The Cover-Song Showcase Showdown: Mr. Aiken And Mr. Budden Meet Mr. Mister

Brian Raftery | October 16, 2006 12:33 pm

Welcome to the latest installment of the Cover-Song Showcase Showdown, in which we present you with several versions a well-known classic, and you decide which one you like best. Today’s victim candidate: Mr. Mister’s apparently-cooler-than-we-thought 1985 hit “Broken Wings,” which appears on Clay Aiken’s recent A Thousand Different Ways, and also serves as the background for freestyle rap track from Joe Budden (thanks to Nah Right for the Budden track).

So take a listen to both covers, and let us know which one makes you want to learn to fly again, and to learn to live so free:

Clay Aiken – Broken Wings [MP3, link expired] Joe Budden – Broken Wings Freestyle [MP3, link expired]

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(Editor’s Note: Welcome, Claymates! Can we call you “Claymates”? Is that too informal? Anyway, If you’re interested in reading more about your favorite Tobey Maguire look-alike, click here.)

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