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Given Westlife's abominable "truck record" of gear changes, I was quick to jump to the conclusion that they'd unnecessarily shoehorned yet another key change into yet another cover version. Imagine my surprise, then, to discover that this is actually toned down from the version made famous by Terry Jacks. For one thing, they've gone for a slower, waving-arms-from-side-to-side feel which is unusually restrained. But as with all their covers, even when the originals are hardly works of genius, it feels like the calculated mass-production values have sapped the song of any life, and it ends up as just another predictable gear change on the never-ending uphill road to Shifting Units, New Mexico (pop. 100,000,000).

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