Best (and Worst) remakes of songs

[65racecoupe]

Here are some of my favorites...

You Really Got Me (The Kinks - done by Van Halen)

Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash - done by Social Distortion)

Back Door Man (Howlin' Wolf - done by The Doors)

Sweet Dreams (Eurymithics - done by Marlyn Manson)

Heard It Through The Grapevine (Gladys Night and the Pips - done by Marvin Gaye and then CCR - both are incredible versions)

OK songs
Boys Of Summer (Don Henley - Done by The Ataris) - not bad not good


WORST

Behind Blue Eyes (The Who - done by Limp Bizkit) ABSOLUTE WORST EVER

Five To One (The Doors - Sampled by Jay-Z on the Blueprint album)

Saturday Night's Allright For Fighting (Elton John - done by Nickelback)

 

[BradC]

Good:

Pass the dutchie - Musical Youth, redone by Buck-o-nine
Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners, redone by Save Ferris
Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead, redone by Sublime - R.I.P. Bradley Nowell, 5/25/96 - 10 years today

 

[Lani]

One of the WORST:
Jessica Simpson-- These boots are made for walkin'

 

[lgagno1]

I hate to admit it, but I really like Metallica's remake of Turn the Page by Bob Seager

 

[Captain KRM P5]

Chantal Kreviazuk's version of Leaving on a Jet Plane is pure unrequited ass

 

[13984]

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

1000 Homo DJ's- Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
(band2)

 

[SLC-MSP]

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

Jello!

 

[13984]

Jello!

I read somewhere that Al Jourgenson is talking about getting with Jello to make a new Lard album. He's on the new Revolting Cocks album. /thread jack.

 

[Captain KRM P5]

George of the Jungle by Weird Al - awesome remake, very close

 

[NoRotorNoMotor]

Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt by NIN is the worst I have heard

 

[Phoenix5]

I kinda like "Blue Monday" remade by Orgy remade awhile back,not sure who first did it.

"Another brick on the wall" by Korn,originally done by Pink Floyd was really good.

 

[65racecoupe]

I kinda like "Blue Monday" remade by Orgy remade awhile back,not sure who first did it.

"Another brick on the wall" by Korn,originally done by Pink Floyd was really good.

New Order wrote the original Blue Monday.

 

[anarchistchiken]

I disagree on two counts with ya 65. I like the Limp Bizkit version of behind blue eyes. It's not the greatest cover ever, that weird techno voice thing in the middle of the song should not have been there, but it wasn't bad.

I also would punch every member of the Ataris in the face if I could because of their Boys of Summer cover. Besides the fact that all the teeny boppers will swear up and down that that's an original song from the Ataris (just a personal annoyance), they made the beat WAY too fast and it sounds so off balance. Plus they changed the lyrics, bonus points if you know which ones they changed without looking at a website.

 

[Breeegz]

Korns cover was good (Pink Floyd)
I personally liked Grasshopper Takeover redoing "Baby Got Back" def one of teh better local bands in Omaha

 

[65racecoupe]

I disagree on two counts with ya 65. I like the Limp Bizkit version of behind blue eyes. It's not the greatest cover ever, that weird techno voice thing in the middle of the song should not have been there, but it wasn't bad.

I also would punch every member of the Ataris in the face if I could because of their Boys of Summer cover. Besides the fact that all the teeny boppers will swear up and down that that's an original song from the Ataris (just a personal annoyance), they made the beat WAY too fast and it sounds so off balance. Plus they changed the lyrics, bonus points if you know which ones they changed without looking at a website.

Boo.

I just love Behind Blue Eyes by The Who. It is such a great song with the change in tempo, I just love it.

Bizkit put no emotion into the song what so ever. It is just, blah.

 

[wannabe]

bad:
Devo's remake of Satisfaction
heard it on the radio last night, made me want to puke.

i do, however like Limp's remake of Faith

 

[Pro5Monkey]

Scissor Sisters cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb is an atrocity. One of the worst.

 

[Phoenix5]

New Order wrote the original Blue Monday.

There u go,thanx!

 

[65racecoupe]

bad:
Devo's remake of Satisfaction
heard it on the radio last night, made me want to puke.

i do, however like Limp's remake of Faith

Yes, I am a HUGE Rolling Stones fan.

I don't like Bizkit that much (see first post), but that is a good remake.

 

[jadonP5]

I disagree on two counts with ya 65. I like the Limp Bizkit version of behind blue eyes. It's not the greatest cover ever, that weird techno voice thing in the middle of the song should not have been there, but it wasn't bad.

I also would punch every member of the Ataris in the face if I could because of their Boys of Summer cover. Besides the fact that all the teeny boppers will swear up and down that that's an original song from the Ataris (just a personal annoyance), they made the beat WAY too fast and it sounds so off balance. Plus they changed the lyrics, bonus points if you know which ones they changed without looking at a website.

black flag sticker....yay bonus points