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I want to marry and have babies with the song “Black and Gold” by Sam Sparro. It just makes my world complete right now; the melody is killer. But instead of playing the tune to its death bead, I decided that I must take immediate action and find different versions for variety’s sake. Today in my black and gold themed internet travels, I stumbled upon some covers – a couple of which are actually quite great.

First of all, if you haven’t heard the song, it’s a spacey tune (nominated for a Best Dance Song Grammy) with a terrific hook. To wit: (listen here). [Please note: if you're not a pop fan, you will probably not like it]

And now, the covers. The first version I heard was Katy Perry’s – it’s better than I expected… I think because she performed it during an acoustic set shortly after her break up with Travis McCoy, and you can hear the emotion in her voice.

Then we have Adele, who did a fab job – totally did the song justice:

But THEN I found this lavish composition by The Guillemots, which turns the song into something way different, but way good:

So the question remains: which version is best?? I think I might go with The Guillemots, meself…

Posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 3:59 pm by Wendy and is filed under Music & Videos.

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