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Each month I select 20 songs (10 songs twice a month) that I am either hooked on or am curious about. Most of the music I select are rock, hip-hop, R&B and pop songs.
My song selection comes from 20-30 CDs I get from various sources each month, as well as recommendations from iTunes and Amazon. I also check out the charts in US, UK and Japan.
Last month I selected
The Maine’s cover of Akon’s “I Wanna Love You” from the same album. After listening to the album some more, I was starting to like this version of the song.
Rihanna’s “Umbrella” has been covered by so many artists, particularly on live shows. My Chemical Romance, Tegan and Sara, Mandy Moore, and Linkin Park have been known to do it live sometimes. Whether you like or hate Rihanna, I think that goes to show how great of a song this is. All Time Low is a young American rock band. All the band members just graduated from highschool two years ago.
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1 comment:
Great songs still sound great after having gone through some major transformation (assuming it's covered by someone reasonably musically-talented) and this is yet another proof of that.
Natalie Gauci, the winner of Australian Idol 2007, did a piano-acoustic cover of this song as well, which I thought was superb:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZtmacqT4d4
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