Thanks to Spotify, I learned that John Mellencamp did a version of Van Morrison's "Wild Night." I really enjoy both artists, but John, amigo, if you're going to cover a great song like "Wild Night, you need to do something very different with it, not just leave out several layers of instruments. Okay, so you made it a duet with Me'Shell Ndegeocello and, you know, it's kind of nice—if we'd never heard Van's original. What you created just sort of sits there, politely tapping its foot, while Morrison's version gets up and dances.
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