![]() ![]() It contained most of the song off their self-titled debut, which seemed to indicate that they’d written their first off as an old shame. They hoped for better on their second album, Wacko Magneto, which they planned to release on Island Records in 1997. Unfortunately for them, the label didn’t seem to have much faith in them, and the record was never put into wide release the band cut ties with the label shortly after. Whatever premonitions they may have had at the beginning, they nonetheless got to work quickly on their self-titled debut album, which they recorded while signed to EastWest Records. The name “Ednaswap” was inspired by a nightmare Preven had once where the band were considered so bad that they were booed offstage and quickly replaced with the next band. The band formed in 1993 when songwriters Anne Preven and Scott Cutler invited their mutual friend Rusty Anderson to perform and record them for their first acoustic demo. Yeah, as this music video shows, this band definitely made music in the mid 90s you couldn’t mistake it for any other decade. But why? And is the cover so much better than the original that it deserves to supersede its existence in the public eye? Well, let’s take a look to see if nothing is indeed right. That’s right, we are yet again looking at a cover that has so thoroughly eclipsed the original that it might as well not even exist. ![]() Twenty-three years past its release date, this song reliably fills Spotify playlists, wedding DJ setlists and acoustic open-mic nights all over the world I can’t imagine a world where this song does not exist.Īnd yet, most people might not even recognize the name of the band who originally wrote the song. The late 90s were also a good time for female acoustic artists as a whole, and of the many, many artists who scored big hits that year, few have been as enduring or as memorable as Natalie Imbruglia’s monster hit, ‘Torn’. But we’re going to be looking at a completely different scene, one that was just as huge, and a good deal more critically respected at the time-the rootsy, adult alternative singer-songwriter boom. It’s perhaps appropriate that we should harken back to the same year teen pop had its massive worldwide explosion. That’s right, we are going back to 1998, a major turning point in music history for better, or for worse. ![]()
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