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Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 8:13:20 PM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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Some of the best:
Heaven-Salvador
Lean on Me-Club Nouveau
Make It Right-Kenny Marks
Listen To Your Heart-DHT
Heaven-Sammy DJ
I Want To Know What Love Is-Mariah Carey
La Bamba-Los Lobos
Mad World-Gary Jules
Love Song-311
Smooth Criminal-Alien Ant Farm
Happy Days (song remade in the 90's, I do not know who recorded it though.)
Now here were some not so good ones:
Play That Funky Music-Vanilla Ice
Leader of the Pack-Twisted Sister
Don't Cry For Me Argentina-Madonna
Both are pretty much forgotten.
Which ones both good and bad can you think of?
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 8:16:53 PM
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I love the Lemonhead's cover of Mrs. Robinson that was done back in the early 90s.
Also, nobody does Mad World better than Adam Lambert.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 8:17:55 PM
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Funny you should mention them. Before they were big, my downstairs neighbor was actually managing them, go figure.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 8:24:36 PM
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Best:
How Soon is Now - Snake River Conspiracy
All Along the Watchtower - Hendrix
With a Little Help from My Friends - Joe Cocker
Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles
Stand - Liquid Jesus
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Shawn Colvin
I second Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal.
Worst:
Sweet Child O' Mine - Sheryl Crow
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 8:26:12 PM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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Agreed Sweet Child of Mine.
Another good one:
Smells Like Teen Spirit-Tori Amos
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 9:19:27 PM
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Worst:
Sweet Child O' Mine - Sheryl Crow
I don't remember hearing that one before.Does it sound worse than the original Guns and Roses version? I think that band would improve itself if they got Sheryl Crow for the lead singer.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 9:54:42 PM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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Another good one:
In Your Eyes-Geoffrey Gaines
Worse one:
Don't Dream It's Over-Six Pence None The Richer
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 9:58:35 PM
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Some bad:
Red - Ordinary World (Duran Duran cover)
P.O.D. - Bullet the Blue Sky (U2 cover)
New Found Glory - Kiss Me (Sixpence cover)
Sixpence None the Richer - There She Goes (The La's cover)
My Morning Jacket - West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys cover)
Anberlin - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths cover)
Disturbed - Shout (Tears for Fears cover)
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover)
Britney Spears - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones cover)
Mandy Moore - Senses Working Overtime (XTC cover)
Some good:
Jars of Clay - Dig (Adam Again cover)
The 77s - Over Under Sideways Down (Yardbirds cover)
The 77s - Shotgun Angel (Daniel Amos cover)
The Ocean Blue - Renaissance Man (77s cover)
NIN - Dead Souls (Joy Division cover)
Fiona Apple - Across the Universe (Beatles cover)
Neko Case - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (Sparks cover)
Martin Gore - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (Sparks cover)
Poor Old Lu - Speak Soft (The Swoon cover)
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:16:24 PM
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Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover)
Huh. I forgot about that. I kind of liked it. Sweet Dreams, too.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:21:06 PM
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Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover)
Huh. I forgot about that. I kind of liked it. Sweet Dreams, too.
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How Soon is Now
Sweet Dreams was OK, but I've never heard anyone do anything cool with Personal Jesus, or How Soon is Now for that matter. I actually have that Snake River Record...one thing they did do well was that song "You and Your Friends". I forgot who originally recorded it...I think they were called Fight, or something. Snake River are atrocious in a live setting though.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:29:32 PM
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DEVO- "Satisfaction" (props for the band from Akron!)
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:31:45 PM
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DEVO- "Satisfaction" (props for the band from Akron!)
Now was that a good or bad one?
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:35:20 PM
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DEVO- "Satisfaction" (props for the band from Akron!)
Now was that a good or bad one?
That's a good one and I can't believe I forgot it, while remembering to comment on Britney's version.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:36:11 PM
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Another good one:
If You Don't Know Me By Now-Simply Red
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:39:31 PM
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DEVO- "Satisfaction" (props for the band from Akron!)
Now was that a good or bad one?
Yeah... 
Actually, just because it's soooo quirky, and I personally despise remakes, that sound exactly like the original(the remake of Supertramp's 'Give a Little Bit' comes to mind), I actually do like it.
By the Goo Goo Dolls none the less.
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Lovers in A Dangerous Time by the band that cannot be named.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/20/2009 10:42:30 PM
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Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover)
Huh. I forgot about that. I kind of liked it. Sweet Dreams, too.
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How Soon is Now
Sweet Dreams was OK, but I've never heard anyone do anything cool with Personal Jesus, or How Soon is Now for that matter. I actually have that Snake River Record...one thing they did do well was that song "You and Your Friends". I forgot who originally recorded it...I think they were called Fight, or something. Snake River are atrocious in a live setting though.
Yeah, I can't imagine how they'd sound live. I'm sure they're terrible.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/21/2009 1:35:53 AM
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D.C. Talk did an out-standing job of the re-make of "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers.
Guns & Roses did an awesome job on the remake of the song "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney.
The other day I heard this terrible remake of "Kiss Him Good-bye (Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey) by Steam. Don't know who did the remake of it, but it was horrible! I hated how they had the drums changed to a standard 'kick-snare, kick-srare' when the song calls for a sixteenth-note percussion as in the original. And the bass and drums were out of sync in parts as well.
That's all I can think of off the top of me head fer now. Maybe more later.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/21/2009 6:16:01 AM
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The 80's Na, Na, Na song must have been that one by the Nylons.
I agree that both DC Talk and GnR did excellent remakes as well. And speaking of Guns & Roses, I really liked their 50's remake "If I Can't Have You" also. 
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/21/2009 8:04:32 AM
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Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Guns & Roses
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds cover Solomon
America - Yes
Rodeo - ELP
Fanfare for the Common Man - ELP
I have a bootleg Tull concert where they do a 10 minute Beethoven's 9th.
Bad: There was a disco version of Stairway to Heaven that should have been outlawed. I never knew who did it.
I never liked Earth, Wind, & Fire's "Gotta Get You Into My Life" either.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/21/2009 10:23:47 AM
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Yeah, Got To Get You Into My Life by them was basically a throwaway.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/21/2009 2:09:47 PM
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The other day I heard this terrible remake of "Kiss Him Good-bye (Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey) by Steam. Don't know who did the remake of it, but it was horrible! I hated how they had the drums changed to a standard 'kick-snare, kick-snare' when the song calls for a sixteenth-note percussion as in the original. And the bass and drums were out of sync in parts as well.
Btw. It's obviously a new re-make sung by a female.
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RE: Best And Worse Remakes Both Memorable and Forgotten - 11/21/2009 2:13:53 PM
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The other day I heard this terrible remake of "Kiss Him Good-bye (Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey) by Steam. Don't know who did the remake of it, but it was horrible! I hated how they had the drums changed to a standard 'kick-snare, kick-snare' when the song calls for a sixteenth-note percussion as in the original. And the bass and drums were out of sync in parts as well.
Btw. It's obviously a new re-make sung by a female.
Oh, my bad then, it was obviously a remake of a remake then. 
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