Some covers are transformative in what they take away from the original, rather than in what they add to it. Take Nik Kershaw‘s Wouldn’t It Be Good (go on, hit play. You know it):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU[/youtube]
And then strip it down to its bare essence, as Soulwax did:
Brilliant, no?
Peej
Awww, Nik! I had a Nik Kershaw poster (right next to my Morton Harket one) and played Wide Boy over and over and over and over…