9 Great Alt-Rock Cover Songs
b'There\\u2019s just something fun about learning to play one of your favourite songs for yourself\\u2026you know, learning the lyrics, figuring out the chords and the rhythm and deconstructing all the constituent parts\\u2026\\n\\nThen you get deeper\\u2026you begin to appreciate how everything fits together, the artistic decisions made by songwriter made, what kind of musical skill is required, the sort of production that was employed all that\\u2026and by the time you\\u2019ve learned the song, you\\u2019ve learned a whole lot of other things, too\\u2026and you\\u2019re probably a better musician as a result\\u2026this is why learning to play other people\\u2019s music is so important\\u2026\\n\\nNow let\\u2019s look at it from the other side\\u2026if a song can be interpreted multiple times by many different people and it still sounds good, then that is a great song\\u2026\\n\\nThe best compositions not only sound great when played by a full band, but also sound great when performed by one person around a campfire\\u2026\\n\\nAnd finally, there\\u2019s the fan aspect of all this\\u2026people love to hear songs done in different ways by different artists\\u2026sometimes the cover is even better than the original\\u2014or, at the very least, is revealed to be something more in the hands of someone else\\u2026\\n\\nWith all this in mind, I\\u2019ve assembled a list of cover songs\\u2026and we\\u2019re going to go through with them to determine what makes them (and the original) great\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'