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From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>

>One of my fave covers has always been Siouxsie & The Banshees'
>version of "Dear Prudence"      I like it better than the original!

I may actually agree with this.  The original has always seemed oddly 
halfhearted somehow, and the Banshees version conjure up a more 
interesting atmosphere.

>As for bad covers...
>Just about anything on Nouvelle Vague's "Band Apart"
>pretty much sucks ass. I mean...do we really need Bossa Nova
>versions of great post punk classics?

Yes, we did, but the group's self-titled first album did all the ones 
we needed, so this one is entirely unnecessary, and also larded with 
obvious jokes that devalue the concept.

S