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and I've recently rediscovered the Moody Blues. No, I'm not cool. Never have been. Don't pretend to be.

How someone whose avatar is one third of the Nairobi Trio could be not cool is beyond comprehension. And the Moody Blues are beyond cool. Cool is much too small a word and too insignificant a concept to encompass their wonderfulness.
 

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I do not like Michael Jackson's songs. Whenever I say that, I'm met with "WHAT?" and "You can't be serious!" and "Have you ever heard 'Billie Jean'?" Yeah, I have, but I don't like it, although I've tried to.

Divorced from the videos, they are pretty thin, aren't they? Much more presentation than substance.
 

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There's an Australian radio presenter who had a Musical Challenge segment to his musician interviews - he'd ask the artist to play another random song. On the show, Neil Finn did an acoustic version of Billie Jean - it was beautiful. I'm not a one-eyed Michael Jackson fan by any means - yes, plenty of his songs do nothing for me - but Billie Jean, I like a lot.

Sometimes a different artist's interpretation changes things entirely; Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time, for example, when redone by Miles Davis or Everything but the Girl - or With A Little Help from My Friends, when redone by Joe Cocker. Or, IMO, anything redone by Grace Jones.
 
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The only thing I really know about Shocking Blue is that Nirvana covered one of their songs, and it's quite cool. Love Buzz. Krist Novoselic is a fan.
"Venus" is one of theirs too, later covered by Bananarama. I like both versions.
 

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I cannot stand Bush.

I really like Crash Test Dummies especially the CD - Ghosts That Haunt Me. I don't know if I know anybody who likes them besides girlfriends I've turned them on to.