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Or can both be seen as a positive depending on the circumstance?
This. I don’t think there’s a single formula to a good cover. I always thought Nirvana were good at picking songs to cover. Love Buzz sounds so like a Nirvana song when they covered it, as did Man Who Sold The World and In The Pines. Also, for all their blatant
theftheavy borrowing, Led Zeppelin really knew how to take an existing song and just extrapolate it in their own way
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Is it the sign of a good cover if you don’t realise it’s actually a cover of another song that you are also aware of and listen to? Or is it a bad thing for a cover to be re-stylised in such a way that to a listener it feels like nothing of the original actually remains despite some of the elements still being present? Or can both be seen as a positive depending on the circumstance?