Disclaimer: To avoid suicide, go and listen to the originals of these songs and weep for them, it’s the first step in the healing process.

So I bitched and moaned about all the horrible remixes out there in the electronic world. Parasitical money hungry and mildly talented rappers, producers and DJ’s soaking up cash for very little effort. But at least they don’t believe their music is anything more than some corporate sell-out. They knew it when they were making the songs, they know it as they sign the check for the deposit on their Malibu Dream House and they will know it, throughout the cruise they will take on their 70ft yacht round Greece.

John never got the hang of covering other people's songs and so his 'yacht alighting ability' suffered.

What’s worse than people identifying the success a song has had and leeching off it, is when someone covers a song and truly believes they are good. Unfortunately these covers come mostly on the side of the road which uses guitars instead of loops and samples.
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