Maybe I just have an inferiority complex about my novelty-music past, but I feel guilty about my love for song covers, particularly cross-genre covers. I even love when one hit song inspires dozens of covers. But instead of mocking the artists who remade "Crazy" or "Umbrella," shouldn't we honor them for reviving the "standards" tradition that enriched decades of jazz? Below are a few of my favorite sources for covers and the username and password for adding to this week's Friday Mixtape, "Cover Me."

To add to Gawker's playlist "Cover Me":
Page: Upload
User: Gawkercovers
Password: gawked

For more covers:

• Cover Freak groups covers by themes like "Dance Fever" and "The Inevitable Tom Jones Post."
• Clash of the Covers compares two artists' versions of the same song.
• Cover Me sometimes posts covers of an entire album, like Weezer's Blue Album.

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