They are each great in their own way, and in their own context. I can’t love one more than the other, but I love them differently.

I didn’t even need to click the link to know what you meant.

Fun fact: When the windmill arm finger touches the mailbox, it also lights up my heart.

I definitely listened to it more often than to the MJ version.

Yes, it’s just better. Or at least, more to my taste.

I grew up on MJ.

If you were a kid in the 90s MJ grew up on you too… 😅.

Damn I forgot about the truckload of energy that bass player brings in that video.

Both versions are good, but I’d have to say I prefer the AAF version. It’s probably been a decade or more sine I’ve seen this music video, and I didn’t realize just how many Michael Jackson references are in it.

See also, Boys of Summer by the Ataris, and that one’s a lot closer as Don Henley’s original is nearly as good. Some might argue better, and I wouldn’t disagree with them directly, but I prefer the cover.

Most cover songs, you don’t know they’re covers, they’re that much better.

Despite being an 80s kid, my introduction to KISS was Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, with God Gave Rock n’ Roll To Ya. Later found out it was a cover. In fact, Christian group Petra, which probably rivals Fleetwood Mac for number of past members (albeit for different reasons — Petra styles itself a missionary, not a band in the traditional sense, so their revolving door of members is to be expected), covered the song before KISS did. I don’t even recall who did it first.

Of course, a lot of popular songs aren’t even written by the performer. The Bangles’ Manic Monday was written by Prince, but there wasn’t a Prince version until later. Prince never released it in his lifetime, it was released after he passed. So that wasn’t a cover. Prince literally wrote the song for them and they recorded it. He recorded it too, but didn’t release it. Maybe they got to hear it, but it was not made public. Still not thought of as a cover.

That whole album is good too, at least i remember listening to the CD a ton back in the CD binder days. My favorite song from that album is Flesh and bone

I definitely prefer the original, although the AAF version is right in the nostalgia sweet spot for me.

Yes! And that’s saying something, because the MJ version is good too.

The best version https://m.youtube.com/shorts/VKma0zlB5fw

I always wondered, is it an ant farm for alien ants, or is it an ant farm owned by aliens?

Yes!!

I remember seeing this music video on MTV . At 11 years old I bought their CD from the local record shop