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on the right night, pearl jam can tear the shit outta "love reign o'er me"....

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The Dickies!

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The Stones

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And how about that realistic syncing

Really live

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Ah. Gotcha. I'm kinda confused now, 'cause some sources say it was a custom arrangement of the Vitamin String Quartet cover done by the Q Department (with the addition of harp and triangle or something similar), and some say that the Q Department did their own cover from scratch. If so, the string part sounds suspiciously similar to the VSQ version. Either way, it seems the Q Department version is not available anywhere. Bummer.

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But that's technically what they are. "Cover" has been misused to mean remake. To cover a song originally meant to have a big name artist swoop in and release a version of a newly-written song before some upstart (usually the songwriter themselves) released theirs...thereby "covering" them (the upstart would get smothered and would go unheard).

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D'Angelo - Cruisin

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I tend to think of these as the "definitive versions", covers that really put the originals to shame.

Nirvana - Man Who Sold the World

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I'll possibly get shit, but Adele's cover of the Cure's "Love Song"
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