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Originally posted by jeffles
The best song on the album was Matchbox Twenty's (a band that I am not particuraly fond of) version of Never Going Back Again.
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That is an TERRIFIC cover of NGBA. It's the only one that really takes a chance with the sound ny taking it into a minor key. However, taking it into a minor key isnt' just change for change's sake, but instead totally changes the interpretive impications of the song. Despite the fact that Lindsey wrote it as a "positive" song, MB20's minor key stresses the underlying bitterness that drove such lyrics as "You don't know what it means to win."
Finally, the wonderfully ironic injection of "The Chain" at the end. Rob Thomas' voice sounds almost tortured at that part, like he's vowing to never go back to the past, and at the same time feeling bound to that past, and it's tearing him apart. The whole song takes on new meaning.
Love it.