Covers of songs that were better or on the same level as the original?

Several of the remakes on Liza Minelli's Results are better than originals.

Minnelli!

Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Tori Amos’s cover of this Leonard Cohen song.

George Lamond’s cover of Don’t Stop Believin’

Johnny Cash cover of Hurt

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young cover of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock".

R7 I think the original is 1,000x better than the CSNY cover, but I respect your right to your own taste. :)

Michelle Branch. Creep

I love the Doobie Brothers remake of "Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me)".

Also, Linda Ronstadt' s "Hurt So Bad" and the Carpenters "Tryin To Get The Feeling Again".

R9 beat me to it. I like both versions equally.

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

Here’s Travis covering Britney’s Baby One More Time. Love this version.

Another fab Britney cover. Very different flavor. Yael Naïm singing Toxic.

This cover is very far removed from the original. Love to get a bit stoned and listen to this one. John Coltrane’s version of My Favorite Things.

I can’t believe no one has yet mentioned Annie Lennox’s glorious 90’s cover of The Lover Speaks’ “No More I Love You’s!” The video is also wonderfully campy. I had no idea Lennox’s version was a cover until I found the original a few years ago.

Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet - Everlasting Love

Sorry, R10, but I think the Kim Weston original was superior.

Nothing Compares 2U

Tony Lucca's cover of Baby One More Time is great. Not better, but good in a different way.

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Jimi Hendrix

Dylan's All Along the Watchtower

R6 and R13 FTW-- those are two of my favorite covers.

I'll throw in Ryan Adams' well known cover of Oasis' Wonderwall

We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together - Aaron Tveit

He's got a great rack.

He's got a great rack.

My favorite version of this classic from the American songbook.

Till I Can’t Take It Anymore - Billy Joe Royal

George Michael had the ability to own anyone’s song he covered.

George’s cover.

Emmylou...She has done some fantastic covers. "Pancho and Lefty", "Blue Kentucky Girl", and "Woman Walk the Line" are other good ones.

So many good ones

Anything by Bob Dylan is better when someone -- anyone -- else performs it. Great songwriter, awful performer.

The same goes for Elton John -- he really doesn't have much of a voice, but someon like George Michael could really bring an Elton song.

Adele, showing how Dylan is done.

"Hey Kitty"

Glen Campbell’s cover and smash hit of rhinestone cowboy. The original by Larry Weiss who wrote the song is fucking desperate

Bruce Springsteen's cover of Tim Scott's "High Hopes"

The Pointer Sisters cover of Springsteen's "Fire".

Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" is an improvement on the original Jackie DeShannon honky tonk number.

Tainted Love. R23 I love that cover of Wonderwall, but it’s not better than the original - it’s just different. Is Ryan Adams still cancelled? x

No others?

There are two definitive versions of the Rolling Stones classic "Tumbling Dice" one by the originators and the other by Linda Ronstadt.. I always preferred the Ronstadt version as Ronstadt was a better vocalist than Mick Jagger and could really rock out those vocals.. But then again when Ronstadt did covers by Buddy Holly, Neil Young or the Everly Brothers to name just a few she made them her own..

OP: Nothing Gloria Estefan sings is better than anything. Nothing.

Another successful cover done by Linda Ronstadt of a classic rock and roll song by Roy Orbison "Blue Bayou" which went to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1963 for Orbison while Ronstadt's version went to #3 on the Hot 100 back in 1977.

I love Glen Campbell's version of U2's All I Want is You

Reba's Fancy

Linda Ronstadt said she was jealous of Phoebe Snow singing "The Married Men" first. Phoebe's version is much better than the Roach Sisters, who wrote it.

Reba's The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

agree on Cash's cover of Hurt

also fiona apple cover of across the universe

Reba's If I Were A Boy

Tainted Love

Emmylou Harris's version of "Here, There, And Everywhere" is better than the Beatles.

Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss.

I also prefer Betty's vocal on "Bye Bye Baby/"

Juice Newton did a lot of covers; one of her best is "I'm Gonna Be Strong," originally a top 10 hit for Gene Pitney in 1964.

Lulu revisited her own "I Don't Wanna Fight" in a simple Piano/Vocal fashion. No cheesy guitar/sax solo.

r56, Rick Astley just did a stripped-down version of Never Gonna Give You Up:

R57 "Pianoforte" is hilarious.

Is that different from a "piano"?

Linda Ronstadt also covered the classic Everly Brothers song "When Will I Be Loved" and her country rock version went to #2 on the Hot 100 back in 1975 while the original done by the Everly Brothers went to #8 on the Hot 100 back in 1960. I prefer the Ronstadt version over the original.

Country Queen Martina McBride covered Linda Ronstadt's version of the classic Everly Brothers song "When Will I Be Loved" and she actually referred to this cover in this performance as a classic Linda Ronstadt song..

I think Martina nailed it and came as close any one else in matching Linda's vocals which is saying something because Martina is one of the best country vocalists in her own right.

The Sam Cooke original is a classic but Darlene Love's is so unbridled, it never fails to knock me over. Ditto her version of "Ruby Tuesday."

Every track on Nina Simone’s “Here Comes the Sun” is better than the original

Gretchen Wilson a huge fan of Heart did an incredible live cover of "Barracuda" with Alice In Chains and Ann Wilson on guitar in this performance.. Ann Wilson is one if not the greatest female rock vocalist of all time so it's quite the feat that Gretchen was able to rock out this vocal performance that is probably the closest anyone has got to matching Ann's power vocals.

I love Little Anthony, but I have to say I prefer the Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 cover of "Going Out of My Head"--Lani Hall singing "I must think of a way into your heart" at 1:27 is just heartbreaking.

The Mamas and the Papas on John Lennon's "I Call Your Name'

Patsy Cline's cover of Ray Price's "Crazy Arms"

I know - MORE Linda Ronstadt, but her cover of Laura Nyro's Stoney End, is as good as if not better than the original.

I'm a fan of the original of this one, but Grace Slick's cover was perfect for its (groovy) era.

This was an incredible live performance from Martina McBride of Pat Benatar's rock song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" with Pat Benatar on backup vocals. Martina is a big fan of Pat Benatar and rocked it out in this cover.

This was an incredible live performance from Martina McBride of Pat Benatar's rock song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" with Pat Benatar on backup vocals. Martina is a big fan of Pat Benatar and rocked it out in this cover.

Darren Criss' cover of Barbra Steisand and Barry Gibb's "What Kind of Fool".

Adam Lambert’s incredible cover of Cher’s Believe

Stevie Nicks fans may vehemently disagree but I always thought Natalie Maine's vocals were far superior in the cover of the classic Fleetwood Mac song "Landslide"...

The original version by Fleetwood Mac went to #51 on the Hot 100 back in 2008 while the cover by The DIxie Chicks hit the top 10 on the Hot 100 and charted as high #7 back in 2002..

So yet another example of how a cover can actually chart higher than the original.

I like Lana Del Rey’s cover of Blue Velvet the most of any recording of the song.

[quote] Phoebe's version is much better than the Roach Sisters, who wrote it.

Oh dear — the Roches, not “the Roach Sisters.”

And no one will EVER sing a Roches song as well as the Roches themselves.

Another cover I prefer — pat benatar’s cover of “Wuthering Heights.”

Belinda Carlisle outrocked Cream on their hit =

Iko Iko by Cyndi Lauper

Liar Liar - Debbie Harry

Belinda Carlisle outperformed The Graces on their "Lay Down Your Arms" tune =

Let me guess: some of you came of age in the 1980s...

Sorry R81 but the song at R80 came out in the 1993-1994 range. Try again.

[Quote] Sorry [R81] but the song at [R80] came out in the 1993-1994 range. Try again.

Someone who came of age in the 1980s would still fixate on the early 1990s. They wouldn't be "stuck in their ways"/looking backward yet. Additionally, there's often a cultural "hangover" from the previous decade.

R83 Nice try at saving face but Belinda's fans weren't stuck in their ways (nor fixated on her in '93-94) when it came to buying her singles or requesting them on the radio. Her chart career here in the states was over in 1990.

There was no cultural hangover for BC or many other "80s artists" by that time.

Of course there was. Dance Pop was dead in the US by about 1992, for instance.

Turn The Beat Around - Gloria E.

^ Dance Pop was alive & well in the mid 90s.

Gloria, you were an oldies artist by then, and barely charting. I guess a movie tie-in gave you one last hurrah.

Impedance- Tainted Love (Undergound Mix) - 1989

R55 Have you heard the Blue Angel version with Lauper on vocals? Man...

Aretha Franklins' Respect, Brazil 66s' Fool on the Hill, Bette Midlers' Do You Wanna Dance, Regina Belles'Do You Think I'm Falling Love....

The Silversun Pickups version of Dylan’s Not Dark Yet is easily aS good as the original. On some days I actually think it’s better.

This was their third (?!?) cover of the song & also the best one =

Glee also did the best cover of "Silly Love Songs"

Much prefer Wynona's interpretation of Anyone Who Had a Heart to Dionne's original … or anyone else's.

Such sacrilege, R86!!

Love me some Smokey Robinson, but Linda Ronstadt did Tracks of my Tears so much better.

Oh god, we've got a Rondstadt loon on our hands

The Bangles' Hazy Shade of Winter is leagues better than the Simon & Garfunkel original

R98...Fuck you...thats the first thing I posted on this thread....and learn how the hell to spell...IT'S R.O.N.S.T.A.D.T.

R97 Actually, I prefer Dolly's take on The Tracks of My Tears.

I was floored by this performance by Gaga

Annie Lenox was in top form when she did this cover - No More I Love Yous

Even Jeff Buckley says this is KD's song:

In fact, if you're just talking equal to, she owns this thread.

Crying, Johnny get Angry, Helpless, After the Goldrush, The air that I breathe. All amazing.

The best song ever written about domestic violence.

You must've not been aware of this one, R105.

David Bowie's "The man who sold the world" by Nirvana unplugged.

Lana Del Rey's cover of Doin' Time by Sublime is spectacular.

Respect to Sir Rod & The Faces, but we all know 'Handbags & Gladrags' belongs to Stereophonics, now.

I prefer 'Who'll Be The Next In Line?' done by Queens Of The Stone Age to The Kinks, but that might be my crush on Josh Homme talking.

R16 The Lover Speaks covered songs themselves, and rather well.

Here's their 1986 rendition of Dusty's 'I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten'. It was their final single release.

Boy George owns Funtime =

Boy George owns Everything I Own =

Belinda Carlisle (with Frida on backing vocals) - Band Of Gold

Toni's version =

Back In My Arms Again - Nicolette Larson

Call Me - Skye (a slowed down version)

John Hammond

Tom Wait's Jockey Full of Bourbon

make that Tom Waits'

Dance cover version of Coldplay's Viva La Vida

Whitney/Dolly

Ordinary World - Joy Williams

Kiss/Ace Frehley's version of New York Groove is better than Hello's version.

Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman”

Doobie Brothers “It Keeps You Running”

I'm not a Radiohead fan ("KAAAMA POWIIICCEE") and I do appreciate Pink Floyd unadulterated, but I admit the Sparklehorse take of 'Wish You Were Here' with Thom Yorke could be the best version of this song and haunts me still.

The original song is about yearning for death - or at least, a release into something else better than a sterilised existence - whereas this cut feels like the process of dying is already underway for the narrator as he remarks for a final time on his sad empty surroundings. This was especially fitting when the track was played over the ending of the movie LORDS OF DOGTOWN, in the scene where a young character is revealed to be dying of brain tumors and has been neglected by his friends.

Agnetha Fältskog, "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind (Almighty Mix)"

Rickie Lee Jones

Donovan's Sunshine Superman

Laura Nyro and Labelle

I Met Him on a Sunday

Gonna Take a Miracle

The two versions, virtually identical, of "It's My Life."

[Quote] Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman”

Hardly. She did nothing with the song that Chaka Khan didn't already do (except shout out "Chaka Khan"). And Whitney dodged singing the bridge live.

R130 Check your memory on that one.

Vacation - Brett (A Go-Go's cover)

Dance Hall Days - Brett (a Wang Chung cover)

Three Dog Night's rendition of "Eli's Coming" is far superior to Laura Nyro's.

And Three Dog Night practically made it a new song by doing it an uptempo song rather than as a ballad that Nyro sang (and wrote).

Changing the tempo practically makes it a new song?!

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Bananarama

Help - Bananarama

The Twist...

Wipeout...

You're going to post "Nathan Jones" next, aren't you?

R139 No, it's not even on my radar. Another 80s ballad is =

Stuff & Nonsense - Belinda Carlsile (Split Enz cover)

Straight From The Heart - Bonnie Tyler (Bryan Adams cover)

Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Bonnie Tyler

R49 - IMHO Bowie’s version is better then the original Beatles’ and certainly better than Fiona’s.

And FYI John Lennon is playing guitar and back up vocals on the track. So he must have known what Bowie was doing was superior.

And speak of Bowie... sorry Nina Simone, love you but Bowie’s “Wild is the Wind” if far more interesting than Miss Simone’s.

On of my all time Beatles’ songs, updated and done really, really well by the now forgotten PM Dawn, love the upbeat tempo and the aggressive guitar riffs. Anyone know what happen to PM Dawn?

Johnny Cash has done many great covers, but this is my favorite, NIck Cave’s The Mercy Seat

Here’s a really odd one, Natasha Atlas’s version of the Bond song, “You Only Live Twice”, I love its Arabic sound to a song that is so well known.

George Michael’s version of “Victims” originally performed by Boy George.

I prefer Rebecca Moore's demented cover of Earth, Wind & Fire's "Fantasy" to the original. It's definitely not to everyone's taste, though.

I've always liked Devo's version of "Satisfaction" just as much as the original.

Also, Flying Lizards' version of "Money."

I like Talking Heads version of "Take me to the River" just as much as Al Green's.

Nancy Griffith

Grapefruit Moon by Tom Waits

No way this is better than Chuck Berry's original, but a very nice cover

Lyle Lovett

Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Tori Amos owns this thread.

Famous Blue Raincoat is already mentioned upthread. There are tons, some you can only hear on concert bootlegs.

Thank You - Led Zepplin Angie - The Rolling Stones I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

My favorite though is:

The Philip Glass Remix of Blondie's Heart of Glass is very special.

r147, originally this cover on the David Arnold Bond cover album was sung by Björk, but that particular track was scapped and re-recorded with Natacha who also did From Russia With Love which was used as a B-Side for one of the album's single releases.

r157. Apparently I fucked my comment up. From Russia With Love is on the cover album and the "You Only Live Twice" track is a B-side from one of Natacha's own singles. Sorry, really fucked that one up for some reason.

That cover brings a smile to my face everytime I hear it.

Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall (Oasis cover).

Siouxsie & The Banshees did a lot of covers and released a whole cover album "Through The Looking Glass"

About Iggy Pop's The Passenger (from the album's wikipedia page)

[quote] Iggy Pop praised their cover of "The Passenger", saying: "That's good. She sings it well and she threw a little note in when she sings it, that I wish I had thought of. It kind of improves it [...]. The horn thing is good".

Disturbed 'The Sound of Silence' is not necessarily better than Simon & Garfunkel's, but it brings into the 2010s zeitgeist.

One of the better adaptations of a Beatles song from that awful movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonelyhearts Club Band. Aerosmith makes the song sleazier and more sinister. Also, Steven Tyler and Peter Frampton grappling together in spandex was kinda hot. They were also both hotter in 1978.

This Mortal Coil's cover of Chris Bell's, "I Am the Cosmos" [Blood 1991]

He wasn't the first but he was the best starting at 0:45 =

Oh Girl - Paul Young

Speaking of Al Green, R152, I much prefer his cover of "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" to the Bee Gees'.

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has been covered by everyone and their dog, but John Cale's is my favourite.

Where The Boys Are - The Czars (A very gay Connie Francis cover)

Angel Eyes - The Czars (A very gay ABBA cover)

I Fall To Pieces - The Czars (Patsy Cline cover)

This video should save everyone some time =

Part 2 =

This should've been at R171 (Part 1) =

Cake's version of "I Will Survive" puts a completely different spin on it.

Rickie Lee Jones Nagasaki

from her recent album "Kicks"

This song is a jazz Tin Pan Alley hit from 1928 and was recorded by the Mills Brothers, Doris Day and Benny Goodman

The Bangles did a lot of covers. I think of their version of "Manic Monday" over Prince's. And while "Hazy Shade of Winter" is classic Simon & Garfunkel, I like their pop version too.

Jennifer Warnes

First We Take Manhattan

from Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

One Of Us =

What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Joan Osborne

Hard to believe they both died so young =

Hard to believe they both died so young =

R168 There is no match for Connie's Where The boys Are, but the Czars' version is terrific and more reminiscent of Connie's softer version of the song. Connie has several versions of that song, but the hit version is iconic and superb in her handling of pitch, etc.

Prefer Pet Shop Boys version of "Go West"

Top 100 Pop Songs ~ Covers

The Glee version of "Like a Prayer" is materially better than Irritating Girl's original.

"Furt"

Katy [italic]who[/italic] ?

Fiona Apple's cover of Elvis Costello's "I Want You" (with Costello himself on guitar):

"Rattlesnakes" (Lloyd Cole & the Commotions covered by Tori Amos):

Joni Mitchell’s cover of “Cool Water”

Tainted Love - Duffy

Blondie changed the sex of Randy & the Rainbows "Denise" to "Denis," and because of that, the addition of the French verses was a nice touch.

Chromatics - Into The Black (Neil Young - My My, Hey Hey)

This one ALMOST makes it on the list. Just misses it. Also, fuck Mr. Robot. I LOVE the Chromatics.

Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing". He expanded on it and really fleshed it out.

Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is brilliant.

Major Tom - Shiny Toy Guns

Burning For You - Shiny Toy Guns

Neko Case's version of the Soulful Shade of Blue by Buffy St. Marie.

An old T-Bone Walker song...

Bloodshot Eyes - Pat Benatar

Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss - Pat Benatar

David Bowie's version of this was much better.

Don't Dream It's Over - Paul Young

Sterephonics - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

I love Garou’s frenchified glottal/uvula pronunciation of ‘HeaRt’ in this cover:

Beyonce's cover of an Etta Jame's classic as she is literally portraying Etta James.

Submission - Belinda Carlisle's remake of the Sex Pistols song

Jealous Guy - Belinda Carlisle's remake of a John Lennon song

Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Belinda Carlisle

The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Belinda Carlisle

Here's a remix version of R209 =

DL Fave David Harris covers fellow Aussie Peter Allen’s ‘I’d rather leave while I’m in love’:

^ Hiya!

Nah, I still prefer Rita Coolidge's version. This David Harris is exaggerating where a bit of subtlety is needed.

Breathe Again by Sleeping At Last

Exquisite.

"Sea of Heartbreak" by Rosanne Cash and Bruce Springsteen

KD Lang - Skylark

Daydream Believer performed by Mary Beth Maziarz

Somebody liked a cover of "Running Up That Hill" upthread. Meg Myers' is infinitely better, IMO. Much more powerful.

Not as good as Dolly, but better than Miley.

Umm...never mind. Just listen to it.

Duke Special's cover of Lucky (Radiohead).

R187: this acoustic version is quite poignant -

I loved this and the next when they were released:

Fun Boy Three w/Bananarama

And

Bananarama w/Fun Boy Three

Continuing in the same vein, I'm not really sure this would be a "cover" because it was written by both Terry Hall and Jane Wiedlin.

I've always liked FB3's version better, tho.

I apologize for the consecutive postings of B-rama and FB3 above - don't mean to overload. One lead me to the next, and to the other...

It's all good R228. I appreciate the music threads of DL.

R207. I've never heard that cover--and I HATE the pistols--but I immediately downloaded it. Isn't it funny when you like the covers but can't stand the originators? See ABBA.

R228 This is a covers thread. The Op didn't limit it to "1 song per artist" so don't sweat it. Too many bitchers on the DL lately.

Borderline - Jody Watley

Waiting In Vain - Jody Watley

I Want Your Love - Jody Watley

The Carpenters Medley (Close To You / Superstar / We've Only Just Begun) - Jody Watley

Jane Morgan - A Lover's Concerto

I know Richie died tragically and all that, but this is still better.

Hayley Westenra - Both Sides Now

Everybody Hurts, the Corrs version

Sia's version of Madonna's Oh Father.

Dana Winner - Morning Has Broken

Nickelback's version of "Love Will Keep Us Togetther"

DL Fave Luke Evans giving Cher a run for her money:

Belinda's 2007 remake of a French hit =

R241 He's not the only one:

I Drove All Night - Celine Dion

Are you INSANE R244? I normally don't negatively comment on people's choices, but goddamn, that's some BULLSHIT.

Best Christmas cover evah=

R243: Yes, even Cher was moved to tears -

R244 I love the Cyndi Lauper version, but Celine did it so much better. I said it earlier though, Tori owns this thread....here's two in one.

My link at R242 doesn't seem to be working.

Here's another one = Avec Le Temps -Belinda Carlisle

Jezebel - Belinda Carlisle

R245 I like Cyndi's version better but I can't deny Celine did some amazing feats with her version including the vocals & the upbeat galloping music.

Goin' Through The Motions - Bonnie Tyler (Blue Oyster Cult remake of their 1977 song)

Leona Lewis - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

My favorite cover of the Cat Stevens original

Trish King Music did a 3 hour live performance with plenty of covers. Check them all out =

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - Mariah Carey

Roxy Music - Like a Hurricane (Neil Young)

Most of Grace Jones' covers. Tom Petty even wrote an extra verse for this one.

Bryan Ferry: ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow ‘ -

Interesting, r258. I didn't know it existed. Yet nothing can take the place of either the Shirelles' original or Linda Ronstadt's "soundtrack of my life" version. My first boyfriend played Linda's version at me almost every time we had sex, then went on to break my heart (and leave me with "Long, Long Time").

Here are the Shirelles. I can't imagine anyone doing it better.

Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer of Coheed and Cambria, covering Adele in his home studio.

Sorry to spam, but he also did a version of "Pompeii" by Bastille that I like a lot more than the original.

Belinda Carlisle released this remake for her 30th anniversary "Runaway Horses" edition this year =

R259: thanks for sharing, that’s a bittersweet story.

I Need You To Turn To - Belinda Carlisle (a remake of Elton John's 1970 song).

I Feel Lucky - Pat Benatar

Alone by Celine Dion

Wicked Game - Karen Souza

Celine Dion - River Deep Mountain High

Rufus Wainwright - Agnus Dei

This shit makes me cry every time. Even with his snarky little comments.

Whoops

Train in Vain -- Annie Lennox (The Clash)

Rocket Man - Heaven 17

I Was Made For Loving You - Jazzkantine

A Rod Stewart remake =

Rocky Horror Glee Part 1

Rocky Horror Glee Part 2

Olivia doing Eric Carmen =

This nearly 3 hours of Jazz Bossa Lounge 70s/80s hits contains several great covers =

All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue - Trish King

Human - Go West

A cover from Sade's debut album =

Nicky Holland - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself from "My Best Friend's Wedding" soundtrack.

I prefer the Killers' version of Shadowplay to Joy Division's original.

Another version of the frequently covered 'Wicked Game.' When I saw it was just a singer and a piano, I had my doubts, but she pulls it off, IMHO.

Another by Marie' Digby: 'Empire' by Shakira. I had never heard the original when I first played this version (I'm the "Culturally ignorant and proud of it" troll).

Damn! Empire by Marie' Digby.

I give up.

Love Comes Quickly

Blank and Jones remix