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Gromit - I find Paul Anka's cover versions make my teeth itch!
I am great believer that any good song will translate into any format, but the idea of any sort of edgy rock song being smoothed into a sub-Sinatra big band arrangement, with all the menace and excitement and rebellion crushed out of it for the benefit of a TV audience who wouldn't know Nirvana if they saw them across the street, really grinds my gears.
But that's the entire delight of music - it can inspire adoration - as in the audience here - or utter distaste and derision, as from me, and there is room for all of us.