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Wed Feb-25-04 09:51 AM
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Worst Remakes of Old Songs? |
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My vote (and I'd vote 50 times for this one!)
Limp Bizkit's version of "Behind Blue Eyes"
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
Dishonorable mention goes to...
Lenny Kravitz's version of "American Woman"
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
In BOTH cases, not only are the remakers not worthy to polsih the boots of the original artists, but in both cases the songs are pathetically weak compared to the originals.
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Wed Feb-25-04 09:52 AM
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1. Dixie Chicks do Fleetwood Mac |
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:44 AM
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25. You're right.........AWFUL |
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Wed Feb-25-04 09:55 AM
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Sub-par cover of a shitty song.
Otherwise, I like Helmet.
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:11 AM
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OMG. Never heard that. Would love to, though.
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Wed Feb-25-04 09:55 AM
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3. Sixpence None the Richer's "Don't Dream It's Over" |
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Edited on Wed Feb-25-04 09:59 AM by Finnfan
although I'm a little biased on that one.
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Wed Feb-25-04 09:58 AM
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5. Add "There She Goes" by Sixpence None the Richer. |
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:16 AM
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14. Yes! Yes! Hi Finnfan! Yeah, that sucked baaaad...... |
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:38 AM
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New Finn Brothers CD out sometime this summer...:bounce:
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Wed Feb-25-04 09:57 AM
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4. "Sukiyaki" by A Taste Of Honey. |
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Wed Feb-25-04 09:58 AM
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redone my some singer I can't name. If they insist a redoing songs they should attempt to do it better. But all time, I have to say it was Merle Haggard in the early 80's doing "Baker Street".
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:01 AM
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7. Did you ever hear Dolly Parton's cover of "Stairway To Heaven"? |
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:36 AM
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18. That's a joke, right? |
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Gotta be a joke...
(I hope, for the sake of a sane reality, that it IS a joke)
:silly: :crazy:
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:12 PM
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On her album entitled "Halos And Horns".
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:44 AM
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33. Did she really do that one? |
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I collect StH covers, but I haven't heard that one. My favorite is by Rolf Harris.
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:03 PM
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:02 AM
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Bleh! Turning a Gordon Lightfoot song into a rap song! WTF!
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:03 AM
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9. Madonna's remake of American Pie |
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:46 AM
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34. I couldn't agree more!! |
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:07 AM
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10. Anyone here heard of an album called "Starways to Heaven"? |
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Edited on Wed Feb-25-04 10:15 AM by bif
It's a whole album full of remakes of this song. There's one with a full blown symphony orchestra and one done by an opera singer. Wow! It's pretty bad. Go to allmusic.com and do a search for it. The description is so bad it almost sounds like it's worth ordering.
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:21 AM
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16. I've got a couple of songs off of that... |
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Recorded off the Dr. Demento show, and I have to say, I prefer them to the original just because I'm sick and tired of the original and how it's hyped as some great rock anthem. Rolf Harris' version (he's the one who recorded "Tie Me Kangaroo Down") has the best version, but the one where they use the words to the theme from Gilligan's Island is good too.
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:38 AM
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I am so sick of that goddam song and Led Zeppelin in general I just wanna puke.
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:37 AM
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Did they put Frank Zappa's 1988 verson of this song.
Picture this ... It is kind of a reggae version with the horn section doing the guitar solo part.
Cheers Drifter
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:40 AM
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23. There is a version by a band calles Vegamite Reggae |
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I'm pretty sure the album is from Australia--which explains a lot!
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:13 AM
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:15 AM
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13. Oh, I disagree on Lenny...I hated the original (can't stand Burton |
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Cummings' voice, not sure why) but I loved the song itself, so Lenny's version was the berries with me. The remake I hated was Van Halen doing The Kinks' "You Really Got Me." Travesty. Love Eddie, but that sucked.
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:38 AM
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20. Diagreement is the spice of life. |
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But I do agree with you that VH doing the Kinks was not good, I can't put it above (or below, as the case may be) my two nominees.
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:19 AM
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15. rammstein - das model |
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Pet shop boy - where the streets have no name
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:24 AM
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17. Pat Boone's whole heavy metal album |
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is about the worst list of remakes ever.
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:28 AM
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30. "In A Metal Mood" by Pat Boone is an enigma |
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How did this get made? Who thought it was a great idea? Why was this necessary? Does Pat Boone worship Satan now?
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:40 AM
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22. Any Cover That's Just Like The Original |
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Example: Great White doing Ian Hunter's "Once Bitten Twice Shy". They added ZERO to the song. Just took the original and redid it, except for a different guitar solo. Big Deal!
I always feel like a cover should take the song to a different place than where it's already been. If it doesn't, i don't wanna hear it! The Professor
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Wed Feb-25-04 10:43 AM
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24. As always, the Professor with a nice point! |
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I agree, but it should be a happy medium. Remakes which preserve merely a tiny core of the old song while utterly changing it ae too far in the other direction.
Moderation in all things, my friend.
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:05 AM
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I'd rather see more change then less, but the spirit of the song should not change. (IOW, don't do a heavy metal version of Heart of Gold.)
But, the one qualifier i would have, is that the musicianship should be very high, so the new direction is extremely well executed. Craftmanship and creativity is served that way. The Professor
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:46 AM
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36. De gustabus non disputandum est |
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Though I largely agree.
Luckily "House of the Rising Sun" in the original had a driving beat that lent itself very well indeed to the "heavy-metal" Johnson remake.
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:46 AM
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35. Blues Brothers "Soul Man" is a good example of that. |
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:23 AM
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27. Pearl Jam - Last Kiss |
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:42 AM
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Adding her shrill to her father's music. His voice was so wonderful.... why anyone would want to pollute it is beyond me.
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:14 PM
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39. Ah yes..."Unforgiveable" |
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:25 AM
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28. guns & roses or janes addiction covering the stones........ |
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..."sympathy for the devil".....horrible, just horrible....some songs are made to be recorded once and once only.....
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:27 AM
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29. "Smoke on the Water" by Melanie |
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Actually, I just made that up. But it would be pretty horrible Not that the original is any good.
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Wed Feb-25-04 11:38 AM
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31. Celine Dion's "At Last" |
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That song belongs to Etta and only Etta.
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Wed Feb-25-04 07:09 PM
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Limp Bizkit's version of "Faith" is even worse IMO.
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