text: who's version of 'heartbeats' is best? the knife or jose gonzalez? (you can hear them both on myspace)   i would say the jose gonzalez version. the original knife version is fun, spiky pop, but jose brings out a depth and emotional resonance in the song that i doubt even its authors thought it could contain. which for me is the mark of a great cover version - when it throws a completely different perspective on a tune rather than slavishly copying it note for note. good question.