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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

...alternative to the best version thread which is running.

I'll go first....Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love.

The Candi Staton version is one of my all time faves and despite Florence's exquisite voice, she tears the fucking arse right out of this classic.

Like original Kit Kats (fuck the chunky version!)....some things should just be left well alone.

Over to you....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Madonna-American Pie

And controversial opinion....Amy Winehouse/Mark Ronson cover of Valerie.

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By *orthGlasgowGuy1Man
over a year ago

Glasgow/Falkirk/Stirling


"Madonna-American Pie

And controversial opinion....Amy Winehouse/Mark Ronson cover of Valerie. "

Seconded for Valeire!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any of my karaoke classics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Israel Kamakawiwo?ole Singing Over the Rainbow… only Judy for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Leona Lewis version of snow patrol ,fuc me that still gives me nightmares

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By *ane DTV/TS
over a year ago

Glasgow ish

Comfortably Numb - Scissor sisters

Fortunate son - U2

American Pie - Madonna

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By *candiumWoman
over a year ago

oban

Little mix-cannonball

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By *utcock61Man
over a year ago

glasgow

Pepsi and Shirley....All Right Now,should have shot them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Limp Bizkit - Faith….horrendous haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Simple Minds - Sign O The Times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Limp Bizkit - Faith….horrendous haha"

Add Behind Blue Eyes to that too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Glee ~ Don’t Stop Beliving… a travesty!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Comfortably Numb - Scissor sisters

Fortunate son - U2

American Pie - Madonna"

I was ready for throwing alexa out the window when it used to play the scissor sisters version

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Simple Minds - Sign O The Times "

Good shout. That was a different class of pish.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

More recently the nightcrawlers covering push the feeling on. Actually making of a bad version of their own great song. So cheezy & cringey

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By *auliewalnutsMan
over a year ago

glasgow


"Comfortably Numb - Scissor sisters

Fortunate son - U2

American Pie - Madonna"

Top especially

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Glee ~ Don’t Stop Beliving… a travesty!!! "

I'd go as far as to say any Glee cover!

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By *ero666Man
over a year ago

fife

Love will tear us apart - Fall out Boy

Smells like teen Spirit - Miley Cyrus

911 is a Joke - Duran Duran

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Madonna-American Pie

And controversial opinion....Amy Winehouse/Mark Ronson cover of Valerie.

Seconded for Valeire!"

I'll third that!

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By *awaiianguyMan
over a year ago

East Ayrshire

Metallica - whiskey in the jar. I hope they were mucking around

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Metallica - whiskey in the jar. I hope they were mucking around"

I thought they did a great job of it. Don't knock Metallica

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Glee ~ Don’t Stop Beliving… a travesty!!!

I'd go as far as to say any Glee cover!

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Agreed

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By *eachybobMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh ish

In this moments's cover of closer by nin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Avril Lavigne - Chop Suey

Truly awful

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Either Rolf Harris's version of Stairway to Heaven or Status Quo's Fun Fun Fun cover.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Either Rolf Harris's version of Stairway to Heaven or Status Quo's Fun Fun Fun cover."

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and The Wee Kangaroo...can we leave Rolf Harris out of my thread!

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
over a year ago

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Under the bridge - all saints

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Under the bridge - all saints "

You like Korean pop music....you're in no place to judge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smooth criminal by alien ant farm. Twats.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Under the bridge - all saints "

Guess they didn’t know the song was about Heroin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Puddle Of Mudd - About A Girl

For a guy who sounds like Kurt Cobain on albums, he made a mess of this

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By *orge71Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Busted - Teenage Kicks

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By *he Regina PhalangeWoman
over a year ago

Lanarkshire


"...alternative to the best version thread which is running.

I'll go first....Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love.

The Candi Staton version is one of my all time faves and despite Florence's exquisite voice, she tears the fucking arse right out of this classic.

Like original Kit Kats (fuck the chunky version!)....some things should just be left well alone.

Over to you...."

Completely agree, the original you Got the Love is on my dance play list. Flo should never have messed with it.

Comfortably numb by the scissor sisters was blasphemous!

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By *assy LassieWoman
over a year ago

Lanarkshire


"...

Like original Kit Kats (fuck the chunky version!)....some things should just be left well alone. "

Over to you....

Sometimes I can't quite manage 4 fingers so have to make do with a chunky

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb ewe.....

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By *ero666Man
over a year ago

fife

Smells like teen Spirit - Take That

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By *exicolaMan
over a year ago

West Lothian

All Saints - Under the Bridge

Will Young - Light my Fire

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By *rs Bi and Mr Her GuyCouple
over a year ago

Clydebank

Iris Ronan Keating

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"...alternative to the best version thread which is running.

I'll go first....Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love.

The Candi Staton version is one of my all time faves and despite Florence's exquisite voice, she tears the fucking arse right out of this classic.

Like original Kit Kats (fuck the chunky version!)....some things should just be left well alone.

Over to you...."

I love the original and I love Florence's. I think she does a cracking job.

Romnan Keating and Fairytale of New York for me...even dumbs down the lyrics and loses the point of the songs. Ffs !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Madonna-American Pie

And controversial opinion....Amy Winehouse/Mark Ronson cover of Valerie. "
4th that

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By *rs Bi and Mr Her GuyCouple
over a year ago

Clydebank


"...alternative to the best version thread which is running.

I'll go first....Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love.

The Candi Staton version is one of my all time faves and despite Florence's exquisite voice, she tears the fucking arse right out of this classic.

Like original Kit Kats (fuck the chunky version!)....some things should just be left well alone.

Over to you....

I love the original and I love Florence's. I think she does a cracking job.

Romnan Keating and Fairytale of New York for me...even dumbs down the lyrics and loses the point of the songs. Ffs !"

I will see your Keating monstrosity and raise you

Jon Bon Jovi! Jesus Mary and the wee donkey! Just a warning Once you have heard this tripe you can’t unhear it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any of the lame slowed down nonsense cover versions that seem to accompany any Christmas or sentimental advert on TV for the last 10 years - specifically this year's version of Electric Dreams from the John Lewis advert. Why do they think that kind of shit is acceptable or advantageous to their cause!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Glee ~ Don’t Stop Beliving… a travesty!!!

I'd go as far as to say any Glee cover!

"

Yip have to agree with that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Alexandra Burke- hallelujah

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By *PLoversCouple
over a year ago

aberdeenshire

Mike flowers pops - wonderwall very strange.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can’t mind the chaps name, factor winner absolutely butchered Wild Horses.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I can’t mind the chaps name, factor winner absolutely butchered Wild Horses.

"

Was the chap not Susan Boyle?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I can’t mind the chaps name, factor winner absolutely butchered Wild Horses.

Was the chap not Susan Boyle? "

...I think that was a genuine mistake from BoyofWonder but actually made me lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I can’t mind the chaps name, factor winner absolutely butchered Wild Horses.

Was the chap not Susan Boyle?

...I think that was a genuine mistake from BoyofWonder but actually made me lol"

I'm sure you're right, Miss M. It's late... he'll be tired after being wonderful all day.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I can’t mind the chaps name, factor winner absolutely butchered Wild Horses.

Was the chap not Susan Boyle?

...I think that was a genuine mistake from BoyofWonder but actually made me lol

I'm sure you're right, Miss M. It's late... he'll be tired after being wonderful all day. "

Cannae be easy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Agreed on both. American Pie is absolutely murdered!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Totally with you on this terrible slowed down classic/feeble voice trend..

I’m thinking of recording a joke album of inappropriate classic songs in same style

1. Ace of Spades

2.fuck like a beast - WASP

3. Any Mac lads song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Marilyn Manson, sweet dreams (are made of this)

Marilyn Manson, tainted love.

Guns and roses, sympathy for the devil.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Mike flowers pops - wonderwall very strange. "

That got to number 1 in the UK. Oasis only managed number 2 with the original!

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By *nverMan
over a year ago

....down the Rabbit Hole with a shotgun


" Israel Kamakawiwo?ole Singing Over the Rainbow… only Judy for me "

Fucking hell! My furniture started flying around my living room, when I tried saying Israel wassisname three times!!!!

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

American Pie by Madonna

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I can’t mind the chaps name, factor winner absolutely butchered Wild Horses.

"

Subo is a legend.

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By *unCpl1003Couple
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Was never Released but Tom Jones sang - I bet you look good on the Dancefloor might be the worst thing I have ever heard

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By *hrobbermanMan
over a year ago

Lanarkshire

I once saw Moby do a tortuous version of JD's "New Dawn Fades". I was actually angry at Moby for about a decade over that.

"Oi...! Moby...! Naw... Jist naw... awright?"

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By *damandeve4funCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

The best cover versions are usually where the band/artist takes the song and does something different with it - and the worst where they just try to recreate the original.

In saying that, if you think the version of "Fairytale of New York" by Jon Bon Jovi and Ronan Keating are bad - and they are, you should try the version by of all people Anita Harris and Mungo Jerry (strangely together).

Agree with the earlier comments about U2's "Fortunate Son" (taking an already average song and making it even worse), Scissor Sisters' dumbing down of "Comfortably Numb" and anything from Glee.

Can't believe, though, that someone mentioned Miley Cyrus' "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - although it is a pretty faithful reproduction, her superb voice makes it her own and she's done some other excellent rock covers recently. Similarly, Madonna at least also made "American Pie" her own (but then, the original annoys me).

Personally, I prefer All Saints' version of "Under The Bridge", similarly Florence and the Machine's "You Got The Love" (although I am not a big fan of either her or the song itself), as a massive Doors fan, there have been worse covers of "Light My Fire" than Will Young's, which was actually more a cover of the version by Mike Flowers Pops.

Oh, and Mike Flowers' "Wonderwall" is wonderful. And Richard Cheese has carried on the mantle for that kind of fun pastiche if you want to look him up.

Marilyn Manson did great versions of"Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" and "Tainted Love" - and that comes from a fan of (early) Eurythmics and Soft Cell. And Moby's "New Dawn Fades" is excellent too.

For some brilliant covers, do a search for Laibach - taking songs by the likes of The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Queen and making them every bit as good as the originals if not better. Oh, and then there's the lovely Nouvelle Vague and new albums of covers by Skids and Tom Jones...

I prefer to dwell on the good ones rather than the bad.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The best cover versions are usually where the band/artist takes the song and does something different with it - and the worst where they just try to recreate the original.

In saying that, if you think the version of "Fairytale of New York" by Jon Bon Jovi and Ronan Keating are bad - and they are, you should try the version by of all people Anita Harris and Mungo Jerry (strangely together).

Agree with the earlier comments about U2's "Fortunate Son" (taking an already average song and making it even worse), Scissor Sisters' dumbing down of "Comfortably Numb" and anything from Glee.

Can't believe, though, that someone mentioned Miley Cyrus' "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - although it is a pretty faithful reproduction, her superb voice makes it her own and she's done some other excellent rock covers recently. Similarly, Madonna at least also made "American Pie" her own (but then, the original annoys me).

Personally, I prefer All Saints' version of "Under The Bridge", similarly Florence and the Machine's "You Got The Love" (although I am not a big fan of either her or the song itself), as a massive Doors fan, there have been worse covers of "Light My Fire" than Will Young's, which was actually more a cover of the version by Mike Flowers Pops.

Oh, and Mike Flowers' "Wonderwall" is wonderful. And Richard Cheese has carried on the mantle for that kind of fun pastiche if you want to look him up.

Marilyn Manson did great versions of"Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" and "Tainted Love" - and that comes from a fan of (early) Eurythmics and Soft Cell. And Moby's "New Dawn Fades" is excellent too.

For some brilliant covers, do a search for Laibach - taking songs by the likes of The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Queen and making them every bit as good as the originals if not better. Oh, and then there's the lovely Nouvelle Vague and new albums of covers by Skids and Tom Jones...

I prefer to dwell on the good ones rather than the bad."

Check you...Full on Smashie and Nicey... ...Poptastic!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The best cover versions are usually where the band/artist takes the song and does something different with it - and the worst where they just try to recreate the original.

In saying that, if you think the version of "Fairytale of New York" by Jon Bon Jovi and Ronan Keating are bad - and they are, you should try the version by of all people Anita Harris and Mungo Jerry (strangely together).

Agree with the earlier comments about U2's "Fortunate Son" (taking an already average song and making it even worse), Scissor Sisters' dumbing down of "Comfortably Numb" and anything from Glee.

Can't believe, though, that someone mentioned Miley Cyrus' "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - although it is a pretty faithful reproduction, her superb voice makes it her own and she's done some other excellent rock covers recently. Similarly, Madonna at least also made "American Pie" her own (but then, the original annoys me).

Personally, I prefer All Saints' version of "Under The Bridge", similarly Florence and the Machine's "You Got The Love" (although I am not a big fan of either her or the song itself), as a massive Doors fan, there have been worse covers of "Light My Fire" than Will Young's, which was actually more a cover of the version by Mike Flowers Pops.

Oh, and Mike Flowers' "Wonderwall" is wonderful. And Richard Cheese has carried on the mantle for that kind of fun pastiche if you want to look him up.

Marilyn Manson did great versions of"Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" and "Tainted Love" - and that comes from a fan of (early) Eurythmics and Soft Cell. And Moby's "New Dawn Fades" is excellent too.

For some brilliant covers, do a search for Laibach - taking songs by the likes of The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Queen and making them every bit as good as the originals if not better. Oh, and then there's the lovely Nouvelle Vague and new albums of covers by Skids and Tom Jones...

I prefer to dwell on the good ones rather than the bad.

Check you...Full on Smashie and Nicey... ...Poptastic!"

Not arf...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The best cover versions are usually where the band/artist takes the song and does something different with it - and the worst where they just try to recreate the original.

In saying that, if you think the version of "Fairytale of New York" by Jon Bon Jovi and Ronan Keating are bad - and they are, you should try the version by of all people Anita Harris and Mungo Jerry (strangely together).

Agree with the earlier comments about U2's "Fortunate Son" (taking an already average song and making it even worse), Scissor Sisters' dumbing down of "Comfortably Numb" and anything from Glee.

Can't believe, though, that someone mentioned Miley Cyrus' "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - although it is a pretty faithful reproduction, her superb voice makes it her own and she's done some other excellent rock covers recently. Similarly, Madonna at least also made "American Pie" her own (but then, the original annoys me).

Personally, I prefer All Saints' version of "Under The Bridge", similarly Florence and the Machine's "You Got The Love" (although I am not a big fan of either her or the song itself), as a massive Doors fan, there have been worse covers of "Light My Fire" than Will Young's, which was actually more a cover of the version by Mike Flowers Pops.

Oh, and Mike Flowers' "Wonderwall" is wonderful. And Richard Cheese has carried on the mantle for that kind of fun pastiche if you want to look him up.

Marilyn Manson did great versions of"Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" and "Tainted Love" - and that comes from a fan of (early) Eurythmics and Soft Cell. And Moby's "New Dawn Fades" is excellent too.

For some brilliant covers, do a search for Laibach - taking songs by the likes of The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Queen and making them every bit as good as the originals if not better. Oh, and then there's the lovely Nouvelle Vague and new albums of covers by Skids and Tom Jones...

I prefer to dwell on the good ones rather than the bad.

Check you...Full on Smashie and Nicey... ...Poptastic!

Not arf... "

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By *ikerBloke...Man
over a year ago

western hemisphere , planet earth

Disturbeds Sound Of Silence..... does my bloody head in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Another Mark Ronson. Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before

Morrisey & Marr might not have been everyone’s cuppa though

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By *oxyFemme72Woman
over a year ago

Glasgow

'I Will Love You' - Whitney

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By *un meets nsaMan
over a year ago

stirlingshire

Worst cover ever is Puddle of Mudds cover of About a girl (nirvana)

Wes scanlin sounds like he's trying to pass a kidney stone.

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