Covet and cover

What do you do when a decent song barely makes a ripple after you release its studio version in your own pond?

I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (from the album 'In Color')



Take it across the waters, stir it up with some fans, run it a little faster and a little louder. Voila! Instant hit two years later.

I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (from the album 'Cheap Trick at Budokan')



Great little cover of the more popular version:

I Want You To Want Me (cover) - Letters To Cleo



This one is oddly entrancing in certain parts:

I Want You To Want Me (cover) - Los Odio y Juan Son



And this? Well, it speaks for itself:

Quiero que me quieras - Gael Garcia Bernal


Now I really want to see the movie.

Update 05/19/09: Apparently, you can teach an old horse new tricks...again. Check out this NPR World Cafe appearance by Cheap Trick, and especially the first song they sing--an acoustic and, once again, different version of the song. Very nice!