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Some songs are great, but get so driven into the ground by repeated play that you one day you realize that you just can’t listen to it anymore.   But then – after a bit of time – you hear something on the radio that’s starting with the same chords, but isn’t quite right with the rhythm, and  . . .  you discover that someone’s rehabbed the played-out original with an excellent cover.  This happened with I Turn My Camera On (it was Apple that ruined it, right?  Just like 1,2,3,4 and Feed Good, Inc.?).

Here’s Spoon’s original

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro95Ns58qSE[/youtube]

And Rock Kills Kid’s cover

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3foq1VuWc[/youtube]

Amy Winehouse/Tears Dry On Their Own

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsPJ7c1njdo[/youtube]

Bat for Lashes/What’s a Girl to Do?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wnOUH2jk8[/youtube]

Miranda Lambert/Gunpowder & Lead (ignore the video, dig the music)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpsTfMYJK0M[/youtube]

This is one of those songs where fans of one might be vaguely aware of the other version, and as soon as anyone who hasn’t heard the other hears it, it’ll be dismissed out of hand.  A shame, as the two sides might actually get something out of giving the other a chance.

The original Dear Prudence:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ppmdvXsMBE[/youtube]

The 1983 cover by Siouxsie and the Banshees:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Qe8d95vCc&feature=related[/youtube]

(This song (along with many other Siouxsie songs), takes me back to the end of a very very long festival day.  I was so worn out by the time this set came on that I took most of it in while lying down . . .)

Oh, the iterations this entry went through.  From a band I just discovered a few hours ago to . . . well . . Bruce.  And what I’m going to leave you with isn’t even embeddable.  Tonight’s track is the warble-to-make-you-feel-old I’m On Fire.