[Quiet Man Cometh]

That in most cases, Holly?

I find it hard to imagine avoiding covers since one would need to know what is a cover in the first place. Not everyone knows that. I've met people who don't realize that "Halleluja" by anyone other than Leonard Cohen (I believe) is a cover, or that American Pie was Don Mclean before it was Madonna (again, I think). The cover is only a few years old.

I find I prefer it when there is something different added to cover with the new artist than if it's pretty much the same. "Hurt" is a good example of that with the intruments and tempo being different in both songs with changes the mood a fair bit. On the other hand, ther versions of "Paint it Black" that I've heard all tend to sound more or less the same.