Airencracken

What do you think are the best or worst remakes/covers of all time.

Best:
Mony Mony by Tony and the shondells, remade by Billy Idol
Turn the page by Bob Segar, remade by Metallica
You really got me by the kinks, remade by Van Halen
Live or let die by Paul McCarteny remade by Guns'n'roses
Worst:
California Girls by the beach boys, remade by David Lee Roth
Behind blue eyes by the who, remade by that new band....whatever.

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I have to say I like the Who remake. I think it's Limp Bizkit, but I'm not sure.

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I enjoy...

Maneater by Hall and Oates.....remade by Split Habit

ohhhh

All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan .... remade by Jimi Hendrix

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worst cover: Ruben Studdard - Flying Without Wings.

best cover: Az Yet f/Peter Cetera - Hard to Say I'm Sorry.

kei2

best:
Usher - You'll Be In My Heart (orig Phil Collins)
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (orig Fleetwood Mac)

worst:
Dixie Chicks - Landslide (orig Fleetwood Mac)

Nija

Dynamite Hack - Boyz N' Da Hood (original N.W.A.)
KMFDM - Material Girl (og by Madonna)
Fear Factory - Cars (og I don't remember)
Pennywise - California Dream (Beach Boys)
Propaghandi - I want you to want me (OG I don't know)

Those aren't the best, but those are the ones that I like, right off the top of my head

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hapoo

I can't stand that new remake No Doubt did. "Its my life"

redcolours

im iffy with 311 remaking The Cure's "Love Song". i love 311, and im a Cure fan, and Love Song is a great song, and i listen a lot to reggae music, but its like all they did was slow down the beat and put a reggae spin on the song. they didnt really do anything. maybe it'll grow on me later, i dunno.

Puff Daddy Remaking The Police's Every Breath You Take into "Ill be Missing You" - i dont like it at all.

Johnny Cash remaking NIN's "HURT" - GENIUS!!! i never thought so much anguish can be interpreted even more melancholically, but the Man in Black did it. amazing.

Alana Davis remaking Ani DiFranco's "32 Flavors" - i love it - the jazzy twist to a folk/acoustic song. though Ani was quoted as saying she hated it. heh!

Vanilla Ice remake of Queen's "Under Pressure" to "ice Ice Baby" - BRREELLEANT!!! (maybe include with it MC Hammer's remake of Rick James "Superfreak" into "U Can't Touch This" )

Frente remaking New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" into a nice quiet acoustic tune.

Orgy remaking New Order's "Blue Monday" into a GREAT loud razor-edge tune.

U2 remaking Frank Sinatra's "Night And Day" - very haunting, very effective.

DNA remaking Suzanne Vega's acapella song "tom's Diner" into a dance tune - now THAT is just pure brilliance there.

ALL REMAKES BY MICHAEL BOLTON - :

MEgadeth remaking "anarchy in the U.K." by The Sex Pistols - harder, faster, BETTER.

UB40 remaking Sonny and Cher's "I Got U Babe" with Chrissie Hynde - actually pretty good, with the reggae twist.

SRV remaking Jimi's "little Wing" - its like being in the presence of God.

Aztec Camera remaking Van Halen's "Jump" - nice acoustic twist (cant you see me standing there i got my back against the CD machine? )

The White Stripes remake of Burt Bacharach’s "I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself" - genius!

the remake of Marvin Gaye's "Whats Going on" by the "all stars" - sorry, but i think that sucked.

Limp Bizkit remaking George Michael's "Faith" - i didnt like it much, but i thought it was funny!

ok, those are the uhm, FEW songs out of the top of my head.

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zenbooty

Gary Newman did "Cars," and Cheap Trick did "I Want You To Want Me."

Good Covers -

Tippi Toes by Primus (Orig. by the Meters)
Have a Cigar by Primus (Orig. By Pink Floyd)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? by The Minutemen (Orig. by CCR)
Viva Las Vegas by The Dead Kennedys (Orig. by Elvis)
He's a Whore by Big Black (Orig. by Cheap Trick)
I Can See Clearly Now by Screeching Weasel (Forget the original artist)
I Fall to Pieces by Screeching Weasel (orig. by Patsy Cline)


Bad Covers -

Moby and Gwen Stefani's remake of Moby's "South Side" (GOD what an annoying voice she has!)
Kiss by Tom Jones (Orig. by Prince)
New York, New York by Queen (Orig. by Sinatra)
Love Rollercoaster by Red Hot Chili Peppers (Orig. by The Ohio Players)

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whitak24

i don't know about the best, but some damn good ones:
"this magic moment" by lou reed (originally by the drifters, also remade by jay and the americans)
"tainted love" by marlyn manson
"red house" jimi hendrix

bad:
"i fought the law (and the law won)" green day. i dunno....it just seems wrong to me

zenbooty

Agreed. The Clash's cover is still the best. They didn't do too bad with "Police Are Thieves," either.

Kevster

By far the worst cover ever has to be Mr. Tambourine Man by William Shatner.

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best: rocket man- william hung

zenbooty

Yeah, I'll take the Byrds' version over this one, or Dylan's original, for that matter.

Oh, The Lemonheads' cover of "Mrs. Robinson" was also very good.

Airencracken

[Shatner]MISTER TAMBOURINE MAN!!!!![/shatner]

That is so fricken disgusting, but so funny at the same time.

DaFunkyUnit

Blue Monday - redone by Orgy, orig. by New Order
Rio - redone by Goldfinger, orig. by Duran Duran


Ticket to Ride - redone by Carpenters, orig. by Beatles





oh, and for the record [no pun inteded] and for further reference:

http://www.gotapex.com/forums/showth...ht=blue+monday (I'm looking for covers of 80s songs)

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verve247

I love cover songs. Whenever downloading songs i'm always eager to find one arist's interpreations of anothers' music.

Some of my favorites:

Scarlet Begonias, by Sublime (Grateful Dead)
54-46, Sublime (Toots and the Maytals)
Smooth Criminal, Alien Antfarm (Michael Jackson)
All Along the Watchtower, Dave Mathews (Doesn't touch Jimi though)
Astronomy Domino, Whiskey in a Jar, and Last Caress by Metallica (Oyster Cult, I dunno, Misfits)
While My guitar Gently Weeps, Clapton with Harrison (Beatles)
Gold Dust Woman, Hole (Fleetwood Mac)
Money, The Doors (i dunno)
Baby Please Don't Go: Covered by Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, ACDC, and Led Zeppelin. Don't know who originally did it, but each version is good and unique.
Changes, Tupac (I dunno)
Another one Bites the Dust, Electric Avenue, Roxanne, by Wyclef (Queen, Eddy Grant, and Police)

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Cantacuzene

I'll keep this to covers I've heard this week.

Good: Straight Outta Junior High - Total Eclipse of the HEart

Sucky: The Ataris - Heaven is Falling

kei2

I believe the original song you're referring to is Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror

verve247

What? No, its a cover of some folk/rock song. I just can't remember his name.

edit: "The Way It Is"
Bruce Hornsby & The Range

kei2

You're right. I meant the intro/background music is from Man in the Mirror. (unless I'm only familiar with a remixed version). The chorus is indeed from the Hornsby song.

theorangeone

Best:
Guster doing (Nothing but) Flowers (Talking Heads)
BNL doing Rio (Duran Duran)
Matt Nathanson doing Laid (James)
Matt Nathanson doing Starfish & Coffee (Prince)

Worst:
Sheryl Crow doing The First Cut is the Deepest
Gwen Stefani doing It's My Life

Freelance Superhero

the only one i can think of at the moment is

Because - orig. by the Beatles, redone by Elliott Smith (Smith's version is MUCH better)

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gwilks98

Some of my fav's not already mentioned:
Apocolyptica doing a symphonic version of metallica's Master of Puppet's and Fade to Black.
Dope - You Spin Me Round (double qualifies as an 80's cover.)
Ataris - Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" (I don't know why I like this one.)
Megadeth - Sabbath's "Paranoid."
Ugly Kid Joe - Sabbath's "Nativity in Black."
Metallica - Sabbath's "Sabra Cadabra"
Metallica - Diamond Head's "Am I Evil."

What I can't stand: Rappers taking 80's beats and rapping to them. (I think PDiddy pulled this sh*t.)
Doesn't Jessica Simpson or Britney have some awful 80s cover out now?
Metallica's cover of Skynard's "Tuesday's Gone."
Pat Boone's elevator music version of Metallica's Enter Sandman. YES, he did this. A friend found a copy of the CD at a college radio station CD sale. It was 30 cents.

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kei2

The original was good, the cover is too.

also, pretty much anything re-done by the a capella group Rockapella.

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The Good:
GNR - Knockin on Heavens Door
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love
Gwen - Its my life
The Cure - Purple Haze
??? - Darling Nikki (Prince)
Korn - One (live)
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Fugees - No woman no cry
Cash - Hurt

The Bad:
Robert Palmer - Marvin Gaye Hits
Puff - Every step you take

& the Ugly:
Limp Bizkit - any cover track he ever does

There's a lot more bad and uglies... Just have to try and remember the songs I worked so hard to forget.

-jel

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Devhux

I heard a hard-rock version of Madonna's "Music" the other day -- don't know who sang it though, but it was........ interesting. (Definately not what I expected).

ray

Rockapella is definitely good stuff.

redcolours

i think the Nikki song was remade by the foo fighters. but i can be very much mistaken.