An article about Ed Sheeran covering Throw Your Arms Around Me.

Author:  James Rettig, StereoGum.

Date: 24 November 2023.

Original URL: https://www.stereogum.com/2243581/ed-sheeran-throw-your-arms-around-me-hunters-collectors-cover/music/

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Ed Sheeran – “Throw Your Arms Around Me” (Hunters & Collectors Cover)

The 50th anniversary of the Australian label Mushroom Records is being celebrated with a new compilation called Mushroom: 50 Years Of Making Noise, which features covers of down-under acts like Violent Soho and Skyhooks by artists like Gordi and Alex Lahey. The compilation kicks off with a song by Ed Sheeran, who covered Hunters & Collectors’ “Throw Your Arms Around Me.”

Here’s what Sheeran had to say in a video about the song: “I feel weird saying this because I’m English and we have songs that are massive in England that other people don’t know know too, but the first time I actually heard this song was at Michael Gudinski’s memorial when it was played by Mark Seymour, and what I loved about it was the simplicity of the lyrics and the randomness of it … It’s a very, very individual weird cookie but also so conversational.”

Listen below.

The compilation also includes FIDLAR’s cover of the Vines’ “Get Free,” which came out last month:

Mushroom: 50 Years Of Making Noise is out now via Mushroom Group.

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