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Playing a good cover remains one of the most challenging things that an artist can do. On the one hand, some people want to play a song completely faithfully. Then, you have other occasions when people decide to take a song and give it their own spin. The two approaches have been used for songs by many, ranging from Bob Dylan to The Rolling Stones<\/a>, and despite the years of examples, there still remains a solid approach towards what the perfect way to cover a song is.\u00a0<\/p>\n People can play a well-loved song and give it their own twist, which is a welcome approach by a lot of modern artists. For instance, many indie fans were put on to the music of Drake when Arctic Monkeys decided to cover his hit \u2018Hold On, We\u2019re Going Home\u2019. Equally, a lot of hip hop lovers suddenly became lovers of Otis Redding when A$AP Rocky decided to cover \u2018Sitting on the Dock of the Bay\u2019. <\/p>\n While this approach to the cover might be taken by many modern artists, it isn\u2019t new. For instance, Vanilla Fudge is famous for being a covers band that gave Motown songs a psychedelic twist. Other artists, such as Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, and Guns N\u2019 Roses, have also taken classics and tried to show them through a different lens. <\/p>\n Occasionally, the new, revamped versions of songs are preferred to the originals. For instance, Jimi Hendrix covered Bob Dylan\u2019s serene song \u2018Knocking On Heaven\u2019s Door\u2019, and injected it with hard guitar lines, riffs and packed choruses. Despite being wildly different to Dylan\u2019s original, the world loved it, and Bob Dylan even changed the way that he played the song live because he preferred the way that Jimi Hendrix structured it. <\/p>\n