp3
Genre:	Alternative
Year:	2005

Artist:	Sondre Lerche
Title:	Human Hands
Link Text:	Sondre Lerche, “Human Hands”
File Name:	Human Hands.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Genre:	Pop
Year:	2006

Artist:	The Lucksmiths
Title:	I Started a Joke
Link Text:	The Lucksmiths, “I Started A Joke”
File Name:	I Started a Joke.mp3
Genre:	Indie
Year:	2007

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