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MUSIC - What is the deepest cover song you know? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking 'all along the watch tower' but things like Fever Ray's cover of Vashti Bunyan's song Here before

Fever Ray is relatively well known while Bunyan had very limited success

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun was originally Robert Hazard's Girls Just Want to Have Fun

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

Wow. Again, mind fucking blown

[–] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

I had no idea. This slaps.

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