![]() To my surprise, in many cases she didn’t care all that much about the artists she was paying tribute to. I interviewed Juliana Hatfield for my book on tribute albums. Written underneath the video: “Uploaded five hours ago.” When I was researching this, I found a cool string-quartet cover on YouTube. And, twenty-plus years after the song’s release, the covers keep coming. At least two covers on the list below are absolute all-time classics, and the rest are no slouches themselves. ![]() ![]() But I’d maintain that, Prince aside, it might be their best-covered song. It’s not second or third, either (“Times Like These,” “Best of You”). It’s not the Foos’ most-covered song ( that would be “Everlong”). Hard to think of any other song that can compete for that level of play.īelieve it or, not everyone has listened to “Learn to Fly” quite as often as I have. That happened probably once or twice a day. For whatever reason, the first MP3 I ever downloaded was “Learn to Fly,” so every time I opened Winamp, the “Learn to Fly” riff would kick right in. And when you opened Winamp, it would start playing that playlist right from the top. When you added a song to Winamp, it simply appeared at the bottom of a single long playlist. ![]() In the early file sharing days, the days when it was high-speed if your 128kbps MP3 took “only” 20 minutes to download, Winamp was the digital music player of choice. This isn’t because it’s my favorite song ever or anything. I sometimes wonder if I’ve heard “Learn to Fly” more times than any other song.
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