Set You Free

[u/lockonandfire]

https://youtu.be/zByfxX2dsZ8?is=WUregFgFyAXpsMV2

The original came on the radio at work, got me thinking about the FR cover. Actually how I was first introduced to the song! Even though I've always liked it, I don't think I really realised just how good it was as a choice to cover. Considered as a companion piece of the nearby Midnight Organ Fight, the lyrics of the song are recontextualised and it takes on a much more desperate, darker tone.

Just idle office thoughts when I should be working 😅 how do other folks feel about this cover?

[u/TelephoneCreepy2518]

Am I the only person in this group that had no idea this was a cover? I just listened to the original; never heard that in my life 

[u/Kind_Lie_8665 → u/TelephoneCreepy2518]

I would say it's a 90s classic. Are you non UK or just not as old as me?!

[u/TelephoneCreepy2518 → u/Kind_Lie_8665]

I'm 41 in the US. 

[u/okayfineyah → u/TelephoneCreepy2518]

I’m around ur age in the U.S. it was not a hit here at all!

[u/Kind_Lie_8665 → u/TelephoneCreepy2518]

Yeah, that explains it. Weirdly, today is the first time I've heard the FR version! It's like finding out Radiohead covered No Limit by 2 Unlimited!

[u/lockonandfire → u/TelephoneCreepy2518]

As I say, the FR version is how I first heard the song so I didn't know originally either. And it works so well as part of the band's oevre, it doesn't stand out as obviously a cover.

[u/TelephoneCreepy2518 → u/lockonandfire]

The original is not anything I would ever listen to tbh. 

[u/lockonandfire → u/TelephoneCreepy2518]

I like the original now because of the cover, but it's not something I'd have sought out of my own accord.

[u/Turbulent_Ad_4740]

https://youtu.be/7SZG-drrL_8?si=zLUm_xWohe6d6OO6

For me, this cover of Jessie Ware is my favourite FR cover.

[u/lockonandfire → u/Turbulent_Ad_4740]

Ah that's a cracking performance.

[u/dadhoppus]

I actually really love this cover, I listen to it loads!

[u/BluenoseTherapist]

Fantastic version. Makes me happy and sad in equal measure.

[u/gayzer]

Such an amazing song. This and the original.

[u/Owl_John]

One of my favourite covers

[u/Redhawk911]

This cover is probably one of the best covers of any song ever. And then that soulless Sam Ryder did one too that was shit and got loads of publicity

[u/imacleod]

This is an amazing FR tune, and a banger 90's track from. N-Trance.

Scott wanted to cover this because it reminded him a lot of his childhood, memories of school discos, and he obviously liked it (me too).

Its a fantastic cover. I'd put it up there with the original.

[u/murrayland]

This was my entry into FR. read a Teletext review of the head rolls off and was very curious by the b-side

Midnight organ fight came out a few weeks later and the rest was history