Is it a successful cover when both the original *and* the cover make you want to jab a pen into your eardrum?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5pLi0huhw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD1PG_-atgM[/youtube]
It’s a shame, as both of the artists above had/have amazing voices. Utterly and completely wasted on this. Unfortunately, one of them made a career out of it.
Peej
I still maintain the Shonen Knife cover is a good cover.
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I canNOT believe I found this on youtube…here is another ‘cover’ of sorts of the song, from a animated movie that was very popular back home. Go all the way to minute 7:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5PJSFoBfC4
And, no wonder my friends and I grew up with such distaste for wedding ceremonies, given we’d watch this part over and over [minute 0:40 for the start of the song]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqQ4yMJMXc